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June 2020 June 2020

KINGSBERE QUILTERS which takes place at the
moment. There will be a
g u i d a n c e d o c u m e n t
What do quilters do in a lockdown? Well they don’t available for all staff
quit quilting! affected shortly. We are not
expecting or wanting huge
Like many other groups in the village we have now
closed down temporarily. To date we have now numbers of staff to return to
missed two meetings and a workshop. Fortunately the offices at this stage.
we all received instructions for our next project by
email.
Homelessness and
The project was to produce the Bargello squares. rough sleepers
(Bargello is normally associated with Florentine
Since the start of the
embroidery, but has been adapted to patchwork.
outbreak, our housing teams have helped 28 rough sleepers from across the
Sewing strips of fabric together and cutting and
county into accommodation – this has, and continues to be, challenging and we
reforming them to produce waves of colour) Lesson
over!! are operating as a multi-agency response to the situations this is creating on a
daily basis. In addition, the team have also housed more than 120 homeless
Instead of our normal show and tell session in the households in temporary accommodation and will continue to support these
group meeting we have been able to do this by people into more permanent accommodation as the lockdown restrictions ease.
email as well. However it is definitely not the same

as meeting your fellow members and sharing ideas
and news, as you will all know. Business Grants
Many of our members have been busy making As of the middle of May Dorset Council made 7,462 grant payments to businesses
items for the NHS and similar organisations. These in the Dorset Council area totalling £89m. Dorset Council have paid 92% of the
have included masks, aprons, scrubs and laundry grant claims we have received – meaning at the time of writing we have 629 that
bags. Also a few of the members who live in the are either currently approved and awaiting the next payment run, or undergoing
village are working on producing a colourful piece validation or they have just landed! And we have received a moderate but
for the Children’s Corner in the Church. noticeable increase in the number of claims since last week’s letters to businesses
who had not yet made a claim.
In the past we have enjoyed joining the flower
arrangers in presenting events in the Church to raise The national data recently released shows that only 7 councils out of 314 have
funds for both the Church and local charities. It will made more payments than us and only 6 of the 314 have distributed more money
be so nice when we can all do that again. to their local businesses than us so far. We have received a total of 1,160 claims
that did not pass our validation/verification processes, so while we might have
We all look forward to life returning to a new form of been anxious about processing volumes in the early days, this figure in particular
normal when we can return to our groups and proves that we were right not to relax our verification criteria and proceed with the
organisations. appropriate validation measures in place. We are also receiving some very
positive – and very welcome - feedback from businesses that are grateful for the
To see some of these wonderful works, in glorious
funding and the way we have supported them.
technicolour, log on to the village website and click
the link at the top - June Parish Magazine.
Minerals Plan

In all the furore you may have missed the Minerals Site plan progress which has
been 5 years in the making. The Plans are all fully adopted now, and we are

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