Category: Community Projects
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Parracombe Prize 2025 is open!
For published, self-published and aspiring writers alike, our short story competition gives you the chance to win a prize and also be published in our Parracombe Prize anthology.
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Parracombe Community Trust AGM – December 11th
Parracombe Community Trust’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday December 11th, starting at 7pm in Parracombe Village Hall. Sincere thanks for your support over the last year. This is to give advance notice of the Trust’s AGM at which our annual report and accounts will be formally presented. If you are a Trust member you…
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Planning Consent Received for Village Hall Refurbishment
In June, we learned that ENPA had finally agreed – with an insistence on a pitched roof – to the latest plans for the hall refurbishment which you will be able to see at the Community Trust AGM. Although they are not what we expected, this final amendment was a stipulation by ENPA to obtain…
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PCT Affordable Housing Project Update: November 2024
As this update goes to press we await final approval of a Section 106 Planning Notice giving legal force to our Local Lettings Policy. This process has taken time because it has required input from North Devon Council (as housing authority), Exmoor National Park (as planning authority), our housing association partner Hastoe (who will manage…
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Village Hall kitchen now fully functional and refurbished!
Whilst the exciting news about the long term future of the hall is still fresh, the Village Hall Committee are delighted to announce that the kitchen is now fully functioning and refurbished to get us over the next period. We managed to achieve this with large amounts of time sacrificed by our band of volunteers.…
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Grant Received for Parracombe Village Hall!
Brilliant news! The National Lottery Community Fund has decided to give Parracombe Community Trust a grant for the first stage of the refurbishment and redevelopment of the Village Hall. We are hugely indebted to the work of Dave Austin in securing this grant. The grant will cover all expenses to undertake the surveys required for…
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A Big Welcome To Our Brilliant Joint Managers
We’re really excited to announce that we’ve just appointed our joint shop and café staff managers – Teresa Tucker and Felicity Cross. They’ll be leading our team of volunteers and we’re extremely fortunate to have found two people with such a wide and diverse range of skills, great personalities and genuine enthusiasm for community life.…
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Beaford presents Small Town Jones at Parracombe Village Hall
“Making their name across Europe as a band with a fired-up live show that rings out into the night air like a 21 gun salute.” – Total Ntertainment Here in Parracombe, we’ve had a last-minute opportunity to put on a music gig in the village hall on Friday 22nd April. Devon based singer songwriter Small…
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The Pavilion Stores and Café is springing into action
Spring is here, the sun is out (well, sometimes), the sap is rising and Parracombe’s very own community shop and café is poised to make its long-awaited debut. It is hard to believe that we started construction work a year ago. The pandemic and related problems obtaining building materials have been major challenges we weren’t…