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50 Years of Community Action in Hatherleigh
The Community Council of Devon is in its fiftieth year of helping rural communities in the County. With the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund it has been running a project to celebrate the volunteers who have kept rural communities as vibrant places to live.
Often it is a small dedicated team is the driving force that gets things done and ...
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Devon shops short-listed for 'Rural Oscar' awards
Broadhempston Community shop and Dalwood Community Shop have been short-listed in the Countryside Alliance Awards - a national scheme known as the "rural Oscars"! They have both got through to the regional finals and we wish them the best of luck in achieving this well deserved recognition of excellence in community en ...
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celebrating 50 years of community action
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Community Council of Devon we are undertaking a project to reflect on the abilities of rural communities to promote, organise and support their own development and to consider the achievements and lessons of the past fifty years. In short 'what makes a strong community?' The Heritage Lottery Fund is fundi ...
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Compost Scheme Wins Community of the Year
Bratton Fleming, a North Devon Village, has been crowned Devon's Community of the Year thanks to the work of its community composting group.
Just one month after scooping a 'Green Community of the Year' title, the Bratton Fleming Community Composting Group triumphed again at the annual competition's inaugural awards ceremony, hosted by the C ...
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North Devon Community Crowned Green Champions
Bratton Fleming has been crowned Devon's Green Community of the Year by the Community Council of Devon.
The Bratton Fleming Parish Council Community Composting Group handles its community's garden waste and in return produces free compost and financial donations for residents and other community organisations.
The group has been providin ...
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Colyton is Devon’s Healthiest Community
Colyton Caterpillars, a community-based childcare initiative has been crowned Devon's Healthy Community of the Year.
At Colyton Caterpillars, health and wellbeing are top of the agenda, with children, parents and carers learning about healthy eating and exercise from the moment they start using their services.
As a not-for-profit communi ...
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Rural Housing Awards – celebrating excellence in affordable rural housing
After another successful year of developing rural affordable housing in Devon, the Devon Rural Housing Partnership and the Community Council of Devon are delighted to announce the winners of the 2011 Devon Rural Housing Awards.
The award for Most Effective Community Group goes to St Giles in the Wood Parish Council, and Roy Turner from Wools ...
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Community Life – The Devon Way
Three of Devon's communities have been shortlisted for the title 'Devon Community of the Year' and a £500 prize.
Community activities from Bratton Fleming, Totnes and Ermington were selected from 40 entries into the competition and will now be further assessed before one of them is crowned the Devon Community of the Year. Organi ...
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Bookings now being taken for Communities Leading the Way: Localism and You
Devon Association of Local Councils and Community Council of Devon present a joint conference:
Communities Leading the Way: Localism and You
Saturday 8th October 2011, Exeter Racecourse
This conference will tell you all you need to know (but didn't want to ask) about Localism
· Up to the minute local and national policy
&mid ...
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Exploring 50 Years of Community Action
This year marks 50 years of the Community Council of Devon and looking back it is remarkable how many communities have interacted with us in so many ways. As champion, teacher, advisor and friend the Community Council has worked hard to deliver its slogan 'helping communities help themselves'. Over that period of time the Community Council has h ...
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New HogCo food growing group in Buckland
The Buckland Food Growers (BFG) are one of the Community Council of Devon's 37 Home Grown Community Owned (HogCo) food growing projects. The group of around 30 volunteers are based at the National Trust's Buckland Abbey.
Having dreamt up the idea of growing in the community only last spring, the group have quickly progressed to signing a lea ...
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Devon Rural Housing Awards
After another successful year of developing rural affordable housing in Devon, the Devon Rural Housing Partnership and the Community Council of Devon return in 2011 with 2 award categories for Devon's rural communities to enter.
Created to recognise excellence in the rural housing sector the categories for Devon Rural Housing Awards 2011 are ...
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Top Devon Organisations support Devon's Winning Communities
Communities throughout Devon are being asked to shout with pride about their way of life and enter a new competition run by the Community Council of Devon.
Launching on 4 April, the new annual competition will be open to any Devon group, town, village, or society, that thinks and acts like a community and has worked to improve their physical ...
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Heritage Lottery Fund to support Community Council of Devon's local history project
The Community Council of Devon is to work with 6 rural communities to look at the history of community action in the county, thanks to an award of £29,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, it was announced today. The idea for the one year project came from the work undertaken by the Community Council on how the idea of the Big Society could ...
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Press Release: 6th October 2010
Helping Communities Grow their Own. Three free toolkits available
As of today, groups across Devon who want to grow their own food will be able to get help from three new toolkits, launched by the Community Council of Devon (CCD) [1]. The 3 toolkits, developed with help from the Soil Association [2] as part of the Community Supported Agricul ...
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