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Words from the Mayor of Market Deeping
WORDS FROM THE
Mayor of Market Deeping
COUNCILLOR JOSHUA YARHAM
It has been like a whirlwind over the past month; shops have been reawakened and the pubs are able to serve their first pints again in months.
Market Deeping is slowly getting perspectives and views on its Town Council. back to a sense of normality, where residents are able to support local businesses. This has been a welcome change and I look forward to supporting further relaxation of lockdown rules, hopefully in the near future. During Full Council, I stressed the importance of us meeting in August so that we do not incur any further delays to action and changes that await our collective decisions. Normally, the summer recess prevents a meeting in August, but with the cooperation of councillors, we have overruled that convention for this year. At the Town Council, we have I welcome the appointment of transferred over to holding our our new cemetery keeper, Mr. meetings via Zoom. This has Kevin Jarvis. He started work on enabled us to still meet and hold June 29th and I am pleased Full Council and Committee to hear that he is thoroughly meetings. Over the past month, I enjoying the work and the team have chaired two meetings, namely he is with, Peter and Jamie. the July Full Council Meeting and an Extraordinary Meeting. The latter The Sanctum is due a renovation was a discussion amongst all councillors and improvement of plaques. This was about the logistics of replacing the play voted for at Full Council and Councillor equipment on John Eve Field. This task has been Brian Hembrow is diligently overlooking the waiting for too long, so I am focussed on making sure progress of the works to be completed. it is completed in the shortest time-frame possible. We have many more exciting things ahead, The Full Council Meeting covered many areas that combined all committee reports and decisions. Further, we have been able to fill the casual vacancy and have welcomed Mr. John Dolan to the Council. planned for the benefit of the residents of Market Deeping. If there is anything I may be able to help with, please e-mail the Town Clerk at mdtc.townclerk@btconnect.com. It is vital that Market Deeping has new and fresh Keep safe!
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RAISING THE PROFILE OF LOCAL BUSINESSES Deepings Business Awards
As our community starts to re-emerge
into a ‘new normal’, we are finding it’s a time for re-adjustment, approaching the unknown with an abundance of hope. I have visited businesses across the community, local villages, industrial estates and the town centre. ‘New challenges’ are a common theme and some businesses are finding things much harder than others coping with COVID-19 and its restrictions.
There’s a strong sense of finding solutions, making changes and a determination to survive. In the coming weeks, yet more businesses will be able to reopen. The @Deepings Business Community has been working hard to support local businesses, through its membership.
It has created a new local website along with ‘Love Deepings’, designed to promote LOCAL and support local businesses. DBC works hard to raise the profile of LOCAL and never before has that been so critical in supporting the vibrancy of our local community.
So, if you haven’t already nominated your favourite local businesses for their efforts, service and other qualities you admire, then please do so - yet another way we can help local businesses raise their profile. Nominations close on July 24th with voting starting on August 1st for businesses across the Deepings and local villages. Visit the link for all the information and nomination/ voting forms @ www.deepings.co.uk/deeping
business-awards/this-years-awards/ Thank you Alison DBC / Love Deepings
Mini Raft Competition
Good News from the Deepings Raft Race Committee, as Vice-Chairman, Andy Pelling, explains this year’s exciting plans:
that, for what would have been raft race weekend this year (August 1st and 2nd), you display them in your front window or front garden for the public to enjoy.
“As we are sure most people know, the 2020 Deepings Raft Race has been cancelled. In its place this year, we are encouraging children to enter a MINI RAFT BUILDING competition, ideally built from recycled materials and designed to any theme you like. To enter the competition, simply take a photo or short video of your raft and e-mail it to: raftentry@deepingsraftrace. co.uk. They won’t be raced on the river this year, but you can keep them for 2021, but we ask Entries close on July 28th, 2020 and we will publish pictures of the best ones on the Deepings Raft Race website and social media pages. If we get enough entries, we will produce a “route” to show people where they can have a walk around the Deepings to admire the mini rafts. The winner will be announced on August 2nd and will receive £50.
To add to the fun, the Raft Race Committee will be donning fancy dress and walking around the Deepings on the Sunday, as we are supporting the DEEPING-ATHON which aims to raise money for charities that will have lost out due to the cancellation of many fund-raising events this year. And don’t forget to put August 1st, 2021 in your diary for what we hope will be the biggest and bestever event, when the full-blown Deepings Raft Race returns. For further information, please visit
www.deepingsraftrace.co.uk.”
The Mustard Seed Project (Kenya) Impressive progress being made
The Mustard Seed Project (Kenya) is a small charity founded by Deeping couple, Rita and Geoff Fowler. They have been working in a deprived Mombasa, Kenya, suburb for more than eleven years and now have a school, with a feeding programme for two hundred and seventy-five poor children, aged from three to fourteen years of age.
Half these children are in a rented building, but very soon they will all be together in the building which is in the final stages of construction, which will save £5,000 a year in rent.
The thing they are even prouder of is the way that all children are achieving the very best they can, as the results in their Kenyan Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) shows. The government thinks that ‘C’ is a good grade and, for the Mustard Seed Project, this has been the lowest grade achieved. Last year, one child achieved an ‘A’ grade putting him in the top 1% in the country, thus granting an automatic place in a ‘National’ school.
Unfortunately, there will be no KCPE this year, as schools remain closed until January, the start of the school year. It also means that Rita and Geoff, who normally spend two months working in Mombasa each year, will be unable to visit to see the completion of the building. Worse still is that, without the feeding programme, many children would have starved.
The Mustard Seed Project has been feeding seventy-five families, as well as providing soap to all two hundred and fourteen of their families during closure, costing £5 per family per week. To learn more, or to see how you could help, please visit
www.mustardseedproject.co.uk.
DEEPING ST JAMES COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
“It seems an awfully long time since the middle During lockdown, we have also been of March 2020 when the school closed to all but awarded the UNICEF ‘Bronze Rights the children of “key workers”. As I mentioned in Respecting School Award’. This is an last month’s issue, we were all very pleased to award based on the UN Convention on have partially reopened for children in Reception, the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) that encourages Year 1 and Year 6, and the uptake has been very children, and staff, to understand, and act on, the encouraging. We have even had two “key worker UNICEF’s fifty-four articles on the rights of the child. bubbles” in the past four to five weeks, as we have Mrs Hutton has been leading this and hopefully we supported parents getting back to work. will be working towards our Silver Award in the next Our term for most children will finish on July 17th, but academic year. on July 20th and 21st we will be welcoming As a school, may I wish you a great all the Year 6 class (and key workers’ summer holiday season, and hope that children) into school to celebrate their September will bring with it some kind of time at DSJ and to also have an open-air, peace and normality. leavers’ assembly (weather permitting!) They have been an excellent Year 6 class Take care and keep safe! and we will miss them greatly. Ian Wilkinson, Headteacher
