A little history of Tarvin Village: I’m Ross and I moved to Tarvin when I was just 12 years old. Initially, it was a great upheaval as a child but soon, I came to love Tarvin, Chester and Cheshire as a place to grow up.
Since then, I have seen the village decline and yet the number of residents grow and grow.
I created Tarvin Village years ago in 1996 to showcase all that the village had to offer. Later, Tarvin Online appeared and received Lottery funding and I lost heart with providing a service and website at my own expense but I have decided I have done a lot for the village that I love and so I have decided to updated and re-launch the site.
The main purpose of Tarvin Village is to act as a shop front for residents to showcase all of the businesses, self-employed companies and cottage industries in Tarvin. To help support the local economy and hopefully, help some way to encourage investment.
I also fight a battle against litter in our countryside and streets which I cannot do on my own. I run two local businesses and I do what I can but hopefully, we will develop a team of Champions to help bring pride back to the village and keep it clean and tidy.
who we need
We are trying to co-ordinate a team around the village. There are volunteers who occasionally help out but there is little structure, frequency or reliability to this.
We plan to create a database of Champions and a mailing system where we can alert a Champion who covers a small area of the village if their ‘patch’ has received a report of littering.
Keeping on top of issues is better than trying to fight against a tide.
Our Goal
If we can organise a team big enough, we see the possibility that each volunteer only need keep an eye on their small section of a road meaning each volunteer only need to offer up 30 minutes of their time each week.
Ideally, I see two Champions in each road in the village. A system where residents feel empowered to get involved in village life and where it is easy to help make Cheshire West & Chester Council respond quickly and resolve issues which they are responsible for. Where the village realises a new lease of life.
vision
I would like to be able to make the village better, more trees, cleaner, more bins, flowers, tighter-knit and happier residents. All of the work we do both trying to make the village cleaner and helping to find village champions and publicising the businesses in the village are all part of the plan to help make the village more for its residents.
Immediate Needs/Goals
- Litter Picking volunteers
- Litter Picking Trolley
- Money for above trolley – donate now
- Money for investing in advertising
- Money to cover website costs
Longer Term Goal
- Bins by every Bus Stop
- Barrel Planters full of flowers boarding the road at every main entrance
- Regular street sweeper visits
- Semi-mature trees with metal protection to replace trees broken by cowboy grass-cutters
- Verges by roads outside houses to be trimmed back to the edging stones to today up and reveal full pavement
- Small donations as gifts to regular volunteers
download THE CWAC REPORT-IT app
Small Screen. Big RESULT
Did you know that CWaC doesn’t proactively carry work any more? Due to cost-cutting, they have become a reactive council. The best way to get lights fixed, pot holes filled, street signs replaced, fly-tipping collected and even to report a missed bin collection is to log a job on the app.