Welcome to Templeton Parish Council Website

Next meeting of the council will be held on: 

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Please note that there may be a change of date from Tuesday 25th November to Wednesday 26th November 2025 - To be confirmed.

 at Templeton Village Hall - 7.30 p.m.

NOTICE OF VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR

Templeton Parish Council

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

1. Under section 87(2) of the Local Government Act 1972, notice is hereby given that a casual vacancy now exists for a Councillor in the Parish of Templeton following the resignation of David Leeming.
2. If within 14 working days of publication of this notice, an election is requested by 10 persons who are named on the electoral register for Templeton, an election to fill the casual vacancy will be held. If no such request is made, the vacancy will be filled by
co-option.
3. Any request for an election made pursuant to paragraph 2 above should be made in writing and must be made to the Returning Officer at the address below.
If you require any further information or advice on requesting an election, please contact Electoral Services on elections@middevon.gov.uk or 01884 255255.

Dated: 4th August 2025

Stephen Walford
Returning Officer
Phoenix House
Phoenix Lane
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 6PP

Templeton Parish Council is comprised of five elected councillors.

Councillors contact details can be found on this website.

The Parish Council meets regularly every two months in Templeton Village Hall.

Dates of meetings are published in advance and members of the public and parish are welcome to attend.

Meetings commence with an opportunity for public questions regarding agenda items.

The agendas of upcoming meetings are published a week in advance and are displayed on the Parish Council website, village noticeboards and at Templeton Village Hall.

Parish Councils are required to make Statutory documents available. 

Please contact our Parish Clerk Beverley Newman for any further information -

clerk@templetonparishcouncil.org.uk

Mrs Beverley Newman

Venn Bridge House,

Drayford Lane,

Witheridge,

Devon.

EX16 8PR.

 

Templeton Noticeboard

Important information for parishioners :

Mid Devon District Council has launched a new Business e-newsletter. 

The e-newsletter will keep businesses informed about initiatives including grant schemes, training and events, as well as a roundup of information and useful resources to support them.

See link under Mid Devon Notices section above.

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Scrap Metal collections at Templeton Parish Council

David Parker, Democratic Services Officer for MDDC recently attended a meeting of Templeton Parish Council and noted that we have a great scheme for collecting scrap metal and raising funds from the collection. A win win for our countryside. MDDC have shared our initiatives with town and parish councils incase should they wish to take up the idea.

Raising money from Scrap Metal Templeton is a small rural community in Mid Devon. Population 110. The village has an active parish council, village hall committee and parochial church council. There are several fundraising activities every year : village fetes, quizzes, safari suppers ,duck races and talent shows. These enable us to provide a village hall with a social club and bar and a village church. We have lots of activities including reading groups, gardening clubs, knot and natter and a thriving art club. In 2014 an initiative was started to collect scrap metal from the area. The village has now had four scrap metal events. We raised in 2012 £2346.30, in 2014 £1948, in 2019 £1693.41 and in 2024 £1740.06 . In total £7727.77 for the village. Since we started this event in 2012 we have filled 9 industrial size skips with general metal and four cattle trailers with aluminium, copper, brass and stainless steel. We are very proud of the volume of metal we have removed from our community and the impact on the environment of this quantity of recycling. This started with one person raising the idea and quickly involved the whole village. We use a publicity campaign raising awareness of the day encouraging people to collect everything from old pots and pans, old cables, rusty agricultural cast offs up to derelict aluminium caravans and a small car. We have tractors and trailers going around the village to collect large items and farmers bring their own scrap on trailers. We have a team who sort the scrap using powerful magnets to pull out copper, aluminium, steel and we bag this all separately. We have worked with the local scrap metal yard who supply the industrial size skips. they appreciate the sorting we do and we take the separated metals down in a cattle trailer. On the day we have a team providing bacon sandwiches and hot drinks. Lessons learnt • There were plenty of naysayers who said it would not work but if you have a great idea for raising funds do your research, collect the data, have a compelling story , convince some people and then have a go ! • It needs to involve the whole village from caterers to tractor drivers to metal sorters. • • Make friends with your local scrap metal yard and get the skips for free. • • Sort the metal to maximise the money. • • Collect large items and run the event for one Saturday morning so that there is a concentrated effort. • • This only works every few years and each time we have been amazed at how much metal has accumulated. • • We have not found a solution to disposing of fencing wire and barbed wire of which there is plenty lying around. Scrap metal yards do not like it and it is difficult to handle. Please contact us if you would like any more information - Templeton Parish Council

 Community Travel Schemes in Devon

'helping you get from A to B'

All of the links below offer solutions to staying mobile if you are unable to drive and live in a rural area. 

Please explore the links listed below if you have issues with transport,

they could provide you with a helpful solution:  

    https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/connecting-you/

      https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/community-bus-schemes/

    https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/shopmobility/:

      https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/ring-and-ride/

    https://www.traveldevon.info/accessibility/community-transport/

   Accessible Walks

The link below is a map with a list of accessible walks across Devon.

    https://www.exploredevon.info/category/activities/walk/accessible-walks/



Texting 999 in case of an emergency and no signal:

Can I text 999?

Yes, you can send a text to 999 in an emergency. But why would you want to?

• In a remote environment in the mountains for example you may not be able to make a phone call but you may be able to send a text as they need less bandwidth to be sent. The problem with calls is that you need to ensure you’ll have proper reception during the length of the call. Sometimes signal quality is simply not good enough to allocate the necessary bandwidth for a voice call, but you can still send/receive texts because the bandwidth you need for that is really narrow.
• The emergency SMS service lets deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people in the UK send an SMS text message to the UK 999 service where it will be passed to the police, ambulance, fire rescue, or coastguard.

So in an emergency situation being able to text 999 rather than phone them can save lives, potentially your own.

You will need to register your mobile phone before using the emergency SMS service. Following registration, by simply sending an SMS message to 999 you can call for help and the emergency services will be able to reply to you.

How to register your phone for text SMS

Register your mobile phone with the service before an emergency happens. Simply text ‘Register’ to 999. Wait for the reply so you know you are registered, usually you are asked to confirm that you’d like to register and the original message wasn’t sent by mistake.  It is that simple.

When an emergency happens – If an emergency happens we advise you only to use SMS to contact the emergency services if you have no other option. This is because it will take longer than other methods such as calling 999, however if you can’t make the call, the text service is a valuable alternative.  

What information should an emergency text message contain?

Create an SMS message containing the details below:

Which service? Need Ambulance, Coastguard, Fire Rescue, or Police

What? Briefly what is the problem

Where? Be as accurate as possible when giving the location. The better your information is the faster the emergency services will be able to send help. Using the App What3Words is a very easy and useful way to give your location, particularly in rural areas. Alternatively, the OSLocate app provides an immediate grid reference and is another valuable resource.

For more information about Outdoor First Aid courses contact us on our office email – courses@firstaidtrainingcooperative.co.uk

Please check here to see if you are entitled to pension credits

For more information on Pension Credits please use the link below :

https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit