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Wiltshire Council is continuing its recycling efforts to support and encourage people to 'Let's Sort It', by asking residents to sort their materials before visiting the county's Household Recycling Centres (HRCs)

Children, young people and families can have access to a wide range of information, advice and support as a new online platform goes live this week.

A £6m project, funded by Wiltshire Council and the Department of Education, has been completed at Stonehenge School providing a new block containing a school hall, changing rooms, drama studio, fitness studio, music classrooms and practice rooms.

Wiltshire Council's Holiday Activity and Food programme, FUEL, is back for the Christmas holidays following a summer of success which saw activities delivered across the county

People are being encouraged to apply for grants of up to £10k to help increase the number of opportunities and activities across Wiltshire for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and or Disabilities (SEND).

Young people can get involved in local decision making and influence funding for youth projects as part of the Wiltshire Youth Council.

Wiltshire Council will be supporting Number Confidence Week, the UK's national week dedicated to reframing the way that people think about and use numbers

Wiltshire Council successfully delivered the Government's Holiday Activity and Food programme to over 1,800 young people during four weeks of the summer holidays. The programme, which aims to provide children eligible for benefits related free school meals with free access to high quality activities and nutritious meals, was delivered across Wiltshire using the brand FUEL and was funded by the Department for Education.

Wiltshire Council is launching a year-long campaign involving schools, libraries and communities to encourage people of all ages to delve into reading. The Wiltshire Year of Reading starts today (27 September 2021) encouraging everyone from very young children to older adults to enjoy the written word.

The theme for this year's Recycle Week is 'Step it Up', which encourages people to make positive changes to recycle more to reduce carbon emissions