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This event has been postponed until September 2020

This year’s Great British Spring Clean event will include a litter pick in Copgrove. The group is meeting at the postbox at the corner of St Mongah’s Lane by the Church at 10 am on Sunday 3rd May 2020. Please come along and lend a hand if you can. The event has full public liability insurance. Contact us if you require any further information.

Sarah the Spaniel

Following our recent posts on dog fouling in the Parish, Keep Britain Tidy have launched their campaign to tackle this noxious problem.

Their latest research into Dog Fouling found that 15% of dog owners admit to letting their dog poop in a public place without picking up, leading to 76% of adults stepping in dog poop in their lifetime. The campaign features dogs as the messenger, appealing directly to dog lovers and leveraging the levers of both pride and shame to remind owners to pick-up their poop because it’s what their dog would want them to do.

The campaign has been designed to work across social media using highly engaging video content, and posters for placement at Dog Fouling hotspots in local areas. There are four videos available to choose from, featuring ‘Ben the Boxer’ as well as Sarah the Spaniel. The videos can also be voiced with a regional accent to really connect with residents.

The Parish Council applied to the Woodland Trust, under their “Free Trees for Schools and Communities” scheme, for a 420 sapling pack of mixed species trees and the application has been succesful. The intention is to use the saplings to replace and infill in the hedges around the Jubilee Recreation Field in Arkendale Road. There may be some saplings available from the batch to infill as necessary in other hedgerows on our land.

The saplings will be available for planting out in November 2020. We will probably be seeking some assistance with the planting out from the community.

The scheme is open to schools and all kinds of different groups such as resident associations, sports clubs, scouts, guides and many more. You don’t need to be an official organisation. You could even set up a group for the purpose of planting, but you must be not-for-profit. The most important thing is that your group is willing to take on the planning, planting and care of the saplings. If you’re applying as a community group, the land needs to be accessible to the public. Follow the above link for further information.

It’s a #CrimeNotToCare when it comes to getting rid of your rubbish. In the month of March Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) are launching a campaign to tackle the epidemic of fly tipping that is affecting communities up and down the country. In the HBC District in the past 12 months there have been just over 570 incidents of fly tipping and this has cost the council, i.e. the taxpayer, in the region of £40,000 to clear up.

#CrimeNotToCare, which is being run in partnership with environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, aims to educate householders about the right thing to do with their rubbish and to reduce the amount of household waste that is fly-tipped by rogue traders who offer to take people’s waste away for money and then dump it. The campaign aims to get the message across that if an individual’s waste is fly tipped, even if they gave it to a third party to dispose of, they can be prosecuted and end up with a fine and a criminal record. A leaflet with further information is available here.

Further to the recent news of the possibility of a new Post Office mobile service coming to Staveley, the Postmaster at Ripon Post Office has now confirmed that they are willing to offer services to the village, in the belief that the establishment of a Mobile service presents the best possible solution to restore Post Office services to local communities.

The mobile Post Office will be located in the Staveley & Copgrove Village Hall Car Park, Main Street, Staveley, HG5 9LD on Fridays at 11:15am to 12:15pm. The service is scheduled to start week commencing Monday 23 March 2020.

The Parish Council has recently received reports of dogs being exercised in the Jubilee Recreation Field on Arkedale Road, Staveley so we would like to remind all residents that as the field is primarily a childrens play area, no dogs are permitted. This applies to the Recreation Field as a whole as well as the inner fenced playground area. A new sign has been installed to this effect.

Thanks for your help in keeping the Recreation Field dog free and a suitable place for children to play. Please let the Parish Council know if you see any dogs in the field.