PEWSEY'S Covid volunteers have reinvented themselves as activity organisers to keep the pandemic community spirit going.

The Pewsey Coronavirus Community Assistance group (PCCA) has now begun to adapt from its initial remit to help vulnerable and needy people in the village through the crisis.

The PCCA is going to evolve into the Pewsey Creative Community Alliance, connecting the village again whilst supporting other charities and offering skills courses.

It ran its first basic map reading course at the weekend, with villagers signed up to some sportingly wet walking weather.

The course is in three parts including theory sessions, and they wrapped up for the practical session run by Simon Ellis on Martinsell in the downs.

Other creative workshops planned include bringing the elderly and young together, sessions on mending things, community gardening - building on the success of the BigDiggers growing vegetables for food boxes, tree planting, yoga, music, and even beer brewing at home.

The PCCA was set up in the first week of March operating from The Little Lunchbox cafe on the High Street, with volunteers and businesses covering nine zones from Burbage to Upavon.

It grew so quickly, they had to shift operations to Bouverie Hall.

At the height of the pandemic more than 600 vulnerable people from Pewsey and surrounding villages signed up for help from the group.

One of it's lasting legacies will be the Community Library which has seen volunteers catalogue books and upload CDs to the website. pcca.org.uk/library