@ Sidmouth’s Café Scientifique – Tuesday 21st November . How can we make public transport better in rural areas? One of the biggest drives to get… Read More »The future of rural transport

Please do get in touch! . Here’s today’s piece from the Memorandum [ie: blog] page of the new Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website: Last night at… Read More »A website for the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project

“You only have to look at the current situation with Children Services in Devon. This isn’t brought on by those working on the frontline. It… Read More »Disappointing news for rural areas

Launching the CHERISHING SIDMOUTH CEMETERIES project . Welcome to the VISION GROUP FOR SIDMOUTH 2023 Annual General Meeting Officers will be up for (re-)election at… Read More »VGS 2023 AGM – 14 November – agenda

A look at the different views and perspectives of these special places. . The outline proposal for the friends group, aka Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries, hopes… Read More »Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries: bringing visions together

“Our reliance on the industry makes it more important than ever to do what we can to operate using sustainable practices.” [Atkinsons Bullion]  . Mining… Read More »Is responsible mining possible?

“I love the combination of monumental art and nature.” . Next Tuesday 14th sees the Vision Group for Sidmouth’s AGM 2023 taking place at the Dissenter’s… Read More »Launching a ‘friends group’ for Sidmouth’s cemeteries @ the VGS AGM: Tues 14th Nov

As the Beach Management Plan is now, hopefully, about to enter a testing phase the following information is of importance… . Last weekend, Sidmouth was… Read More »Storm Ciarán in Sidmouth

“Many business benefits, both in the short and long term, can be found by operating sustainably: these include such things as lower running costs, increased… Read More »Clothing brands looking to reuse/repair/ donate/recycle

“This crisis is not a “lifestyle choice” but a consequence of housing unaffordability and inadequate support services.” [Universities of Kent and Southampton] . The countryside… Read More »Of tents and sleeping rough: rural homelessness

“The notion of ‘cherishing’ hopefully indicates respect to loved ones and the social/religious heritage of these places, and to signal the need to nurture the… Read More »Launching the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries group

… the evening will also see the launch of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries group . It’s autumn, so it’s time for the Vision Group for… Read More »VGS AGM 2023 – Tuesday 14th November

… and keeping the debate informed and transparent. . There are more and more good ideas out there for making our farms ‘greener’ – and… Read More »Greening our farms

Are the latest plans for the former Drill Hall a good example of ‘adaptive reuse’ of an old building? . BBC Four showed us an… Read More »The ‘adaptive reuse’ of old buildings

“The report calls for local authorities to be provided with greater certainty about the funding available for active travel to enable them to invest in… Read More »“Government not on track to increase rates of active travel”