Volunteering opportunity: Secretarial role at the North East Cheshire Community Partnership
NECCP ADVERT
A volunteering role has arisen to join the North East Cheshire Community Partnership (NECCP) team as our Secretary.
The NECCP represents the communities of Adlington, Bollington, Disley, Kettleshulme, Mottram St Andrew, Pott Shrigley, Poynton, Prestbury and Rainow, and receives annual funding from Cheshire East Council.
Grants are awarded from these funds to support fresh initiatives that are judged to be beneficial to residents, generally to promote their wellbeing, and support other community needs.
This role involves circulating an agenda by e-mail (agreed with the Chair) around ten days before each NECCP meeting. Meetings are held on a bi-monthly basis.
The Secretary takes a record of the meetings, which generally last around 2 hours. Those present are encouraged to forward their contributions to the Secretary electronically, and so can form much of the record. The draft record is sent by e-mail to the Chair for approval, and then distributed, again by e-mail, to the NECCP representatives.
Meetings are held in central Poynton, and occasionally at venues in the other member towns and parishes.
Please forward expressions of interest to
Robert Hughes, outgoing Chair of NECCP
Village Remembrance Service – Sun 13th November
The service will be held on Sunday 13th November in the village chapel in Priest Lane and will commence at 10.30 and the two minutes silence will be observed at 11 o’clock.
Road safety in the village
On the afternoon of Thursday October 13th a white Ford Fiesta travelling from Wilmslow back to Mottram was turning right into Wilmslow Old Road when it was struck on the passenger side by a black BMW 3-series travelling towards Wilmslow from Prestbury. In the Fiesta were three young Ukrainian women, one of whom had only arrived here with her three daughters two weeks previously. The car is a write-off. Miraculously they all survived but the newest arrival has been left with a fractured eye socket and may require facial surgery. The driver of the BMW was unhurt.
My reason for writing to you all (and please share this information with any friends or neighbours not on my circulation list) is to make you aware of the problems at that junction. Last Wednesday I arranged a meeting at the crash site with a member of Cheshire East’s road safety team. Also in attendance, at my request, was Roger Taylor-Jackson, whose farm fields and hedges often end up with cars in them which have misjudged the bend. Twelve months ago, in another accident, the warning chevrons on the grass triangle were demolished, and Cheshire East have still not replaced them. The person I met with checked the road surface by running his hand over it and declared it to be “polished”. He said that in damp conditions, a car travelling even within the speed limit, would struggle to stop.
I am now campaigning for improvements to the junction. There are many things that can be done, including changing priorities, adding a right turn-only lane, resurfacing the road, adding more warning signs and even reducing the speed limit to 40mph (it is currently 50mph). You can help me by writing to Cheshire East at the address below and demanding that something be done. I have supplied the address below.
I spoke with a witness this morning who recently posted on Facebook that the BMW driver was “a maniac driving at around 60mph”. Of course, there is no empirical evidence to support this, but if measures at that junction were in place to prevent speeding and to make drivers more aware of the dangers, perhaps this accident could have been avoided. To flee a war zone and end up in hospital anyway is a tragic turn of events that I never want to see repeated.
Please help if you can.
Kind regards, and best wishes from Kath and me.
Highways
Floor 6
Delamere House
Delamere Street Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 2LL
Robert Hughes
Chairman
Mottram St Andrew Parish Council
Important Information – Burglaries in Newton
There has been a burglary in Newton in the last couple of days where a house was broken into, this happened during the afternoon. There was also an attempted burglary where the intruder was disturbed, this was during the evening at around 9pm.
Please be aware and keep your properties secure. If anything happens then it is important to contact the police ASAP
NECCP
Are you involved with a new community initiative, or do you know of someone who is? Mottram St Andrew is a member of the North East Cheshire Community Partnership, which has funds available to support local community initiatives. Visit the Mottram St Andrew website for more information by typing NECCP in the search bar or you can find the page within the community menu.
Village Hall Meeting
Village Notice
The Mottram St. Andrew Village Hall adds immeasurably to the quality of life in Mottram St. Andrew. This important local facility is managed by a committee of trustees of the Mottram St. Andrew Village Hall charity under a governing document dated 1948. The trustees have been considering updating its governance and becoming a charity with corporate status, as allowed for by the Charities Act 2011.
As the facilities are provided for public benefit the trustees feel it is important that people understand what is planned, which is to change the charity’s structure from an unincorporated association to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) as approved by the Charity Commission. The constitution would be similar, with some trustees being elected at the AGM and some nominated by user groups as now happens.
The trustees hope this will make it easier to recruit new trustees, as incorporation provides limited liability for trustees.
Notices will appear on Village Notice Boards and the Village website over the next few weeks as required by the Charities Act giving a month for local people to make any representations to the trustees. A public meeting will be held on Friday , 19th August 2022 in the Village Hall at 7.00 pm in accordance with the current constitution in order to approve the transfer. If you wish to make any representations without attending the public meeting please send them to Steve Hatton at steve.hatton@gmail.com or to The Poplars, Priest Lane MSA by the 31st August 2022
The trustees are being assisted by the charity Cheshire Community Action, which provides an advisory service for village and community halls in Cheshire and is part of the ACRE Network.
For further information please contact Steve Hatton, Chairman of Trustees , using the contact details mentioned above .
Steve Hatton, Chairman
Important Information – Recent Burglaries
There has been a couple of burglaries in the village recently.
These have taken place at night on the 12th and 13th of July, and outside buildings were targeted. The police are aware of the incidents.
Please make sure all sheds are secure, tools and gardening equipment are locked away.
Mottram St. Andrew Primary Academy is seeking to appoint an administrative assistant to work in our school office. The appointment is term time only, Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 4.30pm. If you are interested then please follow the link for further information:
