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A VEHICLE which will provide activities and wellbeing support across local villages will be in action this week. The Prout Bridge Project raised £20,000 earlier in the year to buy, kit out and staff an outreach vehicle - so that it can flexibly provide activities and support within Beaminster and surrounding villages. The vehicle, affectionately named Gilbert after the late founder of the charity, Gil Streets, is now ready to take to the streets. Alongside the support of the public, the campaign was also backed by Dorset Council, Comic Relief, Sport England s Return to Play scheme, Power to Change Community Business Crowdmatch and the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership s Crowdfund Dorset Business initiative.
TWENTY new wayfinding totems have been installed across Poole town centre, in a bid to encourage residents to walk or cycle instead of using their cars. The totems, which provide information about the town and maps maps, direct people to key destinations such as the bus and rail stations, hospital, stadium, ferry port, Dolphin Shopping Centre, leisure centre, high street and Poole Quay. Councillor Mike Greene, BCP Council’s portfolio holder for transport said: “The wayfinding totems are a good example of how we are investing our central government-funded Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) grant to help transform travel in south east Dorset.
Paul Draper, managing director of draperVENT, and Sarah Uzzell, deputy chair of Dorset LEP, at the opening of draperVENT’s Agri-tech Innovation Centre A £1.9MILLION research and innovation centre which will create 20 jobs and safeguard 18 more has opened in Dorset. Draper Ventilation Limited – draper VENT – opened the Agri-tech Innovation Centre at Dorset Innovation Park, the Enterprise Zone on Winfrith’s former atomic energy site. draperVENT received a £740,000 Growing Places Fund loan from Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). It bought the land and developedthe 1,720 square metre facility within a year. draperVENT says the site will host research and innovation in automated livestock farming systems to achieve higher levels of animal welfare and sustainability.
L-r, Kingston Maurward principal Luke Rake, Dorset LEP chair Cecilia Bufton and Stewarts Garden Centres managing director Martin Stewart STEWARTS Garden Centres has nearly finished building a £3million glasshouse which will educate people in horticulture while growing plants for sale. Stewarts Agritech Glasshouse at Broomhill, near Wimborne, will grow plants for selling in garden centres and plant shops. The glasshouse, supported by funding from Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Low Carbon Dorset, will reduce reliance on imports and safeguard rural jobs. It will be a base for horticultural education for schools and colleges, showcasing horticultural practice, agritech machinery and low-carbon technology.