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Photography Competition 2019 See inside for the full story ISSUE 17 IN THIS ISSUE • Public Access Defibrillators • Gardening Competition 2019 • Play Areas Update • Food Parcel Service Update • Seaton Valley Village Events Welcome to Issue 17 of Futures Magazine Who would have believed that you can see the Northern Lights from New Hartley! Our front cover photograph was just one of the submissions into the Seaton Valley Photography Competition this year. I was once again amazed by the quality of the entries and just how varied the images were. I would like to congratulate the category winners on their stunning photographs and also thank everybody who entered the competition. It’s such a wonderful way to celebrate aspects of Seaton Valley. With summer fast approaching I look forward to attending all of the Village Events this year. The fun starts in Seghill on the 1 June with the annual Gala. Our Community Associations put a lot of hard work into organising these events that are truly excellent fun for all the family. I do hope that you can spare some time to attend and support your village. Our annual Gardening Competition has now opened. There are lots of categories to enter and I’m looking forward to seeing all of the beautiful floral and vegetable displays that will be created by our dedicated gardeners. I will be exercising my green fingers again this year as the In Bloom groups start preparing for the annual Northumbria in Bloom competition later in the summer. We are always looking for volunteers to help the In bloom groups and urge you to contact the group organiser if you would like to get involved. Work has been completed to replace some of the play equipment at the Young Person’s Play Park in New Hartley. The new equipment looks great fun and it was a shame that we had to cancel the planned opening event due to inclement weather. I’m sure we will make up for it once the new play area in Hastings Gardens in New Hartley is finished and opened later in the summer. I am so grateful to everyone who has donated to our collection points for the Food Bank and to the businesses and establishments who have supported us in providing this service. The service is proving to be valued by individuals and families who need a little bit of extra help in hard times. I am always touched when I see the volume of donations picked up from our collection points around Seaton Valley as I know that all of the items that have been donated will be making a difference to someone’s life. I hope you enjoy this issue of the magazine and I look forward to seeing you at the village events throughout the summer. Stephen Stanners Chair, Seaton Valley Council 2 seatonvalleycommunitycouncil.gov.uk Public Access Defibrillators Fayre, Seaton Sluice Community Centre Family Day, Seaton Sluice Harbour Day and Seaton Valley Lodge of Freemasons in Seaton Delaval. In New Hartley and Seghill the Community Associations have installed AEDs on the outside walls of their village Community Centres and Holywell already has an AED installed on the outside wall of the Old Post Office. In Seaton Delaval new AEDs have been installed outside of Spinning Tops Childcare on Avenue Road and on the Masonic Building near to the top of Double Row. Using a Defibrillator You can use an AED on children over one year old and adults. Ambulances have them on board, but using an AED in the minutes before an ambulance arrives can double someone’s chances of survival. So it is up to bystanders quickly to find the nearest defibrillator. AEDs are housed in a small green and yellow box that is fixed to the outside of a building if the device is for public access. The box is secured with a lock that uses a pin pad to gain access. When the AED is installed the person Thanks to the hard work of Community responsible will register it with the Ambulance Service Associations, Community Groups, the generosity who will hold the access code. of some businesses and local residents, Seaton To get the code you should call 999 for help and the Valley has now got a number of Automated External operator will direct you to the nearest public access AED Defibrillators (AEDs) around our villages. and will give you the pin pad code. Once the box is open An AED is a device that gives the heart an electric shock the AED can be removed and taken to the casualty. when someone’s heart has stopped (cardiac arrest). You can use an AED with no training. The machine The Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) Group in Seaton analyses someone’s heart rhythm and then uses visual or Sluice has worked with Professor Michael Norton, voice prompts to guide you through each step. Consultant Cardiologist at the RVI and a Director of Training Courses the charity Cardioproof to obtain funding towards the purchase and installation of the AEDs. As a result of their Regular CPR and AED ‘Awareness’ courses are held at hard work they have added a further five AEDs in Seaton Community Centres, Schools and business premises Sluice. There are now seven AED locations in the village around the area to instruct individuals on the use of including AEDs at both the First and Middle schools. The Defibrillators. PAD group have recently installed a further AED in the decommissioned phone box at the foot of Fountain Head Bank. Courses will be advertised on Seaton Valley Online when available: Seaton Sluice PAD Group have given talks and www.seatonvalley.org.uk demonstrations at Seaton Sluice First School Summer Seaton Valley Futures 3 Spring into Summer at the Hall If you’ve travelled along the A190 recently it’ll have been impossible to miss that things are going on at the hall. The scaffolding on the West Wing is now complete and by the time this magazine comes through your letterbox work will be well underway with reroofing. all things environmental, the children will learn about the importance of peat-free soil and the role of worms It’s been fantastic to see so many people this spring and in creating soil in a series of workshops which have have conversations about the hall’s National Lottery been co-designed with the team at the hall. They’ll then Heritage Fund-supported Curtain Rises project. Things introduce 1000s of worms to improve the soil and continue are moving so fast that even staff and volunteers are their learning about the bugs, bats and birds that live in noticing big changes from one day to the next! There’s the grounds and how to spot them on their own nature been some interesting archaeological finds as work adventures. Year 3 will be exploring the archaeological continues, including a ‘gentleman’s canon’, thought to date finds found on site as part of the project to learn about the from 1640-50; a 17th century nit comb – which shows that eating habits of people in the 1600s. At the end of term the best designs often don’t change for hundreds of years the children are inviting their families to an open day when – and fragments of pottery, many of which are likely to they can take part in activities led by the children with have come from Germany and the Netherlands. staff from the hall and enjoy the ‘dawn chorus’ by children In the grounds we’ve completed stabilisation work to the from Reception. north-east bastion – the circular elements at the end of As part of our Rising Stars activity with Northumbria the walls – and have now moved on to the south east one. University we’re also starting an oral histories project, The new path networks inspired by the 1781 estate plan Seaton Stories. Whether you saw a pheasant running have started too and the play area has now been removed across your path on an early morning walk, a tale from to introduce a new accessible entrance path. Work on a medieval banquet, you know someone who worked or the new play area has begun and is due to open in spring stayed at the hall or anything else Seaton Delaval Hall 2020. Look out for more information on this including an related, we’d love to hear your story! Selected stories may opportunity to win a competition to name it! then be displayed as part of The Curtain Rises project. We’re also continuing our partnership with Seaton Sluice Email: [email protected] with First School. Working with their Year 4 class to explore your story. 4 seatonvalleycommunitycouncil.gov.uk Parking We receive a number of complaints about parking at pedestrian crossings are all dealt with by Civil issues across Seaton Valley. One of the main Enforcement Officers working for the County Council. complaints we receive from residents is about The Police continue to enforce offences that include vehicles parking on grass verges. obstruction of the highway (including the footpath) and When vehicles are parked this way it tends to cause dangerous parking. damage to the grass and now that spring has arrived it We ask residents to be mindful of their parking and ask also restricts access for grass cutting. them not to park on grass verges and to think about the Where we have identified areas where parking on grass safety of other road users and pedestrians when they park verges is causing extensive damage we have started their cars.