Belper Goes Green Goes Virtual
This weekend would have seen Transition annual ECO Festival Belper Goes Green. The Covid-19 lockdown has put paid to that
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Belper Goes Green in Pictures
Thousands gathered over the weekend for the Belper Goes Green Community, Eco and Arts Festival at the Rugby Club. The
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THE Song of Belper Goes Green
The ethos of Belper Goes Green was encapsulated in one song on Saturday. The last performance of the day on
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Belper Goes Green – Your Programme and Times.
Belper Goes Green starts tonight, Friday 31st May, at 7pm. Tonight’s music has the last act starting at 10pm, with
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Huge Array of Entertainment and Learning at Belper Goes Green Festival
Music This year Belper Goes Green has three stages, all centred in marquees, so this year any blips in the
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Planning For Belper Goes Green 2019 Now In Full Swing!
by Cherry Anderson The festival, which will be held on the weekend of 31st May and 1st, 2nd June at
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Belper Goes Green Leads Way With Improved Access For All
In a Belper first, groups in the Derbyshire town have worked together to ensure that all residents and visitors can
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Belper Goes Green 2018: Derbyshire Eco-Festival Announces Final Line-Up
Transition Belper’s Belper Goes Green has announced the full line-up for its 6th eco-festival, which takes place on Friday 1st
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Belper Goes Green Festival Targets Single Use Plastic
Organisers of the 2018 Belper Goes Green Eco festival are leading the way to tackle single use plastic. The festival,
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Belper Goes Green Poem: Festival
Butterfly mandalas and colours and lights and pancakes and oatcakes and tee-shirts and bikes and badges and raffles and
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Reflections – Thoughts On Belper Goes Green 2017
I have now led the Belper Goes Green teams through 5 years of planning, doing, tweaking, reviewing and making every
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Fifth Belper Goes Green Festival A Huge Success
The fifth Belper Goes Green Eco festival, organised by Transition Belper, saw thousands of visitors attending the event at Belper
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Plenty To Do At Belper Goes Green
There is a vast array of things to do, to get stuck into, learn, create and have fun at Belper
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Belper Goes Green Going Greener
This year Transition Belper, who are the organisers of Belper Goes Green, hope to replace the mountain of plastic glasses
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Election-Free Zone As Community Comes Together For Belper Goes Green
Belper Goes Green organisers have declared their 5th annual festival an Election-free Zone – a haven from the campaigning, rosettes,
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Astonishing Line-up for 5th Belper Goes Green
The organisers of the fifth Belper Goes Green ECO Festival to be held at Belper Rugby Club from 2nd to
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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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Video Highlights From Belper Goes Green
There were a lot of talks, bands and performances during Belper Goes Green and luckily many of them were filmed
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Fourth Annual Belper Goes Green Eco-festival a Huge Success
This weekend saw the fourth annual Belper Goes Green Eco-festival being held at Belper Rugby Club. Hundreds attended on each
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Youth Review for Belper Goes Green
I loved that the main focus was to try to change the way we look after the planet and protect
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All Set For 4th Belper Goes Green Festival
Belper Goes Green is Transition Belper’s ECO Festival that aims to share simpler, low carbon and environmentally friendly ways of doing
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Belper Goes Green Talks and Films Programmes Announced
In the dark green tent at Belper Goes Green, talks and films co-ordinator, Tony Webster will be introducing a range
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Belper Goes Green – Full Line-up Announced
Transition Belper are delighted to announce an incredible line-up of, mainly, local talent to keep festival goers entertained at the
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Belper Goes Green – Blooming Junk Community Arts Project
‘Roses are red, Violets are blue, can you make a recycled flower or two!’ As part of the festival we
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Belper Goes Green: Line-up Announced
From the traditional ballads and storytelling of Pete Castle to the funky blues of Blackfish, this year’s line -up should
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Belper Businesses Target ‘Zero Waste’ in New Initiative
Businesses in Belper have been working together to reduce the amount of waste they produce as part of a new
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Space Is The Place: The Night Sky Over Belper, January 2021
In the Night Sky Over Belper: Mars still shines in the south, Venus shines in the dawn sky. A possible
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Save Belper Lane – A Fight For Belper’s Identity
For the past 4 years, Save Belper Lane have been fighting against the proposed development of green fields within Belper’s
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World Heritage Status Put At Risk As Belper Lane Building Approved
Belper’s World Heritage Status has been endangered by the decision of the Secretary of State, Robert Jenrick, to allow building
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Save The Chevin’s Green Belt Campaign Launched
A new action group aims to protect Belper’s historic western landscape following a recent planning application to build new houses
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Transition’s Green Exchange goes all day
Belper’s first food swap event – register now On Saturday July 27th, the first Belper Growers and Makers – Food
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Accessible Belper’s Siobhan Fennell in Queen’s Birthday Honours
On Sunday 8th June 2019, the Queen’s Birthday Honours list was released. Amongst the winners were 2 local women, Siobhan
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Pride in Belper Set to Celebrate Town’s People and Community
By Sarah Barley-McMullen Belper is great at celebrating things – we have the Arts Trail, Belper Goes Green, the Food
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Local Electro Legends To Start Green Festival
Belper Goes Green Community, Eco and Arts festival’s live entertainment starts on Friday night 31 May with Water For Dogs
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Belper Gets Green
The 2019 green festival promises to be the biggest and most environmentally conscious yet. Belper Goes Green Community, Eco and
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Election: Belper East Candidates
All wording is exactly as given by the parties. We have changed nothing. Candidates in this ward Mark Oldfield
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New Media Service ‘DV On Demand’ Goes Live This September
DV on Demand, an information and media hub for the Derwent Valley, will launch September 24 at 11am. Derwent Valley
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Belper’s Green Spaces Recognised By Green Flag Award
Belper Parks, Belper Cemetery and the Belper River Gardens are amongst eight green spaces and parks in Amber Valley to
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Belper Judged For East Midlands in Bloom
On Monday 2nd July Belper was visited by judges for East Midlands in Bloom, the regional stage of the Royal
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Green Exchange Café – Saturday 23rd June
The June Transition Belper Café will be held at No 28 Community Hall, Market Place, Belper on Sunday 23rd June
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Belper Went Green
This weekend saw the annual eco festival Belper Goes Green increase in size from previous years, both in terms of
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Belper Woollen Woods To Go ‘In Bloom’
Once again this year Belper will enter the RHS Britain in Bloom competition. This year as part of the town
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Green Exchange Café – Sunday 20th May
The May Transition Belper Café will be held at No 28 Community Hall, Market Place, Belper on Sunday 20th May
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Belper Eco-Festival To Return For Sixth Year
The sixth Belper Goes Green eco-festival returns on Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd of June 2018 at the Rugby Club,
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Space Is The Place: The Night Sky Over Belper, October 2017
October brings a thin crescent Moon, the Orionid meteor shower, and Venus is the morning star in the east. The
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Belper’s Beautiful Parks Win Green Flag Award
Belper Parks, Belper River Gardens and Belper Cemetery are amongst the eight parks and green spaces in the Amber Valley
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Joseph Knight + Laurie Illingworth And Jack’s Got A Plan At The Queens Head, Belper. June 16th
Festivals often throw up a few surprises and at last year’s Belper Goes Green, it was Joe Knight. Filling in
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Protests As Proposed Local Plan Goes To Public
Amber Valley Borough Council has voted in favour of the new draft Local Plan going to public consultation. At the
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Battle Lines Drawn For Greenfields Future
Amber Valley Borough Council have outlined proposals for a new Local Plan which includes Bullsmoor and Belper Lane sites as
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Belper Chosen to Represent East Midlands in 2017 RHS Britain in Bloom Awards
Belper in Bloom has been selected to represent the East Midlands in the Large Town Category in the Royal Horticultural
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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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Viewing The Night Sky Over Belper: February 2017
Belper seems to have spent most of January under a blanket of cloud and fog, let’s hope that February gives
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Gardening Column: Belper’s Well Dressings & Open Gardens
The last four weeks saw Belper buzzing with an exciting range of events. Belper Open Gardens, The Food Festival, Well
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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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A Busy Spring For Belper Folk Singer, Storyteller And Author Pete Castle
For most of my adult life I travelled the length and breadth of Britain to tell stories or sing songs,
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Flower Making Brain Storming Eve – Belper Rugby Club – March 9th
This year’s big project for Belper Goes Green that aims to involve the whole town is the flower making from scrap
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Rope and Ball Sculpture for Belper Park?
A rope and ball knitted sculpture similar to this could be coming to a Belper park next year. The knitted
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Neighbourhood Plan for Belper
The new Neighbourhood Plan for Belper website has gone live: containing more information about the direction of the NP4B. There
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Belper Goes Live! Friday 20th November
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Live Feed on Cancelled Events and Closed Places
Many events have to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We expect closures to increase from Monday, and to
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The Repair Cafe is an initiative to mend the things we already own, instead of binning them and contributing to
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A Sad State of Affairs
Problem Following an investigation which has run for over a month, we are unhappy to report that there seem to
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Ashley Franklin Wins Gold Award!
Last year local photographer Ashley Franklin came second in Landscape Photographer of the Year, at the Society of Professional Imagemakers
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Official Launch of Emma Parkins’ The Badgers’ Sett
Nailed is behind on delivering some news due to short staffing and illness. We apologise for the delay. On 17th
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FREEFALL: Departure – Goodbye To The Drop Inn
Tomorrow evening will see a 12 hour music festival return after 4 years of absence, as a celebration and farewell
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Next Repair Cafe – Saturday 22nd June
Belper’s pop up Repair Cafe, which launched at Belper Goes Green, will be at No. 28 on the Market Place
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National Volunteers Week & the Toy Library
National Volunteers Week came to an end yesterday (1st-7th June 2019). It was the 35th year of the national event,
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National Volunteers Week
June 1st to June 7th is National Volunteers’ Week. This is the 35th year of the event which recognises and
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St. Peter’s Wins Silver Eco Church Award
By Anne Clark St Peter’s Church is very pleased to announce that they have been given a Silver Eco
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Crich Lane Volunteers Set To Walk Away
Transition Belper’s team of volunteers who have carried out a much-lauded transformation of the Crich Lane Festival Gardens are on
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Be Your Own Kind Of Brilliant – Skill Share Group
A multi-talented and curious group of young people in Belper need creative and brilliant local people of all ages to
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Fracking Month: “How I Started Amber Valley Against Fracking”
I first started Amber Valley Against Fracking (AVAF) back in September 2015, after hearing on a local radio morning show that
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Garden Theme For Next Transition Café
The March Transition Belper Café will be held at No 28 Community Hall, Market Place, Belper on Saturday 25th March
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Transition Café At No 28 This Saturday
After the success of the Transition Café at No 28 in October, Transition Belper now has the opportunity to make
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Show Off Your Inner Rebel With New Music Workshop
‘Rebel Yell’ will be running a series of 5 workshops to encourage people to write songs. Folk singer Pete Castle
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Opposition To Bessalone Plans Escalates
In response to the Planning Application submitted on behalf of JC Balls to build, in ‘Phase 1’, some 201 houses
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Saturday: Farmer’s Market, Cafe, New No. 28 Art Exhibition and Entertainment
Saturday 11th will see the Farmer’s Market on the Market Place in Belper from 8:30am until 1pm and the
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Interest Growing In Neighbourhood Plan
There was lots of interest in the Neighbourhood Plan from the public attending the very successful “Belper Goes Green” festival
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Interview: Experimental Sonic Machines
At Belper Goes Green we were lucky to interview part-time gardener and full-time creator of surreal soundscapes, Mr Peter K
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Bloomin’ Junk Project Pop-up Workshop
Lead by Emma Parkins and Nansy Ferret Transition Belper will be holding a pop-up workshop at Belper Market Place on
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Town Clerk: A Farewell Letter
In 2002 I needed to reinvent myself. I got a job working at a centre that provided computer courses for
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Local Artist Interview: 5 Questions for – Emma Carr
1. As an artist, what inspires you about the locality around Belper? Definitely the scenery and landscape, it is so
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Edward is a freelance journalist and writer. He has lived in Belper for five years after moving from Lincolnshire to
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Current Editor in Chief, as of September 2018, and one of Nailed’s founders in 2015. Clare is a freelance editor
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David George is a retired Local Government Officer who spent 26 years with Derby City Council. In that time he
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Why Are There No Trains In Derby This Summer?
Belper train passengers will already be aware of the engineering works in Derby Station this summer and the bad news
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The Slug, the Bad and the Ugly
Your essential guide to managing the slug population and keeping sane in your garden this spring, by Jo Dyer I
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Opinion: “Is it always like this?”
“Is it always like this?” I went to the Amber Valley Borough Council Meeting last night. I go as often
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Packed Meeting Vents Frustration at Bullsmoor Planning Process
Around 150 concerned Belper residents packed into Strutts Community Centre last night (18th August) to voice their concerns and frustrations
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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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Helping Refugees: AV Solidarity Collection and more…
Before we begin, I’d like you to have a look at the original homes of the Syrian refugees in this
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