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Welcome to our Neroche Villages

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The Neroche Parish Villages of Bickenhall, Curland, Orchard Portman, Thurlbear and Staple Fitzpaine lie in rural Somerset, between the Blackdown Hills and Taunton. The area is administered by Neroche Parish Council, which give the website its name. There is no parish named Neroche.

This website includes the official website of Neroche Parish Council, the local government council for the civic parishes of Bickenhall, Curland, Orchard Portman with Thurlbear, and Staple Fitzpaine. Information about the council, meetings, planning applications and other matters are available from the main menu.

Our villages and hamlets lie in beautiful countryside with quiet lanes, public footpaths, bridleways and forests. Part of the area is within the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, as is Mount Fancy Farm Reserve, a butterfly conservation reserve, and Neroche Woodlanders, a social enterprise based at Young Wood.

Use the website to find out more about our community and for News, Events, Groups and other activities. There a link to Neroche Hall, our village hall. Our local businesses are listed on the businesses pages.

Acknowledgements: The Neroche Communication Action Group is a voluntary body working to maintain good communication within our parish. It produces the website, the Neroche Villages Newsletter and the Email Alert. These activities are funded from many sources. The website’s contribution comes from donations, business advertising, and payment for maintaining the Neroche Parish Council website. We thank our supporters.


Next Meeting

16 April 2024

Annual Parish Meeting

Neroche Village Hall Tuesday 7:30 pm View Details

Upcoming Events

For a full listing of upcoming Events, please refer to the Events page

29 March 2024

Pop-Up Cafe at St Peters Church

Womenter's Instituteaple Fitzpaine 10:00 - 12:00 29/03/2024 View Details
04 April 2024

Thursday Lunch Club

Neroche Hall, Bickenhall 12:30 - 04/04/2024 View Details
09 April 2024

Mount Fancy Butterfly Reserve

Mount Fancy Reserve 09:30 - 15:00 09/04/2024 View Details
10 April 2024

Women's Institute

Neroche Hall 19:30 - 21:30 10/04/2024 View Details

Latest Parish News

Staple Fitzpaine Road and Broughton Lane

11

April 2024
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Temporary Road Closure: ttro702416W(TD) - Staple Fitzpaine Road & Broughton Lane, Stoke St. Mary

Please follow the link to view the above road closure; https://one.network/?tm=137011569 and the link for the Notice 2:https://api-gb.one.network/downloads/tm/1111/03-notice-2_137011569_3708108_c29f05cd20.pdf

The order becomes effective on 11th April 2024 and will remain in force for eighteen months.

The works are expected to commence on 16th April 2024 and last for 10 hours (08:00 - 18:00) to enable Openreach to carry out cabling works.

The contractor has indicated that access for Emergency Services through the site is permitted on this occasion.

For any further information about this closure please contact Kelly Traffic Management on 0247 664 2812, quoting reference: ttro702416W(TD)

Please note that should you require to view a closure which is more than two weeks ahead, you will need to register for free with www.One.Network

Somerset Sight Volunteer Recruitment Drive

26

March 2024
Photo of a sight impaired person being assisted

Somerset Sight asked the parish council to assist us in promoting this service to help us recruit more volunteers, so we can carry on providing this valuable service along with the others ones we offer.

Somerset Sight is a local charity that has been supporting sight impaired people across Somerset for over a hundred years and in 2019 we proudly won the Queens Award for Voluntary Service.

One of the various services we offer is the Volunteer Visiting Service, whereby volunteers are matched locally with a sight impaired person for regular visits for company and support and to alleviate their loneliness and isolation.

Volunteer visitors/befrienders help with a variety of tasks such as reading, correspondence, making appointments, going out for a drive or just a cup of tea and a chat. Many volunteers get great satisfaction and enjoyment from their voluntary work, many friendships are formed and the people they support very much look forward to their visits, some telling us that it is the highlight of their week. Full training is provided and we cover all reasonable expenses.

We have over 3000 service users and just not quite 300 Volunteers.

However, we currently have a number of visually impaired people in all areas who would welcome a volunteer visitor, but they are on a waiting list as we do not have enough volunteers to match them with. Not all our volunteers or service users come from Somerset, some live just over the county borders of Devon and Dorset but our services are more local to them, and are all very welcome. We are especially looking for volunteer visitors in the Yeovil area.

I have attached a poster and other information if you would be interested in helping us to promote our recruitment drive. It is greatly appreciated.

I have also attached more information about us and the other services that we offer as information. Being a local rather than national charity, we do not have the same resources for promotion/campaigning as others so we hope that you are able to help us in some way.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Kind Regards

Joanne Thorogood

Office Manager
Somerset Sight
Tel: 01823 333818
Direct Dial: 01823 366143
Email; joanne@somersetsight.org.uk

My working hours are Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

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