Support And Advice Available During Carers Week 2017
Carers can find support, information and advice at a number of events and drop-in workshops being held around the county
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HEALTH & WELLBEING
Belper Bill Busters: Gardening On A Budget
Glam Up Your Garden On A Budget 21 June – the first day of summer! What better time to get
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Series Of Local Events For Dementia Awareness Week
This week, from 14th-20th May, is Dementia Awareness Week and throughout it a series of activities will be taking place
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New Belper ‘Cycle Quality’ Tube Map Highlights Need For Change
An updated version of the Belper Cycle Quality tube map has been produced incorporating feedback and showing how cycle provision
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Belper Bill Busters: Holiday Advice
We’re all going on a summer holiday…but can we afford it? With the weather warming up and summer on the
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Free “Body MOT” Being Offered At The Belper Co-op
Belper residents who would like to see how their body is standing up to the stresses and strains of everyday
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Go Green Café: Bicycles and Transport Theme
Visitors to No28 are being asked to bring their bikes in for maintenance advice. The newly rebranded ‘Go Green Café’
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Levellers Added To Belper Goes Green Line Up – Get Free Tickets
In an amazing coup for the Belper Goes Green organisers the Levellers have agreed to perform an acoustic set at
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Easter Belper Bill Busters: This Easter Break, Don’t Break The Bank
Every year around Easter time, parents’ minds inevitably turn to a fortnight full of restless, chocolate-fuelled children. For some, keeping
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Disabled Facility Grant Work Passes £1m Mark in Amber Valley
With well over 200 local people benefitting from a Disabled Facility Grant in the past year, Amber Valley Borough Council
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Belper Bill Busters: Have A Happy, Healthy Pet – On A Budget!
There really is nothing quite like the companionship you get from having a pet around and it can be so
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The Women’s Circle: An Oasis Of Calm In The Whirlwind Of Life?
The Women’s Circle is a monthly space where women come to share their stories, inspire each other, learn and connect.
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Make A Date With Belper
If your love life is more lacklustre than lusty you might not be feeling fabulous about the fourteenth of February.
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Jog Into January With New Year Activities
The #JogIntoJanuary campaign running across Derbyshire this New Year hopes to break down the barriers that prevent people from regularly
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Derbyshire Sport’s “Active Lunch Challenge” Launched for 2017
Is it too early to be thinking of New Year Resolutions? The Active Lunch Challenge doesn’t think so. The New
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‘Christmas Without Worry Is Priceless’ Says Local Debt Charity
‘You can’t buy the perfect Christmas’ – that is the message from local debt charity CAP which today released its
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Positive Life Skills Course Aims To Boost Wellbeing
If money is a source of stress, new free sessions run by the local church might be an answer to
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Belper Bill Busters: Making A Will Isn’t Morbid, It’s Important
Talking about making wills and leaving legacies may seem a little too morbid for this time of day, but in
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Accessible Belper Recognised With New Award
Accessible Belper were invited to a gala awards evening, hosted by Accessible Derbyshire at Chatsworth House, where they received the
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Another Accessible Belper Training Success
Would you be able to answer the following questions? Is it OK to say “the disabled one “? Is it
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Belper Bill Busters: Super Stoptober Savings
This year, national campaign Stoptober is back. Launched in 2012 as a month-long campaign to encourage smokers to quit, the
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Walking Festival Steps Out 10 September — 25 September 2016
Amber Valley is holding its annual Autumn Footprints Amber Valley & Erewash Walking Festival. Set in the heart of picturesque Derbyshire, visitors will
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Belper Games Gives Thousands to Charities
On Friday 2nd September a presentation ceremony was held at The Grapes by the organisers of The Belper Games, to
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Amber Valley Against Fracking – Petition
Back in December we told you about fracking coming to Amber Valley (original article) and in May reported on Amber
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Bullsmoor Back on Agenda After Public Suggests Building Sites
As part of preparing the new Local Plan (a legal requirement and a replacement for a failed plan) Amber Valley
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Belper Open Gardens Delights and Inspires
Visitors to Belper Open Gardens this weekend couldn’t fail to be delighted. For a modest charge of £3, there was
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Freedom Feed Em Kicks Off With Success
Belper’s Freedom Feed Em monthly meals kicked off with a successful launch at No 28 on the Market Place on
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Belper Community Joins World To Celebrate The Life of Jo Cox
Joining thousands of others around the world, the town was united at a memorial event to remember MP Jo Cox,
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Drop-in sessions for ex-Courtaulds staff.
Amber Valley Borough Council, Belper Town Council and Derbyshire COuncty Council have all worked together to arrange a series of
Read MoreBreaking: Babington Protest Live
Save Our NHS are protesting the closure of Babington right now. They are stopping traffic, with a huge amount of
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Human Library Comes To Belper
Don’t miss the opportunity to read to your heart’s content at Belper’s Human Library at Belper Goes Green on Saturday
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Amber Valley Protests Fracking
On 9th May INEOS, who hold fracking licences for parts of Amber Valley and Derbyshire held an invitation only presentation
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Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Forest Schools – May
Come and join Derbyshire Wildlife Trust for our monthly Forest School sessions in the woods at Millfields near Carsington Water.
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Save Babington Hospital: Petition
Over the course of this Conservative government, a minimum £22billion will be shaved off the NHS budget and the consequences
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Charity Opens Two New Local Debt Centres
People struggling with the misery of unmanageable finances will be able to get free debt help in two new areas
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Accessible Belper Off To a Great Start
Accessible Belper is a new group dedicated to improving and raising disability awareness in the town; it had a packed
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The UK’s Natural Environment Benefits From Our Membership of the EU – Independent Report
Press Release from Derbyshire Wildlife Trust A report commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and WWF-UK from the Independent Institute
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Accessible Belper Offering Free Training Session
As you will be aware Belper won the first national award for The Great British High Street of the Year
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Merry Christmas Belper
We would like to wish every person and pet in Belper the happiest winter festival that you can have,
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The Art of Drishti
Drishti is gazing at a focal point in a meditative state. At the retreats I attend, we do this with
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Belper MP Votes for Fracking at World Heritage Sites
On 16/12/15 the House of Commons voted on whether to allow fracking under National Parks. The Peak District was specifically
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Toy Library Announces Christmas Raffle
Toy Library Volunteer Nell Munro has kindly baked and donated a Christmas Cake to be raffled off to raise much
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Belper Citizens Advice Bureau Drop-In Service
Citizens Advice aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices
Read MoreDerbyshire Council Introduce Time Swap Scheme
Derbyshire County Council have introduced a new scheme which is already accessible (albeit little advertised) across the entire county.
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