Goods from our local producers, shops and craftspeople are not stuck in a container – they’re here already. And our traders are doing their utmost to meet your needs. Here’s what Stur Christmas and New Year’s Day offers…
4th December is our Small Business Saturday. Thanks to the authorities working with retailers we’ve got free parking and special offers from our traders.
As Christmas is galloping towards us do not forget our two community shops turning your pre-loved items into new to be-loved goods for our residents and for the benefit of our community. We have:
The Boutique
Officially renamed as The Boutique (from The Community Chest) by Alice Fox Pitt in November, the shop is full of lovely, good quality clothes at easy prices – treat yourself!
The Emporium
Gentlemen – remember the Dapper Chaps boutique, everything you need for your Christmas outfits. Also look out for children’s toys at The Emporium and children’s clothes at The Boutique. The clothes are inexpensive and the quality is good – just what a parent of growing children needs. And you can buy new toys and donate the ones no longer played with.
Stock is turning over all the time and makes shopping fun – without breaking the bank. Do also support our other two charity shops – Stur has four fun ‘pre-loved’ shops to browse in while supporting good causes – it’s a shopaholic’s paradise for buying good quality goods at low prices. Profits from our other charity shops go to The Friends of Blandford Hospital – raising funds to support our local hospital – and also Brainwave, helping children with disabilities reach their potential through specialist therapy programmes.
The Country Market
On Tuesdays in Stur. there is the special treat of The Country Market in the ground floor of The Exchange, open 9 until 11.30am. Here you will find everything homemade, home grown and hand crafted. The Country Market is a cooperative, and sells the produce directly to the public (or through selected retailers) under the Country Markets label. A brilliant place for all those unusual Christmas gifts – and lovely food treats. And when you have done your shopping linger for a coffee and a chat – there is always someone to talk to.
Christmas Events coming up in Stur:
From 1st December keep your eyes open for Christmas Angels appearing around the town. They are for you to take home to keep, to give a name to, and if you like, to bring to the Christingle Service at St. Mary’s Church, 4pm on Christmas Eve afternoon.
Look forward to these ten treats:
The Car and Bike enthusiasts will be meeting as usual in the Station Road Car Park on Saturday 4th December (weather permitting) – bring your pride and joy or just come to admire.
From 4th December to 18th December take part in the SturShops quiz to win a hamper – pick up a form from The Emporium, the Exchange, Holebrooks Fine Foods or Hansons
10th and 11th December Christmas at the Opera raising money for The Exchange and the Pantry (event now sold out)
Join The Rotary’s ‘Santa Stride’ on 12th December along the Trailway.
St Mary’s Church Carol Service on 19th December .
23rd December 5pm – Carols in the Railway Gardens
St. Mary’s Church Christmas Eve First Mass of Christmas – 11.15 pm
Christmas Day at St Mary’s Church Holy Communion 10.00 a.m.
27th December FREE PARKING for you to come into Stur and shop in the sales.
And finally, 1st January The Classic Cars (and other vehicles) Run sponsored by Harts to raise funds for the Air Ambulance. The beautiful selection of vehicles will assemble in Station Road Car Park from 10 am to noon. Come and revisit the history of road transport. For more information and regular updates visithttps://sturminster-newton.org.uk/
Recently the BV received a letter to the editor commenting on the emptiness of Sherborne’s shopping streets, with numerous empty shop fronts. Editor Laura Hitchcock investigated – and in fact found the truth a far happier tale.
Sherborne, like every high street, has struggled through the last few years. Physical shopping footfall is declining across the country, and the pandemic in many places appears to have hastened the end of many previously-bustling shopping streets.
It was with pleased surprise then that I visited Sherborne to find it busy with shoppers, and with a greater variety of traders on its main streets than I had previously noticed or expected. “We’ve had some empty shops during the pandemic for obvious reasons. But I don’t think there’s a single empty one now which isn’t being renovated, or has someone ready to move in” says Jane Wood, President of Sherborne Chamber of Commerce and owner of Oliver’s Coffee House for the last decade. “If you like shopping, you’ll like Sherborne. And if you like unique, independent shops selling locally and ethically sourced gifts, food, clothing and more, with some great service thrown in, then you’ve got to love shopping in Sherborne.”
A town of Indies
Independent shops are run by people who live in and around a town – and they have been the lifeblood of the Sherborne community since the abbey was built over a thousand years ago. Even during the most difficult of years through the pandemic, in the last year new names have been welcomes to Sherborne town centre with an eclectic range of goods and services:
Sherborne Antiques Market 71 Cheap Street Regular readers will be no strangers to Craig and Philip’s new antiques market – we featured the store last month, showing how the stunning and witty window displays lure shoppers through the door, and the atmosphere of fun, the genuinely warm welcome, and of course the fascinating contents keep people inside.
There are currently 42 traders displaying antiques within the market, including three TV experts – Timothy Medhurst (Antiques Road Trip), Paul Atterbury (Antiques Roadshow) and Debbie Serpell (Dickinson’s Real Deal). No website, but find them on Facebook here. Open 7 days a week: Monday to Saturday 10 till 5, Sundays 11 till 4. Market Sundays 10 till 4. Phone: 01935 713760
Artichoke 14 Cheap Street Arabella has been trading Sherborne for a few years from a couple of locations in town – but has finally found a terrific shop on the high street where she sells decorative antiques and brocante living. Artichoke is another shop to lure you in for a browse, filled with a mix of items from linens to vintage French furniture – and also an Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Stockist.
Artichoke is open 4 days a week: Wednesday to Saturday 10 till 5. No website, but find them on Facebook here. Phone: 07854 383090
Ingredients 73 Cheap Street A family run delicatessen & gourmet fine food store with a large range of products sourced from the Mediterranean as well as local to Dorset.
The deli counter is, as you would expect, stocked full of Mediterranean charcuterie, an array of cheeses from Italy & Spain as well as a good range of local produce, and a range of Italian & Spanish antipasti. The hot pasta boxes are a terrific lunch option, as are the fresh sandwiches (Napoli salami, creamy brie, rocket & caramelised onion chutney £4.25). There’s plenty for the sweet tooth too – the Bocconcini del Nonno (traditional soft Italian almond biscuits covered with crisp almond flakes) are delicious, and the Panettone & Italian Christmas cakes are a range worth serious exploration.
Ingredients are offering a range of hampers for Christmas – frankly perfect for the foodie who has everything. Ingredients-dorset.co.uk
Open 5 days a week: Monday to Friday 9.30 – 4.30 Saturdays 9 til 4 Phone: 01935 713410
Caroline Nichols 18 Cheap Street
Caroline Nicholls isn’t a new face in Sherborne, but she has recently upsized from her original shop in Swan Yard. British country clothing and accessory designer, specialising in exquisite country style. www.carolinenicholls.com/ Monday to Saturday 10 till 5, Sundays to Christmas 10 till 4. Phone: 07894 545388
Candy Cabin Higher Cheap St
An old-fashioned sweet shop, with retro classics to traditional sweet jars; pick ‘n mix, freshly made instore candy floss, fresh popcorn and custom made sweet jars. No website, Facebook here 07403 289362
Lemon Vintage 81 Cheap Street
Clare has dealt in vintage clothing for ten years and has a reputation for an eye for a designer piece. Lemon Vintage is the ‘home of clothing, accessories & beautiful things; ideas and pieces to add zest to life and living ethically’.
Clare stocks vintage, pre-loved and upcycled items alongside designer pieces and high quality ethical beauty products in her ‘Bohemian space’.
Closed Wednesday and Sunday Otherwise open 10 till 4.30 Phone: 01935 813743
Best Ever Christmas Show – the most popular Christmas show in Dorset – is BACK!! We missed you last year so we have a brand new adventure for 2021 – a fun pantomime for all the family!
The hugely successful Best Ever Christmas Show returns to the Minster Theatre, Allendale Centre, Wimborne this December.
See Father Christmas with his jolly Ho, Ho, Ho!, laugh at his naughty Elves, and keep the spirit of Christmas alive and exciting for everyone! There’ll be buckets full of laughter, plenty of audience participation – and a FREE ice cream for every child – so book your tickets and let Best Ever Christmas Show take you on a magical mystery ride into the world of Santa’s grotto!
An illuminating trail of light installations themed on sustainability, will be set in the gardens of the Greening the eARTh Gallery in Wincanton (formerly Clementina’s) and in additional locations through the town.
At this free event visitors will be invited to explore the grounds and gallery to view the installations whilst enjoying warm cider, hot chocolate and pizza and hearty stew, all sourced from local producers The events will featuring local
artists including Zac Greening, eARTh Vader, Fossil Optical and Jigantics to name but a few. The Wincanton Town Festival of Lights launches on the 27th November and will be running from 5pm – 9pm on consecutive Saturdays – Saturday 27th
November, and 4th, 11th and 18th December. The Greening the eARTh gallery, 7 High Street, Wincanton, BA9 9JN IG/ FB @wincantontownfestival Email | [email protected]
On the 11th December the wonderful Wassail and Tall Tails Theatre present ‘The Tale of the Charming Rat’.
by Nick White & Richard Young
Wassail and Tall Tails are delighted to bring their co-production to Wincanton Town Festival this December! Asha has been invited to a party and it’s up to Cooper to get her there on time! Will he pull it off without getting caught by Rats All Folks Exterminators? Join in this epic adventure and help him along the way.
The Tale of the Charming Rat has been made possible with public funding from The National Lottery through Arts Council England.
A 25-minute retelling of the classic Cinderella story, the free tickets can be booked here.
Pantomime is traditionally a Christmas entertainment, but you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole of the past 21 months has been a bit of a panto, with mistaken identities, inflated promises and false starts.
Unless some new news of fresh variants with their vividly coloured spikes emerges, and the governmental response is more cautious than populist, all is set for a return to (almost) normal on the Christmas show front, with our local theatres preparing for the happy shouts of “It’s behind you” and “O no it isn’t” ringing out from children and their adults.
The shows that finance the rest of the theatrical year are in rehearsal, and celebrities, TV stars and local favourites are preparing to meet their public in the ever popular stories with their heroes, villains, knockabout comics and time-honoured slapstick routines, peppered with current pop songs and snatched dance video moments.
Across our area there are shows to suit most tastes, from the traditional to the quirkily modern. Expect jokes about PCR tests, bumbling brokers men called Track and Trace, and (hopefully) badly-thatched, pompously blustering landowners promising the moon and demanding obedience and adulation. There are few things more heartening than to
watch a child’s face at their first pantomime, where the magic comes to life at the same time as they are encouraged to shout, squeal and join in the fun. Theatres across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire have devised an exciting menu of shows for all the family:
Yeovil’s Octagon
Audiences are delighted that three of the venue’s favourite panto stars are back on stage for Mother Goose, which runs from 3rd December to 2nd January. Gordon Cooper, Jack Glanville and Lizzie Frances star in Paul Hendy’s new version of the story of the woman who was so worried about how she looked that she (almost) lost all her friends. But it’s a pantomime and that means we all live happily ever after.
Weymouth Pavilion
From 11th December to 2nd January, audiences will get taken for a ride – on Aladdin’s magic carpet from Old Peking. Our hero escapes the clutches of his wicked uncle Abanazar and rubs the magic lamp, but all is not well until the very end of the show, when riches and happiness come to him and his mother, the redoubtable Widow Twankey.
Bath
This holiday season you can see the all-time favourite show Cinderella in the beautiful Theatre Royal from 16th December to 9th January. Or for the younger audience, Five Children and It is in the Egg, the adjoining children’s performance space, from 10th December to 16th January. Grown-ups might like the spoof comedy A Christmas Getaway in the Ustinov Studio, a brand new seasonal story by New Old Friends.
Bristol
The Old Vic has the Wardrobe Ensemble’s version of Robin Hood, on now until 8th January. As always, the city’s “alternative” show is at the Tobacco Factory. OZ, a new look at Dorothy and the yellow brick road, is on stage from 10th December to 16th January.
Poole
Beauty and the Beast is the Lighthouse’s first ‘home grown’ production in many years, and is based on the brilliant Andrew Pollard show that started life in Salisbury in 2018, with a few “Poole” tweaks. It stars Michelle Collins, Chris Jarvis, and Wade Lewin, (who was in Bridgerton) as the Beast. It’s on from 9th to 31st December.
Wimborne Tivoli
Sleeping Beauty runs from 17th December to 2nd January, stars Alex Anstey, Chris Casey, Courtney Jackson, Tegen Jones and Sophie Lee-Stevens. If it’s big names you crave, travel further for Joe Pasquale as Wishee Washee in Aladdin at Plymouth, Lesley Joseph and Rob Rinder in Snow White at Bristol Hippodrome or Craig Revel Horwood in Cinderella at Southampton Mayflower.
A familiar face in the nation’s prime time drama shows, Hermione Norris’s extensive television credits include the hugely successful, long running comedy-drama Cold Feet (ITV) for which she was nominated for a British Comedy Award for her role as Karen Marsden.
Among her many leading roles in television, she has starred in Between Two Worlds, Luther, Innocent, In The Club, The Crimson Field and Spooks (four series), for which she won a Best Actress Award at the ITV Crime Thriller Awards for her role as Ros.
Hermione recently bought a farmhouse near Sturminster Newton, where she lives with her husband, their two children and the two dogs.
1. What’s your relationship with the Blackmore Vale (the loose North Dorset area, not us!)?
My husband went to Bryanston School, so we’ve always had a connection to the area. While living in London, one of our favourite escapes was a coastal walk from Eype to Lyme Regis. We bought a cottage in Thorncombe (actually from an advert in the original Blackmore Vale Magazine!), and spent every weekend and holiday there from 2001. Eventually we left London and moved just west of Yeovil – a couple more Dorset moves followed, and we’ve now finally settled just outside Sturminster Newton.
2. What was the last song you sang out loud in your car?
I have Adele’s new album on repeat! So so good. But for weeks it’s been ‘Easy On Me’.
3. What was the last movie you watched? Would you recommend it?
Oh, it was gut-wrenching. Seven Pounds – my son made me watch it with him last weekend. It was heartbreaking, filled with so many fears, just your worst nightmare. Harrowing. I was sobbing – I’d have preferred to watch High School Musical, to be honest! Will Smith was terrific though, he’s such a beautiful soul.
4. It’s Friday night – you have the house to yourself, and no work is allowed. What are you going to do?
Watch Schitt’s Creek back to back episodes. Or maybe The Family Stone. With cheese and biscuits. And Nuts. Olives. Chocolate. And crisps. Lots of crisps.
5. Who’s your celebrity crush?
Harvey Keitel. Does he count as a celebrity? (yes! – Ed). He’s a celebrity to me! I’ve always really liked him.
6. What would you like to tell 15yr old Hermione Norris?
“How others behave is none of your business. Don’t walk out on yourself.”
7. If you were sent to an island for a year and could only bring three things, what would you bring
(the island is already equipped with a magical power source and a laptop)?
Teabags – I’d not survive without some builder’s tea.
Music – I’d need lots of music. Can I just have full access to Spotify?
Big notepad and pens.
Harvey Keitel is Hermione Norris’ celebrity crush.
8. The best crisps flavour?
Cheese and onion. Ooh, no. Ready Salted McCoys! Thick, fat, crunchy and satisfying.
(YES! Finally! The right answer! – Ed)
9. And the best biscuit for dunking?
(swift and unhesitating)
Chocolate digestives. MILK chocolate digestives.
10. What book did you read last year that stayed with you?
Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. It’s harrowing, but it’s brilliant. So clever, retelling stories we all know but from the female perspective.
11. Cats or dogs?
Dogs. I mean, I love both, but… dogs. We have two – a great dane called Ophelia, and a pointer called Bess.
12. What shop can you not pass without going in?
When I’m in London – American Vintage, Otterlenghi… Locally it has to be Holebrooks the butchers and deli in Sturminster Newton, what a great shop.
13. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
A cup of tea.
(another unhesitatingly swift answer)
14. What’s your most annoying trait?
Oh I’m VERY annoying. I annoy myself. Self-criticism, I think. But I’m working on it, I’m working on it!
15. Your favourite quote? Movie, book or inspirational – we won’t judge. “Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us” – Francis Bacon
I’ve always loved this quote – when we moved here I got myself some wooden letters from Hobbycraft, painted them gold and put it on the wall.
Nearly everyone has one – that moment that makes you sigh with contentment, and think ‘Christmas is here’. BV Editor, Laura Hitchcock, shares a personal Christmas, and asks some of the BV’s contributors over the last year to share one of their own.
The BV’s favourite Christmas traditions
We made a mistake when our boys were small. I admit it. We loved Christmas, and like most parents we wanted to build the magic for them, too. Not with big gifts – with moments. Memories. Special traditions which flow together to build an annual holiday of significance in the family, different from any other time of year.
Oh it definitely worked. Our big kids love Christmas. That’s the issue. We didn’t realise that here we would be, twenty years later, still doing all of them.
The Hitchcock Christmas
We still enjoy the after-dark visit to Sherborne’s Castle Gardens Christmas display to buy ‘just one bauble,’ (it never is). We dig out the same (ugly) pocket Advent calendars my sister lovingly made our three small boys (and the – pretty – one we had to buy when a daughter came along a few years later). We watch the full rotation of Christmas movies together through December – but never Arthur Christmas, that’s saved for the day the trees go up, watched with takeaway pizza. That ‘tradition’ started when, having spent the entire day decorating the house and two trees with the ‘help’ of three boys under five, there was no way we were cooking dinner. These days we’re done by mid-afternoon, and yet pizza is still on the menu. It’s always Polar Express on Christmas Eve, and Wonderful Life in the still calm space between Christmas and New Year.
We still all go together to choose the two trees from Cranborne Estate – though I no longer haul them on to the car roof. Now there are strapping man-sized boys to help their dad, I simply provide ‘helpful’ advice on the roping. Which isn’t listened to, obviously.
And on Christmas Eve, Courtenay is still expected to sit and read aloud ‘The Night Before Christmas’, often with a teenager in his lap. In fact, now I think about it, the trying to persuade teenagers that he doesn’t need to read it this year has become a new tradition in itself.
Favourite moments
And yet, while I love all of these things and the hundred other silly small rituals December contains, they are not my favourite moment.
That is Christmas morning, when I creep out of bed to put the turkey in the oven, and fill the stockings. Sneaking into bedrooms for the empty ones because… well, with a youngest who is 14, there’s no good reason that I still sneak them in. But I do. Everyone is asleep, the house is beautiful but resting, decorations flickering gently as it breathes. The work is done, the day is still to come and it’s a perfect moment of accomplishment, relief and warm anticipation. And a small brief personal space with my own thoughts and memories.
Teenagers
I asked the teens for their best moments, not sure what to expect. They surprised me: ‘Waking up on Christmas morning and just remembering it’s Christmas.’ ‘Everyone at the dinner table before we eat. The food smelling amazing, the bustle of dishes coming in, everyone chattering and laughing, but still with the day stretching out ahead.’ And our daughter picked a tradition which isn’t even one we made – we created the rule (one desperate Christmas filled with little sleep and excited small children) that they couldn’t wake us before 7am on Christmas Day.
Naturally they could never stay in bed that long, so they would all collect their stockings and jump into their oldest brother’s bed, spending the first hour of Christmas with each other and no grown-ups, squidging and exploring the stockings, guessing what each parcel might be.
This is our daughter’s favourite tradition: ‘waking up and seeing a full stocking and proceeding to drop everything as you carry it to your brother’s room not-so- quietly.’
Intrigued, I extended the question – I asked some of the people from the last year who have contributed to the BV to share their own favourite traditions…
Simon Hoare MP
“The thing that tells me not only that it’s Christmas but that as much planning and preparing has been done as can be done is to sit down with my three daughters and read to them Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales. It’s such a lyrical, evocative piece. It never fails to stir and it says to us: Christmas is here!”
Timothy Medhurst, antiques expert. Random 19 Guest
“For me Christmas is made completely wholesome by watching Elf with a bottle of Bucks Fizz, lovely!”
Heather Brown Food columnist
“My favourite Christmas moment is when our two sons bring their unopened stockings into our bedroom and open the gifts with us. Whatever the rest of the day looks like, whether at home or staying away, celebrating with few or celebrating with many, that moment is always the same. It’s a special moment, just between the four of us, and I cherish it before the delightful chaos of the rest of Christmas Day. “
Tracy Chevalier, novelist Random 19 guest
“We celebrate the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, which involves lighting candles every night for 8 nights, eating latkes (fried potato pancakes), a bit of singing and dancing, and small presents. But we love fairy lights so always put them up in the cottage for December. And I do nip out to the Brace of Pheasants in Plush on Christmas Eve to join in carol singing and a drink. It is a great community tradition.”
Andy Palmer, Columnist
“Our tradition is on Christmas Eve for supper I’ll hot smoke pigeon breast on the barbecue and Kae will make a coleslaw with added clementine and chestnuts. I’ll make some spiced wine while listening to Close to the Edge by Yes.”
Ian Girling, Chief Exec Dorset Chamber. Business Columnist
“Christmas really arrives for me when it’s time to put the Christmas lights up. My wife enjoys decorating the outside of our home with beautiful (tasteful!) Christmas lights and the house really does look fabulous at Christmas. Coming home from work and pulling up outside the house with all the lights really does give me that Christmas feeling!”
Sarah J. Naughton, author Random 19 guest
“For me, Christmas really begins when the Salvation Army band starts playing carols outside my local department store. There’s something about their prim uniforms and the Christmas lights glinting off the brass that transports me straight back to Victorian London. I stand and watch, with a handful of equally sentimental strangers, as shoppers go bustling past loaded with presents, and am usually a blubbering wreck by the end of Once in Royal David’s City.”
Mat Follas, Chef Random 19 Guest
“Our tradition is actually for both the longest and shortest days. As a family, we tie a memento on our apple tree and read a poem at dusk to mark the turn of the seasons.”
Simon Gudgeon, sculptor Random 19 Guest
“I’ll take a stroll around the sculpture park, which is incredibly beautiful on a frosty winter morning, and continue my daily habit of a swim in the river – yes, even on Christmas Day. But definitely before the wine, rather than after it!”
Courtenay Hitchcock, BV co-owner
“For me it all begins on Christmas Eve. When the boys were small my parents always took them out for the day at Moors Valley, and Laura and I grabbed the solo hours for our own private Christmas in the kitchen, prepping and cooking up a storm, carols playing, drinking fizz… 15 years later and our grown ups ‘Christmas Eve Cook Up’ is still sacrosanct. I love it.”
At a dinner event, the winners of the 2021 Love Local, Trust Local Awards were announced this week – and the overall winner raised an emotional response as their story was heard.
Hosted at The Langton Arms in Tarrant Monkton, more than 120 local food producers, farmers, fishermen and entrepreneurs arrived at the awards evening full of expectation. The only Dorset food & drink awards to take place as a real event this year, the Love Local Trust Local team aimed for a night to remember.
There were 13 individual awards to be won, including Cheese, Dairy, Meat, Fish, Bakery, Drinks, Honey, Jams & Condiments, Fruit & Vegetables, Innovation & Diversity, Conservation & Sustainability, Recognition Award and The Rising Star.
We are the champions
The well-deserving 2021 Champions were Gullivers Farm, Shop & Kitchen, whose story touched everyone in the room on awards night. Gullivers is a social enterprise who regenerated the oldest building in West Moors (1789) and opened its doors in October 2015 as a farm shop, a market garden, a farm & a deli kitchen. They pride themselves on farming responsibly and mindfully, holding themselves accountable for ethical and environmental standards on the organic, biodynamic farm. In addition to which, throughout the business the team offers work and opportunities to those with learning disabilities, special educational needs and disabilities.
The awards are sponsored by range of Dorset’s small businesses, all keen to support and strengthen the work of our British farmers, fishermen and food producers. From local solicitors and estate agents to farmers and furniture makers, this is an event full of local Dorset organizations working together to promote our amazing local food industry
By producers for producers
The Love Local Trust Local movement was created by Dorset farmers in 2018 in order to recognize and celebrate the hard work of farmers and local food producers. Love Local Trust Local is also tackling corruption in the food labelling industry, and helping to protect Britain’s world-leading food production standards. The awards were created by farmers and producers, for farmers and producers, with the main objective being to truly celebrate the work that goes into our local food production.
Are you passionate about supporting bereaved children, young people and their families? Would you like to lead an enthusiastic, friendly team for a children’s charity in Dorset?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and inspirational leader to take a central role in guiding our charity into its next phase.
Mosaic are looking for a Head of Operations
Hours: 30 hrs per week Salary: £35000-45000 FT
Base: Milborne St Andrew, Blandford, DT11 0LG
We are looking for someone who will maintain an overview of operations, while understanding and responding to the needs of both the staff team and the charity. They need to be an effective communicator, with high levels of emotional intelligence, and be responsible for creating a supportive, positive and effective workplace.
The post holder will need to be able to switch easily between problem solving and strategic thinking, a confident decision maker and able to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently. They will need a ‘can do’ attitude and to be a ‘completer-finisher’.
Closing date: Tuesday 4th January 2022
Full job description and application form available from:
