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North
Devon Focus Coast & Country Chronicle is
a local community page and we welcome submissions from anyone in the North
Devon Area wishing to advertise their special event. The listing is free
for anyone wishing to promote, local village/church events, charity or
non-profitmaking fund raising organisations. Local musicians or music
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Music Page.
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BIDEFORD FARMERS MARKETS THROUGHOUT
THE SUMMER SEASON - Bideford quayside hosts a food lovers
paradise on every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month throughout the
summer season. Local producers from across Torridge district show
off their wares at the Bideford's Farmers Market
Devon Wildlife Trust VMCA Rockpool Rambles, Summer 2008 For all rockpooling events, buckets are provided (please don't bring your own) and events last for 1 ½ - 2 hours. Please wear suitable clothing and footwear (water sandals, old trainers or wellies) for all events. Dogs are not permitted on any walks. Unless otherwise stated, costs are £1 adult, 50p child and £2.50 family. For all events, children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian who must take responsibility for them and their safety. DWT welcomes people from all backgrounds and abilities at its events. Please bear in mind many of these events are in remote locations, on uneven ground with difficult access. Some beaches are more accessible than others, please contact us to discuss your needs (or ideas or feedback). We also maintain three indoor rockpool aquaria and displays, please contact us for more details. For further information contact Devon Wildlife Trust on 01271 812777 or 07977491468 or email dwildlifetrust@clara.co.uk or see www.devonwildlifetrust.org - Scroll down - individual event dates are listed by month. JULY Saturday & Sunday 19-20th July - Clovelly Maritime Festival in support of the North Devon Hospice From 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Clovelly Harbour. Clovelly's third annual Maritime Festival, once again held in support of the North Devon Hospice, with something for all ages to enjoy: juggling, Punch and Judy, puppet theatre, shanty singers, treasure hunt, a hog roast on the beach and much more. Normal admission charges. Event may be subject to change, so please consult www.clovelly.co.uk for latest details. Saturday 19th July CREATIONFEST Roadshow FREE Christian Music Festival, Victoria Park, Bideford, Saturday 19th July 2008, 2 - 9pm. Monday 28th July Woolsery & District Agricultural Show at Clovelly Court, Clovelly AUGUST
Sunday, 3 August 2008 Lifeboat Day in aid of the R.N.L.I.at Clovelly Harbour From 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. A great day out for all the family, packed full of fun and action down at the harbour. Normal admission charges. Event may be subject to change, so please consult www.clovelly.co.uk for latest details. Sunday 3rd August - ILFRACOMBE BIRDMAN & STRONGMAN Watch the mad would be 'aviators' fling themselves from Ilfracombe Pier in to the sea in a vain attempt to fly. Also this year we have Team Strongman & Live Music. Rides & Stalls. Free childrens entertainer. Gates open at 11am and goes on until 8pm. A GREAT DAY OUT FOR ALL THE FAMILY For More information please go to www.ilfracomberoundtable.co.uk Monday 4th August Devon Wildlife Trust VMCA Rockpool Rambles National Marine Week Rockham Beach, Mortehoe 1 pm - 3 pm. Meet at Mortehoe car park at 12.30pm for short walk to beach or on beach by steps at 1 pm. Tuesday 5th August National Marine Week Tunnels beach, Ilfracombe 1.30 pm - 3.30 pm Beach entrance fee applies, donations welcome. Meet at ticket office at entrance to Tunnels. 6 August 2008 North Devon Show 8th, 9th & 10th August Welcombe Open Studios 08 at Welcombe, North Devon Now in it's third year, Welcombe open studios gives you an opportunity to visit the studios of artists, designers & makers in this beautiful and secluded village on the North Devon coast. This year, the 3 day event sees 7 artists opening their doors to visitors, giving you the opportunity to meet the artists, see where & how their work is created and buy or commission work from them. Disciplines include photography, textiles, furniture & accessories, painting, sculpture, pottery & cards. Kings Cottage Nursery will also be open for plant sales and The Old Smithy Inn, serving award winning food, will be open for lunch & dinner. For more details please visit www.welcombearts.org.uk Wed 13th Aug 2008. 10:00 - 16:00 Emergency Services Live Charity Display Day!, Ilfracombe Pier Live air-sea RESCUES. Real FIRES. See the roof being CUT off a car. Meet the REAL LIFE professionals. An unforgettable day of family ACTION, including Coastguard. Police Force, Fire Brigade, RAF 22 Squadron Rescue HELICOPTER, RNLI Lifeboat, Lifeguards, Search and Rescue, Ambulance Service. etc. IN AID OF: Local Charities and Good Causes For more information contact Ilfracombe Round Table at www.ilfracomberoundtable.co.uk/ Sunday 17th August 2008 Pilot Gig Regatta at Clovelly Harbour Departing about 12 noon Normal admission charges. Event may be subject to change, so please consult www.clovelly.co.uk for latest details.Monday 18th August Devon Wildlife Trust VMCA Rockpool Rambles Barricane Beach, Woolacombe 12.30 pm - 2.30 pm Meet at top of beach near café. Wednesday 20th August Devon Wildlife Trust VMCA Rockpool Rambles Hele Bay, Ilfracombe 12.45 pm - 2.45 pm Meet at the entrance to the beach. Thursday 21st August Devon Wildlife Trust VMCA Rockpool Rambles Croyde Beach 1.30 pm - 3.30 pm Meet at main entrance to the beach (north end), near Ruda Holiday Park). PRESS RELEASES
FROM THE DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST www.devonwildlifetrust.org
*DWT has 11 Local Groups based around the county. All play an important role in DWT's work and are always looking for more volunteers. *DWT cares for some 40 nature reserves around the county. Most are open to the public. *DWT currently has over 31,000 members. *DWT has been protecting Devon's wildlife for over 40 years. CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH RARE GRASSLAND PROJECT Ref 23/6/2008 A conference to be held this week will launch an ambitious new five year landscape scale project which aims to save the remaining Culm Grassland of North and West Devon. The conference will be held on 27 June at the Fox and Hounds Hotel, Eggesford. It will bring together over 80 delegates who have an interest in saving this unique wet grassland habitat. The conference is a chance for them to learn more about DWT's detailed plans for the next five years. Key speakers on the day will be Dr John Hopkins, a grassland specialist for the Nature Conservancy Council, Dr Mike Moser who is a wetlands specialist and has been Deputy Chair of English Nature since May 2004 along with Professor Michael Winter who is an expert on rural politics & economics and is Director of the Centre for Rural Research at the University of Exeter. Devon Wildlife Trust's (DWT) Working Wetlands project will be the charity's biggest project to date. The project aims to recreate large areas of this rare habitat. 92% has been lost since the beginning of the 20th Century, mainly through agricultural improvement.The project aims to secure over 2000 hectares of Culm grassland in good condition by 2013 within three priority areas, Upper Tamar/Torridge Headwaters, Hollow & Odham Moors and Rackenford & Knowstone Moors. Working Wetlands will also reconnect important wildlife areas by restoring associated key habitats that provide essential links to the Culm sites. The project includes a team of five advisors that will be out on the ground talking to landowners and providing grants to help support the management of priority habitats. The project will be managed by DWT's Peter Burgess, he said: "This conference is our chance to let as many interested parties know about our big plans for the next five years. DWT has been building up to this project for a couple of decades now, learning about how best to managed Culm Grassland and the challenges that face landowners. This landscape scale project brings together everything we have learned but moves it on to a much larger scale. In order to rebuild our biodiversity for the future we must work on a landscape scale, not just in small fragmented sites. If we don't start arresting the decline of these sites, our life giving ecosystems will cease to function especially with the onset of climate change." Devon holds over 80% of the remaining Culm left in England. Culm Grassland is an important habitat for breeding curlew, the European threatened marsh fritillary butterfly, narrow bordered bee-hawk moth and many rare wild flowers. The project has been supported by the Tubney Charitable Trust, South West Water, Devon Waste Management, Grantscape and Natural England. For more information about the conference and how to get involved in the project, call 01409 221823 UNRAVELLING MYSTERIES OF THE HARBOUR PORPOISE IN NORTH DEVON Ref/2 June 2008 Tomorrow (Friday 13th June), Devon Wildlife Trust begins its search for the elusive harbour porpoise in the waters off Ilfracombe, North Devon. This marks Devon Wildlife Trust's involvement in cutting-edge research from the University of Exeter in collaboration with Natural England to investigate the underwater life of porpoise along the North Devon coastline. It is hoped that the findings will help conserve this elusive marine mammal in future. Devon Wildlife Trust will use two Timing-Porpoise detectors T-PODs) to listen for porpoise activity. A T-POD is a device used to log the presence of porpoises that emit echolocation clicks within its vicinity. T-PODs work by continuously scanning the frequencies over which porpoise emit their echolocation clicks. These clicks are used for communication and finding prey. Whenever a porpoise moves through the area close to the T-PODs the clicks are logged and are downloaded to a computer to see how long porpoise have spent in a particular area. Alex McDonald, project leader and University of Exeter MSC student says: 'This is an exciting opportunity to determine what brings porpoise to the area and hopefully predict similar places where we would expect to find porpoise along the Devon coastline. We need to find out what makes this area important to porpoises? How does the seabed or local characteristics of the area determine that porpoise will be found in a particular site? The findings will be valuable to future conservation efforts.' Little is known about the harbour porpoise's daily life as they are hard to spot on the surface. In recent years the harbour porpoise has seen widespread population declines throughout its range attributed to factors including fishing activity, exposure to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and habitat degradation. In order to adequately conserve the harbour porpoise, more information is needed about why porpoise are found in particular areas and not others. Alex McDonald adds: 'Continued effort from volunteers in the Cetacean Recording Network (CRN) has produced long-term data on porpoise presence in an area. This information could be greatly enhanced by using a T-POD to gather continuous data on porpoise presence in the Ilfracombe area. We hope this project will help unravel some of the mysteries of this amazing creature.' For more information about the Cetacean Recording Network visit www.devonwildlifetrust.org CORPORATE CONSERVATION TO HELP PROTECT RARE SPECIES Ref 30 May 2008 The Devon Wildlife Trust has received a grant from the Dartmoor National Park Authority's Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund to help support vital conservation work on five of the charity's nature reserves. The grant of £6,155 will fund a programme of 12 corporate volunteering events on five of DWT's nature reserves based within Dartmoor National Park including Emsworthy, Blackadon, Mill Bottom, Lower East Loundson and the popular Dunsford nature reserve. The work will benefit species such the rare high brown fritillary butterfly which enjoys the sunny slopes within the sessile oak woodland at Blackadon. The species has been suffering due to the increase of bracken that has been shading out the violets which the insect feeds on. Other species which will benefit include the threatened marsh fritillary, dormouse, pied flycatcher and blackcap.The corporate volunteers will be helping with scrub clearance, cutting and raking bracken and coppicing at the sites, all tasks which are labour intensive and time consuming for reserve officers to carry out by themselves. DWT's corporate relations officer has been pioneering corporate volunteering over the past 5 years through a programme of work with nearly 100 different corporate supporters including EDF Energy, Bardon Aggregates and the Met Office. Tracy Ebbrell DWT's Corporate Relations Officer said: "We are committed to getting more people out on our nature reserves and to getting businesses to increase their accountability. As part of our growing Corporate Supporter Scheme, we are now running a Corporate Volunteering Project which helps us deliver labour intensive habitat management work on our nature reserves and gets local businesses involved in wildlife conservation. This grant will help with the costs of staff time, transport, tools and materials for the tasks and will be invaluable." Holly Tiffen, Sustainable Development Officer at Dartmoor National Park Authority said: "The Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund has been set up to encourage innovative sustainable development projects that help improve the quality of life of communities on Dartmoor, both now and in the future." For more information about DWT's corporate work visit: www.devonwildlifetrust.org 1. The Northern Devon Coast and Country Service (NDCCS) is jointly funded by Devon County Council, Torridge District Council, North Devon District Council and the Countryside Agency. www.devon.gov.uk/ndccs 2. The North Devon coast was designated an AONB in 1959 and is comprised of two defined Heritage Coasts and covers approximately 171 sq km. The Hartland and North Devon Heritage Coasts together with the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve at Braunton Burrows make up one of the finest 'Protected Landscapes' in England. www.northdevon-aonb.org.uk As the Highway Authority for Devon, the County Council is responsible for 3,200 miles (4,960km) of public rights of way. www.devon.gov.uk 3. The Countryside Agency - The work of the landscape, access and recreation division of the Countryside Agency is concerned with protecting our landscapes for now and future generations whilst also encouraging respect and enjoyment of our beautiful countryside. www.countryside.gov.uk/LAR/index.asp GET OUT IN THE OPEN AIR - NORTH DEVON EASY ACCESS TRAILS IN THE NORTH DEVON AREAS OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY. WALKS AROUND FREMINGTON, GEORGEHAM, HARTLAND AND WESTWARD HO! Click here to download a selection of easy to use walks speciallys elected to ensure that everyone can enjoy the delights of the North Devon Coastal landscapes. Routes have been upgraded with difficult stiles removed and are coded on ability with some suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs" You will find many local events
and interesting articles in local community monthly newsletters and
church magazines so don't forget to lend your support and pick up a
copy of the "Parkham Pie" or "The Village News"
covering the Parkham Area or Bucks Mills, Clovelly, Hartland and Woolsery
Available at: Hartland Post Office, Village Shop, Woolsery, Clovelly Post Office, Bucks Cross Post Office, Clovelly Cross Petrol Station, Clovelly Church, Bucks Mills Church "Bideford Buzz" - Newsletter for the Bideford area is available at the Bideford Library Its Free! - Click here to add your event - Click here to view more Press Releases 2007/8 SUPPORT THE ARTS IN NORTH DEVON Live Events, Visual Arts, Workshops, Films*North Devon Festival - *Queens Theatre and The Landmark Theatre - Click here for the North DevonTheatres Whats On Diary *The Plough Arts Centre - Beaford Arts - *SEIZE THE MOMENT LTD *Atlantic Village Annual Events Calendar |
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