Environment

Connecting New Mills: Introducing Digital Community Notice Boards

In a bid to enhance community engagement and promote sustainability, Visit New Mills is launching an exciting project – Digital Community Notice Boards. Located at high-flow traffic areas, these boards will serve as hubs of information accessible to all, regardless of internet access. Managed by Visit New Mills, the notice boards will be located at […]

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Fairtrade – good for people and good for the planet

New Mills has always cared about Fairtrade and was the first town in the High Peak to gain Fairtrade Town status. Fairtrade ensures a minimum price to protect growers but to gain the Fairtrade mark the farmers have to meet strict environmental standards. Many Fairtrade producers then go on to becoming organic farmers. Fairtrade producers

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New Mills goes for a Royal Flush

Local environment and angling writer Andrew Griffiths talks to New Mills’ resident Charlie Copestake about novel arrangements in the ‘smallest room’. He may be no Dustin Hoffman but New Mills has its very own ‘Rain Man’ in the form of Spring Bank’s Charlie Copestake. Charlie collects rain by the barrel-load and while money doesn’t grow

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