Buy Local Awards - winners announced!
Following a lot of hard work from Charlotte Burton and our team of local food judges, CPRE Cheshire's 2008 'Buy Local' awards winners have finally been announced. Including a social project providing training and employment in horticulture to adults with learning difficulties, a town-centre butchers shop that have been sourcing locally for 79 years, a potato grower that has diversified into making chips for local pubs/restaurants, a deli with a fantastic range of local foods from small producers, and a farm shop linking farming and food at every stage of the curriculum from toddler to teenager, we were delighted to have such a fantastic crop of entrants to choose from!
Photographers - CPRE Cheshire needs you!
CPRE Cheshire has been campaigning for our county's countryside for the last 80 years - not just the two new Unitary Authorities, but also Halton, Stockport, Trafford, Warrington, Wallasey and Birkenhead - and we want your help in recording our county's wonderful countryside and green spaces for our 2009 photography competition.
Join us for a celebration of Cheshire's fantastic home-grown food!
All with an interest in local food are invited to join us in Knutsford on Tuesday 16th June for CPRE's 2009 local food award presentation and the conclusion to our Local Food Mapping project. Follow the link below for more information.
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2008 Writing Competition
We are pleased to be able to announce the winners of our sixth annual Writing Competition, run in conjunction with Cheshire Life Magazine.
The standard of entries was very high and our judges had a hard job to choose the winners. To find out who was successful follow the link below.
Cheshire CPRE's Easter Churches Walk
We were delighted with the turnout for our Easter Churches Walk on April 14th - we had said we could cope with a maximum of 30, but managed to squeeze in an extra couple of walkers, which took our total to 32.
Not only did we have a lovely ramble through Cheshire's countryside, fortified by a pub lunch, enlightened by a talk on Primitive Methodism and spiritually uplifted by a short Easter service, but we also managed to pick up a good few bags of litter on the way!
Towpath Tidy - update
Cheshire CPRE members turned out to support British Waterways in their 'Towpath Tidy' event in Chester on March 26th.
For more information and images, follow the link below.
Buy Local Food
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Local Issues
Macclesfield Greenbelt under threat
CPRE has been approached by residents in Alderley Edge and Nether Alderley who are concerned about a potential threat to the greenbelt as an application to build a 17-acre garden centre has been unveiled. See our Local to you pages for more information.
Wind Farm application - Eaton
Cornwall Light and Power are proposing to build a wind farm at Oxheys Farm in Eaton. Click here for more information.
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