This is to give notice that Sedgefield Development Trust will hold its Annual General Meeting on Monday 10 February 2025 at 7:30pm in the Oldham Room of Ceddesfeld Hall.

Any special or general resolutions proposed must be with the Company at its registered office 3a Front Street, Sedgefield TS21 3AT, no later that 12 noon on Monday 3 February. This AGM is an open, public meeting. You are welcome to attend.

Wivienne Trask-Hall, who grew up in Sedgefield and attended Sedgefield Hardwick Primary School and Sedgefield Community College, spoke at the House of Commons recently.

Now head of product and innovation at Thrive Approach, a leading provider of social and emotional learning (SEL) training and resources, Viv works to improve the well-being, mental health and behaviour of children and young people.

On Saturday 11 January from 10am to 12 noon, we will be welcoming people to bring their real Christmas trees to Skerne Wood. We will be extending the dead hedges we have created in previous years.

It was lovely to be able to ring the bells at St Edmund’s for Christmas and on New Year’s Eve for the first time in five years. The bells could be heard for all the Christmas services and for the traditional “ringing in the New Year” at midnight, and our two “newbies” also managed to ring on at least one occasion.