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BereConnect Emergency Loan Fund SOMETHING TO DO WITH LEFT OVER BEAN

The BereConnect Emergency Loan Fund has been set up to allow any Bere Regis PLANTS
resident to obtain a loan to help cover essential living costs until other help comes
through. In order to apply, you must:
Many of us have been out in our
 Live within the parish of Bere Regis;
gardens during lockdown than we
 Be unemployed, or formerly self-employed, but with no work due to the have ever done before. I am sure that
pandemic; those that want to have now planted
their runner or French bean seeds,
 Not yet be in receipt of any money from the government coronavirus mine are already up and looking
schemes; good.
 Have no other available financial resources i.e. be in demonstrable and Unfortunately one packet of seed
immediate need. makes lots of plants that are surplus to
the amount of bean sticks you can
Please send an email to bereconnect@outlook.com and give the following have in your gardens. I had the good
information
fortune when I was a young mother to
· Your name, address, contact details (including telephone number) work on the land in the Vale of
Evesham. One of the uses the growers
· Your family circumstances there put to these surplus plants was to
make bean bushes out of them.
· Your employment situation
In a spare plot of land they would plant the surplus and allow them to establish
Your request will be dealt with in strictest confidence. If you meet the criteria, and
as long as funds last, you will be given a loan. We will try to deal with requests as themselves. Before the bean plant got too big they would start pinching out the
quickly as possible but please allow 48 hours for your application to be processed. growing tips on the leading stems. You need to check the plants regularly and
As BACs transfer is the safest and quickest way to get money to you, you should pinch out any leading growing tips. This allows the bean plant to bush. It will
have your bank details readily available. If BACs isn’t possible, we will try to deliver need no sticks to climb up as you are not allowing it to climb. The plant will flower
cash to you. and fruit as usual except generally speaking the beans will be curly rather than
straight.
We are making loans, repayable only when you are in a position to do so, as we
would like to be able to re-circulate the fund to help as many people as possible. The growers used these beans in their own home and gave them to their workers
no plants were wasted. Beans of course are an excellent source of nitrogen
which they grow in their roots. After the season was over the growers would dig
DIGITAL HOTLINE the roots into the ground providing free nitrogen rich soil to grow more crops
in. As workers we were given the job of pinching out and tending the plants after
we had finished our daily work and we would see who could grow the bushiest
If there is anyone out there who has been and most productive plant, great fun.
abruptly forced into using new technology to
keep in touch and you are feeling out of your Eileen Salisbury
depth, help is at hand.
The number to call is 01305 – 221000 and ask for
the digital hotline. It's open 9 – 5, Monday to
Friday.

This link explains more about it [https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2020/03/27/
digital-champions-ready-to-help/](https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2020/03/27/
digital-champions-ready-to-help/)
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