Lots of local events this month
LATE NEWS Received : Dated 29/08/24
From Salim Mahadik, Gardens of Mercey proposed Muslim burial ground at Maders. This is just to inform you that in a few days we will be submitting the planning application. We have received the Tier 1 Risk Assessment report (copy attached). We also made another presentation last evening to the Rotary Club members of Callington with an updated version of the slides. I am attaching the updated presentation, especially as it includes a few new realistic looking architectural designs, replacing the original ‘glossy’ ones. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Kind regards, Salim. salim_mahadik@hotmail.com
The Tier 1 Risk Assessment report and the updated presentation have been uploaded and are available on The Connection web site here > https://south-hill.co.uk/garden-of-mercy/ along with their other information.
In advance of our SHARE AGM event, to be held at South Hill Parish Hall from 7.30pm on Monday 23rd September, we have contacted all members informally. This message includes important information for members regarding the election of Directors. Please read it carefully. Nominations for Directorships need to be with us by Sunday 8th September (2 weeks before the AGM).
Thank you to all who stopped by to talk to us at the Horticultural Show on August 17th. We enjoyed meeting you, and had some good conversations. To remind you of our recent headlines:
First and foremost – we have repaid the last of the members’ investments for the Solar PV at Church Park. This project has paid for itself in the space of only 8 years. This also means that any future income generated can be used directly to benefit the community, which brings us nicely onto point two.
Second – We are looking for input on what future projects you would like to see. We are broadly looking for any ideas regarding energy reduction, recycling and reusing items, travel impacts, sustainable living. If you have any ideas you would like to share, we’d love to hear from you. We will be asking for your ideas at the Horticultural Show, or you can email SHARE@south-hill.com.
Third – Our Recycling for Charity project has been growing strong and its most recent success was winning a bench from Devon Contract waste, which has been donated to St Stephens school (one of our most enthusiastic recyclers). Ali, who runs the project, has a wonderful group of volunteers helping.
Fourth – Our Wood project has been supplying the local community with firewood and we are always looking for further opportunities within the project. Do you have somewhere you would like to plant some trees that we can then coppice and harvest? Or do you have that tree that needs removing? If so, please get in touch.
Last but definitely not least – some of our directors will stand down at the AGM and will not be up for re-election. This means we are looking for new people to keep the momentum going. If you feel passionate about sustainability and renewable energy, we’d love to hear from you. The workload is low, we are all doing what we can when we can, we are just asking commitment for a couple of meetings a year (more if you wish), and of course, your input to our Mission, Vision and Aims, and ideas for taking SHARE forwards.
· Prospective candidates will need a Proposer and a Seconder at the AGM (neither of whom can be themselves), and an election will take place by show of hands. Note that only Members have the right to vote, although Associate Members have the right to stand for election.
· SHARE is a Community Benefit Society and a Limited Company. Directors are responsible for the running of the company in accordance with the law.
· Directors of SHARE must be age 18 or over, be able to carry out the role to the best of their ability and not be disqualified from acting as a director. If not already a Member of SHARE, they must join, and must be prepared to uphold our Mission, Vision and Aims and take a long term view of the company.
· Our Mission, Vision and Aims, and our Rules, can be found at http://south-hill.co.uk/share/share-member-area/
DEADLINE for nominations is Sunday 8th September 2024.
Please contact us with your nominations by email to this address or by post to our registered address: Trewoodloe Barn, Trewoodloe, Golberdon, Callington, PL17 7NJ
If other members of your family are registered for SHARE with this email address, please make sure that they also receive this message.
Thank you.
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Events coming up
Community Orchard – an opportunity to get involved
On Monday 26th August (Bank Holiday Monday), volunteers will be mowing the grass in the Orchard. In the afternoon we’ll be raking up the cut grass. For this, any person with a rake willing to help will be much appreciated. There will be some spare rakes if you haven’t got your own. Many hands make light work!
If you would like to help and need more information, please phone David Skelton on 07776 386828.
SHARE tour of Plymouth Incinerator September 19th
We have been invited to an in-depth tour of the MVV incinerator Energy from Waste Facility in Plymouth
Sept 19th Itinerary
We’ll take the 11:11am train from Gunnislake to St. Budeaux and walk the short distance, ½ mile.
OR CAR SHARE from Golberdon.. OR meet there at 12noon.
Free lunch will be provided. Return train 4:45pm arrives back at Gunnislake at 5:24pm.
If you’d like to join us, please let Ali know ASAP iamalihumphreys@yahoo.com 07305 044049
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Once cardboard has been offloaded
the plastics container can be opened
and offloaded.
We were delighted to see how many schools have visited.
Recycling for Charity project volunteers
visited on July 16th 2024 and toured the facility.
Paper baled
After our recycling has been collected by Cornwall council kerbside service, it’s taken to Bodmin Materials Recovery Centre before sending on to the next stage in it’s journey to be recycled. 53 lorries a day drop off recycling here. Cornwall council tell me… Since the new system has started We have collected over 3,000 tonnes of food waste so far and kerbside recycling in South East Cornwall has gone from 36% to 58%.
Paper – goes to recycling companies in Somerset and Kent where it is reprocessed into 100% recycled paper for newsprint and packaging.
Cardboard – is also taken to Somerset and Kent where it is sorted and reprocessed into new cardboard.
DS Smiths (who have a site in Launceston) claim they can turn a cardboard box that has been put out for kerbside collection back into a cardboard box in 14 days.
Steel cans –go to Swansea to be made into many different products including cars, bridges and cans.
Aluminium cans and foil – all these go to companies in Swindon and Swansea where they are melted and turned into ingots to be used to make everything from foil trays to aeroplanes.
Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays – a number of different companies take these in Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Kent, Essex and Buckinghamshire where they are sorted, shredded, melted and reused to make things including garden furniture, refuse bags and drainage pipes.
Glass bottles and jars – are first taken to Falmouth port before being shipped to Scunthorpe or Tilbury. A laser sorts by colour and can then be made back into glass bottles and jars.
Clothes & textiles – The Salvation Army collects and sends to JMP Wilcox the largest, textile reclaimers and processors in the UK. Post-consumer clothing is brought to the four-acre site at Bilston, near M6 West Midlands to a purpose-built, fully-computerised sorting and processing unit. Over 99% of the material is reused or recycled and more than 90% is exported around the world. The greatest demand is in Africa, Asia & Eastern Europe. Clothing demand more than doubled between 2000 and 2018, driven by the increased middle class, shorter fashion cycles and garment life. Many of the items not fit for purpose as reusable clothing become industrial wiping products, flock rags or mixed felt material and stay in the UK. Putting items in Salvation Army clothes banks goes on the same journey.
Any decent wearable clothes, shoes, belts should be dropped to charity shops or Fire Fighters yellow skips at fire stations. IMO.
Garden waste – this stays local going to Roche, to compost for agricultural and horticultural use. Sometimes during the year this is given away if you can bag and collect.
Food waste – goes to a transfer station at Liskeard to be loaded into lorries to take to Holsworthy to the Anaerobic Digestor which produces energy as well as biogas and digestates ie soil improver and used as a high quality agricultural fertiliser.
The meeting on November 5th was attended by around 125 local residents, and 7? GoM members. The Parish Council made note of the comments made and will finalise their response at the next PC meeting on November 19th and encouraged people to make their comments on line … follow this link… PA24/06942 | Change of use of land from agricultural grazing to a green burial ground, associated with soft landscaping, green pathways, green parking area, re-erecting the existing shed and enhancing the existing access | Land North East Of Meadowside South Hill Road Callington Cornwall PL17 7LH
November 5th public meeting
07/09/24 We submitted the application yesterday. I have attached a document containing all the details of the proposal that we provided in the application. We hope that the details of our proposal, as shown in the document, will help to further alleviate people’s apprehensions and help gain the local community’s support for our project. Please feel free to contact me if you require any further information. Kind regards Salim.
29/08/24 UPDATE …. in a few days we will be submitting the planning application. We have received the Tier 1 Risk Assessment report (copy attached). We also made another presentation last evening to the Rotary Club members of Callington with an updated version of the slides. I am attaching the updated presentation, especially as it includes a few new realistic looking architectural designs, replacing the original ‘glossy’ ones. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Salim salim_mahadik@hotmail.com
Here is the updated presentation given to the Callington Rotary club followed by the Tier I Risk Assessment report sent to me today.
Following the spotting of a typing error the Tier 1 report has been updated. 2/9/24
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Download The presentation by GoM on July 2nd at The Parish hall, Golberdon. The Presentation mentions Pentiddy a few times. You can see a map and more information here…. https://burials.pentiddy.co.uk/burial-guide/
JULY 2nd 7:45pm. There will be a public meeting at the Parish Hall Golberdon PL177ND, when everyone is invited to hear about the proposed development in Maders for a Muslim only natural burial ground, following the recent purchase of 10 acres by The Gardens of Mercy charity.
On Tuesday June 18th GoM members spoke at the South Hill Parish meeting, public session (and handed out the FAQ above).
On Tuesday June 25th GoM members spoke at Callington Town Council meeting, no questions were permitted.
Show Schedule.
Join in by entering any of the classes …. rules on page 3…. and come along from 2 – 4pm on Saturday August 17th to see who has won points and takes home the various trophies.