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Derbyshire County Council’s Mobile Library timetable for Findern

Visits to the village by Derbyshire County Council’s Mobile Library service will operate from 14 December 2020 with a new reduced timetable.

Derbyshire library service has two mobile libraries, based at Buxton and Long Eaton, serving around 150 communities across the county. These communities are visited once every four weeks and the mobile libraries offer a range of services for everyone including fiction and non-fiction books for adults and children, large print books, books on tape and books on CD as well as a selection of local studies books and information.

The mobile libraries have a lift for wheelchair users and people with mobility problems.

The service will visit the Lower Green car park in Findern between 10am and 12 noon on: –

  • Friday 18 December 2020
  • Friday 15 January 2021
  • Friday 12 February 2021

The service is operating a `book and borrow’ system, which means customers need to phone to book an appointment on one of the numbers below, and will be able to pick up a maximum of 10 books.

  • Buxton mobile library: 01629 533464
  • Long Eaton mobile library: 01629 531398

Appointment times will last 5 minutes, and for the time being customers will not be able to select their own books by stepping onto the vehicle. Instead, they will be asked what type of books they like reading and a selection will be made for them so they can pick them up at their allotted time.

All returned books will be quarantined for 72 hours and customers will need to bring their own bag to pick up their books.

As the service is mornings only it will not be possible to visit all the usual stops, and new routes have been introduced. This will be reviewed over the coming weeks and months.

Customers affected by the changes can contact ask.library@derbyshire.gov.uk or call 01629 533444 to discuss receiving a home library service during this period.

 

#Getting ready for Winter!

With the first overnight frosts arriving, Findern Parish Council is getting ready for Winter! Help us keep pavements and roads clear to avoid slips and slides!

The Parish Lengthsman, Dave Tidy has checked all of the grit bins in the village and reported back on those that need topping up. The Council keeps a store of grit salt and the Lengthsman will keep an eye on the bins to ensure that there is grit salt available for residents to use on public paths/pavements and roads around the village as we head it into those frosty days and nights of Winter.

The location of the grit bins are as follows (those with numbers are owned by Derbyshire County Council, but we will keep those topped up along with those owned by the Parish Council): –

  • Aults Close/Hillside Junction – GB5455
  • Bakeacre Lane/Doles Lane junction – GB5092
  • Brook Close
  • Cromwell Avenue/Hawthorn Crescent – GB0732
  • Doles Lane (near Derby Bus Stop) – GB1047
  • Hillside/East Lawn Junction – GB0732
  • Hillside (near Playing Field)
  • Longlands Lane/Hillside Junction – GB1042
  • Lower Green Car Park
  • Porters Lane /Main Street Junction – GB1041
  • Sycamore Avenue/Hazel Close Junction
  • Castle Hill
  • Heath Lane near KGV

The Parish Council has contacted the consortium of developers at the new Highfields estate (which falls within the Parish boundary) to seek permission to site grit bins at key locations on the development.

 

Notice of Conclusion of Audit for Findern Parish Council – Budget year 2019 to 2020

The audit of accounts for Findern Parish Council for the year ending 31 March 2020 has been completed and the accounts have been published.

The Annual Governance & Accountability Return for the year ended 31 March 2020, is available to view below along with the External Auditors Report and Certificate. Hard copies of these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to the Clerk:

Mrs K A Sharpe, Findern Parish Council, Parish Rooms, Lower Green, Findern, Derbyshire, DE65 6AD

Email: clerk@findernparishcouncil.org Tel: 07444 085807

Notice of Conclusion of Audit

Annual Governance Return

Annual Accounting Return

External Auditors Report and Certificate

Annual Receipts and Payments Accounts

Next meeting of Findern Parish Council will be held on Thursday, 12 November 2020

An Ordinary Meeting of Findern Parish Council will be held remotely at 7pm on Thursday, 12 November 2020.

PRESS AND PUBLIC ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND THE MEETING.

In accordance with the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020, the meeting will use Zoom Meetings software. For the Meeting ID and password, please contact the Clerk by email at clerk@findernparishcouncil.org or telephone 07444 085807. The  Agenda for the meeting can be found on the Meetings page here.

You do not have to have Zoom installed on your device to access the meeting, though your device will need to have audio and video link – PC with webcam, laptop, Ipad or android tablet or smart phone. The meeting will also be streamed live to the Findern Parish Council Facebook page.

Arrangements for Remembrance Day – Sunday 8 November 2020

Due to the ongoing situation with Covid-19, there will be no formal Service of Remembrance at the War Memorial this year on Sunday 8 November 2020. There will be no gathering at 11.00am.

Members of All Saints Church and Findern Methodist Church will pay their own individual respects at the War Memorial and the Chairman of the Parish Council will lay a wreath.

Individuals or family groups from the same household may visit the War Memorial at All Saints Church over the weekend to pay their own tribute to the men who lost their lives in the two World Wars; and we hope that you will take a moment on Sunday to remember them.

1914-1918

Ernest Arthur Archer

Tom Henry Woollatt Archer

Alfred Percy Beeston

Wilfred Carter

John Francis Cope

Herbert George Dainty

Charles Dyer

George William Freeston

Percy Haynes

Edwin Arther Hodgkinson

Thomas Tailby

1939-1945

Thomas Barradell

William Frederick Cowlishaw

Donald George Headland

Eric Sawyer

Frederick William Spires

John Thompson

we also remember Walter Hugh Lowe