The Parish Council is to hold an Extraordinary Meeting by Zoom, to discuss Quarrington Hill Churchyard.

The Agenda of the Extraordinary Meeting of Coxhoe Parish Council on  22 September 2020  is now available.

The Parish Council will hold a meeting of the above Committee on 14 September 2020, by Zoom. If members of the press or public wish to attend to make a statement or raise a question, the meeting can be accessed through the link detailed in the agenda.

You can access a copy of the agenda from the following link:

Agenda for the meeting of Coxhoe Parish Council’s Events, Environment and Finance Committee on 14 September 2020

The Parish Council are to hold a ‘virtual’ Parish Council Meeting on Wednesday 9 September 2020.

The Press and Public are very welcome to ‘attend’ this meeting. However, due to the current Government measures for Covid-19, the Parish Council will meet virtually using ‘Zoom’ as this meeting cannot be held in public.

If members of the press or public wish to attend to make a statement or raise a question, the meeting can be accessed through the link detailed in the agenda.

You can access a copy of the agenda from the following link:

Agenda of Monthly Meeting of Coxhoe Parish Council on 9 September 2020

Are you, or any of your family members, a serving or veteran Merchant Seaman or a Sea Cadet?

Coxhoe Parish Council’s flying the Red Ensign for Merchant Navy Day 3 September 2020. Unfortunately due to the current situation we are unable to host an event.

However we look to raise our community’s awareness of our island nation’s reliance on seafarers and shipping. We are supporting the Seafarers UK campaign to fly the Red Ensign on Merchant Navy Day in honour of the brave men and women who kept our island nation afloat during two World Wars. Even during peacetime our Mercanat Navy has faced, and continues to face, the more routine perils of violent storms and mountainous seas. With 95% of our imports carried by ship, including almost half of the food we eat.We also have regular fuel imports and without which the merchant Navy,our power stations would soon close. With more sea ports and harbours and a longer coastline than any other European country, we depend on the Merchant Navy to export over 75% of our goods

Last year’s event was attended by family members and friends of those currently serving in the Merchant Navy, as well as County Councillors; Parish Councillors, Coxhoe Scout Group and members of the public

We hope we will be able to host an event next year so if you are interested in being involved, or would like to know more then please email us at angela.searle@coxhoeparishcouncil.gov.uk

Over 250 activity packs have been distributed from our Youth Club and Volunteers across Quarrington Hill and Coxhoe. We hope you all enjoy your packs.

The Draft minutes of the Human Resources,  Committee meeting on 16 July 2020 by zoom are now available online.

The Draft minutes of the Events, Environment and Finance Committee meeting on 27 July 2020 by zoom are also available online.

Please click on the links to view and download the draft minutes.

Our youth club staff and volunteers will be distributing some healthy packed lunches and activity packs for children and young people over the next couple of weeks. The pack will include a lunch of sandwiches, a drink and fresh and dried fruit, along with a few things to keep the young people busy and entertained for a while. We have a variety of packs for different ages so please get in touch early to book; we’ll do our best to make sure each child gets something age appropriate. There’ll be some information too about our youth clubs in Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill, which are currently meeting online.

On Friday 14 August our youth staff and volunteers from the Community Centre will be on the village green at Quarrington Hill, so you can come and collect packs from us if you wish. They’ll be there from 9.45 to 10.45 (or until packs run out). Parents should accompany younger children (under 12) to get the packs. We’ll have social distancing marked out so please keep your distance, collect the pack and take it home to enjoy, and help to keep everyone safe. We ask that people do not gather on the village green.

If you can’t make it then, just get in touch to let us know you’d like one. If you live in Coxhoe or you can’t make it on Friday at Quarrington Hill, our fantastic volunteers and youth team can deliver a pack to your child(ren).

The packs are first come first served so please contact us as soon as possible to book your packs, or to ask any questions, by emailing youthclubs@coxhoeparishcouncil.gov.uk and giving your address and the ages of the children or young people.

We are only able to provide the packs to residents of Coxhoe Parish (which covers Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill). Please check allergy and safety information on all packs received. We hope they will be thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who gets one.

We are very sorry to announce that this year’s fireworks display has been cancelled. It is simply not possible to safely run such an event while working to the current guidelines and laws, as well as protecting our staff, volunteers and contractors and the general public.

The Parish Council gave careful consideration to this at its Events, Environment and Finance Committee meeting on 27 July. We thank everyone who has supported the displays in the past two years and we very much hope the fireworks display will be back in 2021.

Other events are under consideration and updates will be given when they are available.

Keep up to date with what is going on in the Parish.

The Chronicle July 2020 Edition is now available online. It features lots of news including:

• parish and village updates,
• youth club news, nature diary,
• information from local community groups and organisations, and
• an article on Coxhoe’s ‘Magic Mile’.