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Page 8 • The HERALD • 9th December 2021 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES v FREE ESTIMATES • 10 YEAR GUARANTEE HYTHE: office.atlaswindows@gmail.com FAX/PHONE 023 8084 0441 Unit 2, Hardley Ind Est, Southampton ESTABLISHED FOR 30 YEARS THE LOCAL WINDOW COMPANY WITH THE BIG REPUTATION SUPPLY & INSTALL • Windows • Porches • Conservatories in PVCu • Doors • Choice of Colours & Woodgrain The Square, Fawley, Southampton SO45 1DD T: 023 8112 3112 E: office@zebra-ltd.co.uk All Plumbing Works Undertaken Full Bathroom Installation Toilet Fix from £75 Fully Insured Free Quotes No Job Too Big or Too Small PLUMBING & BATHROOMS Chris Hopkins Painting, Decorating, Carpentry, Tiling Free Estimates Photographs & references available on request Telephone: 023 8081 5210 Mobile: 07986 806277 FREE ESTIMATES Call Richard on 07554 421544 or 023 8178 8299 PEST CONTROL Domestic, Commercial & Agricultural • WASPS • MOLES • RABBITS • RATS • BEES • MICE • SQUIRRELS • PIGEONS • INSECTS Local Friendly Family Run Business Fully Trained & Insured The Difference is Clear Local family run company offering • TV & Radio aerials installed, serviced • Digital Reception Specialists • Sky Digital & BBC Digital Problems • Foreign Satellite Channel Specialists • Satellites & Video Distribution • Telephone Extension Points APPROVED MEMBER OF THE CAI NO CALL OUT CHARGE 023 8086 8074/07855 793675 Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH Community Grants Available in the New Forest The New Forest National Park Authority is inviting green groups to apply for grants to help fund sustainable living projects in the National Park. Since 2006 around £2.4 million in grants has funded over 300 projects that help protect the New Forest’s precious landscape and tackle the climate and nature crises. Schools, youth groups, and other organised community groups and charities that are either based within the New Forest National Park or include people who live within the boundary can apply. Some examples of projects recently supported include: • e set-up of Minstead community shop run by volunteers • Changes to the lighting and heating at Bramshaw Scout Hut to improve the building’s energy e ciency and reduce its carbon emissions • Around 400 square metres of wildflower meadows created across eight areas in the National Park, along with native planting, improvements to wooded areas, hedgehog homes, bug hotels, bird feeders, fat balls and seed, as well as improvements to rainwater collection and composting • A local volunteer group to survey and monitor slow worms within churchyards in the National Park. Minstead Shop received a £2,000 Sustainable Community Fund (SCF) grant in 2020 to help set up the village shop in a building next to the Trusty Servant pub a er the previous store closed down. e nearest shop would otherwise be several miles away so keeping a local community facility and selling local produce helps reduce food miles and carbon emissions. Committee member Alan Ferguson said: “When the old shop shut it was quite a blow for the community. Now we have over 30 volunteers running the shop and it gets a lot of support from locals and visitors. I think it has helped bring the community together and has become a bit of a meeting point for people. We raised a lot of money from people buying shares but also had some grants and the SCF money has been a huge help. We sell essentials, a wide range of local produce from the New Forest and delicious hot drinks and cakes. We benefit from being a National Park Local Information Point and offer a range of useful maps and leaflets.” New Forest National Park Authority Member John Sanger said: “ We have committed to ensure the National Park is net zero by 2050. That means we need a huge community effort to work with nature to reduce our carbon footprint. ‘The Sustainable Communities Fund is one way we at the National Park Authority can help support our schools, villages and communities to adapt to reduce emissions and make the National Park more resilient in the face of the effects of climate change. A large number of small, individual actions can really make a difference.” To nd out more visit: www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/ climatechallenge Minstead Community Shop received a £2,000 Sustainable Communities Grant to help set up the village shop e WI plays a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities. Langley WI’s next meeting will be on Tuesday 21st December for Debbie Towlson with a Canapé Demonstration. Followed on. Tuesday 18th January 2022 for Discussion: Resolutions & Programme Ideas. Langley WI meet every third Tuesday at St Francis Church Hall, West Common, SO45 1XU at 7.30pm. Visitors are always very welcome. Do pay them a visit and see if you would like to join. You will be made very welcome. To nd out more, email: langleypres@hampshirewi. org.uk Canapé Demonstration