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South Hams DC has suspended all garden waste collections from Monday 16 August for a minimum of four weeks, see: https://www.southhams.gov.uk/waste-su...
Past Events
August 2021
‘Bike Bus’ to Dartmoor for ride from Haytor
21 August @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm BST
Saturday 21 August 2021: ‘Bike Bus’ to Dartmoor for Bike Bus ride 4: from Haytor. Free minibus and bike-trailer transport for riders and their bikes up on Dartmoor National Park for a ride from Haytor, one of Dartmoor’s most iconic and popular granite outcrops. Plus, a short guided talk from Dartmoor National Park Archaeologist, Andrew Crabb. Riding via Haytor Vale, picking up the Dartmoor Way in Ilsington, then all the way back to Buckfastleigh. Pick-ups: at 9am in South Brent…
Find out more »‘Tickle Your Taste Buds’: Creative Fun Food Activity Workshop
21 August @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm BST
Saturday 21 August 2021: ‘Tickle Your Taste Buds’: A Creative Fun Food and Wildlife Activity Workshop from 11am-1.30pm under the Art House Gazebo at the Old School Community Centre, led by Karin Jordan, SSB’s Community Food Worker. Fun for all the family - hands on making hotels for Bugs, Bees and Butterflies and creating savoury and CHOCOLATE snacks. Take home tasty snack treats and a bug hotel! (Note: snacks do not contain any bugs, bees or butterflies; they will look…
Find out more »Community Litter Pick
21 August @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm BST
Saturday 21 August 2021: Community Litter Pick from 2-4pm meeting up at Palstone Park Recreation Ground at 2pm organised by SSB’s ‘Talking Rubbish’ group. Please join us if you can. There will be some hi-vis jackets, gloves and litter-pickers available, but if you have some, please bring them. FFI contact Eva at rubbish@ssb.org.uk.
Find out more »Dartmoor Invasive Species Project – more volunteers needed
25 August @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm BST
Wednesday 25 August 2021: Dartmoor Invasive Species Project – more Volunteers needed. Dartmoor Ranger Ella Briens says: “Thank you so much for the help you have been giving this project over the Summer. We are making brilliant progress in the area and will be working again in South Brent from 10am until 3pm. Meet at 10am at Lydia Bridge to join the work party. Bring a packed lunch and drink and gloves. Please email me (ebriens@dartmoor.gov.uk) to let us know…
Find out more »Guided e-bike ride on Dartmoor
28 August @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm BST
Saturday 28 August 2021: Guided e-bike ride on Dartmoor - A great opportunity to try riding an e-bike! (10.00am-12.30pm (approx.)) A guided circular ride, starting at 10am from Cold East Cross car park (3½ miles from Ashburton; Grid reference SX740743; Post Code TQ13 7HQ;). The route will take in Haytor, Manaton, Hound Tor and Jay’s Grave, returning to Cold East Cross, and is approximately 12 miles, taking around 1hour 45mins, depending upon any stops. The ride will be led at…
Find out more »Led Bike Ride along part of the proposed Primrose Trail
30 August @ 9:45 am - 2:00 pm BST
Monday 30 August 2021: Led Bike Ride along part of the proposed Primrose Trail leaving from the Old School Community Centre in South Brent at 10am (please arrive 9.45am) to ride to Avon Mill Garden Centre and Café near Loddiswell. Another ‘Big Bike Revival’ ride (approx. 23 miles return) to explore the upper part of the proposed Primrose Trail, which is being planned as a multi-purpose route from the moor at South Brent to the sea at Kingsbridge making use…
Find out more »September 2021
Dartmoor Invasive Species Project – more Volunteers needed
1 September @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm BST
Wednesday 1 September 2021: Dartmoor Invasive Species Project – more Volunteers needed. Dartmoor Ranger Ella Briens says: “Thank you so much for the help you have been giving this project over the Summer. We are making brilliant progress in the area and will be working again in South Brent from 10am until 3pm. Meet at 10am at Lydia Bridge to join the work party. Bring a packed lunch and drink and gloves. Please email me (ebriens@dartmoor.gov.uk) to let us know…
Find out more »Local and Sustainable Food at the EcoPubHub
2 September @ 8:00 am - 9:30 pm BST
South Brent,
Devon
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Thursday 2 September 2021: ‘Local and Sustainable Food at the EcoPubHub’ from 8-9.30pm. The latest free ‘EcoPubHub’ discussion session organised by SSB. With food miles, pesticides, welfare standards and food poverty all increasingly in the news, what can we do to support a more sustainable food economy in our area? We have a great line up of contributors who will talk for 5-10 mins each, with time at the end for questions and discussion. Oliver Lee of ‘How Now Dairy’…
Find out more »Learn to scythe
4 September @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm BST
Saturday 4 September 2021: Learn to scythe - 10am - 12noon. Jeremy Sabel of SSB’s ‘4Bs’ says: “I hope you have been enjoying the wildflowers once again in the village. The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that the Apple a Day Orchard at the Doctor's Surgery has now been scythed but we want to give an opportunity to you all to try scything for yourself. Please come along at 10am to the wildflower verge outside the play park to…
Find out more »SSB Trustees. Directors meeting
7 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BST
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An event every month that begins at 7:30pm on day First of the month, repeating until 7 December, 2021
South Brent,
Devon
United Kingdom
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Regular Monthly meeting of SSB Trustees/directors. In person and/or via Zoom during the current uncertainty
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