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Projects

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Our projects include everything from gardening and crafts to fundraising and events...

and they're all overseen by our ACTION GROUP

All our active projects are listed below – along with others which have now been completed.

We give details of ways to get involved in our regular newsletters. If you're interested in a particular activity you can also sign up for a WhatsApp group, to keep in touch with like-minded members.

For more details on any project, just click on the title...

Active Projects

For more details, click on project title...

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Sustainable Travel Plan

We are encouraging people to leave their cars at home by supporting an initiative to develop a Walk & Ride Network of safe and pleasant routes for walkers, cyclists and in some cases horse riders. The aim is to link residential areas with schools, places of work, the town centre and shops – as well as existing cycle trails and footpath networks. This project is one of several initiatives led by our Access, Parking, Traffic & Transport group. The latest addition is Buses & Boots, which aims to map out a series of walks starting from local railway stations and bus stops.

 

Very Big Spring Clean

A town clean-up has become an annual event – but this year's is bigger than ever. We split the area into zones, each covered by a different team, who clean signs, litter bins, post boxes and anything else they come across as well as picking up litter and clearing any weeds.

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Buxton Baublers

Each year we work with other organisations to decorate the town for Christmas – putting the seasonal sparkle back into Buxton. Decorations are created by the Baublers... who also decorate the town during summer Festival season and for Remembrance Sunday.

 

Fairfield Road – Gateway to Buxton

Fairfield is one of the main routes into town, but it wasn't the greatest advert! So a group of local residents got together to improve it by cleaning, tidying and beautifying.

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Utilising Corporate Volunteer Hours

Employees from some local companies have used paid 'volunteer' time off to help the Town Team with projects including repainting the bridges in the Pavilion Gardens. New ideas and volunteers are always welcome.


Slopes About Town

Weekly work sessions on The Slopes have become a regular activity for Town Team volunteers – who meet weekly to take care of everything from weeding, trimming, cleaning moss from stone walls, urns and railings, and painting the benches. Recently their sessions have been doubled and include not just on The Slopes, but at numerous sites around the town too. 


Operation Ashwood Park

This neglected garden alongside the River Wye has been transformed thanks to volunteers who have planted flowers, cut back trees and cleared the river. They have also driven valuable initiatives such as Rewilding the River Wye. Our latest project involves raising funds to replace the Ashwood bridges, making them safe, usable and accessible to all.


Litter Picking Group

Once a month, the group meets somewhere around the town, taking bags, barrows and litter pickers with them, to clear out the rubbish and keep Buxton looking beautiful. 

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AND THERE'S MORE...

That’s not all: we're always on the lookout for new projects. If you have a suggestion that fits in with Town Team objectives – or if you'd like to get involved in helping with any of our projects – we’d love to hear from you. Contact details below.

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Completed Projects

All our completed projects are listed below, others are ongoing. 

To read more details about any of these projects, please visit our Google Drive archive here: ARCHIVE

Turner's Memorial Restoration

Buxton Means Business

Vox Pops

Winter Lights Competition

Welcome to Buxton Station

Buxton on the Move Day

Utilising Corporate Volunteer Hours

Neighbourhood Development Plan

Peak District Boundary Walk

Shop Local Scheme

Open Gardens Trail 2017

Merchandise

Markets Regeneration

Friends of Buxton Station

Pop-Ups & Incubators

Green Man Gallery

Market Place Enhancement

Crescent Planters

Buxton BID

Buxton, Too Lovely to Litter

Buxton in Bloom 2016
Open Gardens 2016

Buxton Spring Fair 2016

Buxton Market Revitalisation

Buxton Railings Clean 2016
Buxton on the Move Conference
Tour of Britain 2015
Buxton in Bloom 2015
Talking Signposts 2015
Buxton Spring Fair 2015

Buxton Spa Prize

Spring Clean & Railings Clean 2015
2020 Vision: the Buxton Conference
Artisan Market Trials

Beautifying Buxton Phase I

Buxton in Bloom 2014

Talking Signposts 2014

Buxton Illustrated Map

ATCM Town Team of the Year

Buxton Spring Fair 2014
Big Buxton Spring Clean 2014
Christmas Crawl 2013

One Year On
Academy of Urbanism Visit
Talking Signposts Trial 2013
Buxton Spring Fair 2013
Green Man Gallery
Christmas Crawl 2012 

Interested? Come and join us...

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