Best kept village 2025

Derry Hill and Studley is entering the Wiltshire Best Kept Village Competition in 2025. We need more volunteers over the next year. Can you provide a few hours to help with some digging or fixing, cleaning, trimming, projects, enhancing our community and any specialist skills you may have? Also do you have any suggestions for improvements?
 

It will be very important that the whole community works together if we are to succeed in presenting the best impression of our village. We just need to build up a routine of keeping things in check for when the judges arrive next year. They will be scoring us on the following areas:

· Hedges, trees, walls, fences, banks, roadside verges.

· Residential gardens and outbuildings, allotments.

· Public playing fields (including club houses or pavilions).

· Village greens, public open spaces.

· Footpaths and rights of way, ponds and streams.

· Village halls, church halls, scout/guide halls, and other community buildings.

· School surrounds and playing fields.

· Exterior of church and surrounds, including burial-grounds separate burial-grounds or memorial gardens, war memorials.

· Shops, offices, workshops, public houses, garages, car sales establishments.

· Bus shelters and telephone kiosks.

· Public notice-boards, upkeep and currency.

· (In date) advertising displays and their restraint, absence of fly-posting, litter and dog poo.

· Community Spirit and website

· Appearance of conservation/wildlife areas