Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

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North Bank Road is currently closed (Dog-In-A-Doublet – Millenium Bridge)

To celebrate HM The King’s Coronation, we’re looking for communities going above and beyond to support those around them. Maybe you hold an annual Big Lunch, regular meet-ups, or pull together to help each other out and look after your local area.

From cul-de-sacs to blocks of flats, villages to cities, if your community deserves a great big ‘thank you’, we want to hear from you!

The Eden Project team will work with the winning community to install a pollinator and people friendly garden. The prize will also include a Coronation Big Lunch hamper and £2,500 to support your next community project. Plus, three runners up will also receive a hamper (including a £100 Iceland voucher) and £1,000 towards a community project.

Sound good? To enter, all you need to do is tell us a little about your community and why you deserve to be crowned! The competition runs from 1-30 March and winners will be announced in April.

Find out more and enter ►

Heavy rain and snow has fallen in the Peterborough area which is causing the River levels to rise on the River Nene. During periods of high tide the River Nene will be unable to discharge into the sea, resulting in tide lock conditions. This is likely to lead to localised flooding of the North Bank Road, between Peterborough and Rings End. Whilst this Flood Warning is in force, the Local Authority will close North Bank Road. Diversionary routes will be put in place and further updates will be available through local media. Please avoid using low lying footpaths near local watercourses and plan driving routes to avoid low lying roads near rivers, which may be flooded. We are closely monitoring the situation.

7 Committee members including myself attended last nights meeting. No one else turned up on a dreadful evenings weather.
The 2023 event is beinning to take shape and items like road closures have to be applied for well in advance.
There will be several fund raising events in the lead up to Decembers event.
Next meeting April 13th

Extravaganza BIG Quiz –

Saturday 14th October –

Teams of 6 –

£10 pp Includes Fish & Chip supper

Raffle Prizes….More info in the near future….

Why not come along tonight @ WTC Peel House – Queen Street for 7:30 and join with some dedicated Volunteers in helping to organise this years coming event.

Following the death of Her Majesty the Queen, The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) initiative has been extended to the end of March 2023. 
The extension of the special project will give those interested in planting a tree the chance to record one in memoriam of Her Majesty. 

The QGC initiative was created to mark the Platinum Jubilee in 2022 and has seen thousands of residents planting trees since it was launched in October 2021.
The QGC has created a network of individual trees, avenues, copses and whole woodlands in honour of The Queen’ service and every tree planted brings benefits to communities, wildlife and the climate. 

Find the nearest tree to you on the QGC map, and

learn more about planting a tree on the QGC website

Lead Cllrs Roy Gerstner and Eamonn Dorling
(Sponsored by Public and WTC 85 Trees and 15 Fruit Trees)…. More next month.

Chairman FDC Cllr Alex Miscandlon (2nd from left) @ Sir Harry Smith College.