Pleas for help

Happy New Year one and all!   Once again we are asking for donations to our food bank.  We are currently short of: Carrier Bags Toiletries Sweetcorn Potatoes Carrots Anything else food/drink wise is muchly appreciated! Please note we cannot accept alcohol. We are also on the lookout for board games such as Scrabble, Uno,…

If you made any New Year’s resolutions to get more involved in supporting your community, the Buxton & High Peak branch of Samaritans is offering a perfect opportunity. “What better way to start the New Year than by making a truly meaningful and rewarding contribution to our community?” buxton.director@samaritans.org. If you are unable to spare…

A Buxton-based charity is looking for more volunteers to donate their time in 2022 after another busy year. To find out more and how to apply, click here

Our healthcare services have been given the target of offering everyone aged 18 and above a booster jab by the end of December. This comes at a time of year when healthcare services are always under increased pressure and that issue is significantly heightened this year due to illness, waiting list backlog and Covid restrictions.…

We’re looking for volunteers who are interested in being an anchor for our Zink TV YouTube channel! Please contact via email tom@zink.org.uk or telephone 07949538773 if you are interested! Feel free to share this post.

Did you know, volunteering for an organisation like Buxton Baby Bank looks great on your CV and University Application? It’s also great fun, you can meet new people and learn new skills! If you have a few hours to spare and would like to join us, send us a message or email us at buxtonbabybank@gmail.com…

We are pleased to announce that with the support of the Pavilion Gardens we have managed to re-schedule our Lake of Lights event and it will now take place this coming Sunday 12th December. The event will start at the earlier time of 4.30pm, when lights can be collected from us at the Kiosk at…

POSTPONED! With icy weather forecast for this weekend, the Town Team have revised their plans for putting up the decorations… Thanks to all those who were going to join us on Sunday – the new date is Thursday morning (December 2nd), meeting outside Turner’s Memorial at 10am – we’re assured by Buxton Weather Watch that…

We now have a giving tree in the store. Simply pick up a bauble with the value of one, two or five pounds on. This money will then go to waste not want at the URC to spend on items they need in store. Please pick up a bauble and give what you can.

Do you want to be involved in your local parish or local church? You don’t have to attend on a Sunday to join in with the events and activities that are happening. I am interested to know what you are interested in… some of the things listed on the electronic form are already happening in…

This Christmas we will be delivering Christmas Dinner Hampers to folk in financial difficulties as well as delivering Christmas Dinners to those who need from The Tradesmans Cafe, Buxton. The Cafe will also have a sit in option for those that don’t want to eat alone and have a lovely dinner served with Fairfield Brass…

Every year at The Chakra Lounge, we initiate acts of giving back in the last two months for everything good that we had received all through the year. 2020 was a year that shook all of us. But, 2021 has been a year of realization and revival. If the past two years have taught us…

This year we hope to give a gift of new pyjamas and a toy to all the children who have used our services over the last year and we need your help! This year is going to be tough for many families with the cost of living going up and covid effecting people’s incomes. Christmas…

Still needs some volunteers to sell poppies in Morrisons  for the next couple of weeks. Please contact Lily (details below).

Do you live, work, study, run a business, or own a property in Buxton? If yes, we want to hear from you. The Big Buxton Conversation, episode two is face to face Monday 8 November 2:30-5:30pm (the first session was online in April). Our town, our future, our community.  

Still need some volunteers to sell poppies if you can spare even just a couple of hours first two weeks in November we would most appreciate it. Please contact Lilly details below

  British Transport Police would like to hear about your experience of rail travel.  If you’d like to take part in this survey, please scan the QR code or use this link: https://online1.snapsurveys.com/…/1dba64df-25df-45be…

This week, we are supporting Ava’s Chain of Kindness, a campaign run in loving memory of Ava, who sadly passed away at just two years old on Mother’s Day last year, after being diagnosed with leukaemia at 24 months old. After receiving support from our charity partner @youngLivesvsCancer her family set up the chain to…

Buxton Town Team  Welcome and Welcome Back Meeting Thursday 28th October – 18:30 (for 7pm start) – The Pump Room. The perfect chance to find out what we do, put forward your own project ideas and get involved.

I am helping my colleagues with homeless shelters and collecting this year and wondered if anyone is willing to help by donating new gloves, scarf woolly hats and selection boxes ( bit of Xmas) Also can collect travel cups/mugs and other useful outdoor items. (Sorry I can’t take second hand or used due to covid).…

Local businesses, stallholders and food and drink vendors required for our Christmas Wonderland Cabins Get in touch now at pavilion.gardens@parkwood-leisure.co.uk to book your stall as spaces are limited!

As you all know every Christmas we aim to provide and help as many people celebrate Christmas in our community as possible and this Christmas will be no different. – with more people in need with ever increasing costs , and job losses we will be here to lend a helping hand to anyone who…

If anyone can spare a few hours during the first couple of weeks in November to sell poppies,  please contact Lilly (details below).     Thankyou  

The Poppy Appeal will shortly be with us anyone who can spare some times to sell poppies in morrisons in late October early November contact details below. Thanks Lilly Clements lclements@britishlegion.org.uk 07918 562 624    

We have some volunteers in store today from Buxton rotary club helping us collect for young lives vs cancer please give what you can don’t forget you can add a pound donation at any till .#CCAM

Getting short of plastic bags in the foodbank. If you have any to donate, please drop them off 1-3pm Tues – Fri at Buxton United Reformed Church or into one of the collection bins at Buxton supermarkets. Thanks!

Buxton Civic Society Need Your Help. Our woodlands are a valuable lifeline and source of recuperation to the folk of Buxton and beyond. But the trees need our help. This Saturday see’s the first of our BCA Stronger Roots – Bringing in the Seeds events. We need to collect many thousands of tree seeds to…

  Have you had your say? There is still time to put forward your views about the draft whole-town sustainable travel plan. https://www.buxtontownteam.org/buxton-on-the-move

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Blythe House Retail Volunteers Needed

Funny Wonders Dear friends, Over the next few weeks we will be producing our project evaluation report about the Buxton Flowerpot Trail 2021. If anyone has any feedback for us – good, bad or otherwise – or ideas for next year, please message us or email hello@funnywonders.org.uk. Have you done the trail? Did you enjoy…

Volunteer Needed – Saturday 14th Aug Wirksworth. Help with Video Live Stream. I run a small charity and I’m Buxton based, on Saturday 14th August we are hosting our first in person event since 2019 at the Mount Cook Adventure Centre in Wirksworth and as we are keeping numbers low, we are offering a hybrid…

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Our Tea, Talk and Tech project is underway but we need some volunteers to help us! Interested? Watch our video to find out more!

A couple entered Vision Express opticians in Buxton today stealing three pairs of Gucci Sun-specs, in a third attempt after trying twice over the weekend. Vision express have said: “Can anybody put a name to this face – This woman entered the Buxton store with her boyfriend today and stole three pairs of Gucci Sunspecs…

A packet of crisps take a couple of minutes to eat but did you know the packaging can take up to 80 years to decompose if left as litter? Help us fund litter picking kits for our amazing volunteers so we can keep the Peak District litter free!  See here for full information.

***LOST IN BUXTON TODAY*** A gentleman has lost his gold wedding ring today in Buxton and isn’t when it came off, he has been in the Pavilion Gardens and near the Crescent and town centre.. If by chance anyone finds a plain gold wedding ring, please message our page / hand it in to the…

New Mills Festival is looking for an artist to lead a couple of lantern making workshops in New Mills with 11-16 year old young people. Must have insurance and be DBS checked. Email: info@newmillsfestival.org.uk

—– PLEASE CLICK THE PICTURE & FILL IN OUR SURVEY! —– At last, years of research and ideas have come to fruition – with the publication of the Town Team’s Buxton on the Move consultation. ​ Getting around town and accessing the places we need to be has long presented a challenge. This resulted in the establishment…

It costs nothing to give a nice review or post a photo on social media, and it just takes a few minutes of your time, but the benefits to the company may be enormous. If you’ve had a positive experience with a local business, let others know! 1. Post a photo of a local business…

How accessible is Buxton? How easy is it to move around the town? We want to hear your views as part of the consultation on the draft sustainable whole-town travel plan. It has been produced by Buxton Town Team volunteers, working with High Peak Borough Council, Derbyshire County Council, University of Derby and local voluntary…

We desperatley need access to a defibrillator at our sports ground, for everyone in our Rugby, grassroots football and local community. We are reaching out for support as a club for the help in raising the funds to obtain a defibrillator at the sunnyfields sports club that we can save lives with if needed. Read…

Buxton Fringe 2021 needs you! read more here

We’re looking for a volunteer driver to pick up from a Buxton supermarket on Wednesday mornings, dropping off at the foodbank around midday. Please message if you’re available and would like to do it! High Peak Food Bank

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After a very constructive meeting yesterday, the following survey has been created to find out the positives and negatives of the NHS Volunteer Responders service and how (or if) this could be implemented differently in the future. It is also a chance to show how valuable the voluntary sector was during this pandemic. Follow the…

Volunteers needed Well it has certainly been a strange 12 months. We were delighted with the success of our mostly on-line Fringe last year. This year we are expecting to have some on-line events but are also hoping to have a number of live events. We will be following government guidelines and are keeping our…

Help raise awareness of Mentell at your barbers, hairdressers or salon. sign up here

Buxton Town Team 28 May at 09:04  ·  We are officially launching our travel plan consultation this week. Throughout the summer, residents and frequent local visitors will be able to give their views on a whole range of ideas to help keep Buxton on the move. The Access, Parking, Travel and Transport project team have been working for some…

Did you miss Care for a Cuppa when it was postponed earlier this year? We certainly did, so we are very excited to be bringing it back this summer! Throughout July, we are asking you to hold your own Care for a Cuppa event, where you can invite your friends and family along and fundraise together. But don’t worry if July…

My name is Carolyn Kidd and I am the proprietor of The Tradesman’s Entrance Café on the Market Place in Buxton. Six years ago I took the decision to open the café on Christmas Day – we called it “Christmas for the Community” – to welcome and feed anyone in the local community who had…

We are officially launching our travel plan consultation this week. Throughout the summer, residents and frequent local visitors will be able to give their views on a whole range of ideas to help keep Buxton on the move. The Access, Parking, Travel and Transport project team have been working for some time gathering data, and…

The British Legion in Buxton are looking for volunteers to help manage the poppy appeal in Buxton. Please see the details below.

Help Connex to get a £1000 Movement for Good award! Your nomination really counts. £1,000 could make a real difference to the work we do. Maybe it could help us to get a new social club going for older people (so important once restrictions lift) or maybe help us to organise some trips out for…

        Pubs/Bars.. Would you like to join the 118 pubs signed up to MENTELL’s TYBB.. ‘Turn Your Bar Blue’ Raising awareness of men’s mental health and male suicide To receive you FOC pack, sign up in the link https://www.mentell.org.uk/campaigns/turn-your-bar-blue

The Peak District Proud Fund aims to raise money to buy equipment for community organisations to help care for the park.     Peak District National Park Foundation hopes the campaign will also raise awareness about problems posed by litter – including danger to wildlife and fire risks.     In the longer term, the…

Are there any of our Facebook Friends (or friends of friends) who are confident, competent and capable of helping us to make an exciting environmentally-themed project come to life?? It is all about supporting and raising awareness of our local bumblebee, the Bilberry, which is on the verge of extinction in the UK. In partnership…

Buxton Town Team volunteers of the Slopes Care Team taking a well-deserved break during their spring cleaning session on the Slopes this morning. The team meet on alternate Thursday and Saturday mornings 10am -12 noon. They will next be in action on Saturday 15th May If you want lend a hand, email Jim on slopes@buxtontownteam.org

  -Morrisons Buxton

The Zink Project that runs High Peak Foodbank is looking for presenters. Could you present Countryfile or would you have liked to have been on Tiswas? And are you willing to spend a few hours helping out a local charity? Please message with your ‘phone number if you live in the High Peak or nearby.

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We are really humbled that hospice supporter, Amie Worrall, who is a student at the University of Derby, is basing her dissertation on our annual Jingle Bell Jog! Amie is looking into the motivations of why local people take part in the Jingle Bell Jog and whether they feel such events are beneficial to the…

If you have a cot in great condition that you’re willing to donate, please let us know as we have a parent in need Thanks in advance! See here or email buxtonbabybank@gmail.com

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We’re currently at 555 likes! As we get busier, we are going to gradually need more volunteers. At the moment it’s mainly me (Kirsty), along with help from the wonderful Jo Taylor, who has been absolutely awesome in helping me. I’ve also got two great volunteers who have started doing hits and pieces in the…

Interested in volunteering? This is a great opportunity to be involved in one of our town’s major events & to see some astonishing performances.   We’re looking for volunteer stewards to help with #buxfest21 8-25 July. Free training will be given and there will be opportunities to sit in on some events. Find out more…

Buxton International Festival Needs You! We’re looking for volunteer stewards to help with #buxfest21 8-25 July. Free training will be given and there will be opportunities to sit in on some events. Find out more https://buxtonfestival.co.uk/about-us/jobs

We are absolutely devastated to report that our very popular sculpture of ‘Jack’ the lime worker in Grinlow Wood has been significantly vandalised and had very inappropriate graffiti carved into him. We are investigating what we can do to repair him or if we can repair him. Meanwhile we will have to cover him. This…

The Peak District National Park https://www.facebook.com/peakdistrictnationalpark turns 70 this month and we want to hear your memories and connections to the hills and valleys. Whether you woke up early to see the sunrise, did a charity event with friends, got engaged there or have been rescued by one of our amazing mountain rescue teams let us…

“Officers investigating the theft of a distinctive Peugeot from a High Peak home are appealing for information. The black Peugeot 108, which has 3 distinctive white lines along the side of the car, was stolen in the early hours of this morning, Monday 5 April between 0200-0212 hours, after the keys were taken from a…

Healthwatch Derbyshire wants to hear from local people about why they won’t or can’t have the Covid-19 vaccine. We would be grateful if you could fill out this short survey to share your views on why you don’t want the vaccine, or if you will face any issues receiving it. Feedback will be shared anonymously…

Good morning all! We have been kindly granted space at Buxton Community Church! We’re hoping to start our little project here and then hopefully have bigger premises in the summer as it’s set to really get quite big! We’re so grateful for the help and Thank Joanne and Ollie from the bottom of our hearts…

Pavilion gardens, Buxton The donation service would like you to be aware that they still need donations as normal. Please be assured that during lock down in England all blood donation sessions will continue to run as normal. They have extra safety measures in place and every precaution is put in place to eliminate the…

Bright Opportunities is a learning disability community interest company in Buxton.     We are seeking funds to buy a state- of -the art sensory room within our building. Since Covid-19 hit in 2020 we have had to re-think how we deliver services, we are now limited to what we can do as lack of…

Thomas Theyer Foundation is looking for a Volunteer Graphic Designer. This charity is looking for a creative volunteer, who can design leaflets, posters, banners, and other promotional material. In addition to printed items, they need digital materials to include PDFs and design for social media, website, and blog content. Experience of website design and content…

Thomas Theyer Foundation-Public Relations Volunteer This charity is looking for a PR specialist who can help to increase awareness of the Thomas Theyer Foundation and generate positive media coverage of its activities/ events and achievements. Key activities include: • Identifying media opportunities to promote the charity, including newspapers, magazines, journals, broadcasts, social media sites and…

Information from the Peak Park Lambing and bird nesting season is almost here, so if you’re out in the countryside local to you and you see livestock or bird nesting signs, then please… keep your dogs on a lead                             keep to the…

Derbyshire Constabulary https://www.facebook.com/derbyshireconstabulary  Does your property have CCTV cameras? We’d like your help. You could help us gather evidence that would help in investigations. We are getting a mailing list together to create a list of people that have CCTV outside of their homes, workplaces or businesses, which will allow officers to come directly to…

Remember these? We’re starting to plan the Buxton Flowerpot Trail 2021! If you’d like to get involved for 2021 and help us with the project, remotely or (fingers crossed) otherwise, please get in touch – email hello@funnywonders.org.uk.

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Find your role with St John Ambulance vaccination volunteer programme here: https://vaccinationvolunteers.sja.org.uk/roles/?fbclid=IwAR36DrMiET3P_mqCsM9CwI100HAr_ZUqeHyMm1TxFp_idu2gv948nJexg_0

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We Need Your Help! High Peak CVS, The Bureau, Glossop and Derbyshire County Council are now working together on a new initiative, aiming to ensure that clear, relevant and up to date information is shared to those that need it across our community. If you are a member of a community, voluntary or faith organisation…

This Sunday (07/02/2021)  1:30 PM Lets make it clear to High Peak Borough Council that we don’t want them to sell off our Rec to developers. Due to COVID lockdown we cannot gather in anyway. So we have to be creative. – Make a Placard along the lines of – “Save Hogshaw”, “Hands Off Hogshaw”,…

Buxton International Festival   We will be announcing our line up for the 2021 Festival very soon. However, as we navigate our way around the issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic it’s essential that we get your feedback.   We would be very grateful if you could fill in this questionnaire, which takes about 5…

Exciting News! Zink, the charity that runs High Peak Foodbank, have acquired new premises that will become the Zink Community Hub. We have brought plans forward so we can open in summer and start to address issues like mental health problems, unemployment and isolation especially caused by Covid. Please donate to help get the hub…

Do you have any storage space to help Buxton Baby Bank? We have had so many messages offering support and donations. It’s amazing to see the community coming together. As we have had so many people get in touch, I can see this being a much bigger project than I originally expected! I’ve had kind…

**URGENT** **JOB OPPORTUNITY** NQIS (National Quarries Industrial Service) have several positions available as Cabin Cleaners. (you will be sanitizing welfare cabins during a site shutdown) currently 6-8 positions available. hours options are; 6am – 2pm £9.25 weekday – £11.10 Saturday – £12.33 Sunday 2pm – 10pm £9.25 ” ” 10pm – 6am £11.10 weeknight £13.88…

We’re still here – collecting surplus food for supermarkets – to share with local families via High Peak Foodbank . Today we said a sad farewell to one of our volunteers, Morgause, as she heads back to work next week. Like all our volunteers, she’s been ready to help come rain, shine and snow. If…

5 – 14 March’21 is Science Week when a collaboration between Serpentine Community Garden Society and Transition Buxton will see up to 100 participants (in pairs) across the town supplied with soil testing kits to take part in a bit of citizen science.   We’d love to see families using this to help children understand…

Staff at Buxton for Youth – Bright Opportunities receive their vaccinations Buxton Mountain Rescue team help transport people to their vaccination appointment Avid followers of our callout posts on social media may have spotted that we usually finish with a comment relating to cleaning kit and the vehicles as part of our Covid-19 protocols. The…

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