Photo of Bradfield Parish Council cheque presentation

Friends of the Loxley Valley receive Bradfield Parish Council grant

Friends of the Loxley Valley have received a community project grant cheque from Bradfield Parish Council. The £4,478 grant will help us to tell the story of the valley's water power heritage.

Friends of the Loxley Valley are delighted to have received a grant of £4,478 from Bradfield Parish Council to help tell the story of the valley’s water power heritage.

The grant means we can start to put up interpretation boards and finger posts along the valley.

We hope they’ll help to increase awareness of the historic water wheel sites that thread all the way along it.

The signs will also showcase the beautiful landscape along the valley. And they will tell how nature has threaded through the old water power remains to create outstanding habitat for wildlife.

Bradfield Parish Council chairperson Penny Baker presented the generous grant cheque to FoLV committee members David Holmes and Diana Conheeney. The presentation took place before the council’s November meeting in the council chamber at Low Bradfield.

The award follows our successful presentation to the council’s first public “participatory budget meeting” at Worrall Memorial Hall in October.

The meeting was open to everyone who lives in the parish. Local groups made presentations, and parishioners then ranked the bids to decide which groups would receive grants.

The grants came from funds set aside for community projects.

Friends of the Loxley Valley would like to thank everyone who voted for our bid. The standard of all the bids was very high, and it is humbling to know that we have succeeded.

The other successful bidders were Friends of Glen Howe Park, Dungworth Village Hall, Bradfield Dungworth School PFA, Oughtibridge Millennium Garden, Oughtibridge War Memorial Sports Club, and Friends of Stoneface Creative.

We’d like to congratulate them all, and offer our commiserations to the groups who didn’t succeed this time round.

We’ll now start work to research, design and erect the Loxley Valley signs. We look forward to reporting back as things progress.

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