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Published by Julie Parr
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 |
Hello,
This information was passed to me by Sarah Freeman - Trading Standards Officer for Cambridgeshire Trading Standards.
I would really appreciate you taking a moment to read to following information and help people in the community.
Please help us to assist older and disabled people through the switchover to digital television.
The traditional TV signal in Anglia is being switched off in 2011. The Switchover help scheme was set up by the Government and is run by the BBC. Its purpose is to make access to digital TV easy for older and disabled people.
Due to your vital role in the community, you and/or your colleagues may play an active role with communities helping them to switch to digital. It may be that you are already in touch with the people we are trying to reach, or indeed that the switchover to digital TV is of key importance for your organisation as part of the help you provide your customers.
The Switchover Help Scheme
The Help Scheme will convert an eligible person’s television to digital in the run up to the digital switchover in Anglia and provides a year’s free aftercare.
The Switchover Help Scheme aims to reach out to all eligible people, to ensure that those who need our help get it, so that no-one eligible need be left behind without access to television after the switchover.
People are eligible to receive help from the Help Scheme if they are:
• aged 75 or over or
• have lived (or are likely to live) in a care home for more than six months or
• get (or could get) Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Attendance Allowance, Constant Attendance Allowance or mobility supplement or
• are registered blind or partially sighted
Some of these people may be isolated or have few visitors. TV is a form of companionship and keeping in contact with the ‘outside world’ which they will lose if they do not switch to digital in time.
We will begin writing to eligible people in Anglia later in the year to inform them about the Help Scheme. There will also be messages on the TV and radio regarding the Help Scheme. However, these communication methods may not be the best way of getting to those who are most at risk. You may be able to help us reach them.
I’m looking for opportunities to brief organisations and action groups who work with eligible residents as these groups are very important to the success of the Scheme.
How can we work together?
While we will write individually to eligible customers about the Switchover Help Scheme, we are also keen to raise awareness among local groups such as yours. We will write to people up to three times inviting them to apply for help. We cannot rely solely on that written communication. My aim is also to work with regional and local organisations to provide the following: -
• raise awareness of the Switchover Help Scheme
• provide training to those who are involved in the Switchover
• drive programmes and activity throughout Anglia.
I will be working closely with Digital UK and Digital Outreach Limited to achieve this.
You and/or your colleagues may already play an active role with communities helping them to switch to digital. You may already be in touch with the people we are trying to reach. It may be that the switchover to digital TV is of key importance for your organisation as part of the help you provide your customers.
I feel that working together would be advantageous to both of us. We provide the following free of charge: -
• Help Scheme awareness training to your organisation and its staff
• You with Help Scheme literature and material for educational / training and awareness, or to circulate and cascade to your organisation’s staff
• Bespoke Help Scheme awareness training for those colleagues in your organisation who go into peoples’ homes to deliver a service. Or those whom you may wish to make a Help Scheme “champion” within your organisation.
We can also:
• Organise events locally on the Help Scheme, or guest at events you may already have planned / are planning to talk about the Help Scheme in your area
• Provide written articles for circulation in any regular communications / newsletters you have
• Help you work on and support a programme of activity aimed at increasing awareness on Digital TV switchover for your organisation and its customers
We are committed to making the Help Scheme a success and ensuring that no-one is left behind. If you feel there are opportunities for us to work together to help make the scheme a success please contact me at on 07950 811 723 or by email at
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Please forward this email to any colleagues or contacts who may also be interested in involvement with the Switchover Help Scheme.
Kind Regards,
Thomas Pugh
Thomas Pugh | Regional Project Co-Ordinator | Switchover Help Scheme
Eaga, Eaga House, Archbold Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 1DB
Tel: 07950 811 723 l
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Published by Julie Parr
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Monday, 19 April 2010 |
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The Parish Council is planning to improve the play facilities at the Recreation Ground. In order to ensure that all potential users are given the opportunity to have an input, it would be appreciated if you would take the time to complete a questionnaire and return it to the Parish Clerk (Mrs Jenny Manning – 8 Aldreth Rd., Haddenham) by Friday 14th May 2010. Blank questionnaires can be obtained at various outlets within the village. If you collected one from these locations, you can leave it completed there and then and it will be collected later. Alternatively, you can drop it in there when you make your next visit. An electronic version will be made available via the Parish website (www.haddenham.org.uk) Please involve your children in this exercise in the areas that apply to them. Sketches of their ideas will be very welcome if they prefer to explain them in pictures. Just attach a sketch to the form when you return it.
Your views and wishes will be taken into account wherever possible when the improvements are drafted. Draft plans will be publicised at an open display in the Recreation Centre during July 2010. A date will be announced nearer the time.
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Sunday, 18 April 2010 |
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Published by Julie Parr
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
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Dear friends of the Haddenham Nativity,
While we are all still racking our brains trying to think of how to raise £4,000 for December 2011 (meeting on this subject to be arranged shortly - all and any ideas very welcome) we have taken a table at the Arkenstall Village Centre's Tabletop Sale this Saturday (17th April - 10am-4pm). Do come along and support us, and all the other table-holders, if you can, for an event which should raise much-needed funds for the Village Centre as well as all the groups offering items for sale - and grab a bargain!
If you can, please also support us at Blossoms and Bygones (9th May - 2pm-6pm), by visiting, in addition to all the other fabulous attractions, 17 Station Road, where there will be the usual cafe in an original Victorian railway carriage, singing waitresses (the only female barbershop quartet in the area, according to the police) and alpacas! Proceeds will be split between the Nativity fund and the Arkenstall Centre. Please bring family, friends, and anyone else you can persuade that it's a good idea. (We are working on a cunning plan to include wine and beer in our offerings to the deserving public.)
So, if you are able, and want to help us raise the many quids we need, please come along. We guarantee a warm welcome, whatever the weather, and a song, whether you want it or not.
If you would like to be kept informed of other Nativity fundraising activities and events, or can help with ideas or donating your time, please mail me back, with the subject: Haddenham Nativity Fundraising, and I will keep you informed of all meetings and developments when the Nativity might call on your support.
Best wishes,
Sarah Burton
(on behalf of Haddenham Community Play)
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Published by Julie Parr
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
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With the incredible success of our first year of opening our 1 acre cottage garden at Ty Gwyn in The Borough, Aldreth under the NGS (National Garden Scheme), we are delighted to say we have been chosen to open again in 2010. Entrance is £3 per adult and accompanied children free. Teas and Marge’s homemade cakes are also available on NGS days.
We hope to raise even more money for charity this year which will take some doing as we raised £3600 last year thanks to all our very welcome visitors from far and near!
Having learnt a lot from last year we have been working hard to improve the garden with new planting and garden features. Many areas previously overgrown with thorn and ivy have also been opened up. In addition our flock of ducks and chickens has increased and we already have young chicks hatched ready to meet their public when we first open in May. Returning visitors who remember our young rescue Muscovy duck; well he’s now grown up and is a real character and has been joined by a trio of female Muscovy admirers from the West Country.
As last year the Artes Mundi Fair Trade shop will also be open on site during the NGS weekends in addition to our regular Friday & Saturday openings. Many visitors who had never before ventured to the shop discovered us for the first time last year and our third world craftsmen greatly benefited from these extra sales.
Our Fair Trade business is now in its 6th year and on the back of our best year to date we have managed to greatly increase our range of Fair Trade goods. It would be difficult in this short article to do justice to our gift offerings so why not visit us in Aldreth - open every Friday & Saturday between 10am and 5pm or by appointment (call 01353 740586) at other times. Or get a preview in our online shop at www.artes-mundi.co.uk
We hope to see many of you down here on our first opening weekend of Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th May between 10am and 5pm. One request is that as The Borough is single track, on NGS open days, if you can please park on Aldreth High Street only about 100 metres away.
We shall also be open for Blossoms & Bygones on Sunday 9th May where you can visit just by buying a Blossoms & Bygones ticket. Other NGS open dates are given on our website under www.artes-mundi.co.uk/garden
Sian & Mark Hugo
Artes Mundi
Ty Gwyn, The Borough
Aldreth
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