Action: Market Drayton and Shawbury

If you live in Market Drayton or the surrounding areas, this is your chance to get involved in decisions affecting your community.

Action: Market Drayton and Shawbury is a pilot series of meetings held four times a year that gives people in the area a chance to meet with local councillors, get involved in decisions affecting their community and help decide how the committee spends its budget.

The Action: Market Drayton and Shawbury local joint committe covers a large area including the following parishes: Adderley, Cheswardine, Child’s Ercall, Hinstock, Hodnet, Ightfield, Moreton Corbett and Lee Brockhurst, Moreton Say, Norton-in-Hales, Stanton-upon-Hine Heath, Stoke-on-Tern, Sutton-on-Tern, Weston-under-Redcastle and Woore.

There is a budget of £65,000 available to take action on local initiatives.

Action: Market Drayton and Shawbury is one of eleven local joint committees that are now meeting regularly across Shropshire.

Future meetings

• 14 January 2009 at Cheswardine Parish Hall
• 25 March 2009 at Shawbury Village Hall

Previous meeting - 24 September 2008

The sixth meeting took place at Woore Victory Hall on 24th September 2008. The committee agreed to funding the following projects from the 2008/09 budget allocation:-

• £3,500 for the refurbishment of Woore Chapel
• £3,500 for improved signage and advertising at the Festival Drayton Centre
• £2,500 for the Celebration of the Countryside Exhibition and Market
• £5,000 for young people's activities in the local countryside
• £3,000 to refurbish the toilets at Adderley Village Hall
• £1,000 to build a practise wall at Market Drayton Tennis Club
• £10,000 to refurbish the play area at Buntingsdale
• £2,900 for equipment and training at Woore Cricket Club

Please follow the link entitled 'committee papers for Market Drayton and Shawbury' to see the agendas and reports for meetings.