Come and celebrate the beginning of the 2014/15 tree planting season with Treesponsibility at their Autumn gathering Friday 31st October – Sunday 2nd November.
Bookings are still open for two nights’ free accommodation at the beautiful, green, 17th century Height Gate farmhouse, great food, fun, tree planting and workshops. Continue reading
Joe Mobbs – recently seen in St George’s Square Hebden Bridge handing out Stop TTIP leaflets – is calling a meeting on Sunday 2nd November, 5 – 7pm, at the 3 Wise Monkeys, Water Street, Todmorden, to present the idea of a climate festival in Todmorden. All are welcome.
Saturday 7th March 2015 is a climate day of action, so that’s the date Joe when aims to hold the Todmorden climate festival. Continue reading
The “Save our A&Es” Float for Halifax Gala tomorrow (14th June) is all sorted. Beds, blood, bandages, kids, doctors, nurses are all ready and raring to go.
But there’s still time to let organiser Gary Scott know if you’d like to come and help out (you don’t need to be on the float), and/or if your kids would like to join the others on the float. Continue reading
Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Body meeting, which is open to the public and press, is at 2-5pm, Thursday 10th April, in Shibden Meeting Room, F Mill, Dean Clough, Halifax.
Agenda and meeting documents are online here.
Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker has emailed these questions for the Governing Body to answer at the meeting: Continue reading
The International Centre for Participation Studies at Bradford University is holding an event on 20th February: Making a difference to the neighbourhood? A new politics?
The event is a conversation about community organising in Britain. It takes place on Thursday, 20 February 2014 from 13:00 to 19:30 at the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre,
29 Great Horton Road, Bradford, BD7 1AA. (View map)
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The problem of serious air pollution along the main A646 through Hebden Bridge and Luddenfoot will be the topic of a special public meeting of the Upper Calder Valley Sustainable Transport Group (STG) on Tuesday, 18th February at 7pm in the Greenwood Room at the Town Hall in Hebden Bridge.
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This morning I emailed my MP, Craig Whittaker and asked him to read a new, independent report by the Commission on Civil Society and Democratic Engagement on Part 2 of the gagging law.
The Report says that the gagging bill:
“does not meet any of the tests of good regulation.”
It also makes a number of recommendations about how the Bill can be fixed.
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At a public meeting on 3rd December in Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Shan Oakes – one of the Green Party’s Prospective European Parliamentary Candidates for Yorkshire & Humber – will speak on Fighting for Fairness: from Local to Global.
All are welcome at the 7.30pm meeting in the HB Town Hall Terrace Room. Calderdale Green Party is organising the meeting.
People who are attending the Planning Committee meeting at 6pm in Halifax Town Hall may be able to get back to Hebden Bridge in time for this meeting, if they’re so inclined.
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Hebden Bridge has turned on its Christmas lights. They’re twinkly and pretty, of course, but not everyone is overjoyed.
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