Borough Wide News
09/03/2024: Erewash Sound presenter Richard Dawson, who spent over 50 hours on the air on an outside broadcast, has doubled and smashed through a £1,000 target.
08/03/2024: Borough councillors in Erewash have voted for a below-inflation 2.99 per cent rise in the borough’s council tax.
08/03/2024: A consortium of equine organisations including Derby College Group is rallying the industry to play a leading role in addressing the climate crisis and shaping a better future, with the launch of the first nationwide equine carbon calculator.
07/03/2024: Erewash Borough Council has welcomed a surprise levelling-up boost in the Budget – of a potential £5million towards “culture projects” in the borough.
07/03/2024: Erewash Voluntary Action is organising a Connecting Erewash Week from 22nd – 28th April 2024 as part of the Connect Erewash initiative to combat loneliness and isolation in the borough.
07/03/2024: New research from Midlands Connect suggests Derby and Derbyshire remain on track for an EV boom and could see just under 66,000 electric cars on its streets by the end of the decade, with a significant increase in public EV charge points needed to keep up with demand. The new projections were announced at the recent Midlands Connect EV Conference.
06/03/2024: A spokesperson for the East Midlands Chamber has said that an increased VAT threshold to help small businesses and measures to get people back into work are among the positive takeaways from an otherwise “very safe” budget.
06/03/2024: An 11 year old boy from Erewash has amazed the stars of ITV programme This Morning as he showed off his invention of a revolutionary T-shirt – which has gone into production thanks to a borough council grant won by his dad’s business.
06/03/2024: A borough council salute to the brave men and women of the Royal Navy’s Flying Tigers helicopter squadron is poised to see landlocked Erewash grant them the Freedom of the Borough.
06/03/2024: Draycott writer, Alan Dawson, has created a free drama workshop to which he hopes he can encourage local men to attend. The workshop is focused upon a short play he is developing, Midlife: Guilty as Charged, which explores aspects of men’s mental health/ wellbeing - the writer stresses that no experience in the performing arts is necessary. Workshops #1 and #2 are men only activities whilst a workshop / performance #3 is mixed.