Useful Information

Salisbury Area Board Meeting

You are invited to the next meeting of the Salisbury Area Board at 7pm on Thursday 17 May 2012, in the Alamein Suite, City Hall, Salisbury.  Light refreshments will be available from 6.30pm.

Please come along to discuss the following items on the agenda:

- Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman for 2012/13

- Report on Section 106 funding, including R2 money under the new Core Strategy

- Update on the Salisbury Campus

- Report on Brown Tourism signs

- Presentation and consultation on the future of Informal Adult Education in Wiltshire

- Appointments to Outside Bodies and Working Groups

- Usual items including Community Issues, Updates from Partners and Parish Councils, and Community Area Grants.

 

To see the full agenda please follow this link.

To see the agenda as a printable PDF document, please click on the “agenda frontsheet” link, near the top of the page.

Please only print the documents if necessary.  Limited paper copies of the agenda and reports will be available at the meeting, so please bring along your paper copy if you receive one through the post.

If you think that someone you know might be interested in any of the items on this agenda, please forward this email on to them.

Wiltshire Campuses

Please click here to find out more about the Wiltshire Campuses

 

Wiltshire Youth Disabled Group

Would you like to make a difference?

Are you a young person aged between 11—24 years old

If you are a young person with a disability (or know someone with a disability) who wants to have your views listened to and represented please get in touch.

For more information on the group or for other opportunities of getting the voice of young disabled people heard please contact   Sonia Nicholls on 01373 859485/07500064003 or email sonia.nicholls@wiltshire.gov.uk

Six Steps to Library Service for Blind and partially sighted People

There are almost two million blind and partially sighted people in the UK that need library and information services just like everyone else.

To read more click here

Locality leads in Swindon

Following on from Lyn McDermot’s presentation on Tues 17th April @ Meadowcroft.

Please find listed below the locality leads in Swindon:

North: (Blunsdon/Haydon Wick/North Swindon)

Kathryn Langdown & Kati Wood

North Central: (Penhill/Pinehurst/Moredon)

Andy Reeves & Michelle Matthews

North East: (Stratton/Highworth)

Pam Gough, Andrea Barrett & Mark Pritchard

South: (Chiseldon/Wroughton)

Jackie Moyles & Tracey Scott

East: (Parks/Walcot/Dorcan)

Naz Ali & Chris Smith

West: (Toothill/Shaw/Freshbrook)

Paula Harrison & Gail Light

Town Centre: (Broadgreen/ Eastcott)

Mark Walker & Francis Barrone

New Life for Transplantees

– New  Group — New Life for Transplantees – New Group –

Our aim is to help pre and post transplanted individuals to stay fit and healthy by providing informal exercise classes, swimming sessions, nutritional/dietary advice and physical activities such as: Walking and Cycling Trips – all subject to a person’s medical consultant approval.
Newlife for Transplantees is run by the founder (Chair), who had a liver transplant at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 2009, the Secretary who is a qualified gym instructor and nutritionist and the Treasurer who will look after all the finances donated to the charity.

The group offers information and support to help people to be/stay fit and healthy pre and post transplant and to give members a purpose and goal in life.

Anyone wanting more information should contact Terry Sell (Chair)( 07526 811341 (mobile) /

: newlife-terry@hotmail.co.uk , www.newlifetransplant.org

Alabaré Include

Alabaré Include is working in partnership with NHS Wiltshire and Wiltshire Council to provide a Wiltshire wide community service for adults with mental health issues.  Community Bridge Builders offer 1:1 support to help people to identify their goals and plan their individual journey of recovery.  Alabaré offers courses, activities, support groups, accredited training, befrienders, E-support (via website) and support to access local activities.  “Beth was referred to Alabaré by the Community Mental Health Team.  It took her a long time to trust staff but now she has received a qualification and is planning to take up a voluntary position in a local nursing home.”  If you would like more information, please contact Alabaré Include:
Telephone: 01380 738602
Email: include@alabare.co.uk
Website: www.alabareinlcude.co.uk
Address: Office C, Unit 1A, Bath Road Business Centre, Devizes, SN10 1XA

Carers UK Latest News

E-action: Add your voice

Success in Tax Credit fight

What will the budget mean for carers?

For more information click here

New Telephone Number to the Wheelchair Service

From the 1st April 2012, please call 01225 899130 for all your queries, repairs, deliveries and collections.

Improving Mental Health Services

Accessing specialist mental health services – A new primary care liaison service is being set up to work alongside a new intensive service to ensure effective 24/7 access, reflecting local requirements and able to respond to evolving local needs.

Click here to find out more

Statement from BA14 Culture Group following the announced closure of the Arc Theatre as a professional venue – Feb 2012

Following the recent announcement by Wiltshire College of the decision to close the Arc Theatre as a professional arts venue BA14 Culture Group would like to express its disappointment and dismay that Trowbridge will lose its only professional theatre.

BA 14 Culture Group was heartened by the strong support expressed by Trowbridge people for retaining the Arc Theatre . We now need to build on this and look at alternative ways to ensure professional performing arts can be brought to Trowbridge in future . A proposal is being actively prepared .

Looking to the future, we are calling for a strong partnership of all those people who want to restore professional theatre in Trowbridge  – including Wiltshire Council, Trowbridge Council, BA14 Culture , local schools and all interested individuals and groups .

If we look at the wider cultural picture inTrowbridge there are several reasons to be encouraged :

• the first Trowbridge Arts Festival will be held in Sept 2012
• the rebuilt Civic Hall has just opened
• a new library is being built for opening later this year
• the revived Village Pump Folk Festival will take place in July 2012
• the Cloth Road Arts Trail will continue

There is a strong likelihood of a multiplex cinema coming to Trowbridge town centre – funded proposals are now with the planners .

BA14 Culture Group is keen to strengthen and widen its membership to allow more voices and ideas to be heard in support of the arts for our area.  So I would like to invite you to our next meeting, scheduled for Monday 30^th April, 7.30pm at the Civic Centre, Trowbridge.       Come along with your ideas and enthusiasm .

If you are able to attend and would like to be included as a BA14 member, please email tcaf@trowbridge.gov.uk

 

Thanks for your time.

The Signs of Dementia

Please click here to read some information on the signs of dementia

 

Golden-Oldies in Wiltshire

Due to popular demand the Golden-Oldies Charity started new monthly open access singing sessions in Chippenham, Trowbridge, Melksham and Devizes with more sessions starting in Westbury and Bradford-on-Avon early next year.

If you are interest in finding more information about these then please contact Emma or Abbey on 01761 470006, www.golden-oldies.org.uk.

 

 

The Money Advice Service

the Money Advice Service, set up by Government to offer you free, unbiased money advice. Click here to find out more.

Employment and Support Allowance

Between October 2010 and Spring 2014, members who receive Incapacity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance and Income Support paid on the grounds of illness or disability will be assessed for Employment Support Allowance. Click here to read more.

 

Physical & Sensory Impairment Strategy

Click here to download the Physical & Sensory Impairment Strategy 2009-2014

 

Home Insulation Grants Now Available

Warmer Wiltshire is working with Wiltshire Council to increase substantially the number of well insulated homes in the area by offering a range of grants for loft and cavity wall insulation. Please click on the link below to find out if you are eligible for the grant:

Home Insulation Grants Now Available

If you are interested in this then you can contact Warmer Wiltshire on 01225 904420 or call free on 08000 190702 and quote Ref WWS. You can also apply online at www.warmerwiltshire.co.uk.
Wiltshire & Swindon Users’ Network do not take any responsibility for any of the information on this page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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