A Big Thank You

We'd like to say a sincere 'thank you' to:

• All the people who signed the petitions, including the people of Chapel-en-le-Frith and Whaley Bridge, and the visitors to our village.


• All the people who put up posters (and then took them down again in July, to keep the place tidy).


• All the people who wrote letters to DCC.
  



• The politicians who looked at the evidence and spoke up in support of the campaign. (High Peak Borough Council and its staff; Chapel-en-le-Frith Parish Council and its staff; Whaley Bridge Town Council; Barrie Taylor; Andrew Bingham; Tracy Critchlow; Tony Bingham and Steve Sharp).


• Plain Talk Print in Glossop, who printed leaflets for us, and Staley's Dailies in Chapel-en-le-Frith, who helped to distribute them for us, both at no cost.


• The governors and staff at nearby schools (Taxal & Fernilee; Kettlehulme; Chinley)


• The people from the Plain English Campaign in Combs, who produced T-shirts, balloons and the DVD which gave people a real sense of what life in our valley is like.


• The other organisations who backed us. (Peak District National Park Authority; Derbyshire Rural Community Council; and the Methodist Church)


• Tom Levitt MP, who came to the school, and then asked questions of DCC.


• The staff at DCC (in particular, Dee Hill and Dave Molyneux), who were very helpful in answering our many questions.


• Prof. Chris Woodhead (former Chief Inspector of Schools, now University of Buckingham) for advice on the subject of educational standards.


• The print and broadcast media who helped to keep the campaign visible. (Louise Bellicoso and everyone at Buxton Advertiser; Glossop Chronicle; High Peak Radio; Dave Guest at BBC North West; David Andrew at Primary Review; Derbyshire Times; Nicola Winship at Best of Buxton)



• And perhaps most of all ... thanks to those who thought we could and should win, and never faltered in that opinion.