Evercreech and District Information Sheet £1.25 but Free to No: 81 Local Residents
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Evercreech and District Information Sheet £1.25 but free to No: 81 local residents. November 2020 What a year! The new EDIS Team is now up and running, with the original Team in the background providing their expertise and an occasional steer! The new Team would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to the original EDIS team for their many years of hard work and commitment to this valuable resource for local residents. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 lockdown in Spring, we were unable to bring you the 80th edition, which covered the summer period. We are grateful to our contributors and advertisers for their patience and are glad to have worked with them to produce the 81st edition, and to our volunteers for helping with delivery. If you would like to be involved in producing EDIS, can spare time twice a year and have IT skills, please ring us on 01749 831069 to find out more. If you run a club, group, scheme or event that is Local Businesses – would you like to advertise not mentioned here, and would like more in these pages, which are delivered to over residents to know about it, please email: 1,000 households? To find out more about [email protected] or phone 01749 advertising options please email 831069 [email protected] Specialising in all aspects of tree surgery including: Tree shaping, pollarding and felling Hedge trimming Stump removal Garden clearance Fully insured NPTC qualified. National Certificate in Arboriculture [email protected] Telephone - 07896 813 934 Albino Builders Ltd (Est. 1976) Unit 1, Quarry Way Business Park, Waterlip, Shepton Mallet. BA4 4RN. Tel: (01749) 344965 www.albinobuilders.co.uk COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDING RENOVATIONS HOME IMPROVEMENTS CONTRACT MAINTENANCE ELECTRICAL PLUMBING, HEATING and RENEWABLE ENERGY ROOFING/LOFT CONVERSIONS JOINERY WORKSHOP 539345 Melita Coiffure joined by Hair @ Melita Coiffure Barbara, Tanya, Zee warmly welcome you to the salon for all aspects of hairdressing. CLOSED on MONDAYS and SATURDAYS Oxford Street 01749 830536 Evercreech, BA4 6HT INDEX Health and support Animals & Pets Age UK Somerset 9 Bees 40 Alcoholics Anonymous 9 Bridleways & Byways 42 Air Ambulance 17 Cats 32 Alzheimer’s Society 8 The Cinnamon Trust 32 Arthritis Research UK 9 Dogs - Environmental Protection 12 Bereavement Services 9 Happy Landings Animal Shelter 32 Blood Donors 8 Riding for the Disabled 42 Defibrillator 48 Community & Services Doctor’s Surgeries and related info. 5, 6 Banks 4 Dorothy House 10 Carymoor Environmental Trust 38 Drug & Alcohol Service 9 Children’s Society 24 Home First Plus (was Care & Repair) 10 Churches 20 - 23 Local & Community Hospitals 6, 7 Citizen’s Advice Mendip 13 NHS 111 6 Community Council (CCS) 11 National Childbirth Trust 8 Credit Union 14 Nurses 6 Diary of events 27 Pluss 18 Evercreech Relief in Need 23 Red Cross 10 Food Saving Project 44 Samaritans 13 Food Bank 11 Somerset Community Meals 14 Freegle 16 Hobbies & Groups Gartons Mead 24 Allotments 25 Items to Borrow 48 The Arts Society 37 Library 15 Book Clubs 15 Mendip Councillor 46 Creative Writing 15 Neighbourhood Watch 12 Drama & Film Groups 30-31 Noise Nuisance 13 Drifters Model Boat Club 43 Parish Council 18, 45 Evercreech in Bloom 47 Police 12 Flower Club 25 Political Parties (local) 19 Friendship Club 28 Post Office Collection Times 3 History Society 36 Refuse Collection/Recycling 16, 17 Project Linus 40 Registrar (births, deaths, marriages) 13 Royal British Legion 29 RNLI 28 Show Society 28 Safe Families 11 Singing 43-44 Shepton Mallet Carnival 28 The Old Stores Studio 25 Shepton Mallet Market 18 U3A 35 Shops in Evercreech, Opening Hours 18 Women’s Institute 25 Street Lighting 13 Victim Support 8 Travel Village Hall 47 Air Travel 4 Water Leaks 13 Bus & Coach Services (inc. hospitals) 1, 2, 3, 7 Education and Young People Greenway/Strawberry Line 3 Map of Evercreech 49 Acorns Pre-School 33 Mendip Community Transport 3 APT (parents & teachers) 34 RUH Park & Ride 7 Arthur Allen Education Trust 34 Trains 4 Evercreatures (baby & toddler) 39 Travelling in Somerset 3 Evercreech Explorers 39 Guides, Brownies & Rainbows 39 Little Fishes 39 All adverts and information gathered for inclusion in Schools - Primary & Secondary 33, 34, 35 this Information Sheet are taken in good faith; we take Scouts, Cubs & Beavers 39 no responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of Youth Club 39 such information. Fitness & Sports It can cost as little as £3 to advertise in the Evercreech Badminton 41 and District Information Sheet. If you would like to Caryford Fitness 38 Football 41 advertise in May 2021, please contact one of us – the Rounders 41 deadline for both information and adverts is 1 April Short Mat Bowling 41 2021. Sports Club 41 Tai Chi 44 Walking Group 30 Yoga 43 Ancient & Modern Stonework Services Ltd Listed and Period Property Jo Gregory Renovation MSSCh MBChA Specialising in Traditional HCPC Registered Lime Mortars for Construction, Chiropodist Re-pointing, Rendering and Plastering All aspects of chiropody and foot care undertaken ALL trades covered. Treatment in the comfort of your own home For more information please visit Now taking on new clients www.a-mstoneworkservices.co.uk Telephone 07969 277669 Geoff Stocker 01749 830037 07785 117741 1 2 South West Coaches timetable taken from the website – correct at time of going to print. LIBRA TRAVEL www.bustime.org/operators/libra-travel Tel: 01373 812255 PILTON – EVERCREECH – SHEPTON MALLET – STREET School Days only Pilton, Crown Inn 07.50 Street - Strode College 08.45 Evercreech Village Hall 08.00 Street - Strode College 16.45 Evercreech Surgery 08.03 Shepton Mallet Police Station 17.07 Collett Ave (W-bound) 08.15 Collett Ave (E-bound) 17.10 Shepton Mallet Police Station 08.18 Evercreech Village Hall 17.25 Street - Strode College 08.45 3 BERRYS COACHES www.berryscoaches.co.uk 01823 331356 Berrys are still serving all stops but have merged two of the services into one for the duration of the current restrictions. Please see the website for most up-to-date timetables and details. TRAVELLING IN SOMERSET MENDIP COMMUNITY TRANSPORT www.travelsomerset.co.uk www.mendipcommunitytransport.co.uk On this website you will find a map showing current and Registered Charity No 1094918 future roadworks as well as live updates on accidents and MCT House, Unit 10a, Quarry Way Business Park, Waterlip, other incidents which may cause delays. You will also find Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 4RN links to various other helpful travel information – from rail, Tel: 01749 880613 air and buses to walking and cycling. Mendip Slinky Information comes from a wide range of sources, from Please ring 01749 880482 highways teams and traffic cameras, third parties like Inrix, Booking line open 9.30am to 4pm Mon – Fri. the emergency services and utility firms. We do our very best to make sure the information provided is accurate, but it Door to door transport for those people who cannot easily use is not exhaustive and should never be completely relied upon. public transport. Free registration and concessionary fares With 4,200+ miles of road in Somerset, there’s a lot to keep accepted. Friendly and helpful driving staff always available an eye on and some things we simply don’t know about. to help you. All personnel fully insured and DBS checked. To improve and encourage the sharing of information, we Hospital Car Scheme have a dedicated Twitter account – @TravelSomerset. Please ring 01749 880613 Please follow us for live alerts and if you spot a problem Booking line open 10am to 4.30pm Mon – Fri which we’re not reporting, you can let us know by sending us This service is currently suspended a tweet (if it’s safe to do so). We usually monitor Twitter Group Transport from 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays) Mendip Community Transport can provide your group with and read all messages when we can, although we cannot reply transport to wherever you want to go. For a quote please ring to every tweet. 01749 880613 for full details and a costing. We’re also unable to formally act upon reports of problems such as potholes or complaints via tweets. If you do contact us to report issues like this we will try to signpost you to the READERS! relevant form on our website. Doing it this way means your If you contact a local business or service after seeing report is sent immediately to the correct department to be it in EDIS, please let them know. It helps them to dealt with, so will hopefully lead to a quicker resolution. know their advert has been effective and in turn helps If you need a response or your enquiry is urgent, find out how us to keep producing this publication free to local to get in touch via our Highway Area Offices page. You can people. also find out more about other highways services on our Roads, Parking and Transport page. EVERCREECH GREENWAY/ THE BUTTY BOX STRAWBERRY LINE www.thestrawberryline.org.uk Castle Cary Railway Station The Parish Council has been investigating the possibility of providing a safe traffic-free path for pedestrians and cyclists Open 7am Monday - Friday from Evercreech to join up with the Strawberry Line at Shepton Mallet, and from there the National Cycle Network. It was suggested at the ‘Remembering the Railway’ event at POST OFFICE COLLECTION TIMES the Village Hall in 2016, that part of the route could use the www.royalmail.com disused S&D railway line. This received an overwhelmingly supportive response. The plate on the post box in Victoria Square gives the last collection times as: If this project is to succeed, a working group needs to be Monday to Friday: 5.15 pm formed, so we are looking for volunteers to work with the Saturday: 11.00 am group, to investigate possible routes, and work with partners such as Sustrans to take it forward.