Welcome to Templeton Parish Council Website
Templeton Parish Council is comprised of five elected councillors.
Councillors contact details can be found on this website.
The Parish Council meets regularly every two months in Templeton Village Hall.
Dates of meetings are published in advance and members of the public and parish are welcome to attend.
Meetings commence with an opportunity for public questions regarding agenda items.
The agendas of upcoming meetings are published a week in advance and are displayed on the Parish Council website, village noticeboards and at Templeton Village Hall.
Parish Councils are required to make Statutory documents available.
Please contact our Parish Clerk Beverley Newman for any further information -
clerk@templetonparishcouncil.org.uk
Mrs Beverley NewmanVenn Bridge House,Drayford Lane,Witheridge,Devon.EX16 8PR.
Date of the Annual Meeting of the Council is:
Tuesday 27th May 2025
7:30pm - 8.30 pm
at
Templeton Village Hall
THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY 'THE ANNUAL PARISH MEETING' ON THE SAME DATE:
The Annual Parish Meeting
Tuesday 27th May 2025
8.30 pm - 9.00 pm
at
Templeton Village Hall
Templeton Noticeboard
Important information for parishioners :
Spring Bank Holiday Waste Collection Changes
North Devon Council is reminding residents that waste and recycling collection days will be temporarily adjusted over the Spring Bank Holiday.
There will be no collections on Monday 26 May 2025. Instead, all collections that week will take place one day later than usual, starting from Tuesday 27 May through to Saturday 31 May. Services will return to normal from Monday 2 June.
Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2025
FETF provides grants for machinery, equipment and technology items to help cut costs and boost farm efficiency.
Funding is available under 3 themes:
- Productivity
- Slurry Management
- Animal Health and Welfare
Grants will range from £1,000 to a maximum of £25,000 for each theme. The scheme will pay a percentage of the cost of the item, which varies by item. In total, £46.7 million will be available.
- £30 million will support the productivity and slurry management themes
- £16.7 million will support the animal health and welfare theme.
The fund is competitive. Each theme has rules for scoring, to make sure public money is used well.
Applications open on 29th May 2025 and the window to apply will be open for ONLY 6 weeks,
closing midday, 10th July 2025.
Please click on link below for further information:
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Spring Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: 1st April 2025 – 17th June 2025.
If you’re aged 75 and over or have a weakened immune system, you may be eligible for the Spring booster vaccination. If you are under 75 years of age – please check your eligibility - www.nhs.uk/covid-vaccination
Drive-through vaccinations available at Greendale Vaccination Centre, EX5 2JU
Walk in appointments are available at most of our clinics. You can book an appointment at one of our clinics via the National Booking System or by calling 119 – Book, change, or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online - NHS
Use our vaccination clinic calendar at https://shorturl.at/uQTUu to find the most up to date clinic information or you can search for your local walk in clinic on the Walk in Finder: https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/vaccination-and-booking-services/find-a-walk-in-covid-19-vaccination-site/
For any queries, please contact us - Eastern Vaccination Service: 07729 300349 / rduh.exetervaccinationcentre@nhs.net
Farming Grants - Farming within the natural landscape
NEWS FLASH – This item has been removed from the Mid Devon Notices section as Templeton is just outside the area of eligibility.
Scrap Metal collections at Templeton Parish Council
David Parker, Democratic Services Officer for MDDC recently attended a meeting of Templeton Parish Council and noted that we have a great scheme for collecting scrap metal and raising funds from the collection. A win win for our countryside. MDDC have shared our initiatives with town and parish councils incase should they wish to take up the idea.
Raising money from Scrap Metal Templeton is a small rural community in Mid Devon. Population 110. The village has an active parish council, village hall committee and parochial church council. There are several fundraising activities every year : village fetes, quizzes, safari suppers ,duck races and talent shows. These enable us to provide a village hall with a social club and bar and a village church. We have lots of activities including reading groups, gardening clubs, knot and natter and a thriving art club. In 2014 an initiative was started to collect scrap metal from the area. The village has now had four scrap metal events. We raised in 2012 £2346.30, in 2014 £1948, in 2019 £1693.41 and in 2024 £1740.06 . In total £7727.77 for the village. Since we started this event in 2012 we have filled 9 industrial size skips with general metal and four cattle trailers with aluminium, copper, brass and stainless steel. We are very proud of the volume of metal we have removed from our community and the impact on the environment of this quantity of recycling. This started with one person raising the idea and quickly involved the whole village. We use a publicity campaign raising awareness of the day encouraging people to collect everything from old pots and pans, old cables, rusty agricultural cast offs up to derelict aluminium caravans and a small car. We have tractors and trailers going around the village to collect large items and farmers bring their own scrap on trailers. We have a team who sort the scrap using powerful magnets to pull out copper, aluminium, steel and we bag this all separately. We have worked with the local scrap metal yard who supply the industrial size skips. they appreciate the sorting we do and we take the separated metals down in a cattle trailer. On the day we have a team providing bacon sandwiches and hot drinks. Lessons learnt • There were plenty of naysayers who said it would not work but if you have a great idea for raising funds do your research, collect the data, have a compelling story , convince some people and then have a go ! • It needs to involve the whole village from caterers to tractor drivers to metal sorters. • • Make friends with your local scrap metal yard and get the skips for free. • • Sort the metal to maximise the money. • • Collect large items and run the event for one Saturday morning so that there is a concentrated effort. • • This only works every few years and each time we have been amazed at how much metal has accumulated. • • We have not found a solution to disposing of fencing wire and barbed wire of which there is plenty lying around. Scrap metal yards do not like it and it is difficult to handle. Please contact us if you would like any more information - Templeton Parish Council
Community Travel Schemes in Devon
'helping you get from A to B'
All of the links below offer solutions to staying mobile if you are unable to drive and live in a rural area.
Please explore the links listed below if you have issues with transport,
they could provide you with a helpful solution:
https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/connecting-you/
https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/community-bus-schemes/
https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/shopmobility/:
https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/ring-and-ride/
https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/
Accessible Walks
The link below is a map with a list of accessible walks across Devon.
https://www.exploredevon.info/category/activities/walk/accessible-walks/
Texting 999 in case of an emergency and no signal:
Can I text 999?
Yes, you can send a text to 999 in an emergency. But why would you want to?
- In a remote environment in the mountains for example you may not be able to make a phone call but you may be able to send a text as they need less bandwidth to be sent. The problem with calls is that you need to ensure you’ll have proper reception during the length of the call. Sometimes signal quality is simply not good enough to allocate the necessary bandwidth for a voice call, but you can still send/receive texts because the bandwidth you need for that is really narrow.
- The emergency SMS service lets deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people in the UK send an SMS text message to the UK 999 service where it will be passed to the police, ambulance, fire rescue, or coastguard.
So in an emergency situation being able to text 999 rather than phone them can save lives, potentially your own.
You will need to register your mobile phone before using the emergency SMS service. Following registration, by simply sending an SMS message to 999 you can call for help and the emergency services will be able to reply to you.
How to register your phone for text SMS
Register your mobile phone with the service before an emergency happens. Simply text ‘Register’ to 999. Wait for the reply so you know you are registered, usually you are asked to confirm that you’d like to register and the original message wasn’t sent by mistake. It is that simple.
When an emergency happens – If an emergency happens we advise you only to use SMS to contact the emergency services if you have no other option. This is because it will take longer than other methods such as calling 999, however if you can’t make the call, the text service is a valuable alternative.
What information should an emergency text message contain?
Create an SMS message containing the details below:
Which service? Need Ambulance, Coastguard, Fire Rescue, or Police
What? Briefly what is the problem
Where? Be as accurate as possible when giving the location. The better your information is the faster the emergency services will be able to send help. Using the App What3Words is a very easy and useful way to give your location, particularly in rural areas. Alternatively, the OSLocate app provides an immediate grid reference and is another valuable resource.
For more information about Outdoor First Aid courses contact us on our office email – courses@firstaidtrainingcooperative.co.uk
Please check here to see if you are entitled to pension credits
For more information on Pension Credits please use the link below :
https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit
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