Coastal change exhibition Thursday 30 June/Sat 2nd July

Jurassic Coastal Change Exhibitions - Find out more about adapting to coastal erosion

The Jurassic Coastal Change Pathfinder Team are inviting residents and visitors to the Jurassic Coast to a series of exhibitions in June and July to find out more about how coastal erosion may affect them and the area in the future. The exhibitions will highlight the causes of coastal change, and show what the coast may look like in 20, 50 and 100 years time using specially commissioned, computer-generated images. They will also present some of the ideas that communities themselves have come up with to adapt to change, following workshops along the Jurassic Coast as part of the project.

The exhibition dates, times and venues are:

Swanage: Thursday 30 June and Saturday 2 July at the Mowlem Theatre Community Room, Swanage, BH19 1DD
Exhibition: 10am-9pm (Thur) and 10am-7pm (Sat)
Presentations at 1pm and 7pm (Thur) and 3pm (Sat)

DCC cuts support for School Transport

Context....DCC will no longer guarantee a place on the free school bus to Purbeck School, in direct contravention of the undertaking they gave when the abolished our 2 secondary schools in 1974. The six formers will now have to find £400 each to get to this poorly performing instution. swanage families are being effectively taxed for having children! In addition all children (and from next year that means 11yr olds too) will have to produce a pass or be refused travel. fine for most kids most of the time but we all know how chaotic some kids and families can be. and we all forget to put stuff in our bags...how mny kids will be roaming swanage every morning when that rule is enforced...but if you live in Whareham where you don't have to pay £400 for the privilide you can just stroll in to scholl as usual. DCC just doesn't give a **** about Swanage kids or any kids come to that. Swanage can become a retirement and second home haven for all they care.



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 27/6/11 10:55 PM

Guinness Scuba challenge

Plans continue for the Guinness World Record™ Attempt for the ‘Most people scuba diving’, in Swanage Bay on 24 September 2011. See more on the link..

Swanage webcam

Does this work for anyone? I can't access it as I don't use Internet Explorer.

Card pumps

Doing our green bit.

Just a thought , my girlfriend and I had to drive all the way over to Sandford to fill up with fuel. Now she said would it not be a great idea to put a card fuel machine at our local garages , so you could pay by card and not have to travel so far to buy fuel. Plus when tourists come down they would not run out of fuel driving all over the place. Just a thought!



Posted by David Furmage to swanageview at 21/6/11 5:56 PM

Swanage Armed Forces and Veterans Weekend 25th-26th June

This year's events include the 11 Signals Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals, Liberty of the Town Parade, led by the Adjutant General Corps Band, Winchester.Saturday 25th Morning.

Also to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Royal British Legion a “Poppy in the Park Family Picnic”, bring your own or purchase some food on Sandpit Field with stalls etc.
This starts at 2pm and we have great food available hot and cold,Hog Roast,Gourmet burgers ,Cream Teas.Yumm! Part activities all arranged,games organised by Allnatt venues and St Marks school.

Stalls etc still on Sandpit field Sunday then meet the Veterans and Serving members of the Armed Forces Sunday afternoon on the parade with marching bands, and followed by the Mayors Civic Service at St Mary's Church Swanage.

Please support our Veterans and Armed forces.

Posted by carolyn to swanageview at 21/6/11 3:10 PM

Funding

Link to possible sources of funding, compiled by DCC, provided via Kim Gallagher of Swanage Town and Community Partnership.

Broadband

(This topic moved from Community Partnership)
Yes, download speeds are always the focus - but upload speeds are so incredibly poor. Fibre optic would enable both upload and download to be a great deal speedier than present. The copper wiring they have currently at the exchange, and which carries the speeds to your house, just aren't up to large streams of data. So changing this to fibre optic would give you much higher speeds. The issue with video conferencing is having quick upload speeds - ie using Skype to share screens and documents etc. Just trying to currently send any file larger than 200mb takes up to 2 hours + (if you're lucky).

There are a great deal of photographers in this area for instance, and I can only imagine their pain at having to wait hours to upload high quality resolution images. Imagine how this would be for large businesses trying to work over the exchange.

i think if we looked across the country, download speeds aren't brilliant, but - as you rightly say - upload speeds are never mentioned. I know they're laying the fibre optic in Bournemouth, so it really needs this council to step up and make a case (however realistic) for Swanage to get on a list - make it attractive to BT, tell them the businesses and home workers that would benefit. BT - as much as i hate them! - could be convinced to be part of providing employment for the local community etc.

I'm a filmmaker and attempting to upload my films (3min promo pieces, 300-400mb in the main) to YouTube and my website has proven to be almost impossible at times. Let alone actually sending the files to clients (I email via yousendit over night). You can get round the problems, but if a number of people were to upload large files to send at once, we would have a serious problem. I know of a fair few farmers who have been unable to send livestock forms etc back due to poor connections in more rural areas - downloading the forms are fine, but problems in uploading anything has proven to be very costly business wise. Add to that, once you have more home workers (should be the future with no new offices available in town or businesses willing to move here) sending files and creating websites to fill with content, the current system really won't be able to cope.

Bike demo 25 June

Hi, Charlie The Bikemonger here... probably the best bike shop in swanage ;-). We are having a demonstration day at the Bankes Arms Studland on 25/6/11, where people can come along and try a range of weird and wonderful bikes. Full details at... http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/blog-3-w.asp
Cheers
Charlie



Posted by Charlie The Bikemonger to swanageview at 17/6/11 3:52 PM

Sandbanks Ferry

An item on BBC Breakfast highlighted the high cost of tolls on the Humber Bridge, which have gone up from £2.70 to £3. The Humber bridge is over a mile long, (6,300 feet), and the distance to ‘go around’ some 50 miles plus. Sandbanks Chain Ferry on the other hand is £3.50 for 1,060 feet with a go around of circa 35 miles and the ferry itself is some 200 feet so only has to travel 800 feet. Seems like a rip off to me or is the toll fee based on Sandbanks earnings not Purbeck's ?



Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 15/6/11 3:04 PM

Swanage Library

Swanage Library re-opens 9.30 am tomorrow, 15th June, after its extensive refurbishment.

Jurassic Coastal Change Exhibition 30 June, 2 July

Jurassic Coastal Change Exhibitions - Find out more about adapting to coastal erosion

The Jurassic Coastal Change Pathfinder Team are inviting residents and visitors to the Jurassic Coast to a series of exhibitions in June and July to find out more about how coastal erosion may affect them and the area in the future. The exhibitions will highlight the causes of coastal change, and show what the coast may look like in 20, 50 and 100 years time using specially commissioned, computer-generated images. They will also present some of the ideas that communities themselves have come up with to adapt to change, following workshops along the Jurassic Coast as part of the project.

The exhibition dates, times and venues are:

Swanage: Thursday 30 June and Saturday 2 July at the Mowlem Theatre Community Room, Swanage, BH19 1DD
Exhibition: 10am-9pm (Thur) and 10am-7pm (Sat)
Presentations at 1pm and 7pm (Thur) and 3pm (Sat)

Swanage Community Partnership AGM 17 June

Annual General Meeting, 17^th June 2011

@ 10am Swanage Town Hall

[Meeting open to all, especially anyone who wants to get involved in helping make Swanage a better place to live, work or visit]

1. Welcome,

2. Apologies,

3. Appointment of Chairman

4. Appointment of Vice Chairman

5. Appointment of Honorary Treasurer

6. Appointment of Secretary

7. Chair’s Report and Review of the CSP 2010/2011 – A. Faulkner

8. Statement of Audited Accounts – M. Ayres

9. Minutes of 4^th March Quarterly meeting

10. Matters Arising

11. New Group Development

12. Neighbourhood Plans update

13. Education Swanage Update

14. Review of other projects throughout the Town – M.Ayres

15. AOB

16. Date of next AGM

New subject

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PURBECK! magazine

The long-awaited new magazine, PURBECK! is now out. Available from The Photographers Lounge, Tawny's, L'Artishe and the the Quarr Gallery at the moment. Well worth picking up a copy for a new perspective on life in Purbeck.

BandB

Four In A Bed - tv programme featured Swanage!

Last week's programme featured four B & Bs - including the Robertsbrook Guesthouse in Swanage.

Great programme - catch it again on 4oD -

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/four-in-a-bed/4od#3192723



Posted by Baggy to swanageview at 4/6/11 6:16 PM