What's Happening in Bovey Tracey
Newsletter 7 September 29th
Dear All,
Hi there!
Hopefully in the next week or so you will see some changes being made to the website. We have so many posters to display that the original two pages just cannot cope and have become, just like any real notice board, very cluttered and disorganised.
The first page will continue to be a spotlight page for new events, or when an organisation sends me their details for a new promotion.
The next pages will be split into these categories:
Food and Drink
Shopping
Services
Culture
Community
Hopefully this will make it easier for visitors to the site to find just what they are looking for.
Big thanks to Lisa Baxter who has been volunteering for the website now for some weeks.
Lisa met with me to find out what was needed, and I would have been very happy with the original ideas she went away with. However, Lisa has shown great initiative and has acted as a super sleuth finding out about local businesses and making links with all sorts of people in the community. Her hard work has really fed into the website so thank you very much for that Lisa.
There is still plenty of scope for anyone else who has some time to spare. Putting the posts onto the site is easy, but I don’t have time to enter the keywords for the search engine. Posts often come in the wrong format so need changing to pdf- again there are programs to do this, but it takes time. Newsletters need writing…ideally the content would come from local people attending local events, either previewing what is happening (from Pharmacy ‘now offering flu jabs’ to next year’s festivals) or reviewing after the event.
Perhaps you belong to a local group and want to highlight what they do? Then I’d be happy to receive one-off articles as well.
Please don’t be shy! If you have the writing bug, let me have your ideas.
In other news.....We have been very lucky to secure a new caretaker at the Riverside Community Centre. We had a number of very strong candidates. I would like to thank you all for taking the time and effort to apply. Julie Arnold started in this role, with the support of Nic Hopkins, the outgoing caretaker, on September 16th. We would like to say a heartfelt thanks to Nic for all her commitment to the centre since 2022 and extend a warm welcome to Julie.
Wishing you a warm and only slightly damp Autumn!
PS the website alterations have now been made. There will be a little more tweaking but at least now the pages are separated and the headings make different events and activities easier to find.
If you have anytime to read the posters and enter the information they contain into the search engine, I would be ever so pleased!
Volunteers Needed!
Do you have any time to support the growth of this website? Having only 15 hours a week to manage the community centre, I am finding it quite challenging to keep things up to date. These are some of the activities I could use help with:
Identifying events taking place locally (I tend to research through Facebook but there are other sources out there.)
Creating posters for events where details are available. (Using Word or Canva.)
Writing paragraphs for this site about things that have happened or are about to.
Deleting out of date posts on the website.
Or anything else that you can see that needs doing!
If you think you could help with just one of these then I would love to hear from you! Or any ideas you might have about how to improve things. hello@boveytraceyhub.co.uk
Thank you for reading this.
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