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Work on the Village Plan report and action plan recommendations is quickly moving ahead to a conclusion. By the time you receive this, the final version of the plan Melbourn Village Plan 5 should be available on the website and at strategic locations around the village. We Melbourn Village Fete 6 urge you to read it! A digest of the report will appear as an insert in the September Melbourn & Meldreth Women’s Group7 edition of the Melbourn Magazine, delivered to every house in the village. In the last issue of the Magazine we reported on the many positive things being Home-Start volunteers 9 started as a result of the enthusiastic body of volunteers now working with the Village Mrs Janice Guest 9 Plan Steering Committee and the Parish Council. During March andApril a number of Library News 10 different work-groups have been involved with supporting of Stockbridge Meadows Melbourn and Meldreth Self Help Group 1 1and as volunteer litter pickers in the village. There is more on these initiatives below. Other people have expressed an interest in: RNLI 11 Improving rural footpaths Royal British Legion 11 Conservation and sustainability Melbourn Mobile Warden Scheme13 Help to the elderly and other community support projects Melbourn History Group 13 Melbourn in Bloom. Royston & District Local History Society 5 1 We haven’t forgotten you! These ideas will be taken forward once the plan implementation process is in place. Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 15 We have also now completed a survey of businesses in the village and were Do you have Sight Loss? 15 impressed with the interest shown by most in being more involved in village life. Many business comments on issues facing the village paralleled those expressed Village News
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Volunteer workforce in Stockbridge Meadows
COFFEE STOP Every Saturday 10.30am to 12noon Rombouts coffee & biscuits for 80p at
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