If anyone is interested, The Mart Farm Shop in East Linton are doing deliveries within 6 miles of their base. They have a selection of fresh and dried/tinned food as well as household items. If there is enough interest, they would take on a delivery to Garvald (and possibly Morham, too) and have asked for an idea of numbers. They don’t yet have a list of available items but they are working on it.

If you are interested in getting deliveries please use the contact form, below, and I’ll get back to them:

Please see the following link for what it means for everyone’s movements as of now:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-bill-what-it-will-do/what-the-coronavirus-bill-will-do#managing-the-deceased-with-respect-and-dignity

For those who are interested, there is a new Facebook group set up by UK parents in order to share good websites/resources/ideas for teaching their children at home. It’s called Temporary Home Education Families.

WASTE and recycling collections across East Lothian will be suspended or reduced from Monday until further notice.

This is due to staff shortages as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
Green and blue recycling boxes will still be emptied on their usual day but, rather than both being emptied at the same time, the green box will be emptied on the first fortnight and the blue box the second fortnight.
There will be no more brown bin collections as these have been suspended until further notice.

Food waste and green bins for non-recyclable waste will still be collected as usual but the council urge that containers are placed out on the morning of collection by 7am.
Where staffing allows, the council will try and honour any special uplift collections that have been booked.
If items have not been collected by 3pm on the booked day, take them off the kerbside and contact the council to arrange an alternative date.
Recycling centres are still open as normal and limits on vans and trailers remain in place; however, some centres may close at short notice.

The Garvald website is now playing an important role in sharing vital information in relation to the current COVID-19 pandemic. On some days, several new notices are posted.

PLEASE ENSURE YOU SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION – some posts can easily be missed as they move down the page with the adding of new posts. I will put the date of posting at the top of every new post from now on.

Stay safe and get in touch if you need support.  🙂

The Garvald Emergency Resilience Team have compiled a list of everyone in our ward so we can regularly check how everyone is coping over the next few months. It is vitally important that we have contact details for at least one person per hamlet, road or area. If you would like to help & would be willing to check regularly on your immediate neighbours (via a note through the door, through social media or by telephone to avoid face-to-face contact) and report back to us then please let us know by responding to me or by contacting any member of the team using the details on the last post. We can then contact you directly to get your details. Thank you for your help.

Penny

If you are a Garvald resident please sign up to the Facebook page ‘Garvald Community’ to stay up to date with news. It has been set up for the purpose of providing practical information and support to get our community through this difficult time. It is a private group for Garvald residents only to enable us to share information which will not be passed on to anyone else other than, if necessary, the Council’s Emergency Planning Team. I will moderate this FB page as Co-ordinator of the Garvald Emergency Resilience Team which endeavours to provide help and assistance to our community as much as we can. This is a group made up of local volunteers and is not intended to take the place of professional organisations such as the NHS and Government agencies.
If you need help or assistance and you do not have access to Facebook or the Garvald website please contact any member of the Emergency Resilience Team:

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