Darley Dale is a small town of around 5,000 electorate. It is only just a town, more like a large village and more importantly it has no centre and is split by the very busy trunk road, the A6.
Community cohesion is not strong despite the best efforts of the Town Council.
As a number of residents had expressed a desire to enter the ‘East Midlands in Bloom’ competition the Town Council began to recognise that this initiative could spur community involvement. In June 2014, The Darley Dale in Bloom group setup a new constitution and became independent of the Town Council. Darley Dale in Bloom and the Town Council have signed a Heads of Agreement for the group to take over the design and planting of the flower beds previously the responsibility of the Town Council and the Town Council will be supporting that by providing a grant on an annual basis.
The Committee wish to extend their thanks to the Town Council for their continued support.
Barbara Newton
Chair DDIB committee
Red House Stables are again kindly putting on an Easter Bunny Hunt around the Whitworth Park on Sunday 28 April from 11am to 1.30 pm. Tickets are £5 per person which includes a Carriage Ride Read more…
It will soon be time to take out the winter bedding to make space for the summer plants, which are due to go in from early July. We’re starting to do this from 13 May. Read more…
From the week beginning May 6 we will be doing some weeding in the Pavement beds off Broadwalk, so that primulas can be replanted there after the clearing of winter bedding from the A6 beds Read more…
As part of the Great British Spring Clean/Keep Britain Tidy campaign we organised a litter pick and collected a good amount of rubbish, which Derbyshire Dales District Council will collect. This came from the Whitworth Read more…
A big thank you to all the local businesses and individuals who contributed vouchers, items and financial donations to our fundraising auction. Adrian Fidler was at his usual very entertaining best and we made over Read more…
Darley Dale in Bloom Committee Chair,
The Whitworth Centre,
Darley Dale,
Derbyshire,
DE4 2EQ
Val Singer
01629 732596