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Green Open Homes

green open homesSave £££ and win – visit Green Open Homes during May

On Saturdays and Sundays / weekends from 3 – 15 May, 20 local householders will be opening their homes to the public as part of Colchester’s Green Open Homes.  Find out how easy it is to cut hundreds of pounds from your energy bills by installing energy saving measures, from low cost to bigger investments. Plus win shopping vouchers just by visiting one of the Green Open Homes. The event will be a great opportunity for visitors to see first-hand how various environmental and renewable technologies work, such as solar panels and air source heat pumps.  See the technologies in use in real homes discuss with the householders the practicalities and benefits for them.

  • How much did the installation cost and how simple was it?
  • What effect has it had on their fuel bills?
  • Are the sales claims realistic?

Visit www.colchester.greenopenhomes.net or contact the organizers, en-form, on 01206 367776 or [email protected] for locations and opening details.

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Making Connections in the Wigoroughs

St Stephen’s Church, Great Wigborough, is hosting a series of events between May 16th – 18th to encourage local residents to get to know each other.  

Friday 16th May – Meet Your Neighbours

Meet over drinks and canapés – tower opens 6:30 – 8:30pm.

Saturday 17th May – Puppets come to Tea

This family oriented activity is a family event for all ages starting at 3pm – free tickets are available from Louise – call 735136.

Sunday 18th May – Café-style service

Faith stories from local ministers at 4pm.

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Run a stall at Peldon Festival 2014?

This year’s Peldon Festival is on Saturday 14th June. As usual we have Punch & Judy, animals, food, stalls, games etc.

We have also booked some craft stalls but are looking for local people who may want a stall and wonder if you know of anyone?  Maybe a couple of people want to share a stall?

Could you please put anyone in touch with me on this email [email protected] or 01206 735505 Or Kate on [email protected] or 01206 736043.

It would be nice to get local people involved. We are always needing help on the day, so if you fancy a day out let me know!

Jane Anderson

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Job Vacancy – Community Agents

Community Agents Essex

Four Voluntary and Community Sector organisations have come together and formed a partnership to deliver a new and targeted service to help older people in Essex. The “Community Agents Essex” service will create a countywide network of agents and volunteers who will support older people and informal carers to find and develop independent living solutions from within their local community.

Community Agent (24 posts)

  • Salary £8.26 per hour plus travelling expenses
  • Flexible working hours between 10 and 20 hours per week (Minimum 10 hours)

We are looking for Community Agents to operate in all parts of Essex. Full training and support will be provided but you will need to know your own locality well.  Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they can proactively engage with and support older people in the community often on a one to one basis. Working as part of a team you must have excellent spoken and written communication skills and possess the ability to solve problems. You must have good IT skills, a full driving licence and use of your own car.

All appointments will be subject to a DBS check.

Interviews for these posts will be held on 12th and 13th May 2014

The closing date for all applications is: 2nd May 2014.

For more information about how to apply for one of these posts please visit www.communityagentsessex.org.uk.

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BBC1 Homes & CBC tenants news

There seems to have been a little flurry of news themed around Homes of late, and this news update is a distillation of it:

BBC TV Programme

BBC One are looking for people who live in interesting homes in across Essex and would be happy to try a home swap holiday for a new TV series.  

Do you live in an interesting home you’d be happy to swap with someone elsewhere in the UK for a short break?  Would you like the chance to have a new experience and discover local cuisine, sight-seeing that goes beyond the guide book, and an authentic place to stay?

Do you:

 

  • Live in an interesting property such as a conversion, a charming cottage, a super-modern apartment, a historic building, a period house or have an unbelievable view?
  • Want a short UK break and chance to discover a new area?
  • Like the idea of a house swap holiday, but have never tried it?

 

IF SO THEN GET IN TOUCH NOW!

For an application form please email [email protected] with your contact details.

Please also see the link to the show’s page at the BBC:http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/beonashow/home_swap_holidays.

Colchester Borough Homes

Do you know a Council tenant or leaseholder who:

  • takes an active interest in their community,
  • makes a positive difference where they live,
  • is always looking to make things better,

… then they could be just the person we’re looking for to join our Board! Tenant Board Members serve for a period of three years and bring a resident’s perspective to decisions about the future of the Company.

More information about the role and an application pack will shortly be available on our website: www.cbhomes.org.uk/joinboard.

If you would like us to send out information in the post to you or an interested tenant or leaseholder, please emai l[email protected] with details.

Thank you for your time! J

Berkeley Young
Board Assurance Officer
(Working days: Mon-Thu)

Colchester Borough Homes
1st Floor, Rowan House
33 Sheepen Road

Colchester CO3 3WG
Tel:  (01206) 282518
Fax: (01206) 506924 
(Typetalk users dial 18001 followed by the full number that you wish to call)

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Car Park Closure May 2014

The Wigboroughs Village Hall Management Committee

The old Village Hall in School Lane, Great Wigborough and the site on which it stands are the property of the villages of Great and Little Wigborough and public access is not automatic.

To affirm this, at least once a year, for a period of at least one week, the car park will be closed.

This is advance notice that the next period of closure will be from 25th May to 1st June 2014.  No access or egress will be possible during that period.

Jinny Gale

Chairman

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Peldon History Project

Local history from Oral SourcesPatrick Denney

The Friends of St Mary’s Peldon will be hosting a talk by Patrick Denney, entitled ‘Local History from Oral Sources’ with the aim of setting up an oral history project in the village of Peldon … the delights and pitfalls.

There has already been a very positive response to setting up the Peldon History Project in order to research and update the history of the village over the last 60 years, especially through oral recordings of those who have lived in or been associated with Peldon during this time. All are welcome to join us as we launch this new project.

The talk will be at St Mary’s Church Peldon starting at 7:30pm on 23rd April.  Tickets £8 on the door or in advance from Bill on 01206 735770. Refreshments will be available.

Patrick Denney is one of the leading Colchester historians and a well known local and family history tutor. He has taught a range of classes across the region for the Universities of Cambridge, Essex and East Anglia, for various Adult Education Colleges and the WEA. He is also the author of numerous books and articles on the History of Colchester. He is Secretary of the Colchester Recalled Oral History Group and Membership Secretary of the Friends of Colchester Museums. He is also a Regional Blue Badge Tourist Guide, a Member of ‘The Essex Society for Archaeology and History’ and is currently serving on the Society’s Council.

Next lecture

This is the start of this very exciting project about the history of our local area, so do try to come.  The second History Lecture in the Autumn will be a workshop and talk on recording history.

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Colchester Road/The Strood/Mersa Road Speed Limit

The Essex County Council (B1025 Colchester Road/The Strood, West Mersea & Mersea Road, Peldon) (40mph Speed Limit) Order 2014

Notice is hereby given that the Essex County Council has made the above Order under Sections 84(1) and (2) and Part III to Schedule 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

Effect of the order: To introduce a 40MPH speed limit on that length of B1025 Colchester Road/The Strood, West Mersea & Mersea Road, Peldon in the Borough of Colchester as specified (The roads are currently derestricted):

RoadDescription
B1025 Colchester Road/The Strood, West MerseaFrom a point approximately 60 metres north west of its junction with Mersea Road (northern arm of Bennett island) in a generally south easterly direction, for a distance of approximately 265 metres.
Mersea Road, PeldonFrom its junction with B1025 Colchester Road (both arms of the Bennett island) in a generally north westerly direction, for a distance of approximately 1070 metres.

Date of operation: The Order will come into operation on 31 March 2014.

Further details: A copy of the Order and plans may be examined during normal office hours at County Hall, Chelmsford CM1 1LX.

Application to the high court: Anyone who wishes to question the validity of the Order of any provision contained in it on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or on the grounds that any requirement of the Act, or any instrument made under it, has not been complied with in relation to the Order, may within six weeks from the date of the making of the Order apply to the High Court for this purpose.

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Progress with the Wigboroughs’ Village Hall

Thank you to everyone who returned the recent questionnaire. We distributed 200 and received 100 completed ones in return. This may be a record! There was a clear mandate for progressing two projects – the Church Nave and Peldon Village Hall and these two received almost equal support.

The committee will now start the detailed work for both of these projects to see how/whether either or both of them can be carried forward in a financially sound manner, how they can best provide appropriate benefits for the Wigboroughs and also give adequate protection for the Wigboroughs legacy going forward.

The other two projects, Donated Land and Investment will now be dropped. Our thanks go to Carol and Colin Wyatt for their generous offer of land donation.

The full record of the returns, omitting personal details, will be on display at the Annual General Meeting in June.

Jinny Gale
Chairman WVHMC

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