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Posted:
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:32
Parish Council Meeting
The next Parish Council meeting will be held in Peckleton Village Hall on Monday 15th February 2010 at 7.30 pm. Parishioners from Peckleton, Kirkby Mallory and Stapleton are welcome to attend.
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Posted:
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:27
Everyone is used to the idea of scouts doing their bit.
But perhaps not everybody is aware that in many areas of the country scout groups provide an alternative postal service at Christmas.
The Postal Services Act of 2000 confirmed an exemption that meant charity groups did not need a licence if they wanted to carry Christmas post, any time between 25 November and 1 January. But the idea of a scout Christmas post goes back at least to the 1980s.
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Scouts and other charities are allowed to deliver Christmas mail to raise money in their local area. Hinckley area has a well-organised scout postal service, run by Britannia (Burbage) and Earl Shilton Scout groups that delivers Christmas cards across the borough and to some adjoining areas for 20p. Special peel-off stamps are printed and distributed to participating shops which also have a special post -box. Signs in the shops explain where the post can be delivered to. More »
The special scout postal boxes, for the Hinckley area are located at:
Harvester restaurant, Nr A5
Happy Stores (Sketchley Road, Burbage)
Tilton Road stores (Tilton Road, Burbage)
Atkins Way Hair, Atkins Way, Burbage
Millennium Hall, Britannia Road, Burbage
Donna's Hair Design (Strutt Road, Burbage)
Coventry Road Stores, Burbage
Wynnes Garages (Windsor St & Sapcote Road, Burbage)
Burbage Co-op
Sequoia (Windsor St, Burbage)
The Salon, Atkins Way, Burbage
Hinckley & Rugby building society, Castle St, Hinckley
Hinckley and Rugby building society, Bond St, Hinckley
St Mary's Church coffee shop, Hinckley
Earl Shilton building society
Earl Shilton Scout HQ
Earl Shilton Baptist Chapel
Age Concern, Earl Shilton
Earl Shilton Building Society
Earl Shilton Coop
Younger scouts tend to do their deliveries accompanied by their parents, while older children may do deliveries alone. The mail is sorted so that most deliver in the streets around their home. Delivery is guaranteed by Christmas Eve.
"They learn about helping other people," says Mrs Robards. The children enjoy it and some groups, like pensioners, like both the price of delivery and seeing children out doing something constructive, she adds.
For the normal seasonal scout postal service, the motive is typically fundraising for the scouts, or local charities, says a spokesman for the Scout Association. But many groups also relish giving the children a taste of community service and the world of business.
For more details – or to order some 20p stamps visit www.1stbritanniascoutgroup.org , http://www.earlshiltonscouts.webs.com or call our scout line 0844 3579445 « Less
Posted:
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:31
Once again the Scouts are running their annual Scout Post service for Christmas Cards to addresses in the Hinckley area. Now in its 6th year, Scout Post continues to offer excellent value at only 20 pence per card, no matter how big the Christmas Card is.
Adults from across the area co-ordinate the scheme, working with over hundreds of Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorer Scouts across the different Scout Groups to carry out the task of sorting and delivering the cards. All cards are brought from our special scout post boxes to our Central Sorting Offices and sorted by an army of volunteers. More »
The Scout post service delivers mail to Hinckley, Burbage, Earl Shilton, Barwell, Stoney Stanton, Sapcote, Elmsthorpe, Stoke Golding, Sketchley and Kirkby Mallory.
• Ensure that correct address is clearly written on the envelope
• Make sure your card has a Scout Post Stamp
• Make sure your Scout Post goes into one of our SPECIAL SCOUT POST boxes
Our special scout postal boxes will be at:
Millennium Hall, Britannia Road, Burbage
Harvester restaurant, Nr A5
Happy Stores (Sketchley Road, Burbage)
Tilton Road stores (Tilton Road, Burbage)
Atkins Way Hair, Atkins Way, Burbage
Donna's Hair design (Strutt Road, Burbage)
Coventry Road Stores, Burbage
Wynnes garages (Windsor St & Sapcote Road, Burbage)
Burbage Co-op
Sequoia (Windsor St, Burbage)
The Salon, Atkins Way, Burbage
Hinckley and Rugby building society, Castle St, Hinckley
Hinckley and Rugby building society, Bond St, Hinckley
St Mary's Church coffee shop, Hinckley
Earl Shilton building society
Earl Shilton Scout HQ
Earl Shilton Baptist Chapel
Age Concern, Earl Shilton
Earl Shilton Building Society
Earl Shilton Coop
For more details – or to order some 20p stamps visit www.1stbritanniascoutgroup.org , http://www.earlshiltonscouts.webs.com or call our scout line 0844 3579445 « Less
