Minutes-council-meeting-17-11-20
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Nov
2020
18
Nov
2020
Planning Minutes 17-11-2020
17
Nov
2020
New Local COVID Business Grant and Support Schemes Launched
The application process for two Folkestone & Hythe COVID grants schemes to support businesses during the current national lockdown period have been launched on Friday 13th November: one for businesses in business rated premises forced to close by the current lockdown rules, and a second for those outside those criteria but still being harmed.
Folkestone & Hythe Local Restrictions Support Grants (LSRSGs) – grants are available to businesses located in business rated premises that are legally required to close during the lockdown period. Eligible businesses should receive a letter or email from the Business Rates team in the next few days. Please click on the following link to find more information about this scheme and the application process.
https://www.folkestone-hythe.gov.uk/local-restrictions-support
Folkestone & Hythe Additional Restrictions Grant (ARGs) – grants are available to businesses that have been significantly affected by the current national lockdown period and have incurred fixed business costs. Please click on the following link for more information on the eligibility criteria for the scheme and the application process
https://www.folkestone-hythe.gov.uk/additional-restrictions-grant
17
Nov
2020
Light Up Sandgate for Christmas
For many years, businesses in Sandgate have made an amazing Festive effort for Christmas. After a pretty drab 2020, let’s bring some sparkle and festive cheer to the whole community and light up our windows and outside our homes and businesses this December.
Follow the “Light Up Sandgate” Facebook Page for more information, news and to see the photos sent in and to make this a huge Sandgate community event!
Get your neighbours involved, and light up your street!
Light up and decorate your home or business to bring some added sparkle to the area this Christmas – AND you can win a prize from Sandgate Parish Council! Small Prizes for BEST OVERALL, BEST WINDOW & BEST BUSINESS, donated by Sandgate Parish Council, will be awarded.
Our secret judging team will go out on the weekend 18th -20th December. Decorations don’t need to be expensive, in fact, additional credit will be given for upcycling, imagination, and creativity!
Sandgate Primary School is also organizing a separate prize competition and Christmas Lights Trail. You can learn more and sign up at https://school.plansocial.app/events/61525
Also, this Christmas let’s help those having a hard time coping. If you can do so, please make a food or cash donation to the Shepway Foodbank or Porchlight: see below.
Porchlight helps the homeless and vulnerable. You can donate to Porchlight at porchlight.org.uk/donate
Shepway Foodbank supports those who are struggling to feed themselves and their families. Donations to the Foodbank will be gratefully received and passed to them by Christmas.
The Providence & The Golden Arrow have also kindly agreed to take in Foodbank donations from December 3rd until 21st December. Learn more at shepway.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/ about ways to help, and also the things that the Foodbank currently most urgently needs.
15
Nov
2020
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 15 November 2020
There are still some people who are yet to find us in Enbrook Park, and it can be quite lengthy to explain exactly where we are too! However, not any more as we have appeared on the maps at the entrances of the park – so there is no excuse, we are on the map!
Again this week we have been very busy clearing beds and fallen leaves, putting down new compost and paths, and planting broad beans. The fleece needed to protect the plants from wind and frost is yet to arrive in the post, so thank goodness for the continuing mild weather. The sun is lower in the sky these days, when it can be seen; the days are shorter, and the plant growth is very much reduced and slower. The addition of fleece further reduces the light by 15 to 30%, and worse with a covering of fallen leaves, it is all important to keep the plot tidy. Such moist warm weather has been perfect for fungi, and we are noticing some of the most amazing fungal structures – they do no harm within the garden, and are thought to be of great benefit, so we leave them be wherever they choose to pop up.
A welcome bonus has been a few raspberries; they are still fruiting in November, and as young plants need time to mature for a worthy crop – all in good time. They are autumn raspberry varieties, hence the late fruiting at a time when all other soft fruit finished some time ago.
The hops have lost all their leaves now and are just showing their climbing stems, so it has been time to cover the crown of the plants with a good layer of compost to protect the plant from winter weather and feed the roots for next year when new growth will appear in the spring. We have now heard that Docker brewery are about to release the Hythe Pale Ale from the scheme hops, and a further brew has been started to make a Christmas stout, we are looking forward to trying it all. We will let you all know where and when any of these beers can be bought.
Talking about buying local goods – some of us were pleased to buy the new Sandgate bags from the Sandgate Society, made of cloth, not plastic, for a bargain price of £3 with a competition winning picture of the beach on the front. Beautifully wrapped they make a brilliant present and perfect for us to carry our tools and veg. All the profits go towards local projects – an even better reason to make a purchase.
What’s next?
- Plant the peas in the prepared bed, and find another space for more
- Tidy up around the tool box
- Continue to pick up leaves and weed
- Spaces for posts to be put in
- How is the pond doing? Continue to get out any rotting leaves
- Separate recycled compost from the grow bags and add to the compost pile
- If the fleece arrives, cover the new plantings
We are now on the map! A tidy plot 
Leeks looking good Autumn raspberries still fruiting in November Beautifully wrapped Sandgate cloth bags – perfect for tools and veg.
13
Nov
2020
Environment Minutes 03-11-2020
09
Nov
2020
Kent Community Foundation’s Surviving Winter Campaign: Knock and Check
Kent Community Foundation is asking the people of Kent and Medway to help them save lives this winter.
Each year there are around 1600 avoidable winter deaths across the county. We want your help to reduce this number and are asking the people of Kent to check on their elderly neighbours during the colder months when they are most at risk.
Knock & Check is simple: small actions which will make a difference within your community and a lifeline to the more elderly and isolated.
Learn more at https://kentcf.org.uk/knockandcheck
09
Nov
2020
Funding Your Group
Wednesday 25 November 2020, 10am-1pm, Via Zoom. FREE training!
This training session is funded by Folkestone and Hythe District Council.
If you previously attended the training with the same name at St Mary’s Bay Village Hall last year, this training will cover the same information but has been updated to also include information about funding relevant to the current Covid-19 situation.
This session is for people looking for funding for their group, organisation or project and wishing to apply for grants. It is aimed at those new to applying for funding and people wanting help to maximise their chances when writing funding applications.
Topics will include:
- Finding appropriate funding.
- Evidencing need.
- Outcomes and impact.
- Realistic costing.
- Completing application forms.
The workshop is completely free to attend, but MUST be booked in advance.
Please note:
- Booking is essential to reserve your place. As places are limited, early booking is strongly recommended!
- Bookings are limited to a maximum of two people per group/organisation.
To book a place, please email Sarah Thomas at sarah.thomas@redzebra.org.uk by Friday 20 November at 5.00pm.
09
Nov
2020
Planning Agenda 17-11-2020
Sandgate Parish Council will broadcast this meeting as a video on Facebook live at the time of the meeting itself on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/sandgatepc/ Comments made on the Facebook video during the meeting will not be monitored and are not a way of feeding back to the Council.
Members of the public can ask representations regarding an application. Any comments sent to clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk will be sent to all Councillors prior to the meeting and acknowledged by the meeting. If a member of the public would prefer to speak to the application (for up to three minutes) themselves, they can do so by emailing clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk at least 2 working days before the meeting asking to speak to Planning committee, specifying on which application. Members of the public joining a Council meeting to make a representation will be asked to follow the protocol at https://sandgatepc.org.uk/public-speaking-at-online-meetings-of-sandgate-parish-council-protocol/
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Nov
2020
Parish Council Agenda 17-11-2020
Sandgate Parish Council will broadcast this meeting as a video on Facebook live at the time of the meeting itself on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/sandgatepc/ Comments made on the Facebook video during the meeting will not be monitored and are not a way of feeding back to the Council.
Members of the public can ask a question at a Full Council meeting. Any questions (deemed to be reasonable) sent to clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk will be read and answered at the meeting. If a member of the public would prefer to ask their question themselves, they can do so by emailing clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk at least 2 working days before the meeting asking to put a question to Full Council. Members of the public joining a Council meeting to make a representation will be asked to follow the protocol at https://sandgatepc.org.uk/public-speaking-at-online-meetings-of-sandgate-parish-council-protocol/
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