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Friendship Blooms – FREE FLOWERS
Friendship Blooms
Show your appreciation for a fellow member of the community; it may be a friend, a family member or maybe someone you’ve come into contact with who provides a wonderful service or who works hard to make a difference. Let All Things Local surprise them with a fresh bouquet of flowers.
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Rachael Collins from Fleur Florist
All Things Local has joined forces with Rachael Collins (pictured) from Fleur Florist of King Street, Belper to offer readers the chance to show their appreciation for a fellow member of the community.
The recipient of this issue’s bouquet is Thelma Blount from Ripley. She was nominated by Carol Ratcliffe of Denby Village. Here’s what Carol wrote:
“I would like to nominate Thelma Blount from Ripley as she is such a kind and considerate lady. Thelma has been ill for some years now; she has had operations which haven’t helped her. She lost her son 3 years ago and then last year, 2 of her daughters were diagnosed with cancer. While the lockdown was on, she travelled to her friend’s to do her shopping as her friend was unable to do it. Thelma did this every Wednesday and still continues to do so. Thelma is so thoughtful and would help anyone regardless of all her upsets and I know she would be delighted to receive a bouquet of flowers.” Carol Ratcliffe.
Nominate someone to receive the next bouquet.
All you have to do is state, in no more than 100 words, who you are nominating. Include their address and the reasons why you are nominating them. You can nominate more than one person if they are living/ working at the same address… and remember, flowers don’t just have to be for women!
The only rule is that the person receiving the flowers must live or work in the distribution area of All Things Local Village Edition (listed on front cover). Just write your nomination on a piece of paper and send to Friendship Blooms, All Things Local, 74 Woodhouse Road, Kilburn, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 0NA or e-mail your nomination to karyn@allthingslocal.co.uk putting ‘Friendship Blooms’ as the subject. Please include your full name, address and daytime telephone number on your nomination.
Thelma Blount with her lovely bouquet.
Closing date for nominations for the next issue is Wednesday 24 August 2022.
All nominations are kept on file and you will be contacted if your nomination has been selected. Contact information is only used by All Things Local; no information is given to any third party.
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Local History
Something from Strutts
The Strutts building is elegant and, in every way, pleasing to the eye. Its rooms are spacious and adaptable to most groups or situations and the fact that the school building was purpose built is immediately evident. However, what it does not have is a theatre so a stage or performance area must be created to suit the event, which in itself encourages creative thinking!
These practical problems have never stopped the building from hosting some memorable theatre events and it has been exploited by generations of school pupils. I have memories of excellent productions such as Agamemnon and Murder in the Red Barn, to name just two, and I have read positive reports of earlier performances of Our Town and The Importance of Being Earnest, along with many others. School productions were well staged, visually creative and memorable. We have some excellent records in our school archive.
Strutts was also the first performance venue for some well-known actors. Alan Bates attended the grammar school between 1945 and 1951 and during that time took part in several school plays. As many people know, he then went on to star in films such as Whistle Down the Wind, Far From the Madding Crowd and Women in Love. His theatre work is less well known but includes the role of Cliff in Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and Mick in Pinter’s The Caretaker. Timothy Dalton also attended Strutts School, where he demonstrated his acting talents, between 1957 and 1962, after which he trained at RADA. Later he was to work with The Royal Shakespeare Company and in a BBC production of Jane Eyre, in which he played Mr Rochester, before making films which led to him being cast as James Bond.
But we should return to the school and to the Arts events which still take place there. Belper Players are major users of the facility and have presented a strong repertoire over the years and the Captive Audience Theatre Company regularly uses the premises. Throughout each year the community centre welcomes Arts events of all types; at present it is working with Live and Local with the intention of hosting a professional show annually for Belper audiences. We have also been known to stage specialist evenings celebrating the works of some of our major writers such as Shakespeare, Dickens and Jane Austin. We hope there will be more so please watch this space!
The Arts can play a very large part in the lives of people of all age groups as a means of enhancing their approach to teamwork, problem solving and critical thinking. With many schools now side-lining artistic subjects in favour of the core curriculum, any exposure to live performance can only be good. So please come along to the performances from our various local groups and keep a lookout for guest appearances. We hope to see you soon.
By Joan Hardy Strutts Society Committee www.strutts.org.uk
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Upbeat
The Importance of Looking Up
This summer, many of us will be taking advantage of the lighter evenings and warmer weather by heading out for a wander more often.
However, many of us also don’t pay attention to our surroundings when out and about and statistics show that 30% of serious road incidents are related to pedestrians who are distracted in some way. Serious injury and even death can be avoided by us taking the time to unplug, ignore the phone and focus on what is going on around us.
Traffic Management Officer Steve Hughes said: “There are an increasing number of distractions in our lives, especially as mobile phones and technology are always fighting for our attention. We are advising that everyone takes the time to put these devices down, look up and be aware of the potential dangers around them as a pedestrian.
“We would also encourage adults to have conversations with young people about this issue, as over the past three years those aged between 10 and 19 have accounted for over 20% of pedestrian casualties in Derbyshire.”
Advice from the Children’s Accident Prevention Trust urges parents to lead by example, teaching children good habits from an early age. We also see a peak of incidents between 3pm and 4pm, which coincides with when many older children may be making independent journeys home from school and putting their road safety training into practice. Although pedestrians cannot be responsible for the actions of drivers, they can keep themselves safe with this advice: • Stop, look, and listen before crossing the road. • Use fully marked pedestrian crossings; they are the safest place to cross. • Pay attention to your surroundings and avoid using mobile devices whilst crossing any road. • Hold children’s hands when walking along the road. • If there is no footpath, walk/run/jog on the right-hand side of the road, facing oncoming traffic as close as possible to the side of the road and keep looking, keep listening
If you do have concerns that a vehicle is being driven unsafely, please report this to us via the non-emergency methods: • Facebook – send a private message to
/DerbyshireConstabulary.
• Twitter – direct message our contact centre on
@DerPolContact.
• Complete our online contact form –
www.derbyshire.police.uk/contact-us.
• Phone 101. In the event of an emergency please always call 999.
Useful Numbers
Doctors & Hospitals, Emergencies
Appletree Medical Practice Arthur Medical Centre 01332 842288 01332 880249
Amber Pharmacy Crimestoppers
01332 985950 0800 555111 Drug Helpline (24 hour) 0800 776600 London Road Community Hospital 01332 265500 NHS 111 Out of Hours (24 hour helpline) 111 Police (non emergency) 101 Ripley Hospital 01773 743456 Ripley Medical Centre 01773 303591 Riversdale Surgery 01773 822386 Royal Derby Hospital 01332 340131 RSPCA Emergency 0300 1234999 Samaritans (24 hour) 116123 Severn Trent Water 0800 7834444 Social Care Services - Call Derbyshire 01629 533190 Water Floodline 08459 881188 Whitemoor Medical Centre 01773 880099
Post Offices
Belper (Strutt Street) 01773 820108 Duffield 01332 840105 Holbrook 01332 882537 Kilburn 01332 880444 Little Eaton 01332 832780 Sawmills 01773 852060 Smalley 01332 882222 Stanley 0345 7223344 Stanley Common 0345 6112970
Travel
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Pride in Belper
This summer sees the return of the first ‘in person’ Pride in Belper since the pandemic!
The first event, run in June 2019, was the brainchild of local couple Sarah and Helen Barley-McMullen and a committee of volunteers. They envisaged a small get-together on the Memorial Gardens but passion and support from the community drove it to become something much more exciting and it was a resounding success. Since then, virtual events have ensued, but this year the team are looking forward to getting everyone back together on 6th August for a celebration that’s bigger and better than ever!
Pride in Belper originated with the idea of bringing Pride, which is often celebrated in major cities, to a smaller town to raise awareness of LGBT+ issues. But Pride in Belper is more than that – it’s an event for everyone! It’s all about positivity and inclusivity with ‘Pride’ as the overriding theme: pride in who you are, pride in what you do, and pride in the town where we live. Hence ‘Pride in Belper’ rather than ‘Belper Pride’.
Committee member, local children’s author and inclusivity advocate, Fliss Goldsmith, explains: “The passion of it is that it involves the whole community. We’re spotlighting businesses, celebrating the town and all the wonderful things about Belper. The focus is on inclusivity and accessibility, providing a space for everyone to come together and feel safe, supported and celebrated whoever they are and however they identify – because we’re better together!”
The event begins with a unique twist on a Pride March, called ‘The Strutt’, starting from the Market Place at 12noon. Anyone can join in to strut their way down King Street, kicking off the celebrations. There will be family activities on the Memorial Gardens, stalls in the town centre, a café at No.28 on the Market Place run by Derbyshire LGBT+ (where a fabulous accessible toilet called the ‘Mobiloo’ will also be situated), and music in various locations all day.
A special Pride in Belper Ale created by Shining Cliff Brewery will also be available.
So put 6th August in your diary! It’s set to be a riot of colour, fun and music, with a party atmosphere that brings everyone together in a supportive, celebratory event. For more information about the day and events surrounding it, including a dog show on 7th August, visit
www.prideinbelper.co.uk.
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Bereavement Matters
There are a million and one things that people would rather do than sit down and make plans for their own funeral but, for those who do, the peace of mind it brings is well worth it.
Like making a will, drawing up a pre-paid funeral plan, with the money set aside to pay for it, reduces the huge burden on their families when the sad time comes to put the plan into action.
However every year brings many families a nasty shock, when the funeral plan their loved one set up fails to meet the cost of the arrangements because it was mis-sold or was offered by an unscrupulous provider whose promises didn’t meet the original buyer’s expectations.
Sadly we hear about families in this situation all too frequently, which is why Gillotts has welcomed the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent drive to safeguard people’s investments in pre-paid funeral plans by agreeing to regulate schemes on behalf of consumers.
By doing so, this would give consumers greater protection for their money, including access to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, and, importantly, would prevent providers of other non-regulated schemes from continuing to administer pre-paid plans. At the time of writing it had just announced the 24 providers that it was planning to authorise when its regulation begins on July 29 and, happily, our own chosen plan provider, Ecclesiastical Planning Services Limited, was among them. Ecclesiastical’s philosophy has always been to focus on safeguarding and investing funds to maximise the amount available when the time comes, which is very much in keeping with the ethos of the new regulations.
In fact, the 24 plans on the authorised list hold 87% of all of UK customers’ plans, indicating that the vast majority of plans issued are deemed suitable, well-run and fair, and it requires that they will have to follow new FCA rules, which include a ban on cold calling and commission paid to intermediaries, as well as high standards on governance and financial resilience.
All in all, it is good news for families and for the good guys in the pre-paid funeral plan world, and it goes without saying that anybody who is unsure about whether their plan is covered should seek advice as soon as possible in order to earn themselves that all-important peace of mind.
By Anthony Topley Funeral director, Gillotts Funeral Directors, Abbott Street, Heanor
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Index
Accountant: Easy Accounts Ltd Accountant: Yeomans Accountancy Ltd Aerials: Aerial Technology of Ripley
9 6 52 Airport Transfers: Holbrook Travel 15 Alterations & Dressmaking: The Duffield Dressmaker 15 Animal Welfare: The Cats Protection League 17 Architect: BDS Architecture 67
Bathrooms: Bathtime Heanor Bathrooms: Belper Kitchens & Bathrooms Bathrooms: Best One Bathrooms Bathrooms: Browns Builders Merchants 58 65 39 44
Bedrooms: Contour Furnishings
58 Blinds, Curtains & Shutters: Hillarys 48 Builder’s Merchant/Landscaping Products: Browns 44 Building Work: 3Sixty Property Solutions 50 Building Work: Bennett Construction 70 Building Work: Harrison & Son 60 Building Work: JJN Building Services 62 Building Work: TDB Builders 49
Car Body Repairs & Servicing: B A Kelf Car Body Repairs: ChipsAway 26 28
Car Body Repairs: Martin Buxton
26 Car Key Replacement: Belper Car Keys 9 Car Servicing, Repairs, MOTs: 20Ten Garage Services 27 Car Servicing, Repairs, MOTs: Little Eaton Garage 28 Care Home Job Opportunity: Ashmere 13 Carer Services: Right at Home 84 Carpets & Flooring: Ian Wilson 56 Carpets & Flooring: Spondon Carpets 59 Carpets & Flooring: T Nutt & Sons 7 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Janine Cleaning 14 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Molly Maid 15 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Time for You 15 Computer Support: Eaton PCs 9 Computer Support: PC Support 9 Computer Tuition: Computer Tutor for U 14 Conservatories, Windows, Doors: Abbey Glass 88 Curtains, Blinds & Soft Furnishings: Joy Clarke 52 Curtains, Blinds & Soft Furnishings: St Denis Interiors 50
Dentist: Glendair Dental Practice 35
Dentures: Beautiful Dentures
30 Dog Grooming: Top Hat ‘n’ Tails 17 Door Maintenance & Repair: Door Maintenance & Repair 46
Education: Derbyshire County Council Adult Education 77 Electrical Goods Retailer: Lester & Nix 4 Electrician: Andy Hill 46 Electrician: Devenport Electrical 50 Electrician: McPherson-Davis 46 Electrician: Midlec 28 Electrician: PAS Electrical 61 Electrician: TME Electrical 64
Fencing: ColourFence Fence Panels & Wood: Walvins Timber Financial Advice: Belper IFS Florist: Fleur Florist Footcare: Amber Feet Footcare: Nahele Holistics Funeral Directors: Gillotts Funeral Services Funeral Directors: Thomas Ryde & Son Furniture Makers: Incite Interiors 36 61 10 78 33 33 85 83 40
Garage Doors: Garolla Garage Doors: Ockbrook Garage Doors Garden Heating & Furniture: Robeys Garden Living: Cabin Master Garden Services: Gardens of Wildlife 56 49 51 3 53
Garden Services: Pennine
47 Gutter Clearance: Gutter PRO 49 Gymnastics & Cheerleading Classes: Trix Academy 74
Hair Extensions: NJ Hair Extensions Hearing Specialist: Audiyo Hotel: The Kedleston Country House Hotel: Morley Hayes 33 87 20 21 Ironing Service: Perfectly Pressed
Joinery: Bethell’s Joinery Joinery: R&D Joinery
Kitchens: Ascot Bespoke Kitchens Kitchens: Belper Kitchens & Bathrooms Kitchens: Dream Doors Kitchens: Holtams Kitchens: Sonna Kitchens 15
46 54
12 65 43 63 42
Landscaping: Harrison & Son 60
Landscaping: Langley
69 Landscaping: Mount Pleasant Landscaping 73 Lawn Mowing & Hedge Cutting: Lawns & Hedges 53 Log Supplies: Robeys 57
Massage: Equilibrium
Opticians: Hurst Osteopath: Osteopathy Derby 35
32 32
Painter & Decorator: Duffield Decorators Ltd 57 Painter & Decorator: John the Painter 64 Painter & Decorator: M Bates 62 Painter & Decorator: Roy Milner 29 Personal Trainer: Alex Robinson 31 Pest Control: Breadsall Pest Control 54 Pest Control: MW Pest Control 53 Pet Care Services: The Pet Servant 17 Plastering: Claxton Plastering 49 Plastering: JM Plastering & Property Maintenance 41 Plastering: McPherson-Davis 46 Plumbing & Heating: Blacks 53 Plumbing & Heating: CB 64 Plumbing & Heating: Dervale Maintenance 47 Plumbing & Heating: LEEVA Plumbing & Heating 71 Plumbing & Heating: Martyn Young Heating & Plumbing 68 Plumbing & Heating: MDA 47 Plumbing & Heating: R Fearn 52 Plumbing & Heating: Scott 54 Plumbing & Heating: Woodward 61 Properties Wanted for Cash: Ethical Property Partners 38 Property Maintenance: 3Sixty Property Solutions 50 Property Maintenance: David Grey 50 Property Maintenance: JM Plastering & Property Maintenance 41 Property Maintenance: Kev Property Services 61 Public House: The Coach at Horsley 21 Public House: The Sitwell Arms 23
Residential Care Home: Coxbench Hall 81
Restaurant: The Coach at Horsley
21 Restaurant: The Kedleston Country House 20 Restaurant/Function Rooms/Hotel: Morley Hayes 21 Restaurant/Function Room: The Sitwell Arms 23 Roofing: GB Roofing Services 54 Roofing: Harris Roofing Services 70 Roofing: Harrison & Son 60 Roofing: Ripley Rubber Roofing 64
Security: Prestige 64 Sheds & Garden Buildings: Kedleston Garden Buildings 37 Solicitors: Shacklocks 8 Solicitors: Smith Partnership 11
Taxi: Holbrook Travel Tree Care: ArborEx Tree Care: Charnwood Tree Services Tree Care: Clip ‘Em & Fell ‘Em Tree Care: Pennine Tyres: Best Grip Tyres & Exhausts: ETS 15 73 43 73 47 1 2
Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Smartglaze 57 Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Total Home Improvements 66 Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Trade Windows 55 Woodburning Stoves: Robeys 51
