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Community Voice of the Strettons

Welcome to Stretton Focus

Church Stretton railway station – Photo by Geoff Taylor

Stretton Focus is a monthly magazine that delivers topical features and the latest information about local events for the people living, working, or just visiting the area surrounding Church Stretton, Little Stretton, All Stretton and Minton – affectionately known as “the Strettons”. Feature articles in our January 2025 edition include:

Windows 10 End of Life

Love it or hate it, the internet is here to stay for the foreseeable future; many of us now carry out multiple transactions online. This article sets out ways to help us keep safe and up-to-date while using our personal computers.

Steele’s Bakery

Welcome to another new business in the town. Set up by a local family, it adds to the variety of shops on offer to us all.

All Stretton Pantomime

Stretton Players

Check out the forthcoming productions of our local acting talent. They are always eagerly awaited and never disappoint.

Recently in Focus

Exciting Developments Down at the Allotments!

There have recently been a number of exciting developments at the Church Stretton allotments. Huge thanks go to Stretton Focus who helped us with matched funding.

A Second Station for Church Stretton

By the early 1900s, increased passenger traffic needed longer trains and longer platforms. It was not possible to extend the platforms of the original station because to the north the entrance to the goods yard was in the way and to the south the Sandford Avenue bridge. Consequently a second station was built to the south of the Sandford Avenue bridge and officially opened in 1914.

Footy anyone?

Football is the world’s most popular ball game in numbers of participants and spectators, and is so simple that it can be played almost anywhere, from official football playing fields (pitches) to gymnasiums, streets, school playgrounds, parks or beaches without any equipment other than a ball. In England alone, almost 12 million people play regularly, whether professionally, in the amateur game or for leisure, and an increasing number of those are women and girls.

Club Spotlight

Church Stretton Cricket Club

Here at Church Stretton Cricket Club, we’re proud of our community ethos. We want to represent Church Stretton with distinction – both on and off the field.

Community Spotlight

Community Grant Scheme

Whilst making profit has never been a primary objective of the Stretton Focus Ltd Directors, prudent management of the company, over a period many years, has built up a substantial capital reserve. The decision was taken by the Board members that some of the funds could be given back to the community by way of a grant, to assist in the funding of projects designed to be of benefit to the community; and so the Stretton Focus Community Grant Scheme was introduced.

Many local projects have benefited from this Scheme and it helped Stretton Focus Limited to win a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2016.

Our Community Grant Scheme has been particularly popular in 2024 – we have reached our budget limit and so sadly shall be unable to accept any further applications until our next financial year starting in February 2025.

Business Spotlight

Seven Pixels

Seven Pixels is a Shrewsbury based website design company helping clients across Shropshire and the UK.

We’re WordPress specialists with decades of experience building websites for clients of all sizes.