Sustainable Crediton newsletter issue 146, July/August 2023

Welcome to our July/Aug newsletter. This issue includes articles on the Green Fair in the Square, Friends of the River Exe, the Macdonalds Planning Application and lists our new Core Group members with photos. So you can recognise us if you see us!

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Very best wishes,

Lesley Thomas and John Craythorne, Newsletter Editors, on behalf of Core Group

Dates for your Diary
4th August	Heart Project Summer Arts Programme
8th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
9th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
10th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
11th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
15th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
16th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
17th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
18th August	Crediton Youth Partnership: Summer Youth Club
23rd September	Sustainable Crediton's Big Green Fair in the Square
26th September	Crediton Garden Club: 'Cyclamen, wild and cultivated'
24th October	Crediton Garden Club: 'Hostas'
28th November	Crediton Garden Club 'Hedges of the Devon Countryside'

Regular Events

News Highlights

Community Allotment change of opening times

The Community Allotment is dormant at the moment (March 2024). More news later ...... Contact Christina Dymond info@sustainablecrediton.org.uk tel 07866 294276 ...

Members of Sustainable Crediton Core Group

Terry Hadley, Interim Chair - leads on Repair Cafe Esther Mann, Treasurer - representing Pollinator Project Caroline Romijn, Secretary - representing Sustainable Crediton Website ...

Macdonalds Planning Application

You may already know that Macdonalds has applied for a drive through restaurant at Joseph Locke Way (near Mole Avon). If you would like to comment on the planning application you can do so at the link below. You can also view existing comments to date. You are invited to comment whether you are ...

Friends of the River Exe

The Friends of the River Exe - FORE - is a group formed just this year as a coalition of Sustainable Tiverton, Transition Exeter and Transition Exmouth. Their basic founding principle states: "We have come together to fight for our river's survival and recovery, as part of the wider effort to pre ...

The Green Hub

A reminder that we are continuing to pilot our 'Eco Hub' in the former Town Council offices in the Town Square. During this pilot phase we're opening the hub three times a month: 10am - 1.00pm during Farmers' Markets (1st and 3rd Saturdays) plus the third Thursday of the month. (August 5th, 17th a ...

Holiday Cake

This is a vintage recipe from the early twentieth century when fruit cakes were a popular addition to the picnic hamper. Ingredients:- 12oz (300g) self raising flour 3oz (75g) butter 3 oz (75g) lard (or vegetable fat) 8oz (200g) demerara sugar 2 large eggs 1 lb (400g) mixed dried fruit - ...

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned”

Peter Marshall 1902-1949