Coxhoe Chronicle - Coxhoe Parish Council

Coxhoe Chronicle
Connecting the Community
September 2016
COXHOE PARISH COUNCIL’S FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE COUNTY DURHAM PLAN
“Q 13 Coxhoe Parish Council formally objects to option c (Sustainable Communities with Central Durham Villages).
Our preference would ideally be option d (wider dispersal) or Option b (Sustainable Communities).
Our principle reason for this is the feedback we have had from the responses
received from the Neighbourhood Plan public meetings. These have endorsed the
view that Coxhoe cannot sustain much more development than the 500 houses
approved in the last year without losing our village identity, loss of green space
around our village, and Coxhoe being merged with Parkhill losing our separate
identities and potentially leading to a continuous urban sprawl towards
Bowburn, Shincliffe, Elvet and Durham City itself. Parkhill has been linked with
Coxhoe for consideration of development proposals and there is a strong risk
that the 190 houses approved recently will expand to 600-800, in addition to the
150 recently approved as part of Integra 61.
Coxhoe, Parkhill and Bowburn do not have the infrastructure to sustain any
further development: Coxhoe Surgery is beyond capacity and at risk of curtailing
its lists, Bowburn Surgery is looking for larger premises.
Coxhoe School is full and planned expansion is only to cope with existing
developments. Bowburn Schools are also at capacity. If all mooted
developments transpire there will be a deficit of 180-300 primary places and therefore an additional primary school
would be required. Additionally children from Coxhoe and Bowburn travel to 8 secondary schools with 90% paying
£40 a month for travel and therefore if any further development is considered for this area it should also include
provision of a new secondary school. Potential sites have been identified through the emerging Neighbourhood Plan.
Q15 Call for Sites – Parish Plans 1 and 2 identified from public views that there was the
scope for some development at Quarrington Hill, and indeed a recent small
development has proved exceptionally popular. There appears to be a large private
rented population in Quarrington Hill, and that additional houses for sale may help
balance the community and make shops trading in the village more sustainable, and
even introduce the scope for a doctors’ surgery.
Q22 Older residents are being forced to leave Coxhoe due to unavailability of 2 bedroom bungalows. These were
identified in Parish Plan 1 and 2 as a priority by residents. As part of Neighbourhood Plan public meetings sites have
been identified for building bungalows for rent.
Q27/28 Greenbelt provision to protect village identities and settlement boundaries should be maintained as in the
former City of Durham Plan.
A new secondary school / education village is needed for Coxhoe and Bowburn and surrounding villages. The
strategic locations of secondary schools fits with how these villages were envisaged would decline in the 1980s and
not for how they have actually developed. With development in and around Durham, Ferryhill and Chilton, places in
these schools will become limited to distant communities and children from our communities will be marginalised
and separated having an ongoing negative effect on community spirit and cohesion. It will be inappropriate to push
money into extending these schools, when provision of a new school in our areas would lead to reduced demand and
increased availability of places from more local children from new developments in closer proximity.”
We circulated a leaflet to all houses in Coxhoe and invited you to give your responses directly to the County
Durham Plan. We’ll keep you updated on progress, and our Neighbourhood Plan will progress once our
Community Engagement Officer is in post.
A Coxhoe Parish Council Publication :
September 2016
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Jobs – It has been a busy time for Parish Councillors since our last Chronicle,
advertising, shortlisting, and interviewing for a new Clerk, Community Engagement
Officer, a Youth Worker and 2 Auxiliary Youth Workers. Unfortunately, the successful
candidate for the Engagement Officer withdrew for personal reasons and so will
hopefully have this post filled early in October. See page 10 for details. We’d also like to
thank Pauline Waterson for stepping in as locum Clerk for the last few months. Pauline’s
considerable experience has been invaluable to the Council.
Delivering Quality Services to
Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill
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New Website – Our thanks particularly to Ian Forster and Lauren
Crawford
(Durham County Council) for moving the Parish Council’s website to a new platform. This has been a huge
amount of work, but I am sure you will agree it is much easier to access our information, and in a much
more user friendly format especially for mobiles and tablets.
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Litter Picking – We are very grateful to members of Coxhoe Community Partnership and residents who
now organise regular litter picks around Coxhoe. Up until now they have had to rely on equipment supplied
by Durham County Council, but the Parish Council is now in the process of purchasing equipment for
volunteers to use as and when they want to in Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill. See page 6 for more details.
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Quarrington Hill Allotments – We are also very
grateful to Tarmac and allotmenteers for their support and hard
work in clearing land to extend the allotments to create an extra
6 allotments and erecting replacement fencing to the whole site.
Over £30,000 of works have been done for a £2,000 investment
by the Parish Council. A real triumph of partnership working.
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A177 Street Lighting Removal – The Parish Council,
Coxhoe Primary and Barratts have objected to proposals by
Durham County Council to remove the street lights from the
school to the junction with Station Road. No account was taken
of the safety of children walking to school, the cycle way or even that 200 houses were about to be built
along this stretch with a new entrance on to the A177. We await a response form Durham County Council.
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Neighbourhood Plan – Progress has slowed due to resource availability, and as you’ll have seen
from the front page our main focus has been making you aware of the development of the County Durham
Plan and how this could affect our parish and give you the opportunity to influence that. Work on a
Neighbourhood Plan will pick up when the Community Engagement Officer is appointed.
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Quarrington Hill Post Office to close? – Royal Mail is consulting as a
result of the restirement of the existing postmaster. It proposes a mobile van as its
replacement operated by the postmaster of Sherburn Post Office parking outside of the
existing site. You can comment by email to [email protected] or 0345 722 3344.
The Parish Council have suggested that if a van is the way forward, it would be better
parked at a central location such as the Community Centre car park.
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New Vice-Chair – Kay Simpson was elected as Vice-Chair due to the resignation of Carole Hogarth.
Carole continues as a Quarrington Hill Councillor and the Council thanks her for keeping the Council going in
the absence of a Clerk and positively moving forward a host of issues including the Kingswood ‘Durham
Ask’, Quarrington Hill Allotments and the Quarrington Hill Village Green project amongst other issues.
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Keeping Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill Green - The Parish
Council has been in protracted
negotiations with Durham County Council to take ownership of various pieces of land around Quarrington
Hill and Coxhoe in case the County comes under pressure to dispose of them for development. We think
they are important to our communities, although the maintenance of them could be better, so once the
Community Development Officer is in post we intend to ask residents living close by how they’d like to see
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them improved. See pages 8 & 9 for details.
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School Expansion – 3 new classrooms funded and built by
Durham County Council opened on time at the start of term. See
page 4 for more details. We are pleased that representations
made by the Parish Council on all of the recent developments
have helped this essential project to proceed.
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Safer Travel to School – Some good news and potentially
bad news. The plan below shows a proposal for an extensive
20 mph Safer School Zone around Coxhoe Primary School to
protect children walking to and from school from traffic. However,
at the same time planners are objecting to proposals to put a drop off/collection bay onto the current site
compound area next to the new extension as it contravenes local and national planning guidance.
Nevertheless this is still being investigated.
Residents are more than welcome to come along to Parish Council meetings at 6:30 pm on the first Wednesday of each month to
let us know their views or you can contact your local Parish Councillors as below:
Quarrington Hill
Telephone
Email
Carole Hogarth
Keith Pounder
Eric Thompson
0191 3771315
0191 3773611
0191 3771288
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Coxhoe
Telephone
Email
Stuart Dunn (Chair)
Barbara Hepplewhite
Wendy Lavelle
Ron Mayo
Anne Murphy
A Plews
Kay Simpson (Vice Chair)
Colin Thirlaway
0191 3773314
0191 3771366
0191 3773673
0191 3771770
0191 3770256
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
0191 3778826
0191 3772596
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Our new clerk Craig Rowbotham
works part time and will usually be
available Tuesday-Thursday. You will
still be able contact us by phone on
07988 283287 or by email at
[email protected] or
Coxhoe Parish Council
or
@CoxhoePCouncil
Coxhoe Primary school building project update: The
last 9 months has seen an extensive redevelopment of
Coxhoe Primary school funded by Durham County
Council. The need has been created by the growing size of
our local community and the continued plans for
expansion!
The project has involved the creation of 3 new classrooms,
redevelopment of some pupil toilet areas, creation of a utility area for our kitchen, replacement of all windows in the
school, extension to the playgrounds and car park, widening of our main path into school and re-siting of our cycle shelter!
The summer holidays has been exceptionally busy as we saw many of these areas completed. On
our return after the summer holidays we have been pleased to begin to use our new classrooms
and other facilities. The size of the classrooms is fantastic and the new shared areas so inviting for
our pupils and staff alike. We are excited about the extra opportunities these new spaces will give
us in the coming years. We also look forward to the additional warmth and energy saving that our
new windows will bring as the colder days return.
You will have noticed however that there are still some parts of the project and especially external
works to be undertaken. As in any large building project there are always unexpected events
which can prolong the build and ours has been no
Kelloe
exception! Perhaps also to be expected in a building
originally built in 1909 – so meshing together a building
Kelloe
over 100 years old with new building materials and
expectations brought some moments of frustration. But
Kelloe
we are almost there and will be pleased to say a big
thank you to the fantastic DCC Building Services teams
as they move to their next jobs. We hope that all the
outstanding works will be completed within the month
and these should cause no disruption to the day to day
running of the school.
Welcome to new pupils and staff: As well as our 41 new Reception pupils we have also
welcomed 9 older children in KS1 & KS2, this takes our overall school population to 278 pupils.
We are also pleased to welcome 3 new teachers to our school: Mrs Caygill (Assistant Headteacher
& Year 6 – class 10); Mr Patterson (Year 5/6 teacher – class 9); Mr Hopson (Year 3/4 teacher – class
6); Mrs Carlson (French teacher in KS2 – 1 afternoon per week); as well our new staff we are also
pleased that Mrs Hammond and Mrs Nattrass will now cover the PPA (non-contact time) for
teachers in classes 1-5 (Reception and KS1).
A sad farewell to Mrs Alsop: At the end of the summer term we bade a sad farewell to Mrs Alsop
who retired after serving the school and countless pupils so faithfully and professionally for over 20
years. She will be greatly missed this term but I’m sure will enjoy and thoroughly deserves her
retirement.
Open day for new and prospective parents: If you would like to view the new school facilities or
are considering applying for a place at Coxhoe Primary for your child then please come along to
our next Open Evening which will be held on Tuesday 8th November from 5:50 pm until 6:30 pm.
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Mini Police - We are very proud to be involved in a new and exciting initiative offered by
the Durham Constabulary. The Mini Police was launched by PC Craig Johnson to improve the
level of community engagement with young people. It was so successful that Craig has now
offered several schools in county Durham the opportunity to get involved with the Mini Police.
In the summer term the children in year 5 were invited to apply with a letter of application
followed by an interview with Mrs Skaife and Mrs Bartle. We were both very impressed by the
high standards right across Year 5 and
found it extremely difficult to choose.
Eighteen children have been
appointed and trained by our local
Police Constable Community Support
Officer (PCSO) Thomas.
Our team were then introduced to our
school by Inspector Smart who is a
governor at our school. They are
superb role models for younger
children within the school and have
supported at a number of school
events, Including the summer fair.
In addition to this, they have offered
support at a number of events in the
local community, e.g. Sedgefield Dash
and the Police Family Fun Day.
As a reward for their service and excellent attitude, they have also enjoyed
a visit to the new Police Headquarters at Aykley Heads. They enjoyed visiting the control room
and meeting with Inspector Smart; finding out about Police Dogs and their training; seeing
how the fire arms are looked after in the armoury, looking at a Police Motor Cycle and finding
out how to stay safe when riding one!
We were also lucky enough to have a visit
from the Police Helicopter. The Mini Police
explored the helicopter itself as well as
chatting to the crew about their work. They
worked alongside Mini Police from other
local schools at this event – fantastic team
building!
Being part of the Mini Police provides
children with opportunities to be more
involved in their wider community, to
develop team work and communication skills
and to find out more about career
opportunities within the Police Force.
They are looking forward to more exciting
engagements in the village during the autumn term with our local PCSO and being
involved in bigger events with other Mini
Police Officers in Durham. If you see them on
duty in their smart uniforms, be sure to stop
and have a chat with them to find out who
they are helping.
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New Website launched
The Parish Council is pleased to announce the
launch of its new website at the end of July
2016.
The community based website has always
been popular with well over 1,000 hits per
month. Due to a change in the web content
management system used by Durham County
Council who host the website there had to be a change in how the website looked. Through the voluntary web
administrator, Ian Forster, the Parish has worked with the County Council to ensure the smooth transition and
launch of the new site.
The new site has a much brighter and professional feel and while navigation through the site is different the site
has all the previous content and more. Unlike the previous website it is designed to be read on mobiles and tablets
as well as laptops and desktops. While colours and fonts have changed the site uses dark grey fonts on a white
background for accessibility. New pages have been set up specifically for young people and it is hoped through the
Parish Council’s new Youth team some of these pages will have the input of young people in due course.
In addition the website makes it easier to contact the Parish Council. Finally the website includes links to the Parish
Council’s facebook and twitter social media accounts. The Parish Council is grateful to those at the County Council
who have made this possible, particularly the case officer, Lauren Crawford. Thanks also go to Ian Forster for all
the additional voluntary hours he has put in establishing the new site while continuing to update the old site.
Fly tipping – Do you know who is responsible?
Muriel Burton has continued to organise volunteer litter picks through the
Community Partnership. Although the proposed litter pick in June was
cancelled due to bad weather, we had another successful litter pick on July
26th where about a dozen volunteers collected another 35 bags of rubbish.
Thank you to all those people who are giving up their time to make Coxhoe
better.
July’s litter pick targeted the Front Street from the Village Hall to the Crossings
as well as the ‘Haul’ road. This route proved challenging as one of the village
‘hotspots’. As well as copious amounts of litter there is a significant fly-tipping
issues despite the close proximity to the Civic Amenity site. The County
Council have been made aware of this problem and are indeed currently
investigating. Do you know who is responsible? If so please inform the County
Council so they can take appropriate action. Telephone 03000 2610000
Next litter pick is on Tuesday 27th September 2016.
If you want to volunteer please contact Muriel on 07821 658324 or email
[email protected]
You can find out more about volunteering opportunities, the Keep Coxhoe
Clean Campaign and much more on the Parish Council’s community
website
www.coxhoeparishcouncil.gov.uk
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Coxhoe Parish Council takes ownership of local
The Parish Council has transferred and leased various pieces
of open space around Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill from
Durham County Council to protect them from being sold on
for development. This includes the three main areas of village
green along the Front Street in Coxhoe, parcels of land
around the old level crossing (the entrance to the Limes
Estate), and land adjoining Bower Court adjoining the Parkhill
Border. There are strong restrictions on the land to prevent
the Parish Council, and future Parish Councillors from
disposing of these. We are also exploring another joint
‘Durham Ask’ project with Cassop-cum-Quarrington and
Cornforth Parish Councils of the Steetley Railway line shown
purple with a long term plan to turn this into yet another
walkway / cycle track.
Land opposite the Railway Gate
Land next to Tarka
Land next to Coxhoe Kitchen
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land to save it from inappropriate development
Land next to Bower Court
Quarrington Hill Village Green
In Quarrington Hill the Parish Council has finally taken ownership of the Village Greens to preserve these as green space
at the heart of the village and the extended allotments which
are now complete with only one of the additional 6 plots left
to let. We have also finalised the ’Durham Ask’ 30 year lease
of Kingswood on both sides of the road completing our promise to residents to take ownership of these to prevent potential disposal to developers. Our thanks to Kelloe Parish Council
and Kelloe residents for supporting this.
Coxhoe Bottom Village Green
Coxhoe Top Village Green
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Coxhoe Parish Council welcomes Craig as our new Clerk. In late July we
welcomed Craig Rowbotham as our new Clerk. Craig is an Information Systems graduate who
has worked in the NHS, Local Government and Education, he gained his teaching qualification
and an MA in Leadership and Management. He is a proven public sector manager who has
project managed successful national and regional projects.
Craig is looking forward to working and serving the local community of Coxhoe and
Quarrington Hill to enable the Parish Council to achieve its ambitions. Craig is based in Coxhoe
Village Hall and works Tuesday (9am-5pm), Wednesday (1-5pm) and Thursday (9am-5pm).
Craig will be first point of contact for the Council and our new team.
Community
Young People and Childrens’ Services
Engagement
Coordinator - Amanda Hitchens is joined by a
officer - we hope team of Parish Council workers to ensure the
this vacancy will be continuance of provision of youth work in Coxhoe
and Quarrington Hill as Durham County Council
filled early in
ends its provision as a result of Government cuts.
October.
Ian Thompson - Youth Worker—I have been involved in Youth &
Community work for over 30 years. I have a wide range of experience in working with young
people from the ages of 7 and up to 25 years of age. I have run youth clubs for 12 years and
under and 13 years plus.
I became a youth worker because I believe in youth and often feel they get bad press, many
don’t get the life chances and experiences of their peers, much of my work in the past has
been to redress this balance and give the youth of today opportunity to experience these
experiences and to develop their own skills and potential.
I’ve lots of experience with the Duke of Edinburgh award and for the past 13 years I’ve been
positive activities and outdoor education manager in Teesside, using outdoor education and
sport as a means to engage young people.
Lucy Dunbar - Auxiliary Youth Worker—I’m Lucy and I am enjoying working with
Coxhoe Parish Council as an auxiliary youth worker. I love getting involved in sporty games and
arts and crafts with our current young people at our Friday Youth Session. I am also really
looking forward to working with more young people within the community.
Rachael McGregor - Auxiliary Youth Worker— I am 17 years old and studying for
my A Levels as well as working as a Youth Auxiliary Worker. I particularly enjoy the challenges
that go along with it, the opportunities to connect with people and also I love being involved
with the range of exciting activities that we organise. My passions are drama and history but
the active elements of the youth group, such as obstacle courses or the bouncy castle, are a
chance to have some fun and see the young people enjoying themselves as such as I did.
Parish Council delivery of youth services commences - We advised you in the last Chronicle we
were recruiting a team of youth workers to continue provision if Durham County Council as expected confirmed
that it would have to cut its Youth Services as part of a further £64 million of cuts it has to make by 2020 as a
reduction of funding from the Government. Coxhoe Parish Council has already taken over delivery of the
Quarrington Hill Monday Senior Youth session because Durham County Council’s workers left and weren’t
replaced. We have also re-started the popular Friday night under 12 Youth club at Active Life Centre that closed last
year and will be re-starting the over 12s session 30 September.
We will also be continuing the Coxhoe Wednesday sessions in 2017 when Durham County Council withdraws from
the and the also the Quarrington Hill Friday sessions. We are delighted that the Directors of Active Life Centre and
the Trustees of Quarrington Hill Community Centre share our desire for these valuable services for our young
people to continue on their premises. We will be moving forward with our plans to establish Youth Councils in both
villages to make sure that our youth provision delivers what our young people actually want and give them a voice
in their communities, and with the Parish Council.
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Coxhoe village remembrance event
Coxhoe village hall was opened in 1932 with the large hall added in 1938.
It was built by public subscription and inspired by a community desire to have a
permanent war memorial to the heroes who lost their lives in the great war of
1914-18.
Since then an annual remembrance event has been held in the war memorial
garden. Interest waned for a while but was revived about 20 years ago by Mary
Egglestone with the support of the Village Hall Committee.
It now attracts a large gathering and there is a new enthusiasm with more
village groups and individuals involved and offering ideas. Indeed the Parish
Council is investigating the erection of a Village flagpole.
The Parish council have been approached with the idea of setting up an informal
group to plan and organise the
event so that all in the community have an opportunity
to be involved.
Ron Mayo and John Hepplewhite have already agreed
to help out, but if you’d also like to get involved please
contact the Parish Clerk and we'll set up an initial
meeting.
Please volunteer to keep this
important community event going
St. ANDREW’s Church COXHOE
SHOPPERS’ SERVICES
Saturday, 1st October, 10.00 to 10.30am
Saturday, 5th November, 10.00 to 10.30am
Saturday,3rd December, 10.00 to 10.30am
WIVES’ GROUP
Wednesday, 14th September, 7.00 to 9.00pm
Wednesday, 28th September, 7.00 to 9.00pm
Wednesday, 12th October, 7.00 to 9.00pm
Wednesday, 26th October, 7.00 to 9.00pm
Wednesday, 23rd November, 7.00 to 9.00pm
OTHER SERVICE
Sunday, 13th November, at 10.00am
Wednesday, 7th December, at 7.00pm
CONCERTS
Thursday, 22nd September, at 7.00pm
Thursday, 20th October, at 7.00pm
Tuesday, 29th November, at 7.00pm
OTHER EVENTS
Monday, 3rd October, 9.45 to 10.30am
Guest Speaker: Rev. Francis Neil
Guest Speaker: Janet Barrett
Guest Speaker: Sheila Henderson
Wives’ Group Anniversary
Annual General Meeting
Julian Harrop, Collections Officer, Beamish Museum, talks
about the weird and wonderful items they’ve acquired
Crazy Whist
Wives’ Group Christmas Party
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY SERVICE
Followed by laying of wreaths at War Memorial
MEMORIAL AND REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
Remembering loved ones at Christmas
Conducted by Rev. Christopher Wood-Archer
SIXTIES CONCERT with ‘Travellin’ Band’
Tickets £4.00, including light refreshments
CONCERT by ‘New Yorkers’ Singing Group
Tickets £6.00, including light refreshments
PRE-CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Entertainment by our own members
Tickets £3.00, including light refreshments
CHRISTIAN AID COFFEE MORNING
and sale of Harvest fruit and vegetables
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X factor for Coxhoe
entertainer aged 16!
Samantha Lavery, now 16 years, was
the subject of an article in the
Coxhoe Chronicle three years ago
She has entertained at the Coxhoe
Red Lion and also at the active life
centre and proved an outstanding
local talent.
This year she auditioned for the X
Factor and provided an exceptional
performance which gained her four
votes and passage through to the
‘boot camp’ of this important singing
competition. Coxhoe is very proud of
Samantha and supports her all the
way. We know you have the X
Factor. Good luck Samantha.
You can see Samantha’s audition on
our Facebook and twitter pages.
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New Priest for St Mary's Coxhoe and St Helen’s Kelloe -
This month we welcome the
Revd Alison Richardson as priest in charge of the United Benefice of
Kelloe and Coxhoe and St Aidan's at Chilton.
Alison was born in Yorkshire and thought she was a Northerner until
coming up to live in the North East some 12 years ago! Prior to
ordination Alison has undertaken a variety of jobs; serving as a
commissioned officer for 12 years within the Royal Air Force Education
and Training branch; working within North Wales Police as a Staff
Officer before moving up to the North East to take up a leadership role
with the Prison Service.
Alison trained for the ministry at Durham University and following her
ordination in 2009 she has served in churches in Spennymoor, the
Parish of the Upper Skerne and latterly in Blackhall and Castle Eden.
She says that she is delighted and overjoyed to have been selected as
the new priest in charge of St Mary’s Coxhoe, St Helen’s Kelloe and St
Aidan’s Chilton. She undertook a placement to Sedgefield deanery
helping out a number of parishes from January to August 2016 and as a
consequence worked, for a number of weeks, across the parishes to
which she is now appointed. She also worked alongside the Reverend
Keith Lumsden, who retired from St Luke’s Ferryhill last January, and
now helps out across the 3 parishes. “The people of Coxhoe, Kelloe
and Chilton have made me feel very welcome it has been a pleasure working with them and with Keith and I look
forward to enjoying very many years serving as their Parish Priest.” She will move into the vicarage in Coxhoe early
September with her twin 17-year-old sons.
Alison begins her appointment on Sunday 18th September when she will be formally licensed at 6.30pm in a service
at St. Aidan's conducted by the Right Reverend Mark Bryant, the Bishop of Jarrow. On Sunday 25th September at
10.00am, there will be a joint service of the 3 churches at St. Helen's in Kelloe.
When not working Alison enjoys working her border collie dog and enjoying the company of friends (sometimes
with a glass of something in her hand!!)
On 6 September a new national phone number ‘105’ will be launched by
electricity network operators for customers to call should they need to report or get information about a power cut in their area.
Key points about this service are:

Dialling 105 will put customers through to the electricity network oper-
ator who manages the cables, power lines and substations that deliver
electricity into homes and businesses in their area.
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105 is a free service for people in England, Scotland and Wales.

Customers can call 105 no matter who they choose to buy electricity
from.
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Customers can also call 105 if they spot damage to electricity power
lines and substations that could put anyone in danger. If there’s a serious
immediate risk, they should call the emergency services too.
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Coxhoe & Quarrington
Hill Young People’s Page
Coxhoe Parish Council has now employed
an additional youth worker and two
auxiliary workers. Ian, Rachel and Lucy
will be working at youth sessions held
in both Coxhoe and Quarrington Hill
Youth Forums Are you aged between
12 and 19? Have ideas about what
should happen in your village?
Then join our Youth Forum.
Contact details below.
Coxhoe Village Hall
If you have any request for
Monday - Cubs 5-7pm
Scouts 7pm-9pm
Tuesday - Beavers 5pm -7pm
Mon-Fri 9:30-11am Playgroup
activities or changes to what
already takes place please
get in touch with us
Quarrington Hill Community Centre
Re-starting Friday 16th and Monday 26th September)
Mon– Senior Youth Club age 12 to 19 - 6.30pm to 8pm NEW TIME
Friday - Junior Youth Club age 7 to 11 - 4.30 to 6pm
Active Life Centre @ Coxhoe
Tuesday – Girls Group 7 till 8.30pm
Wednesday - Mixed Youth Club 7.30 till 8.30pm
NEW GROUPS – Friday – Junior Youth Club age 7 to 12, 5.30 till 7pm
Senior Youth Club age 13 to 19 7.30 till 9pm (from 30th September)
How to contact us:
Contact our Parish Clerk, Craig. Tel No 07988 283287 or e-mail: coxhoeparishcouncil.gov.uk.
‘Coxhoe young people’ and ‘Quarrington Hill young people’
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