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A grant for community-led housing projects from the Forest of Dean District Council has provided 14 new windows and three new doors for the Tibberton Almshouses.

Freedom Leisure Cinderford and Freedom Leisure Lydney are in partnership with BBC Radio Gloucestershire to support Kit out the Nation, a national campaign helping to provide sports equipment to children and young people who need it most.

Following a successful scheme run earlier this year, Forest of Dean District Council will be writing to eligible families with children outside of the age range for free school meals to offer support with buying food, helping some of the local families most in need.

Hips Social, a family run coffee shop and eatery in Lydney, has been selected as the service provider for a new café at Lydney Docks. 

Residents, organisations and businesses in the Forest of Dean are being asked what they think about the District Council’s proposals for driving forward the local response to the climate crisis.

Local residents are being reminded not to lose their voice on decisions that affect them by making sure their electoral registration details are up to date.

It will be easier for housing developers, builders and residents wanting to extend their existing properties, to go green from now on following the launch of a revolutionary new online toolkit packed full of help and advice.

Forest of Dean District Council is inviting local residents, groups and businesses to take part in new engagement forums to help plan for the future of housing, businesses and wider growth in the Forest of Dean.

Forest of Dean District Council (FODDC) has prosecuted an individual for offences relating to the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Organisations across the Forest of Dean are being called on to join a new community-led partnership to speed up the response to the climate emergency.

Forest of Dean District Council has agreed to buy the Five Acres site as an initial step towards redeveloping the site and creating exciting new leisure, enterprise and community facilities for the Forest.

Forest of Dean District Council has prosecuted Anthony Pearson from Littledean for Fly-tipping and failing to produce a valid waste license under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.