Chipping Norton Times - Issue 25 - October 2012 (PDF)

Stronger & Safer Cotswolds
Small Grants - available now!
In past years CDC has given grants for community safety
activity. This year, we are running a single small grants round
open until 19th October 2012, and we are seeking
applications for grants to deliver community safety projects
that meet the set criteria*.
Next year (2013/14) responsibility for Community Safety
Funding will be passed to the elected Police & Crime
Commissioner (PCC). Therefore, please be aware that CDC
cannot guarantee that any future funding will be available,
and grant applicants should ensure that ongoing costs
associated with the project, e.g. staff costs, can be covered
by other sources beyond this funding.
The deadline for grant applications is 5pm, Friday 19th
October
* The grant application form, guidance and grant criteria are
online at www.cotswold.gov.uk.
Jennifer Taylor, Community Partnerships Manager
Sustainable Communities & Housing
01285 623566 (direct line) Email:
Jennifer.Taylor@cotswold.gov.uk
PATHS FOR COMMUNITIES
GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR PARISHES
Natural England’s Paths For Communities Grant scheme
enables community groups and partnerships to improve their
local public rights of way network. The fund totals £2 million,
to be spent before May 2014. Full details at
www.naturalengland.org.uk
Funded by the Rural Development Programme for England
any scheme must be able to demonstrate benefit to the rural
economy and rural populations.
BBC One Show looking for
community projects they can help
The One Show is looking for community projects across the UK
that need a helping hand.
"We want to use our influence to galvanise volunteer efforts in
different schemes for a new weekly feature on the programme
in the coming months. For example - perhaps you have a
community hall that needs a lick of paint and a good tidy up but
haven't been able to organise a volunteer day to sort it out. Has
your local fireworks display/concert been forced to cancel?
Maybe we can help. Is your community bus service at risk unless
more volunteers are found? Let the One Show spearhead the
search to keep it going. Or maybe you have a dedicated
community stalwart who deserves a big thank you - let the One
Show organise a suitable celebration.
We are currently at the early stages of planning this but please
get in touch as soon as possible if you think you have suitable
project or idea." Email Richard Park (richard.park@bbc.co.uk)
and mark your emails 'One Show Community Action'.
Informaton forwarded by Marilyn Cox at GRCC (20.09.12)
Proposed badger cull
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
13th September 2012
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is very conscious of the hardship
that bovine TB (bTB) causes the farming community and the
need to find the right mechanisms to control the disease.
The Trust does not support the culling of badgers as a
component of the bovine TB eradication programme for
England, we do actively support the deployment of badger bTB
vaccine (BadgerBCG). The Trust is engaged in its own five year
nature reserve vaccination programme (year two completed in
October 2012) which will continue until 2015.
The Trust accepts that legal badger culling by formally
established groups may be licensed by Natural England. The
Trust will not interfere with the actions of such groups but
culling of badgers will not be permitted on Trust nature reserves.
The Trust continues to press for the active use of badger bTB
vaccine as an integral part of a coordinated bovine TB
programme for England. In particular the Trust supports the
deployment of badger bTB vaccine by landowners within and
around licensed cull areas.
The Trust will continue to press government for 100% financial
support for landowners who wish to deploy badger bTB vaccine
on the boundaries of active culls. The Trust believes that
strategic deployment of badger bTB vaccine in cull boundaries
would have a beneficial effect on bovine TB infection rates in
cattle.
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