Happy Birthday to the Local Sherwood Community Newsletter It‘S Our 4Th Birthday This Month See Page 3 for a Historical Review
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VOLUME NO: 04 ISSUE: 03 ------------------- March 2011 COMPLIMENTARY Value £1.30 ‗Building Local Businesses & Strengthening Communities Through our 4th year! Happy Birthday to The Local Sherwood Community Newsletter It‘s our 4th Birthday this month See page 3 for a historical review Delivering quality local community news and business information to the Sherwood Forest Area and beyond TRUMAN TRAVEL Computer Korner: Virus and Trojans – PRIVATE HIRE Get FREE Advice on avoiding them. 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Tel: 01623 795623/07916 245 367 Email: [email protected] 2 Welcome to the Hello from The Sherwood Inside this issue: March edition of the Newsletter Editor: Diane Sherwood Carter a local resident with Introductions & Invitation to Get Involved 2 Community a local business! Newsletter. News & Information 3 I love this time of year when the weather starts to warm up and Looking Good & Feeling Great Winter 2010 4-5 the buds on the trees start to show. In a few weeks they will start to blossom and our first real signs of spring; the daffodils Our Young and Our Future 6 will be blooming – colour once again returning to our gardens! Thank you for your great feedback from the Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest Everything Weddings 7 feature in the February edition and our Sub-Editor; Andy Jones has been working hard to offer more details about our local legend. See page 18 for more history of The Rainworth Reporter 8-9 our fabulous local lands. The Blidworth Focus 10-13 We are also very excited at the Sherwood as we are celebrating our 4th birthday. As 14 many of you are aware we started with the Rainworth Reporter in 2007. This was The Village Voices set up as a 12 page magazine delivered to 1,000 homes in the local area with the Ravenshead News 15 aim then as it is now – ―To Build Local Businesses and Strengthen Our What’s On Locally & in the Surrounding Communities‖. 16–21 We now have a great team working on the 32 page full colour Sherwood Area Community newsletter; Andy Jones our Sub-Editor, Steve from Xpress Delivery Services and five young people in the area who all work hard to deliver the Sherwood Tourist Info 18 newsletters to your door. Thank you to them for their efforts. As the spring is in the air with the new blossom and excitement about the new Making a House a Home 22—23 season ahead, we at the Sherwood Community Newsletter are excited about our future and the future of the local villages. We want to continue to serve you for Marathon Media; Building Local Businesses 24-27 many years to come and want to sincerely thank those of you who advertise, those Marathon Media; Strengthening who offer information and those who enjoy reading our Sherwood Community 28-30 Newsletter. Communities Diane Carter, Editor Sporty Village and Last Minute News 31 GREAT NEWS AND FEEDBACK WELCOMED Thank you to those who keep emailing regarding local news, events and feedback. Please address to the Editor; email: [email protected]. Postal address available on request. Deadline for news articles for each edition is by the 2nd Friday of every month. Please keep sending information so we can keep the newsletter ‘hot and fresh’! Advert requests and payments by 2nd Friday of each month. Any feedback or news must be supported by name & address, that can be withheld on request. Contact: Diane, Editor: 07916 245 367. 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Contact Thanks Diane, Editor. Marathon Media right to edit where If you would like to be an outlet please contact me so I necessary and retain Diane on: 01623 795623 or the right to print or not. can bring along some newsletters. email: diane@marathon- media.co.uk Edited, Produced and Distributed by MARATHON MEDIA 3 News and Information Mark Spencer MP Update History of Your Newsletter Calls for rethink on Fire Brigade budget cuts Started 4 years ago providing local news Mark Spencer, Member of Parliament for Sherwood today and community information specific to called for a Government rethink on the cuts being made to Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Services‟ budget. This local residents follows a meeting between Mark and the Chief Fire Officer for the area, Frank Swann. The Rainworth Reporter Mark wrote to Bob Neill MP, the Minister responsible for Fire Services to ask March 2007 12 pages and 1000 copies for a more sympathetic settlement for Nottinghamshire. Mark said “Millions delivered locally. This gradually were wasted by the previous Government on the aborted scheme to move Nottinghamshire‟s services to a regional centre at Castle Donnington and we increased to 3000 copies in 3 years have been left with an outdated system which saw no investment due to the and to full colour September 2010 expected move. Nottinghamshire requires transitional funding to modernise its call centre and protect the services we all rely on. The Blidworth Focus In addition, current proposals suggest that pump numbers in the area will be cut from 36 to 30 within the county due to a dramatic reduction in call outs. May 2009 12 pages and 2000 copies Mark said “This is essentially a good news story in the sense that calls to fires delivered locally. This increased to 20 have gone down. However, I am keen to ensure that the reduction in pumps does not affect response time to our area.” pages in December 2009 and full “Firefighters and Retained Firefighters are concerned about the changes and I colour in September 2010. The focus met last week with crews from Edwinstowe and Arnold to see the fantastic was kindly inherited from previous work they are doing and to discuss their fears. I would like Government to producers, the Blidworth Focus reconsider the settlement but also for cuts to be directed towards efficiency savings and proper management of assets before hitting pump numbers. ” Forum Volunteer Team. The Chief Fire Officer Frank Swann has said that he is happy to continue with public dialogue and intends to publicly consult before any changes are made. The Village Voices Members of the public are able to take part in a Government consultation on funding allocation until April 8th at the following address Started in 2010, 1000 copies www.communities.gov.uk/publications/fire/fireandrescuecontrolservices. delivered to Farnsfield, Edingley For more information or to arrange an interview with Mark Spencer MP, contact: Madeleine Burns, Mobile: 0777 198 1696, and Halam. Email: [email protected] In January 2011, the amalgamation of the Rainworth Reporter, The Blidworth Focus and The Village Voices into one, The Sherwood. To the present day, The Sherwood . Full colour 32 page Newsletter, 10,000 copies distributed throughout the Sherwood area, with a readership of over 40,000. Also online information site (Blog) with the regularly updated news and also contains archives of previous copies for you to download. www.sherwoodcommunitynewsletter.wordpress.com Edited, Produced and Distributed by MARATHON MEDIA 4 Looking Good and Feeling Great in 2011 Newark and Sherwood D.C. Walk for Life Government Initiative. Thank for the great response and all who have come along and got involved.