Crich Parish Council have passed on a notification from Derbyshire County Council about another planned road closure in the centre of Crich. Access to and from the Common from Crich Market Place will be closed between Januay 4th and 22nd 2021. This is to facilitate further gas main relpacement.

Chadwick Nick Lane will also be closed to through traffic.

Residents close to the closure and the schools will be notifed individually.

For further details, see the Derbyshire County Council roadworks website.

From Crich Patients Participation Group

Dear friend,

I am writing to you to ask for your help in financing a local project in Crich and the surrounding villages which seeks to address the issues for children arising from the current pandemic. A small group of us as part of Crich Patient Participation Group have organised a programme of activities for children over the summer holiday.

The idea grew from discussions in the Mutual Aid 19 Support Group that some of us were members of. In essence, it was noted that although quite a lot had been organised, both locally and nationally, to support adults, and particularly those with specific health vulnerabilities, not much had been put in place for children and young people. This was despite the clear acknowledgment that the pandemic and the associated lockdown was having a detrimental impact upon a disturbingly large number of children’s emotional and physical well-being. This was really brought home to me when two parents of children at a local school said that their five year olds were showing signs of depression.

We had a quick check and could not find anything organised in the local area for children and young people during the summer. In light of this, we have been working to bring together a programme of activities. Our hard work over the last 3 weeks has resulted in the following activities ready to go:

• gymnastics
• rise and shine groups
• story telling
• healthy eating picnics 
• gardening and Forest School activities
• a boot camp

Read more here: crichstandard.org/sha

We hope that the centrepiece of the programme will be two weeks of Holiday Camps, organised by Premier Education, of sport, physical and creative activities. Premier Education is a national organisation who work with many of the local schools and I am aware are highly regarded. I am delighted to say they have agreed to run the two weeks “at cost”. We were really thrilled when the Glebe Community Field Centre agreed to host the Holiday Camps for four days per week. I have provisionally booked The Briars Educational Centre for the two days that The Glebe was unable to accommodate the camps.

Our major focus now is trying to secure funding to meet the costs of the programme. We have submitted bids to a number of sources but because our project has been developed at great speed some of these are not open to us. We are seeking donations from local people and businesses who have the flexibility to authorise a donation at speed as the programme begins on 10th August.

We are clear that these activities are open to all the children and young people in the area served by the Medical Practice and we would love to be able to reach vulnerable children.

Anything you can do to assist us will be incredibly gratefully received and we will ensure you are acknowledged in our media communications. As you can appreciate our timescales require a very short turn around so I would be very grateful if you could contact us by the end of this week.

Email Corinne Clemson for bank details of the Crich Patients Participation Group to make a donation.

You can read more details in this earlier post.

Information provided by Crich Tramway Village

Crich Tramway Village, home to the National Tramway Museum, will re-open to the public from Saturday 11th July 2020, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and weekends initially.

The venue has been closed since 20th March due to the Covid 19 pandemic, but with the latest government advice and loosening of some restrictions, intends to open with guidelines and social distancing in place.

Social distancing, hand sanitizing, PPE for staff, screens at information points and tills, take-away catering service, and one-way directional guidance with no interactives in exhibitions, are some of the measures which the management team have implemented.

The trams, which are crewed by a team of volunteers, will be limited, and face coverings should be worn as per the national guidance for public transport.

Members of the public will need to book a timed ticket for tram rides on arrival, and there will only be one stop for getting on and alighting the trams, to help ensure the safety of passengers, volunteers and staff.

 

Since the beginning of the lock-down, residents of the parish who have had to self-isolate have been able to take advantage of having hot lunches delivered to their homes during the week.This was the brainchild of Dawn Harper who was in the process of setting up a new catering company from her home on the edge of Fritchley when the coronavirus pandemic began.

Dawn Harper Catering was set up to provide hot and cold buffets for any occasion, but with the downturn in demand at just the wrong time, Dawn took the opportunity to provide high quality meals, on a non-profit basis, for those needing them during the crisis. The meals are cooked fresh daily and delivered ready-plated.

This has proved to be hugely successful and she now regularly provides over 30 hot lunches each day to people who are universally grateful. And very impressed!

Statistics released this week by Kings College London, following a survey on 2,250 British residents found that nearly half (45%) reported feeling more anxious and depressed as a result of coronavirus.