The Ace of Spades!

A huge thank you to a local member of our community who has offered us 5 spades that she no longer uses. This saves us a substantial amount of money from our budget that can be spent elsewhere. If you have any old brooms or shovels lurking in your garden shed that you don't need please let us know or drop it off at J Alex Brown Hardware in Silver Street.

 

Thank you for your continued support


Kind Regards


Paul Robertson


Senior CEV Coordinator

August - a quiet month...

Whilst August has been a quiet month for the volunteers training schedule plenty has been happening behind the scenes with applying for funding for equipment and planning for up and coming crowd marshalling events. September is looking like a very busy month for us! Look forward to giving you the lowdown on all our training and other news shortly!


Kind Regards


Paul Robertson


Senior CEV Coordinator

Finalising our flood plan....

This evening we have finalised our flood plan with Renate from Wiltshire Council and Trudy from the Environment Agency. This formally sets out our triggers and roles and responsibilities. Its been a marathon effort putting it all together and major thanks go our partners and Tony one of our volunteers, who has been working on this document for over 12 months.

Renate wants to test us with a table top exercise in the autumn... ...more details to follow

Kind Regards



Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

We've secured our Gritbins

After discussions with Wiltshire Councils Highways team we've secured our Grit bins and locations. Thank you so much to Simon Rowe, Chris Clark and the team at Wiltshire Council for their support and help


Kind Regards


Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

Trying out our PPE...

Wendy was the brave volunteer last night trying out our winter weather gear on a warm July evening!

Thanks Wendy - and don't worry we have smaller sizes!

Snow Warden Training Night

A big thank you to everyone who came to our Snow Warden Training session yesterday evening. Special thanks to Chris Clark from Wiltshire Councils Highways Team for providing his expert assistance. For those unable to make it our training notes are in the usual place on the blog!

Our training sessions are now having a break through August for our summer holidays, but we'll be back again for training in September.

Still plenty going on in the background though!

Kind Regards (and have a great summer)



Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

St Margarets Hall Flood Barrier Training...

Yesterday evening a band of volunteers met at our town hall in Bradford on Avon with the hall management team to practice putting up the flood barriers. They have a metal slotted barrier system which need cleaning and the rubber joints lubricating before we erect them. It was very useful to find out how they work on a warm July evening rather than a cold wet winters night with the river rising!

Barriers are prepared for installation

 

Simon clamping down the barriers

 

A finished barrier ready to face the elements

 

Jennie and Rachel helping to tidy the barriers away