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North Hertfordshire Museum welcomes back visitors

29/06/2020 - 3:15pm

North Hertfordshire Museum will welcome visitors again on 4 July, when it reopens its doors for a series of free guided tours.

Visitors will be shown around the Museum by tour guides, who will share detailed knowledge and stories about the exhibitions at the Museum.

A highlight to see is the ‘Rembrandt in Print’ exhibition, which is at the Museum until 2 August. The exhibition is on loan from the Ashmolean Museum and features work from world renowned artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1669).

Council committee gives grant funding to good causes in Kings Walden and Offley

29/06/2020 - 1:00pm

A puppetry project for disadvantaged children and a North Herts based community centre recently received grant funding totalling more than £3,500* at a virtual meeting of North Hertfordshire District Council’s (NHDC) Southern Rural Committee on 25 June.

NHDC awards COVID-19 grants for community groups

29/06/2020 - 11:00am

Fourteen community and voluntary organisations have been awarded grants from the North Herts District Council’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Community Support Fund.

Grants allocated from the fund so far total nearly £60,000.

The fund has been set up to help community and voluntary organisations in North Herts who are supporting the districts most vulnerable residents.

Projects which have benefitted so far include:

Livestock returns to graze North Herts nature reserves

29/06/2020 - 10:15am

Weston Hills Local Nature Reserve in Baldock recently welcomed some familiar four-legged visitors to graze in its meadows this summer.

The English Longhorn Cattle and sheep are regular visitors to the site. North Hertfordshire District Council (NHDC) and the Countryside Management Service arrange for them to visit annually as part of the Weston Hills conservation grazing regime.

Grazing helps to manage the grassland at Weston Hills and increases its attractiveness to biodiversity – encouraging a wider variety of plants to grow and more insects to the site.

Garden waste customers to receive free 2 months extension

25/06/2020 - 9:45am

Garden waste subscribers in North Herts will receive two additional months on their current 12-month subscription, following a six-week suspension of the paid for service, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Update: Government Grants for Businesses

22/06/2020 - 5:00pm

Since 14 April NHDC has made payments of £24,610,000 to 1,946 businesses who applied for the government’s small business grant funding and the retail, hospitality and leisure grants.

The Discretionary Grants Scheme closed on Friday 19 June. We received 279 applications which we are currently assessing and processing this week. Applicants will be contacted with a decision within the next 7 days.

Response to open letter from Bim Afolami MP

19/06/2020 - 5:30pm

In response to the open letter from Bim Afolami MP, Cllr Paul Clark NHDC’s Executive Member for Transport said:

“As Bim knows our administration has been working tirelessly to protect our residents and businesses and we will continue to do all we can.

Community grant helps Letchworth allotment project grow

19/06/2020 - 10:30am

A social and therapeutic horticultural project in North Herts is set to become more accessible to people with disabilities thanks to a £2,500* community grant from North Hertfordshire District Council’s (NHDC) Letchworth Committee.

Green Care Norton CIC’s grant funding will help to install ‘safe walkways’ and raised beds at their Norton allotments site in Letchworth, making it easier for those with restricted mobility to get involved in allotment gardening.

Parking enforcement to resume in North Herts

19/06/2020 - 9:30am

Motorists are advised that from Monday 22 June, full enforcement activity in North Herts District Council car parks will resume, meaning car park users will be required to pay in full for their parking sessions. Enforcement activity will also take place in residential permit areas from 1 July for those people that are not displaying a valid permit.

Appeal for information after tragic discovery of two dead horses in North Herts

15/06/2020 - 4:30pm

North Hertfordshire District Council (NHDC) is appealing for information after the discovery of a dead horse and foal near Newnham in North Herts.

The adult horse was discovered in the first week of June on private farmland near to Newnham Road - a road which runs between the A507 just outside of Baldock and Newnham village.

A week later on 8 June, a young foal was discovered on the side of the same road. It is not known exactly how long they had been there or how they died.