Please see below the latest newsletter from the rural crime team:

• Newsletter July 2021

The parish council meeting scheduled for 5th July was cancelled.

The next parish council meeting will be on Monday 26th July at 7.30 pm at Burton Dassett Village Hall in Northend.

The parish council meeting scheduled for 2nd August is cancelled.

Planning Applications 21/01897 Hillside Farm and 21/01963 Dassett Fields House

Fact Sharing Sessions to be held on Monday 12 July at 7.30pm

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Monday 12 July 2021 at 8.00pm

The Parish Council is unable to hold face to face meetings in the village due to the present Government restrictions.

They can still hold remote meetings where no formal decisions are taken and will use this approach in respect of the above applications.

Details of the fact sharing session may be found below:

Fact Sharing Sessions 12th July 2021

This year’s Open Gardens took place last Sunday, 4th July. Unfortunately, we were a victim of both the weekend forecast and the weather on the day itself, and were only able to welcome approx 140 visitors to the village, quite a decrease on 2019 figures.
However, we were at least able to hold the event and managed to raise £1,269.50 for National Gardens Scheme and £123.65 for the Parish Council towards the upkeep of the tubs in the village. The County Organiser from NGS came along and said that, despite the weather, those who did visit were impressed with the village and the gardens they saw.

So, thanks are due to everyone who contributed by opening their garden, helping with getting things ready, helping on the day, or attending the event. Thanks also to the Avon Dassett Fete Committee who allowed the use of a marquee, so at least our visitors kept dry as they enjoyed their tea and cake.  And certainly not forgetting everyone who donated our lovely cakes, which, as always, received a lot of compliments!

Please see below details of roadworks in the area over the next few days:

Free art workshops offered to support well-being:

• 21 June, 1-3 pm: Art for Relaxation
• 30 June, 5-6 pm: Art After Work
• 1 July, 1-3 pm: Fine Art to Wellbeing
• 11 July, 7-8.30 pm: Meet a Local Artist

For more details see: Arty-Folks Creative Arts on Referral

Dan Simpson(https://www.dansimpsonpoet.co.uk/workshops) is an artist who has been engaged by Warwickshire Public Health to encourage young people to have the vaccine against COVID-19. He is offering FREE writing workshops for those aged 16-29 to take part in. Dan creates fun, accessible, and safe spaces for anyone to express themselves through poetry and spoken word – no experience is required!

The workshop will be via Teams on the 23^rd of June at 12 o’ clock, for 30-60 minutes to create a crowdsourced poem from the age groups 16-29.  It will be made up of words collected from this group, and specifically from those who are not vaccine-hesitant. The video output would be a ‘cut-up’ of people from this demographic performing lines to form the poem. Written versions of the poems will also be produced and turned into a series of social media posts and as one-page posters, to be shared and printed out.

If you would like to attend these empowering, reflective, and creative sessions, please contact communityengagementwcc@warwickshire.gov.uk and you will be sent a link for the workshop.

Warwickshire County Council has launched a new countywide Community Pledge, an extension of the positively received Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire (CSW) Business Pledge, to include community venues not covered by the Business Pledge.

Over the course of the pandemic, organisations have been required to undertake a number of actions to operate safely. The Community Pledge brings these together and provides an opportunity for settings across Warwickshire, such as communal halls or places of worship, to make a positive commitment to ensuring COVID secure best practice is observed by staff and visitors in their facilities. The pledge covers key guidance including social distancing, face coverings, ventilation, vaccinations, testing and isolating, staff health and well-being and risk assessments.

Warwickshire community groups can sign-up to the Community Pledge and find out more about how to be COVID secure at www.warwickshire.gov.uk/covidcommunitypledge. Once signed-up they will also have access to a Community Pledge poster to promote the venue as a safe space to be enjoyed responsibly by the local community.

For more information visit https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/community/warwickshire-covid-secure-community-pledge

A news release about Warwickshire’s Community Pledge has been shared with the media has also gone live today on the WCC website:

https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/news/article/2138/warwickshire-community-groups-invited-to-pledge-support-to-offer-covid-secure-environments

Please share this information with any community contacts, groups, or venues you are aware of that would like to publicly commit to implementing COVID safe best practice within their facilities.