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Road Closure - Market Street, Eckington 8th February 2023, 9.30am until 11.30am.

To facilitate manhole cover and frame renewal works.

Please find details of the proposed road closure for Market Street, Eckington.

For any queries please email david.nicholson@derbyshire.gov.uk

Crafting, memories, film shows, make do and mend, sounds of the 60's... just a few of the activities

At St Matthews Church Room, Main Road, Renishaw S21 3UT

Every two weeks from 13th September 2022 until 18th July 2023 11.30am - 1pm

Activities are FREE of charge with refreshments provided

Each session runs from 11.30am until 1pm with the support of Rykneld Homes, craft experts and local historians.
All... Read More »

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY FREE HAMPERS FOR CHILDREN

Eckington Community Pantry has secured funding from the Holiday and Activity Food Programme and are able to offer free family hampers and activity packs for school aged children (4-16) who are eligible for free school meals.

We know that other families are struggling and have some funding for children who do not receive free school dinners but whose families... Read More »

Eckington Warm Bank at Civic Centre

Donate: Electric Blankets, Quilts, Draft Excluders, Radiator Reflectors, Timer plugs and LED bulbs.

If you or someone you know if struggling to stay warm, please call us on 01246 914119 or email the Parish Clerk clerk@eckington-pc.gov.uk

Or contact North East Derbyshire District Council for more information and help www.ne-derbyshire.gov.uk/cost-of-living

To approve the award of £0.100m from the Contain Outbreak Management Fund to support VCS organisations looking to provide warm spaces through the Council's corporate grants framework, ringfenced awards for small grants for up to £1,000 each.

Decision - Support for the cost of living in Derbyshire through warm spaces grant funding (2) - Derbyshire County Council

Derbyshire County Council will be closing Ash Crescent to facilitate carriageway resurfacing works on

30 January 2023 (9am) to 7 February 2023 (4pm)

For any queries please email david.nicholson@derbyshire.gov.uk

Two of our buildings are open as warm spaces - Derbyshire Record Office in New Street, Matlock and Buxton Museum and Art Gallery in Terrace Road.

All of our libraries are warm and welcoming places too. You don't need to be a member to call in to get warm and have a chat - why not make use of the facilities while you're there?

We're also offering grants to organisations to set up warm spaces to support... Read More »

If you're more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under the age of four, then you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk through the NHS Healthy Start scheme.

If you're eligible, you'll be sent a Healthy Start card with money on it that you can use in some UK shops.

Find out more at www.healthystart.nhs.uk

Have you checked if you are eligible for Pension Credit? It's worth on average £3,500 a year, plus it unlocks other benefits including help with heating costs, council tax discounts, a free TV licence if you're aged 75 or over and housing benefit.

We're urging people to apply as soon as possible. If you apply before 18th December 2022, and are successful in claiming pension credit, then you will... Read More »

It can be an expensive time of year with many people feeling they have to borrow money to afford food, presents and celebrations over Christmas.

If you struggle to access mainstream banking services this may mean you've thought about using payday loans or door step lenders, which have much higher interest rates and will cost you a lot more.

However, did you know that credit unions and community banks... Read More »