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Support your local businesses this Saturday … and every day!
It was lovely to catch up with Christine Hope of Hopes of Longtown: a really fabulous village shop and so much more! Christine's an inspiring businesswoman, totally rooted in her local community and providing a fantastic service in a very rural area! This coming...
Rural Business Advice Day
The Herefordshire Rural Business Advice Day was absolutely buzzing! Brilliantly organised by Herefordshire Rural Hub and partners, there were dozens of stalls offering support to local businesses. And super-helpful advice sessions too, on topics like sustainable...
Wonderful Wye Valley Brewery
It was fascinating to have a tour around the inner workings of the wonderful local Wye Valley Brewery! This brilliant local company sources most of its hops locally and supplies delicious beer to umpteen pubs both in Herefordshire and the wider region - as well as...
Herefordshire food for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
The wonderful Herefordshire Food Alliance has organised delicious harvest meals cooked from 100% local Herefordshire produce - because you can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner grown in our wonderful county! The breakfast was hosted by the inimitable Regen Ben at...
Learning more about our GPs
It was very useful to meet the Chair and Managing Director of Herefordshire General Practice, which brings together the 19 GP practices in Herefordshire. I was surprised to hear that while 90% of NHS contacts are primary care, only 8% of UK health funding goes to...
Bromyard and Brimfield Village Hall Tour dates
Dates 3 and 4 of my Village Hall Tour took me to Brimfield and Bromyard! It was great to answer questions and I received some lovely feedback from audience members afterwards. People seem to really appreciate the fact that I’m reaching out and listening to people’s...
Brilliant training opportunities
Fascinating to visit Herefordshire and Worcestershire Group training (HWGTA). It was great to chat to so many engineering apprentices in the workshops. I share their enthusiasm for this very practical work-based approach to learning and training! They are holding an...
I won a prize at Trumpet Ploughing Match!
The Trumpet Ploughing Match is a wonderful celebration of local traditions and skills. I had a great time there this morning chatting with local farmers. It's a serious technical business and the judges have a keen eye! And I won a prize in the domestic section....
New cycle track open!
It was great to be at the official opening of the new Halo Leisure Hereford Cycle Track! It is such a brilliant facility for all of Herefordshire. And it was wonderful to meet the inspirational cyclist and campaigner Chris Boardman MBE at the opening. Chris is a...
Patient experience at Wye Valley NHS Trust
Really good to meet Alison Stemp, Patient Experience Manager at Wye Valley NHS Trust, to chat about the work her team does to improve the patient experience. Fantastic to learn more about the amazing support given by so many volunteers to help support patients and...