Author: bjenkin

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Council Tax Refund Scam

This is a press release from Cotswold District Council dated 9th May 2017.

There are a lot of these sort of scams but this one is of particular relevance to the Cotswold District area.

“A resident  in the Cotswolds has received a telephone call from a ‘company’ which allegedly works for Cotswold District Council. He was told that he was due to receive a £6,000 council tax refund because his Council Tax banding has been too high in the past.

The telephone number of the bogus company is 03332 123132.

Please be aware that this scam may be targeting many residents in this area and please do not enter into any discussions with the caller.  Most importantly, do not disclose any personal information such as banking details.”

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Village Appraisal 1996

The Village Appraisal cover as it appeared in 1996.

The concept behind the Village Appraisal which was undertaken in 1996 was to find out how local people wanted to see the parish develop – or not develop – in order to influence the changes in rural life which would inevitably happen over the next decade.
The clear and overwhelming conclusion was that residents wanted to see the parish remain essentially as it was – a working and retirement community in which village spirit and environment were the most highly valued features of daily life.

154 questionnaires were issued, one to each household in the parish plus another nine for the  residents just outside  the  parish  boundary  although  very  much  pan  of  the  village.  123 were returned representing an 82% response*.

The survey covered Housing, Employment, Education, Local Countryside and Environment, Health and Social Services, Policing and Security, Retail Services and other Facilities, Sport, Social and Entertainment, Transport and Highways, Information and Communication, Religion and Local Government.

As a result of the appraisal a number of actions were taken which included the setting up of the Good Neighbourhood Scheme, the launching of the village newsletter ‘Village Live’ and the acquisition of a car park for the Village Hall.  Some other recommendations  did not come to fruition or have since fallen by the wayside the most ambitious of which was to acquire a recreation field as a project for the millennium.  Although this has not happened the Parish Council did set up a fund with the long term aim of enabling this,  originally called ‘The Millennium Fund’ it is now titled ‘The Way Forward Fund’.  The Parish Council adds £1,000 each year into this fund but it has been used to fund other vital village institutions for example repairs to the Village Hall. Consequently the Way Forward Fund currently (May 2017) holds just short of £9,000.

Click Here to download the resulting document.  It is in the form of a multi-page PDF file.

*taking into account that four houses were unoccupied at the time of the survey.
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May Film – “The Light Between Oceans” cert 12A

Thursday 11th May – Doors Open 7:00 for 7:30pm

Rhodes Memorial Hall, Brockhampton, GL54 5XH
Admission £3.00 on the door

Based on the best-selling novel

A war weary man takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on an island for the solitude. He meets a beautiful young woman and they eventually marry. One day they see a small dingy with an infant and man inside floating in the ocean. They rush to rescue them only to find the man is dead. They struggle over the decision to report it and whether to keep the baby. It’s only years later that they discover that the child still has a mother looking for her.

LINKS

 Trailer:

Kermode and Mayo Review:

Contact: films@sevenhampton.info – tel 01242 820338
Brockhampton Rural Cinema Homepage