In October 2019, Dacorum Borough Council with the Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Hertfordshire County Council and St Albans Districts Council commissioned a sustainable travel consultancy, Go Travel Solutions, to update the Maylands Area Wide Travel Plan and deliver some pilot projects. There is significant growth planned over the coming decades in the Maylands area, with […]
The fantastic Health Walk volunteers of Hertfordshire County Council have put together a great range of health walks in the new January to April 2020 programme. To find walks within Dacorum visit the website here, where you’ll also have chance to register. Why not get 2020 off to a fun and healthy start by joining […]
On Sunday 5 January, thousands of residents throughout Dacorum recycled their Christmas trees for free at chipping points throughout the Borough. The annual recycling day, which has been running in Dacorum for 24 years, allowed families to give their festive friends the chop at chipping points which were set up in Hemel, Berkhamsted and Tring. […]
Is your New Year’s resolution to focus more on your family? Have you recently experienced a significant life change such as moving house, getting married, retiring or welcoming a new addition to the family? One way of making sure your loved ones are taken care of in future is to have an up to date […]
This week, ‘Save the High Street’ are offering local independent businesses a free Health-Check, designed to help you better understand and achieve your potential on the high street this year. Over the past 3 years, ‘Save the High Street’ has been studying the key strategies that 100s of successful high street businesses across our community […]
As the fun of the festive season has been and gone and sunny smiles are at an all-time low, it’s official, January really is no laughing matter. Research commissioned by Thai restaurant group, Giggling Squid, has revealed: Almost 1 in 3 Brits (29%) say they’re least likely to smile in January Almost half (48%) of […]
The Chiltern Society is on a mission to get the public doing their bit to improve their local environment. By encouraging the people to make better connections between their habits and the impact that these actions have on the environment, they hope to help foster positive change and support people in making easy and innovative changes […]
You may remember that Nick Laing from Northchurch, Berkhamsted challenged himself to run 500 miles in aid of Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) – a small charity which runs opticians clinics for homeless and vulnerable people. Back in April, Nick signed up to a sponsored challenge through VCHP’s Sponsored Events & Challenges programme, challenging […]
Hertfordshire small businesses can now access a free business support programme ‘Get Enterprising’, which gives them fully-funded access to specialist support and opportunities to help them expand and grow. Get Enterprising will be delivered by leading social enterprise, Wenta, and funded by Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership to enable early stage businesses across the county to […]
Friends of Tring Church Heritage are looking forward to welcoming local residents, friends, family and visitors to their Family Fun Day on Saturday 9 May 2020. Planning is already well under way to ensure the day is an enjoyable success for all! Present on the day will be the firm favourite ‘Teddy zip wire’ – […]
Passengers are now benefiting from a more reliable railway after the completion of multiple upgrades across the country this Christmas. Thousands of Network Rail staff worked round the clock between Christmas Eve and 27 December as part of Britain’s Railway Upgrade Plan. The work in the North West and Central region – which runs from […]
At the start of the Autumn half term twelve Upper 6th Acting Course students from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts left for Singapore for two weeks. Over the last few years the school has developed a relationship with Centre Stage School of the Arts in Singapore and at their suggestion decided to take […]
