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TRAYE Update and Annual Report
The Totnes Rural Area Youth Engagement project (TRAYE) youth clubs are suspended for the time being, due to the COVID-19 virus, but they are up and running virtual youth clubs with trained staff and fun activities on Zoom. Contact Project Coordinator Kerry via email on kmccabe.traye@gmail.com to find out more.
Annual Report for 2019
The Totnes Rural Area Youth Engagement (TRAYE) project has now been running for over four years. It continues to be acclaimed as a highly successful project with a large group of regular attendees across the five areas it serves (Dartington, Marldon, Staverton, Rattery & Harbertonford), and has gone from strength to strength in popularity with young people and working on key topical issues that affect young people in today’s challenging world.
The project has had many highlights in 2019, including the 5 Squared Project, which was a resounding success and the Around the World Cookery Project, which was something the young people really enjoyed.
Since it began, TRAYE has engaged with over 387 young people, with 2019 bringing an increase of 24% more young people attending sessions. They continue to provide Open Access community based youth work in five rural parishes and have now employed two new sessional workers, Laura Hamlyn and Joseph McCabe.
TRAYE has an active group of young volunteers who have become an important part of the sessions, helping to bring new ideas and support into their work.
Staverton and Landscove Youth Club sessions take place on a twice monthly basis, with sessions delivered in the Staverton Courtroom, Staverton Pavilion and Landscove Victory Hall. This enables TRAYE to reach more young people and offer a wider scope of activities and settings. Numbers have grown in this area with an average of around 13 young people at each session, with a peak of 20 young people at some sessions. 13 new young people have been engaged in the project in this area.
Given the rural setting of this Youth Club, this is a great achievement and one cannot underestimate the positive impact this will have on the ever present issue of youth loneliness and isolation. Once again, in line with the project’s yearly planning, activities such as Outdoor Education including nature walks, river swimming and outdoor ball games and picnics have been delivered. What is also really lovely to see is that the young people still choose (without prompting) to not use their phones or electronic devices during the sessions.
Read the full Annual Report below to get a full picture of the valuable work TRAYE continues to deliver and the opportunities for informal education and social learning it provides, to those young people living in rural areas, some often isolated.
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Easter Weekend Bin Collection Days
Below is an updated schedule forwarded on behalf of South Hams Council to inform residents of changes to the usual waste collection days:
COVID-19 – UPDATE APRIL 8
THIS WEEK’S UPDATE ON LOCAL SERVICES AVAILABLE
There have been a number of additions and changes to the way delivery and collection services for the parish now operate, so here is our weekly round-up with an updated list of those we know of:
Ben’s Farm Shop – ordering for collection
Ordering online for collection the following day is now available to all customers (previously it was just loyalty card holders).
Orders are accepted online only by completing the order form or go to their home page and click on ‘collections’ at the top. Orders need to be made by 5pm for collection the next day between 9am and 12pm. They will call you when your order is ready to collect. A member of staff will bring it to your car. They are resisting setting a minimum order value, but want to discourage small orders (particularly from people doing the bulk of their shopping elsewhere). They tell us: “We have been inundated with orders, so please be patient and wait for us to call you on the day of collection. Please do not contact us to check the status of your order – we need our telephone lines clear to contact our customers when their orders are ready.”
Challices: wholesale fruit and veg merchant in Totnes
As well as fruit and veg, they are also delivering dairy (milk and cheese) and bread to homes throughout the parish.Now delivering (no delivery charge) to the parish six days a week, Monday – Saturday. Orders need to be phoned in by 12.00 day before to 01803-863553. Pay by BACS– bank details on invoice with delivery www.challices.co.uk.
Halls the Butchers
Halls will deliver to Staverton parish after their shop has shut in the evenings. As well as meats, they offer quiches, pies and pasties, eggs and cold meats. Call: 01803-863178. Pay by cheque, BACS or cash – they can’t accept cards.
Bulk Buy Groceries part of longstanding food distributor Westcountry Fruit Sales.
Delivering to people’s homes Monday to Saturday with next day deliveries.
Provide a full range of fresh produce, fruit boxes, milk & dairy, kitchen groceries, cleaning products, wines and beers to the door. Operating no contact delivery, so no need to worry about contact with the driver.
Orders can be phoned to 01326 331900 Mon to Fri, 9am to 4pm or emailed to hello@bulkbuygroceries.co.uk . www.bulkbuygroceries.co.uk. Facebook: @bulkbuygroceries.co.uk
Greenlife in Totnes are now providing an order by phone and collect service for their loyalty card holders over 65. (They will also deliver in Totnes, Bridgetown and Dartington). Phone 07394-072628 between 09.00 – 12.00 for collection between 13.00 – 18.00 same day. Fruit, veg, chilled and frozen foods excluded from this service. Full info at www.greenlife.co.uk
Barnaby’s Brewhouse offers a home delivery service for its beers. Full order details at: https://barnabysbrewhouse.com/local-delivery-service/
New Lion Brewery also offers a home delivery service for its beers. Full order details at: www.newlionbrewery.co.uk
Fresh Fish
David Walker & Sons from Brixham deliver fresh fish, vacuum or ice packed if desired. Debbie Thorpe who lives in Southford Lane has very kindly offered to coordinate these fish orders as Walkers need a £150 minimum combined order value to make it worth delivering to the parish. If you would like to place an order, first contact Debbie by email at debbiesthorpe@icloud.com. She will send you a price list and arrange the order. She will place an order once she has £150 worth of individual orders in hand. Delivery will normally be mid-week for collection at the Sea Trout car park – Debbie will give precise times for each delivery. Payment to Debbie by BACS. This week’s order has already been placed, so it may be a while before she gets to another £150 worth.
The Fish Deli Ashburton: pricelist at www.thefishdeli.co.uk
Email your order to information@thefishdeli.co.uk or phone 01364-65483 between 9am – 2pm. They will prepare your order and vacuum pack it ready for fresh use or to freeze and ring you back when it is ready, to take payment and advise you of any substitutions and arrange a collection time from outside the shop. They say:“Unfortunately, the availability of fish supplies have become increasingly difficult, as there is no export market or restaurant market and for many boats this makes it not viable for them to go to sea. Also there are issues with transporting small quantities around the country. So please bear with us in these difficult times and we will of course do our best for you.”
Wings of St Mawes deliver fish nationwide. See thecornishfishmonger.co.uk for full information.
Useful sources
These two new websites have been set up to list local suppliers offering delivery and order collection services. Being new, they may not come up in a Google search, so you will probably need to enter the full name in the bar at the top of your browser:
www.totnesdelivers.co.uk shows firms in Totnes now doing deliveries and collections. We do not know which ones will come out as far as our parish, so you will have to make that enquiry direct to any suppliers shown on the website.
www.shopsouthdevon.com aims to do much the same.
Darts Farm in Topsham deliver fruit, veg and meat all over Devon. See www.dartsfarm.co.uk for full information.
Cooked Food:
The Tally Ho!: If you want something cooked for you, The Tally Ho! In Littlehempston is offering takeaways on Wednesday and Friday evenings from 5pm. You can pick up from the pub’s garden (and also get beer to takeaway). Food orders need to be placed by 10am same day by calling Kelly and Mike on 01803-862316. Pay by cash or credit card. Full menus can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/tallyholittlehempston/posts/1266625710193105
Medical Matters
There has been little change from two weeks ago.
We can collect prescriptions for you from Boots at Leatside Surgery, but we need plenty of lead time to be able to collect together as many as possible in one visit – as they are letting only one person at a time into the shop, which means a very long wait each time. All other pharmacies are operating social distancing, so expect a wait.
The following medical centres have updated their websites with covid-19 advice:
Leatside Totnes
Catherine House Totnes
Ashburton Surgery
They all say that they will triage all requests for a consultation and need a phone call or request entered via their website – in the coronavirus situation most requests will be handled over the phone or via an e-consultation which can be accessed through a link on their websites.
Ashburton Surgery now has its phone lines working again.
Buckfastleigh Surgery website advices on what to do if needing to see a doctor.
If you need any help or support, just contact:
Michael and Cheryl Loverock
Email: loverock@btinternet.com
Tel: 01803-762677
And here is the link for Citizens Advice Coronavirus – they still have advisers taking calls, although not that many.
Postal services
Dartington PO is closed except for bank deposits and cash withdrawals. The shop is open as usual.
Broadhempston PO in the Community Shop is open for normal business 09.00 – 12.00 weekdays. Shopping can be ordered by phone.
Totnes PO is open 09.00 – 12.00 Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday for normal business, but are requesting only essential parcels please.
If you are running out of stamps or need to send a parcel or package without going to a post office, these online services are available:
Royal Mail Online Shop: www.postofficeshop.co.uk – sells books of stamps online.
Royal Mail ‘Click and Drop’ lets you buy postage for packages and parcels online – pay by credit card and print off the postage label. You will still have to take it to a post office if it’s too big for a letterbox, but it does reduce the need for contact as all you need do is hand it over.
Parcel2go is an excellent site for sending parcels via a number of the major carriers at very good rates. Some offer collection from home – with Hermes normally being the cheapest – otherwise you’ll need to take it to a local drop-off point. Just enter your parcel’s details and a variety of options come up.
Internet Scams Alert
Totnes Citizens Advice have issued a warning which you can read here
Do continue to keep a caring eye out for your neighbours, especially if they are in any of the vulnerable groups, and offer help if needed.
And finally, here’s another musical footnote which we hope will bring on a smile: https://vimeo.com/243312820
Keep well.
Staverton Parish Emergencies Coordination Team.
COVID-19 – UPDATE APRIL 1
COVID-19 – UPDATE APRIL 1
Now that a week has passed since our last email listing support and delivery services available in the parish, here is an update on new information received this week:
FOOD, ETC:
Greenlife in Totnes are now providing an order by phone and collect service for their loyalty card holders over 65. (They will also deliver in Totnes, Bridgetown and Dartington).
Phone 07394-072628 between 09.00 – 12.00 for collection between 13.00 – 18.00 same day. Full info at: https://www.greenlife.co.uk/delivery-and-collection-service/
Challices are now delivering fruit & veg, dairy and bread to the parish six days a week, Monday to Saturday. Phone 863553 before 12.00 for next day delivery.
For the full list of delivery services in our last email click here
A new not-for-profit website, www.totnesdelivery.co.uk has been set up showing all the firms in Totnes now doing deliveries. We do not know which ones will come out as far as our parish, so you will have to make that enquiry direct to any suppliers shown on the website.
Barnabys are delivering their organic lager brewed up at Riverford by the 12 bottle case to your door – click here for the online shop.
POST OFFICES:
Dartington PO is closed except for bank deposits and cash withdrawals. The shop is open as usual.
Broadhempston PO in the Community Shop is open for normal business 09.00 – 12.00 weekdays. Shopping can be ordered by phone.
Totnes PO is open 09.00 – 12.00 Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday for normal business, but are requesting only essential parcels please (with some debate on whether Easter Eggs count as essential!).
INTERNET SCAMS ALERT
Totnes Citizens Advice have issued a warning which you can read here
As we settle into this new way of life, one wonderful aspect is to see how the whole community is coming together to help one other. Do please continue to keep a caring eye out for any vulnerable and elderly neighbours – and if you, or anyone you know, needs any help or assistance, the people in the parish to contact are: Michael and Cheryl Loverock
Email: loverock@btinternet.com Tel:01803 762677
Keep safe and we hope you stay well.
Staverton Parish Emergencies Coordination Team
CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH HAMS WARN OF A RISE IN CORONAVIRUS SCAMS AND FALSE INFORMATION
Citizens Advice South Hams have today issued a stark warning about the rise in the number of scams being reported in the region and the worrying rise of false information being shared on social media.
Scammers are using the ongoing Coronavirus crisis to target people in a variety of ways including emails and SMS text messages. Some scammers are claiming to be from HMRC offering a tax refund or from the World Health Organisation with a link to a Coronavirus cure.
If you receive an email or SMS text message from someone or an organisation that you do not know, guidance is clear, do not open it or click any of the links.
Janie Moor, Chief Officer Citizens Advice South Hams said, “In addition to our warning about email and texts, we also need to highlight bogus callers both on the phone and in person. This could be someone purporting to be from a company or a neighbour offering to buy shopping or collect prescriptions. Never share personal details such as PIN numbers and bank cards with anyone. If possible ask a person you know well to collect shopping and run errands. If you have any concerns ring the Safer Neighbourhood Police team on 101.
This is a deeply distressing and worrying time for people and unfortunately scammers will use any trick. Now more than ever is a time for us all to be on guard and to spread this advice to our friends and families including the elderly and vulnerable.”
Citizens Advice has advice on how to check if something might be a scam at
www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/scams/check-if-something-might-be-a-scam/ or alternatively you can call the Scams Action Fraud line on 0300 123 2040 for more information or to report a scam.
Citizens Advice South Hams is also warning about the large amount of bogus and incorrect information being shared across social networks and on messaging apps. They are urging people to seek impartial, correct advice and are signposting people to use trusted sources such as the www.Gov.uk website, local councils and the Citizens Advices website www.citizensadvice.org.uk where there is regularly updated bespoke guidance for people facing challenges arising out of the Coronavirus outbreak
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/health/coronavirus-what-it-means-for-you/ .
For those who may not have access to the internet or need further advice then Citizens Advice offices throughout Devon are responding to these challenging times by continuing to offer a wide range of telephone advice.
Consumer Helpline: 0808 223 1133
Universal Credit, Help to Claim phone line: 0800 144 8444
General Adviceline: 03444 111444
Teena Barrett, Advice Services Manager for the local charity says, “We intend to keep our service running as much as possible, it is at times like this people need access to trusted and impartial information. I am hugely proud of the way our volunteers, staff and trustees have worked tirelessly to ensure we can continue to give advice to those who live, work and study across Devon”
All Citizen Advice offices in Devon have stopped face to face appointments in line with guidance from Public Health England and the UK Government.
Message from Hill House Nursery
Hill House Nursery and Tea Room are in lockdown. We very much regret that we can’t sell food, plants or compost, either by delivery or from the car park, until the situation changes for everyone. If the ’rules’ change, we’ll let everyone know via our website www.hillhousenursery.com and via this Parish web site. We hope all our friends and customers are well and stay that way and we look forward to seeing you again when all this is over.
bluebird@hillhousenursery.com 01803 762273. Tea room 762261.
Covid-19: Transport for Key Workers
TRANSPORT FOR KEY WORKERS – a message from Devon County Council
Due to the reduction of bus services across the county, Devon County Council are trialling an on-demand subsidised taxi service for Devon residents for key workers accessing employment only.
This service is intended to replace those journeys which were previously made by bus – a subsidised flat fare will be charged.
Requests can only be made by email and should be sent to devonbus@devon.gov.uk
Please include the following information in your email:
NAME, ADDRESS, KEY WORKER STATUS, EMPLOYER / PAYROLL REF
JOURNEY REQUIREMENTS (pick up/drop off)
We will aim to respond to all requests as soon as possible during normal office hours – journeys should be booked 48 hours in advance of travel.
Kind regards,
John Richardson-Dawes,
Principal Transport Co-ordinating Officer,
Transport Co-ordination Service,
Devon County Council,
County Hall, Exeter, Devon, EX2 4QD.
Tel. 01392 383000 (when prompted, ask for John Richardson-Dawes)
COVID-19 – UPDATE ON LOCAL SERVICES AVAILABLE
The Tally Ho!: If you want something cooked for you, The Tally Ho! In Littlehempston is offering takeaways on Wednesday and Friday evenings from 5pm. You can pick up from the pub’s garden (and also get beer to takeaway). Food orders need to be placed by 10am same day by calling Kelly and Mike on 01803-862316. Pay by cash or credit card. Full menus can be seen at
http://newlionbrewery.co.uk/ 01803 226277 info@newlionbrewery.co.ukhttp://www.liveandletlivepub.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXT60rbBVk&feature=emb_titleRecycling centres closed
See this message from Devon County Council:
All 19 of Devon County Council’s recycling centres have been closed until further notice effective immediately.
It follows the Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday night regarding the temporary restrictions on movement being put in place as a result of Covid-19.
During this time if you have waste you can:
• Use existing kerbside collection services for recycling any materials that can be accepted in that collection
• Home compost
• Leave grass cuttings on the lawn where they will mulch down to provide nutrients
• Hire a skip/Hippo bag or similar
• Avoid projects that generate waste (eg postpone clearing out your garage/shed or doing your garden make-over)
• Store your waste at home until the restrictions are lifted
Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member for Development, Infrastructure and Waste said: “Following the Prime Minister’s announcement being put in place we have had to close all our recycling centres. I apologise for the inconvenience this may cause but the regular kerbside waste and recycling collections provided by your local district, city or borough council will continue during this difficult time and I would suggest you check their websites for any changes.”
You can find the latest updates regarding our recycling services at Devon County Council’s waste and recycling webpage by clicking here.