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Look forward to an Exciting 2021.

 Many congratulations to you all for your Stirling efforts in keeping things going within your communities throughout the region , I am so proud to represent you all at the Bloom Federation where we all have more than represented the South West and promoted many fine examples of exceptional Community projects.

 The true values of your work however can be best featured in those communities we all serve as it's at a local level that volunteering to maintain and improve our environments is so significant.

 I have seen many examples of localism and the regeneration of community involvement in my own community as well as many other places that I am heartened to see that from the hardships of Covid there are real benefits, many a re think of how we do things and a more inclusive and diverse approach to gardening, its impact as well as many transferable skills arising from its activities

 Children and young persons have had a great impact in raising awareness of Climate concerns and we must address these issues as a priority.  We must also address the matter of food security local production and re tune food distribution  Here at home we have been feeding ourselves much more from home produced products and with the frequent help of Terry with Veg initially grown for Chelsea have fed well and healthily.  I can tell you it's made me think quite a lot and we will grow more next year for ourselves our neighbours and our family.

 Tree Planting is seriously back on the agenda and having watched Countryfile The spirit of 1973 is now back , let's all plant trees and influence the development and management of the Environment. The new approach to Agriculture may have a major impact  "Do we really need to prune hedges within fields with mechanical hedge trimmers?" Along roadsides yes but surely not in fields .

 Above all is the advent and arrival of new subjects in our curriculum Enviro therapy well, Gardeners call it gardening, Bloom people call it Bloom! But the value of doing things, ,meeting people, addressing litter, beautification of creating habitats and all those local improvements are fantastic therapy.

 Thank you all for everything Happy Christmas and a fantastic locally based future, you all matter . You all make a difference and we all look forward to 2021 when we hope to celebrate a new look SWIB arising from out of lockdown.

 Jon Wheatley

Chairman