ROKH Dance Win Prestige Award

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We are delighted that ROKH Dance who run classes at the Town Hall, have just won ‘Dance Company of the Year for the South West Region’, from Prestige Awards. We congratulate them on this wonderful achievement.

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Scaffolding at Grade II Listed Wotton Town Hall

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Wotton-under-Edge Town Council has instructed scaffolders to erect scaffolding around the frontage of Wotton Town Hall from early December for a period of 36 weeks.

A grant to Historic England for £25,000 (to fund some of the work) has been refused twice. The alternatives  to fund this work are to use all reserves and also take out a public works loan and raise the Precept (i.e. the public paying via taxes).

If anyone can assist in any way or offer help, please do get in touch. clerk@wotton-under-edge.com

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Census 2021 Will Provide a Snapshot of Modern Society

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Households across Wotton-under-Edge Town Council will soon be asked to take part in Census 2021. The census is a once-in-a-decade survey that gives us the most accurate estimate of all the people and households in England and Wales. It has been carried out every decade since 1801, with the exception of 1941. It will be the first run predominantly online, with households receiving a letter with a unique access code, allowing them to complete the questionnaire on their computers, phones or tablets.

“A successful census will ensure everyone from local government to charities can put services and funding in the places where they are most needed,” Iain Bell, deputy national statistician at the Office for National Statistics, said. “This could mean things like doctors’ surgeries, schools and new transport routes. That’s why it is so important everyone takes part and we have made it easier for people to do so online on any device, with help and paper questionnaires for those that need them.”

Census day will be on 21 March 2021, but households across the country will receive letters with online codes allowing them to take part from early March.

The census will include questions about your sex, age, work, health, education, household size and ethnicity. And, for the first time, there will be a question asking people whether they have served in the armed forces, as well as voluntary questions for those aged 16 and over on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Results will be available within 12 months, although personal records will be locked away for 100 years and kept safe for future generations.

For more information, visit: www.census.gov.uk

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The Case of The Missing Cotswold Way Signs

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Two of Wotton-under-Edge’s Cotswold Way signs have gone missing! The signs help visitors to Wotton-under-Edge follow the correct route for the Cotswold way. The signs belong to Wotton Town Council. They were in place at the end of July 2020, as evidenced by this picture, and were placed underneath the Bradley Street road sign.

We know the signs disappeared between July and November of this year. Did anyone see someone unscrewing the signs and removing them?  At a height of seven feet, they would not have been easy to reach. Either someone very tall was involved or perhaps they had a ladder?

It is commonplace for road signs such as ‘Abbey Road’ to go missing as Beatles fans hunt for items of memorabilia, perhaps the Cotswold Way is now as famous as The Beatles?

Although it may seem an innocent crime, it is indeed a crime. The council will have to report this to the police if no one comes forward. To replace the signs will cost the Town Council money.

If anyone has any information that will help locate the whereabouts of the signs please contact us via email clerk@wotton-under-edge.com or telephone 01453 843210wue-logo-250

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