BREAKING NEWS AND NOTIFICATIONS
Prepare Your Property For Flooding!
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ASH PARISH COUNCIL UPDATE Parish Announcement
We are thrilled to share the great news of the appointment of our new Parish Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer, Zannette Bougourd.
With her extensive experience and deep commitment to community service, Zannette is a valuable addition to our team. Her strong background in parish management and financial oversight will be instrumental in helping us achieve our goals and maintain the high standards of service we strive to provide. We are confident that her skills and dedication will bring about positive and meaningful contributions to our community.
We invite everyone to join us in warmly welcoming Zannette as she embarks on this important new chapter with us.
Ash Alerts Notice
Already receiving Ash Alert emails? Please encourage friends, family, and neighbors in the parish to sign up. The more subscribers, the quicker we can communicate and coordinate help when needed.
To join, email ashalertemails@gmail.com or use the Contact Us page on www.ashpcsomerset.com
We’ll continue sharing updates on the village website, Facebook page (Ash Alerts), and via email. For those without internet, notice boards will still be used, but may not be as timely.
Stay safe,
Ash Parish Council
DEFIBRILLATORS IN ASH
Just to remind everyone, we have three defibrillators in Ash, one outside the Pavilion at the Recreation Ground, one in the old phone box in Milton and the other outside Ash Village Hall.
CPR-AND-DEFIBRILLATOR-TRAINING.pdf
NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR THE CLERK TO ASH PARISH COUNCIL
PLEASE NOTE the new contact number for the Parish Clerk is 01935 571050.
ASH PARISH BIODIVERSITY
We would like to invite volunteers to join the team to help gather key information to inform our plans, map habitats and areas of environmental interest and to identify key opportunities to enhance our surroundings (on Parish land or collaborating with private landowners).
WHY VOLUNTEER?
By volunteering, you can learn about and help to improve your local environment, have some fun and make new friends. If you have a couple of free hours and would like to join us in making a difference, please contact ashalertemails@gmail.com or phone 01935 825020.
Volunteers of all ages and experience are very welcome.
WHY NOT GIVE IT A TRY?
JUBILEE MUGS Yes we still have some available!
As part of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations the Parish Council made a gift of a Jubilee commemorative mug to each child in the Parish under the age of 16. A number of these mugs have not yet been claimed. If you haven’t received your child’s mug, please let us know by email ashalertemails@gmail.com or phone 01935 825020 and we will arrange for you to get them.
We have also been asked if people could purchase commemorative mugs for themselves, older children or grandchildren. We do have a small surplus of mugs which can be purchased for £5.00 each on a first come – first served basis, so don’t delay, contact us by email ashalertemails@gmail.com or 01935 825020.
OVERGROWN VEGETATION
When hedges tree or shrub overhangs the highway, pedestrians can injure themselves from the impact with the vegetation and alternatively, pedestrians can be forced towards the carriageway, which can result in an increased risk of an accident. Responsibility for cutting back vegetation lies with the landowners or occupiers of their boundary fronting the highway. The Parish Council’s responsibility is to report such matters to Somerset Highways.
Please can you check if any of your boundaries with the highway has offending growth and, if it has, make arrangements to remove any overgrown vegetation land owners must also remove any debris from the road surface to prevent nuisance and to stop it blocking surface water drainage systems.
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then please think about donating your old one to Prodigal Bikes. If you have a bike to donate to a person in Africa contact Jamie Bruce on 07791 123 337.
Thank you.
For more information visit https://www.prodigalbikes.co.uk/
BOOK EXCHANGE
Please do not leave piles of donated books on the concreate floor as they get damp and then have to be destroyed.
Thank you
NEIGHBOURHOOD AND FARM WATCH
It seems that we are entering a new wave of local burglaries and shed thefts . As a community we need to act, Ash currently has only two Neighbourhood Watch coordinators one who looks after part of Burrough Street and one who looks after part of Back Street and no Farm Watch cover. We would like to see the rest of the parish protected so please think about signing up. For more information and details of the aims and benefits of the schemes.
You Can Sign Up Here or you can contact one of the Parish Councillors contact details on Parish Councils Members Page to register your interest.