Partners

We are very fortunate to count local businesses as both partners and kind sponsors of our cause.

Please see below a few of these great businesses. Wherever possible, support local and know you are helping our community in doing so.

Candled- a local business producing beautiful energy saving LED candles for home and commercial use. Made locally, proudly made in Britain. Click below to visit their website and online shop. Or simply cut and paste http://www.candled.co.uk into your browser. Happy shopping!

MRP Electrical Services- a professional local electrician for your domestic and commercial needs. Based here in Milton Abbot but covering within a 20 mile radius of Tavistock .Fast, efficient, professional local service. Visit the website at www.tavistockelectrician.com or call Mark on 07595596219 or 01822870590.

Mark Gadden is a local trusted builder and plasterer dedicated to both building the future and restoring the past. You can reach Mark for all enquiries on mobile 07757719781 or homeline 01822870166. Also on email: markgadden@icloud.com

Meakin Fencing in Tavistock, are a local business supplying solutions for all your fencing needs. Serving West Devon, Plymouth and East Cornwall- speak to Gerald and his team on 01822 616782. Thanks guys for your contribution of wood for our speed signs!

Click below to visit their excellent and informative website

The Barn Climbing Wall , Milton Abbot is a dedicated indoor climbing facility run by climbers for climbers! It also has a great cafe serving award winning Devon roasted Voyager Coffee and Tavistocks own Flapjackery along with milkshakes, smoothies and paninis. Whether you are planning a solo, group or school event, check out their website by clicking below and their active event calendar. Thanks Brian for your support and loan for the high viz vests for the school kids!

Countryside Accountancy is a trusted local professional small accountancy practice company based in Launceston. For many years they have been supporting local businesses and individuals with their book keeping, payroll services tax returns and smart business planning. For advice, help, support you can reach them by email countrysidepl15@gmail.com or via the office phone on 01566777411 .

Craig is a professional Milton Abbot based garden services company meeting the needs of local businesses and individuals. Ranging from grass cutting to full land/garden management services, Craig has the knowledge and equipment to assist your needs effectively. You can reach Craig on his mobile 07871855778 and his website is http://www.gardinersworldsw.co.uk

Gallery

We are proud to showcase some of the wonderful creative designs for signage our village have produced!

First off the block are Craig , Laoni ,and their talented girls Ronni and Iris (we think they did most of the work lol!)

Here’s a lovely poster made by Isabelle Jinman!

Special commendation to our village artist Derwent for his amazing creation!

Press

We were fortunate to have Lindsay Turpin, a local journalist support our cause recently in the Tavy Times (22 October 2020)

Further Resources

FREE selfie props are now available to spread the NO NEED TO SPEED message, with a cost for p&p. Use these props in your community, school or workplace to campaign for safer speeds and share your photos using #RoadSafetyWeek2020.

We are also offering wheelie bin stickers for sale, creating a very visible shout out for slower traffic on your street!

Let’s get Milton Abbot covered in signs so all road users recognise the need to respect speed limits!

Deadline for orders: Monday 26 October. All orders will be dispatched week beginning 2 November. Visit the shop to place an order and for more information.

Selfie props are free, wheelie bin stickers £2 each. Postage and packaging costs:
1-2 props £6.00
3-5 props £6.40
6-10 props £6.80
1-5 wheelie bin stickers: £6.25
Bundle package of 2 props and 2 stickers £4 plus £6.50 p&pFor bulk orders, please contact roadsafetyweek@brake.org.uk

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Keeping Milton Abbot safe for all

We are launching a new campaign to slow the traffic down through the village. Since lockdown, traffic speed has increased alarmingly and we feel the 30mph limits are not being adhered to.

We plan to launch a series of initiatives between October and March which will focus on slowing traffic down in and around our village, making roads safer for all users. The pillars of our campaign will be community, education, awareness, signage and speed reduction.

We will work with a number of established organisations to build momentum and meaning into our campaign including, but not limited to, Devon & Cornwall Police, Devon Council, Local MP’s, Brake The Road Safety Charity, The Countryside Charity (formerly Campaign to Protect Rural England).

Timetable of activities;

Road Safety Week

The first campaign will focus on Road Safety Week , and we encourage you all to get actively involved! The dates are 16th -22nd November

Please access their website here (when asked for access code enter RSW2020);

http://roadsafetyweek.org.uk/rsw2020-action-pack.

Community Speedwatch Campaign.

In due course, a speed watch campaign will take place in the village which aims to remind drivers the importance of respecting and complying with the speed limit in our rural village.

It will be run as an official Community Speed Watch Group and we will in time, once training has been undertaken, by the community, in line with the availability of the Police, share the full details of the objectives and timetable of activities.

We have many youngsters commuting to the primary school and crossing roads to catch school buses. We have young mums with prams and expectant mums too. We enjoy an active pensioner community. Everybody whether young , old, horse riders, cyclists, ramblers or dog walkers , and our much loved pets, deserve safety.

Let’s work together to encourage all drivers to slow down in our village and keep everyone safe.

Together, we can reduce greatly the likelihood of a tragedy and keep beautiful Milton Abbot safe.

Contacts;

Your local lead coordinator for Community Speedwatch is Chris Stone , Sonia Callaway is the deputy coordinator. The communications coordinator is Angus McKenzie. Please feel free to speak to us , respecting social distancing by email or phone please,if you have positive ideas or wish to contribute to the campaign.

Whilst Chris is focused exclusively on the community speedwatch element, both Sonia and Angus are organising the wider campaign.

Perhaps you’d like to join as a volunteer to be trained by the police in the speedwatch campaign? If so please get in touch with Chris.

Alternatively you may want to be involved in the wider campaign, have time, energy or ideas to share and just want to connect with our group. Our success depends on the many, not the few, and we are an inclusive group so please reach out with any messages of support to Sonia directly.

Chris – 01822870721 stonecj49@btinternet.com

Sonia- 07929796693/ sonia@miltonabbotspeedsafety.org

Angus – 07446398968 / angus@miltonabbotspeedsafety.org

A series of trained volunteers will carry out planned one hour traffic monitoring sessions with a legally calibrated Police speed gun. Warnings will be sent to offenders, offering the chance to ammend their ways. Persistent offenders may, at the discretion of the Police, face further action.

We simply want to keep our village safe!

Community

It’s your community! Perhaps you have an idea or suggestion? Let’s put all our heads together to create and deliver and hugely successful campaign.

Reporting of incidents

Have you or your family been a victim of a road traffic incident resulting from speeding in the village? Maybe you’ve witnessed a driver not leaving a safe distance between you and their vehicle?We’d like to hear from you, in order that we can build a formal record of incidents to carry weight in applications for revisions of traffic signage. Please email any such incidents via the contacts page.

Covid 19

Just a reminder that in all of our communication and activities, safety is paramount. We will in every instance observe the current Government regulations relating to Covid 19. Please bear this in mind at all times.

Now is the right time!

Together , we can do this! With the forthcoming National Campaign and current Government policy, there has never been a better moment in the villages history to seize the opportunity and make lasting positive changes for future generations.

Good luck and thanks for reading this post. Feel free to comment!

Fundraising

We would like to be able to supply each child at the primary school with a branded high viz vest for their safety. In addition we would like to produce quality weatherproof signage to reinforce the 30mph speed limits with home and land owners in the village.

To help fund these, we have set up a gofundme page with a target to raise £1000. Any unspent funds will be divided equally with Milton Abbot community groups.

We encourage all types of creative fundraising and donations can be made online below or handled by Sonia, herself a qualified accountant.

Let’s get busy!

https://bit.ly/33I06Eo

Learning from Lamerton.

We spoke with Yorkie Malone, the resident and speed campaigner in Lamerton about what promted their village to address speeding, and how the activities have galvanised the community and made a tangible difference to safety within the village.

‘I wanted to campaign originally back in 1983 to get Lamerton a 30mph limit as at that time there was no speed limit. I engaged with the then local councilor and police and was able after much red tape to get the 30mph limit introduced.

We also managed to get street lights, as at that time a 30mph could not be implemented without this.

I then knocked on doors (pre covid) and asked locals to create and display 30mph signs on their property and gardens and invited locals to a meeting in the village hall. Signs were made and installed.

Also a safety camera system was installed that logs vehicles, times and speed, building a vital data record for authorities in any future traffic calming measures.

During lock-down we noticed what we considered ‘locals’ speeding again when the traffic was light. Unable to knock on doors, we leafleted the villagers asking once agian for signs. The recent response from the community was fantastic, fresh signs went up and the scheme has been a success.

Speeding in villages in a National issue that appears to be getting worse but there is satisfaction in our community effort ,to have played a significant part in increasing compliance to the important 30mph zones in the village.

Good luck to Milton Abbot!’

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