Introducing 'Rolling Along'
Widecombe in the Moor's community newsletter launches in January 2024, this is a special preview for early subscribers ...
This FREE email newsletter - for everyone in Widecombe in the Moor - is brought to you by a consortium of social and charitable groups in the village.
We’ll be bringing you news of events in Widecombe, with an emphasis on pictures and some longer stories that ‘The Parish Link’ does not have space for.
Each newsletter will be written by one of the social or charitable groups in the village. And we’ll also be looking at issues that affect the community generally.
For example, early in 2024, Mark Owen from Challacombe Farm will be giving us an update on Landscape Recovery, one of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. The local project covering Widecombe has just received substantial funding. [For readers from outside Widecombe] there is much more on Challacombe Farm’s long history of taking special care with the local ecology, and opportunities to see their livestock, at Dartmoor Farm.
We’ll be featuring many pictures of people in and around Widecombe.
Josephine Collingwood has been a well-received speaker at two History Group events in the past couple of years. We’ve got an exclusive excerpt from her most recent book Geology of Dartmoor - to be featured in Rolling Along soon. Josephine’s books are currently only available in the Cafe on the Green in Widecombe - but that may change in 2024. Also available online from Tavicinity Publishing.
Some more images from Widecombe resident Martin Cherrett’s forthcoming History Group talk on Women on the Home Front 1939-1945 can be seen on his website World War II Today at Princess Elizabeth at War (free pages on a paywall website).
The Widecombe History Group will be announcing their new programme of ‘Talks and Walks’ in their Rolling Along newsletter, coming out in April.
You can also find a constantly updated list of forthcoming events in Widecombe in the Calendar of Events section at the top of the page.
And, of course, we’ll be bringing you a Widecombe Fair Picture Special in September.
In the first January post from Rolling Along the Widecombe Music Makers will be announcing details of their next concert, to be held in St Pancras Church in February. Proceeds go to the Organ Appeal, and Mike Brown will also be updating us about that.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
from everyone working on Rolling Along.
We welcome your comments, which will be especially valuable to the Rolling Along team as we launch this new venture.
N.B. There are various routes to viewing substack newsletters, the platform that Rolling Along is based on. All previous newsletters are available on our website:
widecombe.substack.com where you can read our ‘Calendar of Events’ in Widecombe and our ‘About’ page.
The substack app is also available for smartphones. It is designed to encourage people to sign up for more than one ‘substack’ newsletter ( there are tens of thousands of substacks available worldwide on a multitude of subjects - most have both free and paid subscription options). But signing up for other substacks is entirely optional.