Author: Lesley Webb

What business events are happening in Somerset? There are plenty of upcoming events happening in Somerset, see the following: Networking Power Hour 22 June – 10:00-11:00, Abbey Manor Community Centre, Yeovil, BA21 3TL Bid and Tender Writing 22 June – 09:30-13:30pm – Equity House, Blackbrook Business Park, Taunton, TA1 2PX Tech Break: Technical Tips to Influence your Online Presence 27 June – 7:30-9:30 – Mr Miles, 3-4 High Street, Taunton, TA1 3PG Tech South West Summit 5 July – 09:30-16:00 – Somerset County Cricket Club, St James St, Taunton, TA1 1JT Finance & Funding Workshop  2 July – 09:30-15:00 – The Collar Factory, 112 Saint Augustine Street, Taunton, TA1 1QN Starting a Business and/or Boosting Employment Skills Event 13 July – 12:00-16:30 – Taunton Library, Paul St, Taunton TA1 3XZ Emergency First Aid in the Workplace 27 July – at a local venue (tbc)

Benefice Newsletter 16th June 2023

Early starts as both weather and Glastonbury Festival traffic heat up

Waste collections will begin from 6am next week, from Monday 19 June to Monday 26 June (inclusive). The early starts are to help crews impacted by the hot weather conditions and to beat the potential additional traffic on the roads due to Glastonbury Festival. The early starts will help to minimise any chance of disruption to recycling, rubbish or garden waste collections across the county. In addition to extra traffic on the roads, crews are working in increasingly hot temperatures. Waste collection is hard, physical work and early starts help limit the time crews spend working in the hottest part of the day. Somerset Council are asking residents to put their bins out the night before to make sure they are prepared for the early start. Somerset’s waste and recycling collection crews make more than 350,000 collections a week. For more information about what happens to the recycling they collect, check the Somerset Recycling Tracker on the Somerset Council website.

The Parish Council have been working for some time on two long term problems within the village. Following a visit from the Highways department we have the following plan of action from the Highways Department:

1. Water on the road in Great House Street

“We have a jetting order in place for July to check the drainage system in Great House Street to determine the route and if any blockages are causing the water to break through the road surface and flow down the road.

However, if the system proves to be clear then further investigations will have to carried out to find the source of the water and whether it is a Wessex Water leak or a natural spring. If found to be the latter, then a drainage improvement scheme will have to be considered with the installation of a herringbone filter drainage system along the emerging section to collect the water below the road surface and to discharge it into the adjacent watercourse. This, you will appreciate, may not be a quick fix, so if not resolved by the winter period and ice is forecasted then a salt bag will be provided at the location.”

2. The drain at the bottom of School Lane

We have asked that the drain and carrier system is cleaned and checked, this should happen over the next month or so.

Kali Martin
Assistant Highway Service Manager
Somerset Council
0300 123 2224

Wake up every Friday morning in June with a refreshing, inspiring and relaxing yoga session!

Experienced, or new to yoga – you’re warmly invited to join us in this beautiful setting for an early morning practice!

7:30 – 8:45am

£12 per session

For every place booked, a £2 donation goes to Good Vibe Veg – a local Social Enterprise who grow and deliver local organic veg.

Any questions – just send me a message terry@shiatsuyoga.co.uk 

Book your spot here! https://shiatsuyoga.co.uk/sunriseyoga/

Terry Bruce
Yoga Teacher & Shiatsu Practitioner
Exmoor Wellbeing Safari
www.shiatsuyoga.co.uk
07961 892526

Somerset residents are being reminded that they can sign up for a fortnightly home garden waste recycling collection. The service run by Somerset Council has more than 56,000 subscribers and with spring well and truly here and gardens bursting into life, now is the perfect time to sign up.

Subscriptions can be started any time during the year and the quickest and easiest way to subscribe is online through the somerset.gov.uk/waste page – just use the ‘Do it online/My Waste Service’ feature.

Collections are made fortnightly year-round (apart from a short break during Christmas and New Year). Residents can either sign up to a pre-paid 180-litre wheeled bin or 90-litre compostable paper sacks. The price of a wheeled bin subscription for 2023/24 is £63.50 for 25 collections and for packs of ten garden waste sacks, £31.10.

All garden waste stays in Somerset, going to one of several composting sites, including Dimmer and Walpole, where it is shredded, and turned into compost. The end-product is sold as revive soil conditioner through all recycling sites.

Residents who already subscribe to the service will be sent a reminder, by email or post, in the month prior to their subscription ending. For example, a May mailing for those expiring in June. However, there is no need to wait until you receive a reminder, subscriptions can be renewed at any time (you’ll still get a full year service). If you are not online, you can also subscribe by calling 0300 123 2224.

Home composting is the recommended option for garden waste and those who have space to do so can order a subsided home composting bin from the council’s partner Get Composting. Garden waste can also be taken to any one of Somerset’s 16 waste recycling sites.

Garden waste should not be put out for collection with refuse. It is also not advised to burn garden waste, as this can cause pollution and local nuisance.

Please follow the link to view the above road closure; https://one.network/?tm=133259158 and the link for the Notice 2:https://api-gb.one.network/downloads/tm/1111/03-notice-2_133259158_3561126_4e4e14ce52.pdf 
The works are expected to commence on 19th June 2023 and last for 5 days to enable Wessex Water to carry out sewer repairs.

The contractor has indicated that access for Emergency Services through the site is  not permitted on this occasion.

For any further information about this closure please contact Wessex Water on 0345 600 4600 , quoting reference: ttro370789WS