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Pictured is Rutland High Sheriff Margaret Miles who recently spent an hour on the Uppingham Hopper learning the route and talking to regular passengers. Commenting upon her experience the High Sheriff said, “What a magnificent service to the community. The Hopper is social, clean, safe, punctual …..and clearly gets lots of happy people from A […]

An application to the National Lottery Awards for All scheme has secured a grant of £7988 to support the operating costs of the Uppingham Hopper Community Bus during 2020. Author of the bid David Ainslie, Vice Chair of the Uppingham First Community Partnership and a former Town Mayor, welcomed the outcome and confirmed that regular

The October meeting of the Rutland Biz Club, held at The Falcon Hotel in Uppingham Rutland, welcomed world finance expert Michael Howell as its after lunch guest speaker. Michael is CEO of CrossBorder Capital, a London-based FCA registered, independent research firm of 15 professionals that he founded in 1996. Previously he was Head of Research

Uppingham Neighbourhood Forum has been chosen to benefit from the next round of the Co-op Local Community Fund. The funding round will open on October 27th 2019 and run until October 24th 2020. The fund enables shoppers in the town who are co-op members to choose the Forum and its community projects for support when

Uppingham Homes Community Land Trust has secured agreement with Anglian Water to work together to enable the building of homes for younger people in Uppingham, Rutland. Anglian Water has offered to assess and cost the improvements necessary at Uppingham Wastewater Treatment Plant to ensure appropriate environmental standards can be maintained on the Badley Orchard site

The Uppingham community is sending a party of supporters to this year’s awards hopeful of repeating its success in the 2017 and 2018 awards. Uppingham Neighbourhood Forum acting on behalf of the Uppingham community has made two nominations to the 2019 East Midlands Women’s Awards, the final judging of which will be announced at Colwick

Following the deaths of Jim and Joy Barry, founders of the nationally acclaimed Stilton Cheese Classic Vehicle Run, it has been agreed with participating car clubs that ownership and organisation of the Run will be taken over by the Uppingham First Community Partnership with effect from April 2020. In recent years the partnership has hosted

Castle Car Care of Station Road, Uppingham is looking forward to a brighter future following its decision to relaunching the company with a whole new image.  A brand-new website is to be launched too. The Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, Dr Sarah Furness will be unveiling the brand-new Castle Car Care signage and company branding on Friday