MAY 2021 NO. 211

A free monthly community paper for the parish of Nailsworth, available in colour on our website www.nailsworthnews.org.uk Nailsworth Town Council This issue contains the Annual Report of the Town Council, which we publish on In this issue… their behalf, as part of a long standing partnership. Readers will also fi nd details of The Door Needs You! Page 4 the people who will form the new Town Council, including two new candidates. Urgent fund raising Nailsworth News would like to thank the Council for its support during the last year Business News Page 5 and for their help with NN deliveries. Three Storeys Comrades Club Reborn Page 6 New Beginnings Three Storeys feature During the past year many people have recognised the intrinsic importance of the Nailsworth Festival Back Page 8 environment around them. The Comrades’ Club building’s transformation into the 20th-27th August Three Storeys Centre is to house Earth Bound and Landlinks, new exhibitions on environment and space. On page 6 Megan Delaney writes about the history of this Town Councillors Page 10-11 building and the concepts behind the regeneration. Meet your Nailsworth Councillors Throughout the pandemic, Nailsworth’s essential shops have stoically served their Town Council Feature Page 12-13 community, despite diminished footfall and eerily quiet streets. Now non-essential Annual Report shops and businesses can welcome customers back. Window displays all around town are fresh, bright and appealing, to tempt us back into well-stocked shops. Nailsworth Bowls Club Page 14 Against all odds Nailsworth is beginning to look more like the vibrant town we all Specail Historical feature know and love. NN Editorial Team Arkell Centre Page 16 Freezer of love Bloomers Need You! Page 19 Urgent need for volunteers Personal Best Page 20 New staff & Charity fund raising Nailsworth Library Page 24 Revised opening times

HOME & GARDEN

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2 TOWN COUNCIL

The Last ‘Word From The Mayor’ In This Extended, 5 Year Council No Town Council Election on the number of people that can meet old Police Nailsworth Town Council didn’t have indoors. We also need to recognise that Station, an election, 7 councillors remained, quite a number of people are not yet fully making and two new candidates stood. These 9 vaccinated and are nervous about indoor council have been elected unopposed as there gatherings. offi ces more are 11 seats. On pages 10 & 11 of this We do have ways that we can still accessible paper you can see details of the existing operate, such as meeting remotely to • moving the councillors (who stay in post) and new discuss Council motions and having the Town Information Centre into the candidates (who will take their seats after Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Clerk and Deputy Library, helping the Library open 10th May). District, County and Police Clerk ratify decisions under our Scheme longer hours, and giving it a more and Crime Commissioner elections are of Delegation. stable longer term future taking place. We have extended our usual Annual • moving the annual Town Meeting It has been an interesting time for local Report to be one to cover all of this from the Town Hall to a marquee government. Across the whole of Stroud council, and you can fi nd that on pages in the Bus Station, making it a District there are only 4 Town and Parish 12 & 13 of this paper. We are grateful very accessible showcase of what elections, this is not great for democracy, to Nailsworth News for putting it in Nailsworth has to offer but the pandemic Social Distancing and this paper, to reach as many people as • And, really importantly for the Lockdown have meant that it hasn’t possible. vitality of the town we rigorously been possible to have a face to face chat Council achievements in the last fi ve fought SDC’s plan to impose with people interested in becoming a years: parking charges on us. We councillor, and possibly more councillors Notable internal changes include researched their proposal, worked have decided to stand down, after an • the introduction of templated with the Chamber of Trade and intense additional twelve months. papers for agenda items, giving many residents, and we produced Councillors and residents clarity the evidence that stopped the Councillor Vacancies about what Council is discussing charges There are now two Councillor and deciding A number of councillors have stood vacancies, so we will be looking to co- • computerising all the fi nances and down over the life of the Council, opt to get us up to full strength. Contact budgets to ensure council money is after serving their town well. I’d like us if you’d like to to represent the spent wisely particularly to thank Sue Reed, for her residents of Nailsworth and help shape • building a fl exible and stable long service to the town. Sue was Mayor the future of the town. staff team able to thrive as between 2005 and 2007 and has been a new legislation brings new stalwart of the council. New Council responsibilities Now it is over to the new Council! The New Council will meet on Visible successes include the third Tuesday of May with the • resolving the long standing Jonathan Duckworth uncertainty of COVID and the pandemic question over what to do with the still looming over us. money from the FGR Stadium For the last year we have been meeting development. We devised a plan remotely, and have been legally able to that provided a MUGA for the do this under emergency legislation. That school AND a community park in legislation runs out at the beginning of Miles Marling May but there will still be restrictions • moving the Council Offi ces to the

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3 YOUTH

The Door Needs You - #100KinMay Challenge Returns For 2021 you can”. triathlon (100km of each walking, Community running and cycling). I’ll be sticking to Fundraiser Anne 100km for my walking though!” Townsend says Find out more about the challenge Have you got what it takes to walk, jog, “We’re really excited about this year’s and sign up today at thedoor.org.uk run or cycle your way to 100km this challenge. Last year’s raised over or fi nd us on Facebook or Instagram May? £10,000 to help us #KeepTheDoorOpen @TheDoorStroud You can also call The Door Youth Project is looking for and we hope this year will be just Anne on 01453 756745 if you have you! First launched during lockdown in as good. Whether walking, running any questions or email fundraising@ 2020, the #100KinMay challenge invites or cycling, going out each day is an thedoor.org.uk participants to walk, jog, run or cycle amazing way to explore our beautiful Anne Townsend 100km in the month of May, to raise district and all it has to offer, especially Community Fundraiser – The Door funds for The Door Youth Project. in the spring sunshine! 100km sounds a Project The Door provides vital mental health lot but works out at around 3km a day support to young people and their – a 30 minute walk for most people, so families across the district by providing it’s achievable and great positive role models and safe spaces such for staying active. Entry as youth clubs, mentoring and telephone is free and you can do support. Sessional Youthworker Tracy the challenge alone or in Fletcher joined The Door team in 2020 groups. It doesn’t matter and this is her story: how you get to 100km “Hi I’m Tracy and I am taking on the so you can take it at your 100kinMay Challenge for The Door. own pace. A few years ago, the challenge would Some people who took have been impossible for me. I had spent the challenge in 2020 are many years, bed-bound and needing to aiming higher for 2021. use a wheelchair due to M.E. and have Our CEO is aiming for had to learn to pace myself on my level 150km and one of our Anne Townsend, Tracy Fletcher, Sessional of physical activity. Now I’m really trustees is doing a 300km Community Fundraiser Youthworker excited about the challenge. This will be a huge personal achievement and hopefully, I can raise a lot of money at the same time. The main challenges will be health-related but with careful planning and plenty of time to rest and Bespoke designs and recover I can’t wait to get started! craftsmanship including:- I’ve set a fundraising target of £500, • Doors enough to start 50 young people on their Nailsworth Mills • Furniture mentoring journey and hope to raise as Estate Tel: 01453 836996 • Stairs much as possible. You can sponsor me Avening Road Mob: 07800 932098 • Windows and other members of The Door Team on Nailsworth [email protected] Gloucestershire • Garden Furniture and our #TeamDoor page. Please give what www.amosjoinery.co.uk GL6 0BS Gates

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4 ENVIRONMENT

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LIBRARY OF THINGS Would you like a Library of Things for Nailsworth? A Library of Things is exactly as it sounds: You need a steam-cleaner for the day? You can borrow one. You want to go camping but your tent has a hole? You can borrow one. We’ll build on the HELP US REPLANT THE W GREEN HEALTH local expertise we already have through Many of you will have noticed dramatic Did you know that if waste medication changes to the landscape around is flushed down the toilet it is toxic to The Repair Cafe to bring a Library of Things to Nailsworth. How we do it will be up to Nailsworth as numerous trees suffering wildlife, especially fish? Instead, just from ash dieback have been felled. This return any unused medication to your you, and we’ll be inviting you to take part in a public consultation in the upcoming has presented a huge financial challenge pharmacist for safe disposal - never flush to the National Trust, who own much unwanted medication down the toilet! issues of Nailsworth News. We’d love to hear your thoughts! of the land and have an ambitious tree planting commitment. We want to do When it comes to health matters there something to help, so we are planning are other ways you can reduce your to raise money to ‘Replant the W’ and environmental impact. are hoping to gather support from local residents. Our donations will speed up the For example, asthmatics might be replanting and will allow for a better mix interested to learn that one puff of a gas of species. Look out for more information propelled MDI (metered dose inhaler) has about the planting plan and how you can a C02 equivalent of driving nine miles in donate in upcoming issues. You can also a petrol car. This is because they contain keep an eye on our website and social hydrofluoroalkanes; greenhouse gases media for updates. that are 3000 times more potent than C02 and which last 1000 years in the GREEN LINGO Any questions? atmosphere. You can speak to your GP or Have you heard of the term ‘Glocal’? It We’d love to hear from you if you have practice nurse about changing to a Dry means to ‘think globally, act locally.’ any questions about climate change Powder Inhaler which contain the same This is exactly the thinking behind our and our community or with any ideas medications but are taken into your lungs philosophy on tackling climate change: you may have. Our contact details can by a forceful inhalation. ‘positive, practical and local’. be found above.

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5 BUSINESS NEWS

Three Storeys - Work, Art and Connections Ironically, the Three Storeys building has quite a back story dating back to the start of the Nailsworth Brewery (1820). With original features like the great vat cellar, where vats for maturing beers were placed on rolled iron girders, the building is steeped in history. It’s fitting that it has been renovated into a community workspace for the town centre, as it has always been a centre for business and a cultural hotspot for Nailsworth. Regular redevelopment of the site continued throughout Victorian times, including the red brick extension, completed in 1899 and marked with the initials of William Swinscow, the master brewer at the time. The Comrades Club, in residence since WW1, have been the well-loved guardians of the space up until now. The building has now been renovated with membership options that include In essence, the Three Storeys space, into a multi-functional creative hub by permanent desk space, and flexible day built on the concept of Work, Art and the owner, Nicki and Creative Director, desks. The rest of the spaces are now Connections, will bring a creative flare Susie. They met through the Amberley open, following Covid guidelines. to the centre of Nailsworth, mirroring Artisans and envisaged the building as a The Three Storeys calendar is filling successful local projects such as The centre for the community. “Nailsworth up with exhibitions and events but Clayloft at Inchbrook Mill, and Victoria is a great town already, and our hope coming up soon is the Groundworks Works in Chalford. Nicki and Susie is that Three Storeys becomes another Exhibition, running from Thursday 17th see this as an ongoing project and destination to encourage visitors to the June – Sunday 27th June. This exhibition welcome ideas and suggestions from the town, while also providing work and will be welcoming artists and makers community for future cultural events in meeting spaces for locals.” They’ve whose concern is for the landscape and the space. named it Three Storeys, reminiscent of the environment, an umbrella for two Megan Delaney its rich history, the unfolding creative projects, Landlinks and Earthbound. stories that will soon emerge from it The Landlinks theme is the unattached and to acknowledge the building’s three landscape and represents over 20 levels, with different concepts on each walking artists, whilst Earth Bound floor. The artist studios, ‘Storey Makers’, features works by Artist/Paper maker, on the top floor, ‘The Plot’, a cafe, Jane Ponsford, and Ceramist/Curator, workshop and gallery space ‘The Setting’ Kim Norton. Their pieces represent an on the ground floor, and a flexible co- artistic conversation about Earth. The working space, ‘Storey Book’ on the Select Arts trail also runs over the last lower-ground floor. The flexible working two weekends in June, when some of the space is well-equipped for Covid social- Three Storey’s residents will open their distancing and desks are available to rent studios.

A great place to work ... Shops, offices, factory units sometimes available Give us a call on 01453 832754 Nailsworth email: [email protected] www.eachamberlain.co.uk Mills Estate 6 ARTS Exhibitions At Three Storeys Ground Works will be welcoming encourage discussion and observation Artists responded to a time/distance artists and writers whose inspiration between artists and community. walking script - adhering to various and concern is for our landscape and Earth Bound - featuring new works prompts that governed their progress environment. It is the umbrella for by Artist/papermaker Jane Ponsford and choices, forcing them to let go of the two projects called ‘Landlinks’ and and ceramicist/curator Kim Norton. desire to fi nd the defi nitive subject and to ‘Earthbound’, planned for May 2020 but Their unique collaboration resulted leave that choice to chance. C19 got in the way, so we are delighted in unexpected responses to their local to be going ahead with an exhibition and landscapes. The studies and resulting www.Groundworks.org.uk/wp/ linked events in June/July 2021 in the objects, artefacts and pieces represent Curated by Kel Portman of ‘Walking new Three Storeys Centre in Nailsworth an artistic conversation about ‘Earth’ the Land’ & Lizzi Walton. (formerly the Comrades Club). with each exchange signifying the The exhibition and events aim to contributor’s counterpoint and response Opening 15th June and closing 27th examine our collective response to to the previous statement. June. 10am-4pm, ‘The Setting’ gallery landscape and place, how we react Landlinks – The unattached landscape. space and cafe, Three Storeys, Old to exterior spaces and the impact of ‘Landlinks’ represent work made Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 0JE. our changing environment. Through by over 20 walking artists and was These are provisional dates so check engagement with various art media, synchronised to take place over several the website and look out for updates in practises and approaches, we wish to continents. Nailsworth News What’s On pages.

The 2021 Gloucestershire Writers’ Network Competition The Theme - Signposts No one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories you have to tell.” Charles de-Lint Life is a journey along a winding road, an overgrown path, we don’t always know what is ahead. Some look to the sky, the stars, to help navigate their way, others rely on a hunch. We are all so different. Our imagination, the pictures we hold in our heads, unique. We would love to hear your words. We’d love you to win our competition and have the opportunity to read them to a wider audience at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2021 in October. Closing date 30th June 2021. Full details on our website gloswriters.org.uk

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7 ARTS Headline Acts For Nailsworth Festival Following the rescheduling of the 2021 Jacket”. A deftly witty wordsmith, world has ever seen. Or was he? Did he Festival to 20th -27th August, we can sharp and subversive but not afraid to write the plays? His widow would know now provide more details of the main be plain daft, Elvis has been spitting his if anybody did. Wouldn’t she? acts. scurrilous diatribes against the powers If you would like to become involved Michael Roach, originally from that be since 2003. with the Festival, please contact the Washington, D.C., USA, sings and ‘The Second Best Bed’ a play by Avril Committee using the following email: plays guitar in an East Coast style of Rowlands. When Shakespeare died, he [email protected] blues that dates back to the 1920s. After famously left his wife Anne only one A full programme of activities will spending several years learning directly thing – the second best bed. This superb be published in future editions of from well-known figures John Jackson, one-woman play, full of both humour Nailsworth News and on the Festival John Cephas and Jerry Ricks, Michael and pathos, has received great critical website www.nailsworthfestival.org. has developed his own style and is an acclaim since its premiere at the Swan uk. You can also follow the Festival on exceptional performer. In the concert he Theatre Worcester in 2012. Liz Grand Facebook and Twitter. All events will will perform with his daughter Sadie, stars as Anne Hathaway on the night of comply with any social distancing rules featuring material from their recent Shakespeare’s funeral. The wake has that are still in place at the time. album “Tryin’ Times”. Sadie Roach finished, the mourners have all gone Tim Hughes, Publicity is currently studying Jazz Piano at the home, leaving Anne to remember her life 01453 836993 Guildhall School of Music and Drama with the most talented playwright the in London. She has already released an EP. This is a rare concert featuring both Michael and Sadie and one not to be missed. You Tube: Michael Roach Blues Elvis McGonagall will be familiar to Radio 4 listeners. Two series of his sitcom “Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side” have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 where he appears regularly, most recently on “Stand-up Specials” featuring a live recording of “Full Tartan Elvis McGonagall Michael Roach Dunkirk Mill Museum The Stroudwater Textile Trust is hopeful Following the extended closure, that from 17th May we will be able to volunteers from the Stroudwater Textile open both the Weaving Shed at Gigg Mill Trust are working hard to open Dunkirk and the Dunkirk Mill Museum. Much Mill Museum to the public. Saturday 22nd planning is being done and soon we August is planned to be the first opening, will get to work preparing the mills. We from 2pm to 5pm, with further openings expect to open on the weekend of 22nd planned on the 26th August, 5th, 19th and and 23rd May. 30th September. The website has a booking Please note that visitors must book system, numbers limited to six people in places on tours and we have adapted one group. The museum is reached by opening days and hours to fulfil social walking about a kilometre down the Cycle distancing rules. Also, because it has been Trail from Nailsworth and following the closed for over a year now the Weaving signs at Dunkirk. Disabled parking is Shed will open both on the Saturday and available at the museum and visitors must Sunday. Please visit our website www. wear masks. All the working machinery stroudtexiletrust.org.uk to book and for will be demonstrated as usual. tour times and days of opening. We will Enquiries to 01453 766273. provide further information once we Ian Mackintosh know what the rules are after June 21st. Stroudwater Textile Trust

8 CHURCH & FAITH

Church Newsletter - May 2021 In April, it was wonderful to be able of supporting our local shops and to celebrate Easter back in St George’s businesses, rather than the large online church, but also celebrated by churches stores who have been thriving with online. There is a great sense of additional sales during the pandemic. optimism and it feels as if we are at last We know that the many changes since looking forward to a new life beyond the beginning of the first lockdown Covid-19. have brought difficult and challenging At Easter Christians look at new times with some events that have been beginnings, with the celebration of devastating, especially if we have lost Jesus’ resurrection on Easter Day and the a loved one. It has also been a time of from his example.’ new life and hope it brings. Like me, I opportunity to show human kindness in The example of Prince Philip’s life expect you have been looking forward to supporting others and getting to know is an example for the nation to follow. hearing when the next restrictions would and understand each other better. This Serving others is a Christian way of life. be lifted. One of the joys is that couples has enabled us to learn so much about May we continue to have a sense of deep can begin to look forward to their supporting and loving one another. commitment to others when life gets wedding day with more certainty, and it We now have hope that we are moving back to a new normal. is going to be a busy time for the church to a time of rebuilding. The Archbishop Rev. Caroline from June to December! of Canterbury, Justin Welby in his Since the first lockdown, we have been statement following Prince Philip, Duke Rev. Caroline Bland in a time of patient waiting and hoping, of Edinburgh’s death said: [email protected] but mid April was a time of the town ‘As we recover and rebuild after St George’s Church, 01453 836536 visibly ‘waking up’, particularly with the terrible trial of the Coronavirus www.thenailsworthbenefice.co.uk the local shops and businesses opening. pandemic, we will need fortitude and With this of course comes the challenge a deep sense of commitment to serving Rev. Stuart Radford of keeping a business going and others. Throughout his life Prince Philip Christ Church, 07956 657759 getting financially back on track, which displayed those qualities in abundance, [email protected] brings me to reflect on the importance and I pray that we can take inspiration www.nailsworthchristchurch.org.uk

Christian Aid Week Sponsored Walk Over the last five years we have held two Sponsored Walks and two Pingpongathons but sadly no events in the last year. The first walk in 2015 was from Christ Church Nailsworth to Christ ChurchTetbury and this year we are doing the reverse. On Saturday 15th May, 11.30am start from Tetbury, 6 miles to Nailsworth. For more information contact Rev Stuart Radford 07956 657759 or [email protected]

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9 TOWN COUNCIL Nailsworth Town Councillors The Covid pandemic has made the work of our Town Mike Kelly Council particularly important during the past year. The I’ve lived in Nailsworth editorial team felt it appropriate to invite members of NTC for 12 years, love the to introduce themselves to Nailsworth News readers and town’s friendly and vibrant outline their particular interests within the community. community and would like We hope you enjoy the following resumes from your Town to work to help the town Councillors. develop and thrive after the NN Editorial Team. pandemic. First elected as a councillor in 2011, I’ve Natalie Bennett been Deputy Mayor since I have lived in the Forest 2019. I planned the town’s Green area of Nailsworth since first Heritage Open Day in 2016. I currently work for a 2019, bringing in hundreds charity that helps young people, of visitors, and initiated the the long term unemployed and current outdoor café areas others to make progress in during Covid-19. These learning and work. I also have schemes have both boosted local businesses and trade. I am previous experience of working committed to improving accessibility and led on this in the within the Special Educational recent Miles Marling field improvements and Market Street Needs and Disability Service for sensory garden. An official speaker for Guide Dogs for twenty- two local authorities. five years, I plan to give further talks when possible with my I love how friendly and new Guide Dog Nicky. vibrant the town is. I care Together with other dedicated councillors, I’m working on about the people that live in strategic environmental and town improvement schemes which Nailsworth and I am currently will benefit Nailsworth’s community and long-term prosperity. a Town Councillor. I am committed to continuing to work I welcome the opportunity to continue these important projects. hard alongside residents and with local community groups and organisations to help deliver positive change, so that our community and local businesses continue to thrive. I am Robert Maitland also keen to ensure there are activities for young people and I feel very lucky to live in provision for young families. Nailsworth with my wife Jane and fox terrier, Henry. I stood again for the Town Council Jonathan Duckworth because I want to make our I have lived in the middle special town an even better of Nailsworth since 1997 place for everyone to live and and brought our children up work. I am not a member of in the town. I have extensive any political party. experience across the UK in Since joining the Council, retailing and shopping centre I have taken a full part in management. I served on the meetings and projects, both board of the Cotswold and Vale in person and more recently Primary Care Trust and fought on Zoom. With a career in in to keep health services local, public service as an urban planner and then heading university particularly Maternity. programmes in tourism, I have focused particularly on: I was Deputy Mayor and Planning: seeking planning policies that both protect our have been Mayor since 2016. green spaces from unwanted development, and respond During my time as Mayor I have updated the democratic and effectively to climate change. accounting processes; decisions of council are transparent Our town centre: making our town centre an even more and it is clear where Council money is spent. I researched and attractive place for local people and visitors – particularly post presented the evidence that made SDC reverse their intention to pandemic impose Parking Charges on Nailsworth. An efficient and resilient Council: doing more digitally, The Pandemic has brought huge pressures to town. I making meetings more focused and communication more devised and set up the Town Council Coronavirus Helpline, effective. recommended setting up online meetings and proposed a democratic way of running council in Lock Down. We have endured a difficult year with COVID and I look forward to a strong recovery. 10 TOWN COUNCIL

Paul Francis Steve Robinson I have lived in Nailsworth I was born and educated for 26 years and served as a in Nailsworth. I have been town councillor since 2016. married to Liz for 51years For as long as I have lived and we have 3 daughters and here, I am reminded on a 5 grandchildren. During my daily basis that Nailsworth working life I spent 25years in is a special place. Having the family butchery business served on the Recreation and and over 50years as a Youth Amenities Committee, I have Worker, both full-time and an interest in looking out part-time. I qualified in for our green spaces and to Youth & Community Work at protect them against unwanted Liverpool University. development. I have a great deal of My aim is to continuously improve the services available to experience in council work, the people of Nailsworth. having been a Nailsworth Town Councillor for 12 years, 6 of these as Deputy and Mayor of Nailsworth. During my time on the Town Council I am proud to have organised several public Angela Norman meetings to retain free car parking, to extend the library I have lived in Nailsworth opening hours and to prevent the closure of Nailsworth Youth for 42 years and my previous Club. experience is with adult The reason I became a councillor was that I feel passionate education and community about our town and its residents. I am committed to working development. Having seen for my community to achieve the best possible outcomes. changes in the development of the town over a period I am keen to see that Nailsworth Collen Rothwell continues to thrive and retains I moved to the District its appeal to all the local 1980 with my family, from community. the North, where I had been employed in the Sheffield Public Health Laboratory Shelley Rider Service. We moved into I’m Shelley one of your new Nailsworth in 1988, where town councillors. I’ve lived our children went to school. in Nailsworth for 18 years It was absolutely the best and it really feels like home. place to raise the family, I work as a Breakthrough and during that time we saw mentor working with people many changes, such as the with complex needs on development of the Cycle benefits, housing, training Track. and education and social My current employment is massage based therapy, and inclusion. I spend a lot of so I re-oriented myself to charity work full time during the time supporting people access lockdown, and have also been very supportive of Nailsworth the community and working Climate Action Network. towards independence. I play I have a personal focus on the development of children the saxophone and write in the post-Covid phase, and have some ideas about how to poetry so am interested in take this forward. Having had training in micro-biology, I cultural life in the area. I am very interested in bringing the have returned to study, and am researching the possibility of community together to deal with current challenges and hope the decomposition of unwanted plastics by fungi. As usual, that everyone can find a voice on the Town Council. scaling up such ideas is the challenge. I hope to represent you as best as I can and would like to influence a few key areas such as climate change, housing and New Candidates jobs. I look forward to putting your ideas and voice forward Shelley Rider and Colleen Rothwell were the only new so do contact me if you need to. candidates seeking election, the remaining seven were the existing Councillors in the previous Council. We would like to thank all the candidates for the help in compiling this information. NN Editorial Team 11 Nailsworth Town Council What has Nailsworth Town Council achieved in the last five years? Report 2016-2021

We’ve improved the way Council is run We’ve won grant money We’re efficient with our finances We are grateful to Nailsworth News for enabling • Our meetings agendas have clear, comprehensive papers • £35,000 from SDC’s Market Town Centre Initiative Fund • Precept 2016/17 £300,783 us to present this report in the paper. COVID • Our professionally qualified Clerk (CiLCA) has a small team • £2,000 Tourism promotion grant towards TIC improvements • Precept 2017/18 £300,768 restrictions mean that we aren’t able to hold a equipped to keep services running through emergencies • £15,000 Police & Crime Commissioner funding to tackle anti- • Precept 2018/19 £300,781 Town Meeting as normal. We hope to hold a • The office has moved and is more accessible in Old Market social behaviour meeting when circumstances allow. • Precept 2019/20 £307,290 • We have modernised the way we work • £131,000 Section 106 and CIL funds invested in town • Precept 2020/21 £316,522 improvements • We plan for the future and monitor progress • Precept 2021/22 £350,726 (incl £30k - Ash dieback)

A summary of the last five We’ve Granted We’ve Assisted We’ve Celebrated We’ve improved green spaces We’ve Commented years of transforming • £17,735 of grants to 20 • Nailsworth in Bloom to • The opening of the MUGA at • Miles Marling Field is now a community • On hundreds of planning applications small groups since 2016 brighten up the town and Nailsworth Primary School park for all ages and Listed Building consents services and supporting • £2,000 per year to achieve a Gold Award • Pete Reed’s third Olympic Gold • KGV Field has refurbished tennis courts, • On Stroud District Council’s Nailsworth Festival and • The Library to open full time medal an outdoor gym and new play equipment Local Plan to inform future local developments £1,000 to Town Twinning the community • WWI Centenary Clocktower • Nailsworth Community Land • Nailsworth Primary School has a • On proposed housing at the FGR site in Forest Green • Grants are awarded poppy display Trust’s first development community MUGA (multi-use games area) quarterly • On new housing at Ringfield Close and Tanner’s Piece • The Junction Youth Club ‘Valley View’

We’ve campaigned successfully What are we doing next year? We have taken action on Climate Emergency Your Council • We held the biggest Town Meeting ever and provided • Working with the Community Land Trust to find new • Climate Emergency Action Plan in place the evidence that stopped SDC taking the ‘P’ out of social housing Councillors Staff • Signed up to the Woodland Trust Tree Charter and will plant our Town Centre with car park charges. • Making the town centre more accessible trees for the future • 11 Town Councillors are elected for a • A full time Clerk, managing the staff, • Negotiated family support for Forest Green when • Helping our town reopen and businesses to succeed • Reduced mowing and increased wildflowers four year term the budget and advising Council on GCC services were cut • Investigating improvements to the Civic Centre, • Many councillors have served an extra legal and technical issues • Worked with the Police to tackle anti-social behaviour Mortimer Room and Library building We are here for you in an emergency year due to the pandemic • A part time Deputy Clerk working on • Safer roads, cleaner air with ‘Smiley’ speed indicators • Campaigning for a 20mph zone • Covid-19 Community Support Help Line for prescriptions and • The council normally meets twice a projects, finance and standing in for • Your Town Council is willing to work with the District • Welcoming a new council shopping month, although during the covid-19 the Clerk and County Council on solutions which don’t damage • Working with schools and youth groups to help pandemic the Emergency Committee • One full time and one part time • Freezer of Love and Community Pantry at the Arkell Centre our town families recover after lockdowns has met on a monthly basis. Customer Services assistant looking • Working with County and District to deal with flooding • Council business is worked on in detail after buildings, admin, finance and community room bookings by Committees and Working Parties, Projects NTC also supports the following services and town initiatives and then agreed at Full Council • A full time Groundsman who looks • Whilst some councillors are Party after the town’s green spaces NTC is currently working on: • KGV Buildings (a new groundsman’s • Extra hours for our Library • Community Land Trust Members we are apolitical • A part time Caretaker who looks after • Covid recovery for our town, both residents storeroom) • Youth service for Nailsworth • Fairtrade Town You! the Town Hall of all ages and businesses • Town Centre and Market Street (improving • Gloucestershire Play Rangers • Nailsworth Festival • We deal with nearly 2,000 room pedestrian accessibility) • What matters most to you in your • Civic Centre (further improvements to the • SDC Neighbourhood Warden • Town Twinning bookings per year from community • Support for Town Services (ensuring NTC’s town? Library complex and Town Hall) groups, sports clubs and individuals • Homestart These make up 23% of Council Budget • Putting the community at the heart of the support is going to the right places and • Would you be interested in helping being used well) with specific projects or Working Questions? Arkell Centre Trustee body Parties? • Are you interested in becoming a If you have any questions or comments councillor? about the Town Council please ask us Attendance 2020-2021 Volunteers • What expertise could you bring to the • Councillors formed an Emergency Committee to ensure democratic decision making through the • Town Information Centre, Nailsworth In Bloom, Town Archives, Covid-19 council or the town? pandemic Support, Nelson Trust and more • Communities benefit from everyone’s • There have been 12 formal meetings since May 2020 • Total: 11,606 volunteer hours over five years input • Meetings average (ideally!) 2 hours with high quality reports beforehand for informed decision making At a nominal Living Wage of £9.30 per hour that’s £107,935 worth of time • Councillors also give up significant time for Working Parties, briefings, training and other meetings our volunteers have given to the town.

NTC is responsible for: What do your other Councils do? Green spaces Our buildings Nailsworth Town Council • King George V playing field • Mortimer Garden • Town Hall • Dunkirk Mill Museum 01453 833592 Your District Council Your County Council (KGV) • Clock tower and gardens • Civic Centre • Council is the Sole Trustee body [email protected] housing, planning, parking, education, social care, benefits, sport and children’s services, waste • Miles Marling Field • War Memorial • Mortimer Room for the Arkell Community Centre www.nailsworthtowncouncil.gov.uk leisure, rubbish and disposal, fire service, libraries, • Shortwood Green Charity • Norton Wood • Town Information Centre in the Civic Centre Old Market Nailsworth Glos GL6 0DU recycling collections roads, archives, employment • Bunting Hill nature reserve • Market Street Garden Library April 2021 SPORTS Nailsworth Mills Bowls Club’s links to Stroud Bowls is a popular British pastime lifted following the King’s death in within the Nailsworth Mills Industrial with a long and colourful history. From 1547. Estate. New members are welcome to humble beginnings, it survived a royal The invention of the lawn mower by this friendly and social bowling club ban to become a sport played in over 50 Edwin Budding of Thrupp, in 1830 is and regular mixed friendly and league countries around the world. Historians strongly believed to have sparked the games are played during the week have traced the sport all the way back creation of bowling greens, although and weekends.Taster sessions, open to the 13th century. Several manuscripts the mower was originally invented days and the popular Friday evening of the period were found to include for the cutting of the “nap” on the club nights are open to visitors and drawings of people playing bowls, or woollen cloth, (as can be seen in the prospective new members during the at least a rudimentary version of it. The Stroud museum). This in turn led to bowls season starting in Mid-April. So world’s oldest surviving Bowling Green the codification and the rules of lawn why not join your local Club? is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, bowls, as well as other sports such as Full details, directions and contact which was first played on in 1299. football and lawn tennis and in 1864 numbers, are on the Nailsworth Mills Both the British Royal Family and William Wallace Mitchel published a Bowling Club website Parliament became concerned that the Manual of Bowls and this became the www.nailsworthmbc.weebly.com. Or growing popularity of bowls would stop basis of the rules of the modern game. just turn up at our Friday evening Club people practising archery, an important Nailsworth Mills Bowling Club was nights at 6.30pm. skill for battle and it was forbidden in founded in 1900 and is now based the reigns of Edward 111, Richard 11 and other monarchs. The prohibition even continued after the invention of gunpowder and firearms. Bowling alleys had first been established in London in 1455 and were regular spots for the dissolute and criminals. King Henry V111 was a lawn bowler but he also banned the game in 1511 for labourers, servants and people of a similar social standing, although they could still play on Christmas Day. The word “bowls” was actually used for the first time in this statute.The ban was Evie - FGR Sports Ambassador We need to get behind our boys, Our goal is promotion this season. At the moment Jimmy from wherever you are, we are Ball, who is Lead professional development phase coach in the playoff positions with the in the academy at FGR, is taking the role of Mark Cooper end of season in sight and maybe while we find a replacement. All our players are working even automatic promotion. We their socks off so let’s start winning some games and get need all the community support promotion! backing them. Hopefully, with Hope everyone is well, and let’s get behind the boys. Come lockdown easing the government on you ROVERS!! are talking about at the end of Evie Urquhart the season one match where fans are allowed to watch, but that’s not a guarantee. This last month we said goodbye to Mark Copper who has been our manager for FGR for 5 years. He’s been with us through promotion and playoffs and much much more, so we’ve got a lot to thank him for! But it was time to turn over a new leaf. Now imagine if a women were to be in charge, then FGR would be the First for EVERYTHING!

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Diana O’Flynn Fund Raising at 98 My grandmother Diana O’Flynn (nee still. West London Price Hughes, also affectionately known Recently she asked me if there was any Mission, to some as Dick) would like, those who way of her doing a sponsored ‘bike ride’. which has are able, to sponsor her to raise money So here we are folks, an incredible 98 many projects for a great cause. She now lives in Exeter year old lady would like you to sponsor for the with members of her family but lived in her as she cycles on the spot! Frankly homeless. - Nailsworth until 2013, had many friends doing anything close to this at 98 is https://www. here, and spent many years volunteering a feat all by itself and deserves a few wlm.org.uk at Horsfall House pennies. Her aim is to cycle for at least Follow During lockdown she asked me to half an hour every day from 12 April to Diana’s purchase an exercise bike for her, 30 June - Around the Sitting Room in progress on not an ordinary request but this is no 80 Days. Instagram: ordinary grandmother. She was used to The charity Diana has chosen is WLM @aroundthesittingroomin80days daily walks and adventures, and found Katherine Price Hughes House, a project If you would like to help Diana reach the change of pace diffi cult to adjust set up by her own great grandmother her fund raising target, particularly to. Those who knew her will not be in 1887 to help those leaving prison if you knew Diana when she lived in surprised by this: she was always off to transition to the community. Still a Nailsworth, go to doing something and usually raising successful charity to this day, it has the https://www.gofundme.com/f/around- money for charity along the way. This capacity to help 20 residents at a time, all the-sitting-room-in-80-days is a woman who fi nds it diffi cult to stay offenders leaving prison. It is part of the Jovie McMillan (her granddaughter).

Jodie’s Fundraising Challenge for Tetbury Hospital Our equipment for our procedure room. and Wiltshire, including residents wonderful Please help Jadie get off to a fl ying start of Nailsworth. Because we are an HCA/ and support her fundraising challenge, independent charity we cannot apply for Ophthalmic by going to her JustGiving page funds from the NHS Charities Together Technician, https://www.justgiving.com/ Fund and so we have to rely on our own Jadie, is crowdfunding/jadiecotterell?utm_ fundraising to purchase new and vital running the term=N7XnWG6q medical equipment. Shepperdine Or using the donate button on our Marathon website www.friendsoftetburyhospital. Lian Franklin on Sunday co.uk Fundraising, Marketing and GP 25th April Tetbury Hospital is an independent Liaison Manager in aid of Tetbury Hospital. She is hoping charity delivering NHS and private Tetbury Hosptal to raise £600 to fund new medical patient care across Gloucestershire www.tetburyhospital.co.uk

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Freezer of Love at The Arkell Centre In the December issue of the Nailsworth The Trustees of the Arkell Centre are Community team. We have regular News there were several articles about supporting the initiative and we are volunteers, Tony and Heidi helping at the Freezer of Love that the Long Table hoping to develop things further over the our sessions and are open at the Arkell had supported to set up in the Arkell coming year as life returns to the ‘new’ Community Centre, Nympsfield Road, Centre. Community Roots CIC and normal we have been hearing about. We Nailsworth GL6 0BG, Mondays and Forest Green Community team are are here for anybody and everybody, you Fridays (except Bank Holidays) from 2 working with other partners to develop may just need a helping hand for a while, pm until 4pm. this service further. We have regularly been a bit poorly and not up to cooking Our contact numbers are: been distributing between 30 and 40 every day, or maybe you just feel like Penny Liddicot 07850 209928 and meals each session to residents from a night off cooking to spend more time Luke Burrows 07562 425228 Forest Green, Nailsworth, and the with your family, we have a meal or We look forward to meeting you. surrounding area. pantry items and fruit veg which suit all Penny Liddicot We are still working closely with the those options and circumstances. Senior Community Organiser & Long Table and due to the efforts of We are always happy to talk to Director of Community Roots CIC Forest Green Community team we are people with time to volunteer. As it is offering a Pantry Service to compliment a developing initiative, we hope that the meals lovingly prepared by the residents will work closely with us to Long Table. The goods for this service help to shape what is needed. If you are donated by the local Morrisons are an agency or organisation working Supermarket and residents can access the with residents that may benefit from the Pantry at the same time as the Freezer service, please tell them about us, we are of Love is open. We have been lucky to here for everybody. also benefit from donations of fruit and Penny Liddicot and Luke Burrows are Vegetables from Marrows Nailsworth Community Organisers with Community Ltd on Fridays and these have been very Roots CIC, we are supported by Sarah much appreciated. Urquhart from Forest Green Rovers

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