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CELEBRITY
SUPPORT
STAUNCH
Alan Titchmarsh supports Titchmarsh Open Gardens in aid of STAUNCH.
On Sunday 18th June, after much preparation,
the STAUNCH Fundraising Committee held Titchmarsh Open Gardens to raise funds for their campaign to prevent
the two massively inappropriate and unsustainable planning applications for warehouses between Titchmarsh and Thrapston.
However, STAUNCH has now grown into an organisation that is fighting to prevent Northamptonshire becoming
a County of Sheds, sheds that will
Titchmarsh has had links with Alan Titchmarsh for many years, for obvious reasons!
and its long-term aim is to gain Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty status for the Upper Nene Valley.
Titchmarsh has had links with Alan Titchmarsh for many years, for obvious reasons! He has visited the village many times, including Titchmarsh Primary School, and he came to open Titchmarsh Village Shop in 2007.
STAUNCH wrote to Alan in January 2022 to let him know that our village
soon no longer be required, as demand
for logistics changes. STAUNCH is working
at both County and Government level. It has amalgamated with the Nene Valley Association
was under threat. We later invited him to join us at our Open Gardens event, but he was unable to attend. However, he sent us a wonderful
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