Communities

MEARS Group is continuing to focus on providing the best service to its residents and service users as is releases its Annual Customer Scrutiny Board Report and is working with the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS) to develop a scrutiny accreditation which will be the first of its kind.

CLIMATE change is seeing a species of migratory butterfly stay in the UK over the winter instead of returning to Europe and Africa, experts say reports the BBC.

THE team from Amazon's fulfilment centre in Tilbury has made a £1,000 donation to an Essex scout group.

JUST a few years ago, Conservative-run Thurrock Council was boasting of "game changing" improvements to Grays Riverside, which included an activity centre, an updated Grays Beach Riverside Park with new attractions and outside entertainment space. 

THE government has today launched the Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund (CCLF), which will be delivered by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF).

LOCAL charity, Little Havens, is proud to announce its new Patron, Simon Webbe of boyband Blue.

THE annual T100 Festival of Walking, Talking & Making returned to Thurrock for 2023 between 21 June – 9 July with T100 Sounds.

FORMER students of Hassenbrook Academy bid a fond farewell to long established maths teacher Mark Harvey in a surprise reunion at the academy.

EAST Thurrock MP Stephen Metcalfe has praised the work of a regional ccancer charity that supports young people after visiting its' Family Funday' in Orsett at the weekend.

A NEW partnership project to tackle fuel poverty and isolation among young people in Essex has been launched.

THE former police station at South Ockendon is to go up for sale as part of Essex Police delivering their Estate Strategy and the...

THE Riverside Community Big Local, in partnership with Thurrock Yacht Club, invites you to an evening with Leigh Hosy-Pickett.

THE Women’s Institute (WI) in Thurrock and Essex Freemasons have got together with a local charity, ‘Get Started Art’, and the Stifford Clays Health Practice PPG (Patient Participation Group) to provide knitted toys and clothes for a Basildon based charity ‘Colourful Beginnings’.  Around 60,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the UK. This means that one in every 13 babies is born before 37 weeks. At Colourful Beginnings, they support families with premature and sick babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) all over the UK.

THE minister for disabled people has been criticised by one of his own MPs for failing to consult properly with disabled people’s organisations over his forthcoming disability action plan reports Disability News Service.

PINEAPPLE Care Services Ltd are proud to announce our Learning Disability students participated in a charity walk of 20 miles, throughout the whole of June to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital. This was a huge achievement for our Learning Disability Students, as some of them are living with high anxieties and struggle leaving the home, one student is blind, other students have a range of disabilities from being non-verbal, living with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism.