This week’s County Newsbits feature a DCC Cabinet meeting, some great DCC initiatives, a PCVC funding opportunity, an important consultation, a wonderful success for Newton Press … and some ideas of things to do this Mother’s Day weekend. Find more information on my blog at: bit.ly/CNB104
And don’t forget to join me on POLITICAL / Aycliffe Radio, 6-7:30pm, Sunday 24 March: bit.ly/ARLIVE
COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
• DCC Cabinet meeting (Wolsingham School, Council Finances & Performance, Health & Social Care Plan update), Wednesday 13 March.
• Well done DCC! Forrest Park featured on the Invest Great Britain exhibition at the MIPIN international investment event in Cannes last week, and Aykley Heads & Integra Bowburn featured on the Invest Newcastle stand.
• DCC’s Operation Spruce Up is coming back to Newton Aycliffe and will focus this time on the Central Avenue area.
• Wheels to Work – a scheme to help young people having difficulty in getting to work/college by public transport – is to be rolled out to Newton Aycliffe residents.
• Chat facility introduced at DCC’s DurhamWorks 16-24 job initiative.
• The Great Aycliffe & Middridge Partnership AAP e-bulletin (GAMP-funded project updates, youth sessions at the Youthie, Skills, Mental Health and Hydrotherapy Pool) is published.
• PCVC Ron Hogg’s ‘Community Safety Projects and Initiatives’ Fund is now open for applications.
• If you are one of those people who believe that schools should not be used as polling stations, the DCC consultation on polling districts and places ends on 31 March.
• Well done Newton Press, regional ‘Heart of the Community’ winners at the North East Business Awards.
• Newton Aycliffe Youth & Community Centre is now a collection and distribution point for the Red Box Project.
• Could you help the Newton Aycliffe Police run Community Speed Watches during their ‘Week of Action’ around road safety and traffic crime, 13-17 May?
• ‘Remembering Resistance’ with the Women’s Banner Group (a celebration of north-east women’s activism plus the women’s blue plaque campaign) at Redhills Miners’ Hall Durham, 1pm Saturday 30 March, FREE but you must register online.
• Police Cyber Security talk, School Aycliffe Community Hall, 7pm Monday 25 March, FREE but book a place on 07807134942.
THINGS TO DO
NEXT WEEK
• Julia Donaldson’s Zog, Gala Theatre Durham, 29-30 March, £13.
• Ground Level 5″ Gauge model steam and diesel engines rally, Locomotion Museum Shildon10am-4pm 29-31 March 2019, FREE.
• Roman Mosaics (5-11s), Palace Green Library, drop in 1-3pm 30-31 March, FREE.
• Japanese Rabbit display (5-11s), Durham Oriental Museum, drop in 1-3pm Saturday 30 March, FREE.
• Hand-craft a wooden flower for Mother’s Day, Low Barns Nature Reserve, 10:30am-1:30pm Saturday 30 March, £3/£5: 01915843112.
• Mothering Sunday at Beamish, Sunday 31 March (entrance fee).
