Tibshelf News Summer 2021 - Issue 37

Tibshelf Parish Council’s Quarterly Newsletter

What’s Parish Council Launches Inside: ‘Shop Local’ Campaign

One of the unfortunate side businesses in the village. This - Chair’s Address effects of lockdown and was placed on Facebook, the - Parish Council Updates restrictive measures has website and covers the middle been the impact on the High spread of this newsletter. - Fly-tipping Street and local businesses. The map is designed to give - Welcome new staff To help stir up business in the you an easy way to see where village and get them through businesses are located. - Staffa Health the crisis, on Wednesday the Inclusion is not necessarily an 11th of November 2020 the endorsement, and so please do Vaccination Update Parish Council launched the your own checks on reputation - New Roof at the Mission Tibshelf Shop Local campaign and service quality. to run through to the end of Unfortunately, not all business - Remembering Mike July 2021. could be included, but we will do our best to promote as many Pope The campaign began on as possible. Facebook by sharing links to - Hanging Baskets the pages of many Tibshelf - Shop Local Map businesses including those with a shop and those who are - Tibshelf Band Donation online or sole traders.

- Tibshelf Historic and A ‘shopping map’ of Tibshelf was then compiled to visually Civic Society Updates represent the location of the

You can find us at tibshelfparishcouncil.gov.uk or facebook.com/TibshelfParishCouncil Welcome to our Summer edition of the ‘blooming’ display of daffodils and crocus as Tibshelf Parish Council Newsletter. you drive through the village, which the Green Bunch and local volunteers planted. Well, this has been a year we are not likely to forget in a hurry! Our centre page spread is the ‘Tibshelf Shop

Local Campaign’ promoting and supporting Although I suspect most of us would like to local businesses, groups and services, which forget it as soon as possible, things are I am sure many of you will find useful and starting to look up. Entering spring, the take advantage of. vaccine rollout and easing government restrictions provide hope for brighter things We are now in the ‘roadmap out of lockdown’ to come. phase and are starting to see many of our

It has now been just over a year since the village groups and facilities re-open or start government instructed us to limit social making plans to restart, which is great news! contact and imposed the first lockdown. It We look forward to more stories from them has been a year like no other, and the all in our next edition. coronavirus pandemic will have a lasting impact on society, our way of life and the And finally, it goes without saying, please economy. continue to stay safe, take care of yourself, family and friends, and have a great summer. In this edition of our newsletter, we are taking the opportunity to showcase the great Tibshelf community spirit we are all proud of Best Wishes, by recognising events and activities that still went ahead during the lockdown. The Food Allison Beckett Bank continued to offer support to those in Chair of Tibshelf Parish Council need, the Christmas and Easter activities packs entertained local kids and the stunning displays on the Five Pits trail brightened days. Tibshelf Band performed to fundraise for Ashgate Hospice, Tibshelf Covid-19 Support Group and ‘We’re in Stitches’ delivered Christmas gift bags and hot cross buns were given to elderly residents. Tibshelf’s History Society Miners to Medics lottery project has continued and of course our annual Remembrance Service.

It would be remiss of us not to mention the

Would you like to place something in our next edition of Tibshelf News? Submissions are free for local groups that operate within Tibshelf, and adverts cost a competitive fee for businesses to advertise their goods and services. Please contact the Communication and Projects Officer at [email protected] or ring 07388 457836 to provide a submission or request more information. Communications Strategy and Social Media Policy for Tibshelf Parish Council

Tibshelf Parish Council has been can know if the strategy is working or if working hard to further update and individual channels are working. professionalise its operations and services. If you would like to read the document, it can be found on our website under In October 2019, we created the ‘Council Documents’. If you need help or Communication and Projects Officer post to other document formats, please contact the oversee and deliver communication to the Office. public via our website, Facebook page and newsletter. We also had a new Clerk who The next step in this process has been to modernised our accounts and a new create a social media policy that outlines administration assistant. These how the Facebook pages are ran and how appointments help us achieve our aims of updating our policies, processes and councillors should behave online. Both of procedures. these documents address issues raised in the Parish Survey 2020, an important A further part of this professionalisation is listening exercise that helps us bring the the creation of our first-ever Council in alignment with public priorities. Communications Strategy that will govern how we communicate at the Council. This has been worked on over past months and has had councillor input into different drafts.

Strategies like this are useful to help organise who communicates, what they communicate and who will receive the information. It covers key communication principles such as legality, frequency and quality, as well as identifying who our audiences are. It explains the main communication channels we use and what relevant information we should send out to the public and partners. Finally, it covers evaluation of communications so that we

Summer Edition—Issue 37 3 3 Members of Staff Updates

At the end of February, we said goodbye We have also recently welcomed a new to our Parish Clerk and RFO David member of staff to the Council. Melsome. He had been brought in Sharon Metcalfe — Administration following the departure of Parish Clerk Assistant and RFO Ruth Price, who did brilliant work for the council over her many years. Sharon has been with the Council since September 2020 and replaces the outgoing David had worked at the Council since assistant Kate Poynter, who we also wish February 2020 and helped it through one of well in any new roles. Sharon provides the most difficult periods in recent memory, administrative help to the Clerk and the COVID-19 pandemic. Communication and Projects Officer, and He helped bring in a modern accounting has been working hard with them to create system and oversaw projects like the Parish and update our processes. She also Survey 2020 and new radiators in the Village coordinates the Village Hall and works with Hall. We would like to thank David for his user groups and members of the public. To hard work over the past year and wish him contact, please use: luck in his new ventures. E-mail: [email protected] Susan Coldwell is our locum clerk until we Tel: 01773 875093 hire a new permanent clerk in the coming weeks and months.

4 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Allotment Society Cleared, covered and ready to go! Half plots also available Plots Now Available £25 per annum rent

Located Behind Tibshelf Infant School, High Street

Water Car Parking Toilets New road Layout

Shop open to the public Saturdays 10:30am till 12pm

Contact Jane Hufton on 07496 053393

Remembrance Sunday

Due to restrictions, it wasn’t possible to hold our normal remembrance events in full. However, that did not stop proceedings at which invited residents attended a socially-distanced outdoor service. As normal, wreaths were laid and the roll of honour called, with words spoken by the Vicar Gill Manley. Thank you to all who attended.

We would like to give a big thank you also to Mathers of Tibshelf, a local blacksmith who, working with Cllr Kathryn Salt MBE, designed and produced the stunning Tommy and war horse silhouettes. Parish Rangers then placed these outside of the entrance signs, in front of the Church and at the High Street planter/flag pole.

Summer Edition—Issue 37 5 We have places in our nursey from September for children who are already 3 or will turn 3 between now and January 2022. Session times are 8:45-11:45am and 12:30-3:30pm. If you would like to look around our wonderful school, please contact us. Headteacher: Zoë Andrews

Neighbourhood Planning Updates

The Parish Council has taken a number of months to gauge the views of residents and local authorities on the Neighbourhood Plan, so that we have full information about plans for housing, High Street regeneration and education provision in the village and how best to support these changes. The Parish Council committee, the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, has now reconvened and is continuing its work to finalise the draft and submit this to the Parish Council for approval. The Parish Council will then take this forward to public consultation and a referendum. To keep updated about the neighbourhood planning process and the activities of the Parish Council’s Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, we have set up the official Tibshelf Neighbourhood Plan Updates Facebook page. There, we will keep you updated on where we are, what’s been decided and where we are going next. Please find the page at: www.facebook.com/TibshelfNPUpdates

6 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Spirits Kept High by Local Artisan

During lockdown, a local lady Ellie Peck has created stunning displays for walkers on the Five Pits Trail, done on her own initiative and cost. During the Easter period, she made a rabbit-themed floral display, as shown in the image. Thank you for taking the time to create these displays and contribute to brightening our community during this difficult period.

Hot Cross Buns kindly Donated by the Co-op

Not for the first time, the Co-op have very generously donated food and produce to be distributed out into the community. Over Easter, they donated delicious hot cross buns that were then delivered to grateful residents by Kathryn Salt MBE and Sheila Nyland. Thank you to the Co-op for going above and beyond to help the community once again and to Kathryn and Sheila for taking the time to quickly and efficiently deliver food.

Summer Edition—Issue 37 7 Vaccine Update from Staffa Health

We hope you are all keeping well and We will start inviting patients in cohorts 10 (40 looking forward to Spring and Summer in -49yrs), 11 (30-39yrs) and 12 (18-29yrs) via the hope that our lives might soon start text message as soon as we are given the go getting back to normal. ahead nationally and our vaccine allocations are sent to us. Staffa Health continues to operate a ‘triage first’ telephone based appointment system. If Thank you to everyone who has attended for a we feel you need to be seen we can bring you vaccination so far, you all have an important in for a face to face appointment with a GP or part to play in this vaccination programme. We nurse. If you are asked to attend the surgery are asking people to remember the following: please ring the bell by the door and our • please don’t contact the NHS to seek a reception staff will let you in. All clinical staff vaccine, we will contact you; are still wearing full PPE and any patients who when we do contact you, please attend are asked to attend the surgery in person are • required to wear a face covering and use your booked appointments; hand sanitiser. We are still very much open for • and please continue to follow all the business and ready to help you in the best guidance to control the virus and save way possible. Please take the advice of our lives, even when you have had your staff on what this may be for your particular first vaccine. problem. Finally, our staff are working flat out to contact Covid vaccinations are being organised by patients about vaccines, help to run the groups of practices who are working together Sharley Park hub as well as doing their normal to deliver these to patients. These are called jobs and covering for the increasing number Primary Care Networks (PCNs). Staff in our of staff being asked to self-isolate. We ask network (South Hardwick PCN) have been that you please think carefully before you working hard to deliver vaccinations at telephone and ask yourself if the call is really Sharley Park Leisure Centre in . necessary. Could you get advice from a local pharmacy, NHS111 or complete an eConsult At the time of writing (end of March 2021) all via our website? patients in cohorts 1-9 should have been offered a vaccine. If you are in these groups If you do need to call us please treat our staff you may have received a letter to book at a with kindness and respect. We have seen an National Vaccination Centre or been sent a increasing amount of anger, rudeness and text message to book with us at Sharley Park generally poor attitude from patients recently Leisure Centre. It is your choice where you and this will not be tolerated. Our staff are wish to attend. Please do not just turn up at following the national guidelines and have no Sharley Park, an appointment is needed for control over who receives their vaccine or in you to attend for your vaccination. All Care what order. If you need to speak to them Homes and housebound patients have had please be kind and maybe tell them what a their first vaccinations and we will be starting good job they are doing. our second vaccinations from the 1st of April. Thank you.

168 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Activities for Kids Delivered Christmas Activity Packs

Children across Tibshelf had great fun getting creative with a Christmas activity pack from Sue Wood and Activities for Kids. The pack included a plain card, stickers, baubles, tinsel, bells, ribbons, an activity sheet and a reading book. As these pictures show, children did a great job in making cards and decorations! Well done!

Visit us at www.tibshelfparishcouncil.gov.uk 17 New Roof at the Mission

Although 3rd Tibshelf Scouts and Guides have been unable to meet during the Covid crisis, big things have been happening down at the Mission. After about 150 years it has got a new roof! Local builder Phil Billington and his team took advantage of the good weather in the earlier part of the year to strip and tile the roof. They have done a great job and it looks fantastic, so let’s hope it will keep the Mission dry for another 150 years. The recent renovations has been made possible by fund raising with some personal donations, money from the Co-op Local Community Fund and Tesco supermarket at Clay Cross. Once we can meet safely again we can get back to having lots of fun and learning some new skills so as they used to say in the Scouts 'Be Prepared'.

Michael Pope, In Memory

It is with great sadness that we have to report that Michael Pope, former chairman of Tibshelf Parish Council and councillor up until 2007, passed away on the 23rd October 2020.

Michael was a lifelong resident of Tibshelf, working first at Markham Colliery and then Tibshelf Garden Products for his son Andrew. He was married to Margaret who predeceased him and leaves behind 2 loving sons, 5 grandchildren and 3 great- grandchildren who all love and miss him very much and cherish the great times they had with him.

10 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Poppies on Lamp Posts Sponsorship

Thank you once again to those who have kindly sponsored poppies that lined the village’s lamp posts. They are:

Name In Memory Of

Jean Hickman Ronald Footitt, Albert Hardy -POW, Jack Jones

Sue Marshall Relatives within the Armed Forces past and present

Little Doolittle Rodent Boarding Service

Angela Elliott Ian Elliott

John Vardy Vera Vardy

Angela & Janet and their families Vera Vardy

Tibshelf Community Football Club Mini Kickers Saturdays 10.00-11.00am on the ‘old school field’ next to Tibshelf Infant and Nursery School High Street Tibshelf DE55 5PP

A fun way of introducing football to girls and boys aged 3-7 years. No need to book! Please ensure your child has shinpads and a drink. All sessions run by qualified DBS checked coaches.

Due to current FA Covid rules only 1 parent per child allowed and social distancing please between parents.

For more information, please see our Facebook page: facebook.com/Tibshelf-Community-Football-CLUB or email our Child Welfare Officer on [email protected]

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Tibshelf Band

Tibshelf Band are looking forward to meeting We welcome new members of any age from again as soon as current COVID restrictions novice to experienced and rehearse at the allow. Pavilion on Shetland Road on Thursdays from 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 6:30pm to 9pm when We have not been idle during the lockdown COVID-19 restrictions permit. though; members have been practising ready for returning. Also over the Christmas period Contact Peter Ward for more information on (relaxed lockdown), a few members of the joining or bookings using 07870 279639. band got together and played carols, with kind permission of Tibshelf Co-op, outside their store! The people of Tibshelf generously donated £103.52. We also played on Matlock Bandstand and were honoured to lead the Carol Service outside Tibshelf Church for the community. These events lead to the band being donated a further £55, which we have decided to donate to Ashgate Hospice, for a total of £158.52. Thank you all for your generosity. We look forward to performing again in the not-too-distant future.

Could you sponsor a hanging basket?

During 2020, we enjoyed a beautiful display of hanging baskets. As a people’s favourite, we will be doing them again this year. By the second week of June 2021, hanging baskets will be planted and displayed throughout the village, primarily on lamp posts going down the High Street. We have also added an extra 17 locations, making it 100 baskets in total. If you would kindly like to sponsor a hanging basket for this year, please contact the Parish Office for further information on sponsoring and paying. Sponsorship will cost £30 per basket and any sponsorships will be acknowledged in the upcoming Late Summer edition of Tibshelf News, as well as placed in a Register of Sponsors on our website.

14 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Coming Soon to Tibshelf ‘There’s no place like home’

Tibshelf will soon showcase a vibrant display of Wizard of Oz characters, with the theme ‘There’s no place like home’. After taking delivery, the Parish Council will be placing them at different locations throughout the village and we wonder if you’ll be able to find them all?

Thank you to Mather of Tibshelf who produced the designs and metal work, and to Nicole Rhená Lander for doing such a great job in painting them. She is a local artist from Holmgate, Clay Cross. Reports of Fly-tipping on the Rise in Tibshelf

The Parish Council is working hard with partners to address this issue and is placing pressure on other councils to do as much as they can. Though not a direct responsibility of Tibshelf Parish Council, the Parish Council has been working with and to find a solution. We must all remain vigilant and make sure Fly-tipping has become a frequent we properly vet companies we use for problem in Tibshelf, with hot spots like domestic waste disposal, such as checking Saw Pit Lane being hit particularly hard. for an Environment Agency license. This According to the Department of can be checked online using the gov.uk Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, fly- website. If your waste ends up being fly- tipping is the ‘illegal dumping of liquid or tipped by a rogue company, you too could solid waste on land or in water’. Waste be fined up to £5,000 if you can’t show you should be properly disposed of at a took reasonable steps to check they were licensed waste disposal site, otherwise it legitimate. can attract a maximum penalty of £50,000 or 12-months in prison. Local resident Marc Jowett, who has regularly come across fly-tipping while walking, said “We are seeing these disgusting tips on an almost weekly basis, with the proper authorities taking swift action with every one that is reported in full. Over the past 2 years, I have collated images of fly-tips in the area, some shown here, and we have seen everything from household waste to burnt-out cars and caravans.”

If you see waste that’s been illegal fly- tipped, or have witnessed someone doing this, then please make a report using: Council’s self-service portal at www.bolsover.gov.uk/f/fly-tipping or call 01246 242424 Derbyshire County Council’s ’Call Derbyshire’ phoneline using 01629 533190

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Santa’s Helpers Deliver Gifts to School Children and Elderly Residents

Members of the Tibshelf COVID-19 Support Group—funded by Tibshelf Parish Council - were hard at work in the run-up to Christmas. They wrapped over 400 selection boxes for Infant and Junior school children, and made 136 Christmas gift bags full of goodies—donated by Tibshelf residents—for elderly and vulnerable people. They were delivered up to Christmas Eve. A big thank you to We’re in Stitches for the bags, Kim Barthorpe of Coop Warehouse, Sheila Nyland and team, Allison Beckett, Lisa Lance, Kathryn Salt MBE, Lian Scott and Rev Gill Manley for helping to make up the bags and deliver. This is in addition to all of the hard work they have put in throughout 2020 to support the vulnerable in Tibshelf and make sure they have been provided with prescriptions, food deliveries, food bank or just someone to talk to. Even with the third national lockdown slowly easing, we are still open and running our services in full. The foodbank is open on Saturday mornings from 10am to 12pm for those in genuine financial hardship. Please call our members on the next page if you need any help or assistance. Thank you

18 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Visit us at www.tibshelfparishcouncil.gov.uk

Tibshelf Historic and Civic Society

- COVID restrictions have hit us hard and we have been unable to proceed with the public engagement side of activities like exhibitions and our members meetings, but work continues

- Our Facebook site now has 2,000 followers with some very old photographs of village life and people

- Our website will be up and running soon but we still have lots of work to prepare articles to add there

- We are organising our first FREE Oral History training course soon via the internet and Zoom

- We have commissioned a short film about the Royal Review at Windsor Last January, the Society was awarded a - In course of preparation is our free leaflet grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to to accompany a walk along the Pheonix research the historical Tibshelf Greenway (5 Pits Trail) and interpretation Ambulance Corps and Nursing boards Association who were one (some say the) first industrial first aid units in the - Our Society booklet about Johnson’s country. Chrysanthemums has been re-set and printed and a few copies of our annual Attached to the Babbington Collieries in calendar are still available Tibshelf, they started classes in the Colliery Schoolrooms (on the site of Enterprise We are being offered some great artefacts House) in 1871, instructed by Dr W. A. and old photographs about this project and STAMFORD and led by Colliery Manager/ would be pleased if you could add to their Agent Stuart Crawford WARDELL. story if some of your predecessors were involved. Contact us and let us know… They have a fascinating story to tell and we have produced a FREE pamphlet of this When things return to something like story so far as we know it—available from ‘normal’, we will be prepared to resume the Co-op. This is only one of a series of activity but meanwhile rather than sit in pamphlets (22 so far) produced this year. isolation, YOU could join us (£5 per This is what our Miners to Medics project is annum) and help us rediscover and record all about. the history of our village Further News: Find us on Facebook for more information.

20 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Tibshelf Historic and Civic Society Summer Update

During the lockdowns, we have been busy shops. This guide is also accompanied by a researching lots of work as part of our children’s activity sheet. We will also be ‘Miners to Medics’ Lottery project. arranging a few relevant trips out. As things are easing, we are hoping to hold a Part of the story focuses around the Tibshelf few ‘show and tell’ events so you can see home front in World War Two, including what our project is about and contribute to services and details of local air raids. Do you our findings through your own memories and have any memories to share? reflections. The Society have been able to secure additional funding from the County Council to produce a ‘Miners to Medics’ trail guide around places of interest to their story. This is 1.8miles around the Five Pits Trial and High Street, and will be available free of charge from the Co-op and other local

11 Which Council Does What?

22 Summer Edition—Issue 37 Your Parish Councillors 2021

Chair Vice-Chair Calendar of Allison Beckett Reg Vaughan Meetings 2021

01773 590641 01773 873472

[email protected] [email protected] Parish Council Meetings (Parish Council Meetings are normally held on the Ray Heffer Kathryn Salt MBE 3rd Tuesday of each month. They begin at 7pm. 01773 872805 07931 371321 Please check the website [email protected] kathryn.salt@ or Facebook for any date btinternet.com changes) *As things stand, the law requires meetings are now held face-to-face . Ivan Brentnall Mike Coupe Protective measures will be in place. Please check our 01773 872245 01773 872780 website and social media for updates on venue and ivanbrentnall@ [email protected] format of meetings.. tiscali.co.uk (May is Annual Assembly and Annual Parish Council Meeting) Gerry Foley Sue Wood 18th MAY 2021*

01773 872277 07974 022089 15th JUNE 2021* sue.howitt74@ 20th JULY 2021*

gmail.com Committee Meetings (Provisional Dates)

Deborah Watson Cliff Whitehead Resources Committee 07817 288953 07789 714677 (Comprising Amenities, deborah6jasmine@ cliffwhitehead@ Personnel and Audit hotmail.co.uk outlook.com Committee)

To be decided Bolsover District: Phil Billington Ray Heffer Village Hall Management 07711 250925 01773 872805 Committee [email protected]

Deborah Watson 07817 288953 4th MAY 2021* [email protected]

Derbyshire County: James Barron 07773 744700 [email protected]

For more ways to contact Councillors, please visit tibshelfparishcouncil.gov.uk Contact Us

Susan Coldwell Address Locum Parish Clerk and RFO Parish Office, Village Hall 110 High Street, Tibshelf, DE55 5NU [email protected]

Sharon Metcalfe Office Opening Hours Administration Assistant Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday [email protected] 9AM-1PM

Mark Scarborough Police and NHS Phone numbers Communication and Projects Officer Tibshelf Safer Neighbourhood Team—101 [email protected] NHS non-life threatening—111

Phone 01773 875093 (Office) 07388 457836 (Mark)

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