Posts Tagged ‘community’
Community Pageant Concludes Dartmoor Tors Festival
Around 50 people joined a new community pageant entitled ‘Gudula’s Gathering’ over the weekend, to perform a well dressing and celebrate May Day, the start of summer. It took place in Ashburton on Sunday the 3rd of May at 4pm, as the closing event of the Dartmoor Tors Festival, which was attended by around 1,500 people, who…
Read MoreAncient Holy Well Forms Centrepiece for New Dartmoor Community Pageant
St Gudula’s Well in Ashburton, an ancient holy well, will be the focus of a new community ritual honouring water as the source of all life, and celebrating the start of summer. ‘Gudula’s Gathering’ has been conceived by events curator and writer Kirsteen McNish, and Helen Bruce of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, as the closing…
Read MoreDPA Launch Grass-Roots Public Access Fund
A ground breaking Public Access Fund for local projects As a result of the victory in the legal battle to retain the right to backpack camp on Dartmoor, the Dartmoor Preservation Association has set up a Public Access Fund to return money to as many grass-roots initiatives as possible. The DPA are now welcoming applications…
Read MoreTavistock Students Receive Sylvia Sayer Award
A group of young women from Tavistock College have been presented Sylvia Sayer awards, after completing the Girls Do Dartmoor programme. This empowering programme brings young carers, students lacking confidence and those at risk of exclusion out onto Dartmoor to experience time in nature and learn new skills. Girls Do Dartmoor is delivered by Community…
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