Keep Wotton Swimming: Your Pool Needs You!

May 15, 2025 | Sports

Sharing is Caring  One of the many wonderful amenities in Wotton, is the amazing Wotton Swimming Pool, built by the staff and pupils at the Secondary Modern School between 1958 and 1961. It is now run as a non-profit community enterprise and has been over the...

Royal Voluntary Service Marks VE Day 80 by Honouring the Heroic Women of WWII

May 1, 2025 | History, Uncategorized

Sharing is CaringRoyal Voluntary Service is commemorating VE Day 80 by honouring the extraordinary women who helped the nation during World War II as members of the Women’s Voluntary Services (WVS). The charity, founded in 1938 by Lady Stella Reading as the Women’s...

Longfield Hospice Tackles End-of-Life Care Stigma

Apr 22, 2025 | Charity

Sharing is Caring  Longfield Community Hospice Opens Its Doors to Break Down the Stigma Around End of Life Care and Planning Longfield Community Hospice is inviting local people to an Open Afternoon focusing on open, supportive advice around end of life...

Awakening: A poetic journey from winter to spring

Apr 15, 2025 | Uncategorized

Sharing is CaringAwakening By Heather Cole She stirs from within winter’s duvet, coccooning her like a slumbering caterpillar. A ray of sunshine bathes her face in a warm golden glow. She tries to rise, but winter pulls her back. “Stay here, where...

No change to Easter waste and recycling collections

Apr 15, 2025 | Environment

Sharing is CaringThere will be no change to Stroud District Council’s waste and recycling collections over the Easter holiday. Waste and recycling should be put out as normal, including Good Friday and Easter Monday. Don’t forget to recycle all cardboard, foil and...