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City of Derby, Derby, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The Derby Community Hub is here to help you discover, connect and help our city thrive together, through volunteering, right up to sharing feedback for our streets & Derby based organisations, using the power of TXTWRK & all social media!

Apply to our checklists to volunteer in developing our community hub and get experience that you can share with future employers with ease. Derby College joined the crew, now it’s your turn!

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www.Derby.support/checklists

www.Derby.support/feedback

www.Derby.support/questions

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Topic: Culture
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Nature
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You’ll see the birds flying above us in the City of Derby…

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Derby Core Community Centres Meeting
2026-09-17 11:00:00
Location: TBC
Category: Community

Attend
Community
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📍 MEETING LOCATION: TBC — SUGGEST A FREE VENUE

We’re inviting Derby to offer a free civic space for this gathering.

Could be University of Derby, Derby Cathedral, Museum of Making, QUAD, Derby College, or any venue willing to host the city’s community‑tech launch.

This meeting belongs to Derby — tell us where we should hold it.

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🌍 DERBY.SUPPORT — FULL REPORT: COMMUNITY CALL DAY

TXTWRK.com/@DerbyCommunityHub

By 12 today, we completed Derby’s first full community connection map — linking all 30 communities to real organisations, clubs, centres and hubs you can actually ring, visit, collaborate with, and build alongside.

This is the foundation of Derby.support:
A citywide network where every neighbourhood, every culture, every family, every student and every grassroots group can connect, discover and work together.

Today’s conclusion:
Derby’s communities aren’t abstract — they’re real people, real places, real numbers, real futures.
And now they’re all reachable.

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If we didn’t include you, email Go@Derby.support — everyone is included, we will make the space!

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📞 THE FULL 30‑COMMUNITY CALL SHEET (ALL NUMBERS, EMAILS & ADDRESSES)


1. Normanton — Normanton Library

📞 01332 642640
📧 normanton.library@derby.gov.uk
🏠 St Giles House, Village Street, Derby DE23 8SZ

2. Pear Tree — Pear Tree Baptist Church

📞 01332 344052
📧 info@peartreebaptist.org.uk
🏠 Pear Tree Road, Derby DE23 6QB

3. Arboretum — Derby Multicultural Centre

📞 01332 361422
📧 info@derbymulticulturalcentre.org
🏠 2 Pear Tree Road, Derby DE23 8NQ

4. Rose Hill — Rose Hill Children’s Centre

📞 01332 640758
📧 rosehill.childrenscentre@derby.gov.uk
🏠 20 Lower Dale Road, Derby DE23 6WY

5. Littleover — Littleover Methodist Church

📞 01332 767323
📧 office@littleovermethodist.org.uk
🏠 Constable Drive, Littleover, Derby DE23 6EP

6. Mickleover — Mickleover Community Centre

📞 01332 515921
📧 info@mickleovercommunitycentre.co.uk
🏠 Holly End Road, Mickleover, Derby DE3 0EA

7. Mackworth — Mackworth Community Centre

📞 01332 347592
📧 mackworthcentre@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Prince Charles Avenue, Mackworth, Derby DE22 4BG

8. Allestree — Allestree Library

📞 01332 553127
📧 allestree.library@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Park Lane, Allestree, Derby DE22 2EF

9. Darley — Darley Abbey Village Hall

📞 01332 556622
📧 bookings@darleyabbeyhall.org.uk
🏠 Abbey Yard, Darley Abbey, Derby DE22 1DS

10. Chaddesden — Chaddesden Park Pavilion

📞 01332 664947
📧 chaddesden.park@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Maine Drive, Chaddesden, Derby DE21 6LA

11. Oakwood — Oakwood Community Centre

📞 01332 664947
📧 oakwoodcentre@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Danebridge Crescent, Oakwood, Derby DE21 2HT

12. Spondon — Spondon Village Hall

📞 01332 662781
📧 info@spondonvillagehall.org.uk
🏠 Sitwell Street, Spondon, Derby DE21 7FG

13. Alvaston — Alvaston Park Community Hub

📞 01332 640789
📧 alvastonhub@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Off Meadow Lane, Alvaston, Derby DE24 8QQ

14. Boulton — Boulton Lane Community Centre

📞 07505 600477
📧 boultonlanecc@gmail.com
🏠 Boulton Lane, Alvaston, Derby DE24 8EY

15. Sinfin — Sinfin Community Centre

📞 01332 764562
📧 sinfincc@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Arleston Lane, Sinfin, Derby DE24 3DH

16. Osmaston — Osmaston Park Community Centre

📞 No number listed
📧 osmastonparkcc@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Osmaston Park Road, Derby DE24 8DA

17. Chellaston — Chellaston Community Centre

📞 01332 701704
📧 info@chellastoncommunitycentre.org.uk
🏠 Station Road, Chellaston, Derby DE73 5AA

18. Derwent — Derwent Community Hub

📞 01332 641555
📧 derwenthub@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Monmouth Street, Derby DE21 6BD

19. Abbey — Abbey Community Centre

📞 01332 767323
📧 abbeycentre@derby.gov.uk
🏠 33 Canterbury Street, Derby DE22 3QL

20. California — St Luke’s Derby

📞 01332 344347
📧 office@stlukesderby.org.uk
🏠 Parliament Street, Derby DE22 3RL

21. Sunny Hill — Sunnyhill Community Centre

📞 07476 358866
📧 sunnyhillcc@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Coleridge Street, Sunny Hill, Derby DE23 8AF

22. Stockbrook — Stockbrook Children’s Centre

📞 01332 641470
📧 stockbrook.childrenscentre@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Stockbrook Street, Derby DE22 3PL

23. Derby Caribbean — Derby West Indian Community Association

📞 01332 371529
📧 info@dwica.co.uk
🏠 Carrington Street, Derby DE1 2ND

24. Derby African Communities — Derby Refugee Advice Centre

📞 01332 347525
📧 info@derbyrefugeeadvice.org.uk
🏠 60 Boyer Street, Derby DE22 3SH

25. Derby South Asian — Pakistan Community Centre

📞 01332 774055
📧 info@pakistancommunitycentre.co.uk
🏠 Harrington Street, Derby DE23 8PB

26. Derby Eastern European — Polish Club Derby

📞 01332 344780
📧 info@polishclubderby.co.uk
🏠 Kedleston Road, Derby DE22 1GU

27. Refugee & New Arrivals — Upbeat Communities

📞 01332 344921
📧 info@upbeatcommunities.org
🏠 2 Cambridge Street, Derby DE23 8HP

28. Derby LGBTQ+ — Derbyshire LGBT+

📞 01332 207704
📧 info@derbyshirelgbt.org.uk
🏠 25 Curzon Street, Derby DE1 1LH

29. Derby Disability/SEND — Derbyshire Carers Association

📞 01773 743700
📧 info@derbyshirecarers.co.uk
🏠 3 Park Road, Ripley, Derbyshire DE5 3EF

30. Derby Youth & Students — Derby City Youth Alliance

📞 01332 640777
📧 youth.alliance@derby.gov.uk
🏠 Council House, Corporation Street, Derby DE1 2FS

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🔗 WHY THIS MEETING MATTERS

This meeting invites:
•Every catchment area
•Every community group
•Every student returning to school
•Every family
•Every grassroots organiser
•Every cultural network
•Every resident who wants to shape Derby’s future

This is where you:
•Connect your community to the wider city
•Discover who’s active around you
•Share your vision before anything is built
•Join Derby.support’s feedback programmes
•Bring your friends, your family, your neighbourhood
•Start gaining real experience, real work, real collaboration
•Step into the future of civic technology

Perfect timing:
Students are returning to school and need experience, networks, confidence, and real civic involvement.
Derby.support is built exactly for that.

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🚀 WHAT WE’RE PIONEERING

We’re building the technology of the future —
a public, confident, community‑driven network where Derby residents co‑engineer the city’s next decade.

TXTWRK — Derby’s own founded network — is powering the engine.
TheUKparty.com is pushing the civic‑creator era.
Together, we’re encouraging people to build openly, proudly, collaboratively.

This is Derby’s moment to lead.

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🗣️ YOUR INVITATION


Join us.
Bring your community.
Bring your ideas.
Bring your energy.
Bring your vision.

We’re building Derby.support with you, not for you.

Every catchment area.
Every neighbourhood.
Every culture.
Every student.
Every family.
Every future.

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🔧 NEXT STEPS

•Join Derby.support to connect your community on TXTWRK
•Share your vision for your area on TXTWRK
•Make a TXTWRK Checklist
•Get involved in upcoming meetings, events & workshops
•Email Go@Derby.support

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How-To / Tutorial
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What if making a great experience is something you can learn?

☕ Making a tea party?
📱 Making an app?
🎬 Making a social media video?
🏛️ Making an exhibition?

Start with the experience you want people to have — then work backwards.

Backwards Engineering.
Reverse Engineering.
Experience Engineering.


Look at what works. Take it apart. Understand the decisions, details and moments that make it work. Then use what you discover to make your own.

Derby is a pretty incredible place to learn this.

Get yourself to the Museum of Making, join a workshop and pay attention to how experiences are actually made: the exhibitions, the presentation, the objects, the storytelling — and the great feats of engineering that have come through Derby.

Don’t just consume experiences.

Reverse engineer them. Then make better ones.

Derby.support | Become a master of the arts.

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@Grok’s overview of what is happening in Derby
Sun 30 Aug – Sat 5 Sep 2026… #Happening


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Sunday 30 August 2026


1. RNB MANIA R&B Festival
4pm–11pm (last entry 6pm) · Ultra Warehouse

2. Peak District Highland Games
Full day · Matlock Farm Park

3. Derby Farmers’ Market
Daytime · Market Hall

4. Live music with Laura Clinton
Approx 10am onwards · Derby Market Hall / Osnabruck Square

5. Jonny Salt Duo
Approx 1pm · Caffè Prosecco at Market Hall

6. The Market Express: Ride On Railway
Daytime (free miniature rides) · Market Hall

7. Cars and Coffee – Survivors Special
Morning/daytime · Great Northern Classics

8. Mindful botany workshop
Approx 2pm · Thrivemind Village area

9. Derbyshire LGBT+ Family Group
Curzon Street (time TBC)

10. Potfest 2026
Continues (from midday) · The Flowerpot – free entry, live music

11. Garage in the Garden / bank-holiday vibes
Electric Daisy (times vary)

12. Moofest + Free Return
Daytime · Bluebells / Brunswood Farm (ongoing)

13. Calke Abbey’s Summer of Play / Conkers / Jungle Park / LUSH Summer of FUN
Daytime (ongoing attractions)

Monday 31 August 2026


14. Potfest 2026
Continues (final day) · The Flowerpot – free entry

15. The Market Express: Ride On Railway
Final day · Market Hall

16. Garage in the Garden / bank-holiday vibes
Continues · Electric Daisy

17. Ongoing family attractions
Moofest, Calke Abbey, Conkers, Jungle Park, LUSH etc. (daytime)

Tuesday 1 September 2026


18. Ongoing exhibitions & drop-ins
Lara Croft (Pickford’s House), We Feed The UK & Hope (QUAD), Joseph Wright exhibition, Market Hall traders, creative sessions, Warm Hubs / community drop-ins (check individual times)

Wednesday 2 September 2026


19. Movement and Mindfulness with Mary
Chester Green Community Centre (time TBC)

20. Derby Spill the Tea Drop-In
Curzon Street (time TBC)

21. Ongoing community sessions
MECA Warm Hubs, NeuroNest, Autism drop-ins, Feel Alive etc. (various times)

Thursday 3 September 2026


22. Ongoing workshops & community
Learn to Crochet, pottery/ceramics, board games, networking options, exhibitions (check listings for exact times)

Friday 4 September 2026


23. Jimmy Carr – Laughs Funny
Shows approx 7pm & 9.30pm (doors earlier) · Vaillant Live

24. Prince Tribute – EndorphinMachine
Doors/start around 9pm · The Flowerpot

25. Live music with Robyn Wallis Johnson
Market Hall (time TBC)

26. Chatsworth Country Fair begins
4–6 Sep · Chatsworth

27. Off The Tracks Festival begins
4–6 Sep · Castle Donington area

Saturday 5 September 2026


28. Whooverville 17 Doctor Who Convention
From 10:00 · QUAD
Guests: Anita Dobson, Janet Fielding, Sophie Aldred + more

29. Foo Fighters GB tribute
Doors/start around 9pm · The Flowerpot

30. Live Music with Chloe Rose Fisher, Ellie Antonia & Toni Poulsom
Market Hall (time TBC)

31. Live Music with Lydia Rae
Market Hall (time TBC)

32. Joseph Wright: From the Shadows guided tour
Derby Museum & Art Gallery (one of the tour dates)

33. Cars & classics gatherings / BMW Alpina related
Great Northern Classics (around this date)

34. Chatsworth Country Fair & Off The Tracks Festival
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Ongoing throughout the week (no single fixed date)

•Market Hall traders, street food & Saturday Supper Club options
•Open Mic / regular pub gigs (Victoria, Hairy Dog etc.)
•Creative Summer activities, Draw Derby, pottery classes
•Riverboat Trips (various dates)
•Community Warm Hubs, social meetups, board games
•Exhibitions: Lara Croft, We Feed The UK, Hope, Joseph Wright

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Challenges
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Derby City Council negligence to Derby.support — but now is the time to build together


Derby.support is Derby Community Hub, founded in December 2021. We were never the only organisation encouraging Derby residents to speak, record, question and participate—we were one part of a much wider community effort. Many residents, campaigners, independent organisations and businesses were doing this long before us and will continue long after us. Most organisations we’ve encountered in Derby have been good or exceptional—what we call gold. Our serious concerns relate to a small number, not Derby’s voluntary, community or business sector as a whole.

Our first core‑organisations meeting took place at Artcore on 9 October 2023, supported by Artcore providing the venue. Alan Graves spoke at that event, reminding us that everybody has a role to play in their community. We took that seriously. Since then we’ve focused on building, testing ideas and developing Derby.support. We also recognise our own limitations: we haven’t managed to stage another event like that for DCC and others to attend. Community organisations have finite time, people and resources, and sometimes the ground has been muddy on our side too.

But that’s also why we’re disheartened. We’ve publicly tagged DCC and other Derby organisations repeatedly while documenting and developing what we’re doing, yet meaningful engagement hasn’t followed. We’ve felt similarly disappointed by our experiences with the University of Derby and Marketing Derby. We’re not asking anybody to hand us power or treat Derby.support as the voice of Derby. Power should sit with people—not one individual, political party, community or organisation. If Derby.support now finds itself with greater influence, that’s not an ideal destination for us; it’s a responsibility to help distribute participation more widely.

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Our journey so far


PeriodWhat happenedWhere we are now
2016 onwardsDerby had major plans, investment ambitions and consultationsWe want to document what happened, what didn’t, and today’s backlog
2017DCC ran a citywide residents’ surveyWe want to understand what residents tangibly influenced
Dec 2021Derby.support / Derby Community Hub foundedCommunity feedback became central to our work
Oct 2023First core‑organisations meeting at ArtcoreAlan Graves spoke about everybody playing a community role
2022–23Let’s Talk Derby existedFrom our experience, it didn’t feel practical or informative enough
2024 onwards“Have your say” became much more visibleWe want to test whether visibility translates into influence
2024 onwardsTXTWRK.com launched and developedA new way to centralise public, actionable feedback
2026 onwardsDerby faces major changeWe want communities involved from the beginning, not afterwards
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The bigger question: does Derby have a feedback system people can trust?


DCC is again promoting “Have your say”, including consultations it says were developed using community feedback. Visibility is good—but visibility alone is not meaningful engagement.

Residents should be able to trace:

CONSULTATION → RESPONSES → EVIDENCE → DECISION → SPENDING → DELIVERY

If that chain disappears halfway through, simply saying “we consulted” isn’t enough.

We’ve encountered:
•webpages and planning information difficult to navigate
•consultations easy to miss or too short
•claims hard to reconcile with available evidence
•figures or results where underlying data needs to be clearer

The Emerging Local Plan illustrates the problem: how many ordinary residents know those pages exist, understand the terminology or have time to respond? These decisions could shape Derby for decades.

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What Derby.support now wants DCC and public bodies to publish


To build trust, Derby needs visible evidence:
•Original consultation data(ca://s?q=Show_original_consultation_data)
•Participation numbers(ca://s?q=Show_how_many_people_participated)
•What people actually said(ca://s?q=Show_what_residents_said)
•How responses influenced decisions(ca://s?q=Show_how_feedback_changed_decisions)
•Funding allocations(ca://s?q=Show_what_funding_was_allocated)
•Actual spending(ca://s?q=Show_what_was_spent)
•Delivered projects(ca://s?q=Show_what_projects_were_delivered)
•Cancelled or changed projects(ca://s?q=Show_cancelled_or_changed_projects)
•Evidence behind claimed outcomes(ca://s?q=Show_evidence_for_claimed_outcomes)

This is how trust is built—not through branding, but through evidence.

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What Derby.support will now document

•Plans from 2016 onwards versus what Derby actually received
•What was promised, funded, spent, delayed or abandoned
•How much of today’s pressure comes from yesterday’s backlog
•How easy consultations actually are for an ordinary person
•Whether feedback visibly changes decisions
•Successful DCC projects as well as failures
•Organisations doing good and gold‑standard work
•Community evidence from photographs, videos and public records
•Discrepancies without jumping straight to accusations—we’ll ask for evidence before calling wrongdoing a fact
•Our own performance too: if Derby.support gets something wrong, we’ll document and correct it

We will not label something “fraud” without evidence capable of proving it. But serious discrepancies shouldn’t be dismissed because they’re uncomfortable. If records, spending, project claims or consultation results don’t appear to match the evidence, the answer is simple: publish the evidence and let Derby see it.

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When you need to give feedback — our 10‑point approach

•Record the issue clearly(ca://s?q=Record_the_issue_clearly)—facts before assumptions
•Date and locate it(ca://s?q=Record_date_and_location)
•Photograph or video it(ca://s?q=Photograph_or_video_evidence) where lawful
•Save screenshots(ca://s?q=Save_screenshots_of_announcements) of webpages, announcements or promises
•Put your feedback on TXTWRK.com(ca://s?q=Use_TXTWRK_to_centralise_feedback)
•Send it to the responsible organisation(ca://s?q=Send_feedback_to_responsible_organisation) and request acknowledgement
•Share publicly(ca://s?q=Share_feedback_publicly) through TikTok or other platforms
•Keep every response(ca://s?q=Keep_responses_and_reference_numbers)
•Follow up(ca://s?q=Follow_up_on_feedback) and compare the response with reality
•Build a timeline(ca://s?q=Build_a_public_timeline)—and correct it if new evidence proves something different

TXTWRK matters because we’re trying to move beyond feedback that disappears into an inbox. Derby Community Hub already uses its @DerbyCommunityHub TXTWRK presence to manage developments through checklists where people can apply and volunteer. The principle is simple:

IDEA → EVIDENCE → FEEDBACK → CHECKLIST → PEOPLE → ACTION → PROGRESS → RESULT

Done responsibly—protecting privacy, avoiding harassment, keeping original evidence and separating facts from suspicions—that creates a community‑owned public record.

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What builds trust vs what damages it


AreaBuilds trustDamages trust
Consultation(ca://s?q=Improve_consultation_accessibility)Easy to find, enough timeDifficult to discover or rushed
Information(ca://s?q=Provide_complete_information)Complete and understandableMissing, inaccessible or confusing
Responses(ca://s?q=Publish_consultation_responses)Numbers and findings publishedResidents don’t know what others said
Evidence(ca://s?q=Publish_original_evidence)Original data supports claimsResults cannot easily be checked
Decision(ca://s?q=Show_how_feedback_influenced_decisions)Changes traceable to feedback“We consulted” with no visible connection
Money(ca://s?q=Make_spending_traceable)Funding and spending traceableFigures require further explanation
Delivery(ca://s?q=Show_project_delivery)Announcements become outcomesProjects change or disappear without clarity
Community(ca://s?q=Engage_community_early)People engaged earlyGrassroots voices overlooked
Derby.supportOpen, accountable, collaborativeWe fail to recognise our own limitations
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The wider landscape


People increasingly photograph what they see, record video, save screenshots and compare announcements with reality. Social media has given residents confidence and tools to hold institutions accountable.

Political expectations are changing too. Debates about devolution, regional power and public ownership show that people want a more direct relationship with institutions. Locally, Alan Graves told us in 2023 that everybody has a role to play in community. We accepted that challenge.

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Great British Railways: a major opportunity


Government documents confirm Derby as the headquarters of Great British Railways. DCC announced in April 2026 that Becketwell and Midland House are the final two Derby HQ locations, with a final site decision expected later in 2026. GBR is intended to become a major publicly owned organisation bringing track and train together, with creation expected in 2027.

Something of this scale should connect rail, skills, businesses, education and ordinary Derby communities from the start—not arrive around them. Derby.support wants to help make that happen.

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Where we stand now


Perhaps it is time to get down and dirty—but in the name of community empowerment, not another institutional fight. We recognise our limitations. We recognise DCC’s pressures. We recognise that relationships haven’t always developed as they could have. Goodwill can overcome those differences and give us stable ground instead of muddy ground.

We hope Derby City Council now welcomes Derby.support, helps us build, challenges us constructively and becomes part of this changing community format for the City of Derby. Our door remains open to DCC, the University of Derby, Marketing Derby, GBR and every organisation genuinely prepared to build with communities rather than simply talk about them.

Where DCC got it right, we’ll say so.
Where community organisations delivered excellent work, we’ll celebrate it.
Where evidence shows improvement, we’ll acknowledge it.
Where something doesn’t add up, we’ll ask for the records.

Because “Have your say” should mean more than filling in a form. It should mean residents can see what happened because they had their say.

Why have DCC not engaged with our feedback programme, you have to ask — we’re literally dying inside.

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