‘Do it for the Grange‘ is our event slogan for this years ‘Keep Britain Tidy‘ – ‘Clean for the Queen‘ Last years ‘National British Clean Up Day‘ was a huge success – let’s make this one even better. Join the UK’s largest litter pick Waitrose – Daventry who are supporting Keep Britain Tidy will be […]
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Do It For The Grange
Grange Estate Videos
I had a visit from my techie son who has given me a crash course in video making so I thought I’d have a go at transforming pictures of events that have taken place on The Grange Estate over the past 2 years into short videos. I thought I’d experiment with a time lapse video […]
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Together We Are Unstoppable
Solo we are strong – Together we are UNSTOPPABLE I know on our Grange Estate alone we have as many as 35 residents who litter pick individually on a regular basis. Our litter pickers also include children who particularly like doing this as it’s like a treasure hunt only we are hunting for litter. We […]
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Community Street Art Project
The Community Street Art Project was a huge success. Day 1 18 months ago I approached DDC about getting some street art put onto the Yeomanry subway, It seemed to take forever but with the help of Town Councillor Lynne Taylor a working group was formed with myself, Lindsey Hawkey of the Phoenix Centre and […]
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The Clean Sweep Event
Clean Sweep at Tamar Square and The Wye I can’t thank everyone enough for turning out today to do your bit. We had two main areas to tackle Tamar Square and the communal area on The Wye. British Gas has been digging up all over the estate replacing gas pipes, as a result maintenance has […]
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Grange Residents help Middlemore
Middlemore held its first Community Cleanup event on Saturday A huge thank you to all the volunteers who joined in Myself and Wendy Randall from The Grange Estate helped out. The event was organised by Karen Tweedale who is a Daventry Town Councillor and also part of the Middlemore Residents Association. The aim of the clean up […]
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Clean Up at Kentle Wood
It is surprising how many residents I have spoken with do not know about Kentle Wood which is situated on the edge of Daventry it is a small woodland reserve at the back of the Ford site on the Royal Oak industrial estate. The wood was created in 2000 as part of the Woodland Trust’s ‘Woods […]
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National British Clean Up Day Results
Keep Britain Tidy – Community Clear Up Day – Part 1 The first ever Keep Britain Tidy – Community Clear Up Day took place this weekend, to celebrate the start of Spring. Communities around the country came together and organised clear up days. The Grange estate being one of those communities. The Grange estate held […]
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Welcome to YourGrange.co.uk
Welcome to our brand new website for The Grange and Drayton Ward Community This site has been created for the community as an online community notice board, we have posted many useful sites and links on our Facebook page. These get lost amongst other posts, hopefully you will now find them much easier to locate. […]
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