Conservative Councillor Pauline Tolson for Homesteads ward said “We have been campaigning on residents’ behalf about Southend Road for some time. About a year ago we secured funding for signs to help cut speeding, this crossing will now provide a safe place for many local residents, including schoolchildren, to cross. In such an economically tough time, it’s great to see we can still deliver these important community projects”.
COMMUNITY leaders in Chadwell are campaigning to reverse plans by the Ensign bus company to cancel the X1 bus service that passes through their area. Chadwell community forum chair Peter Saunders has placed a petition on e-petition.
ngage Volunteer Centre Thurrock are looking for a new volunteer Coordinator to run their successful newly accredited volunteer service in Thurrock.
Jacqui Payne, Programme Manager for ngage said “We have an opening for a new volunteer coordinator whose role will be to build on the excellent work that has been achieved to date. We are looking for someone who has experience in working with volunteers, and can support the on-going strategic development of new volunteer services within the Centre”.
SOMETIMES, councils must think that they can't win. people ring up and complain that the bushes and hedgerows are overgrown and so they go and do something about it. But along the cycle lanes of Chafford Hundred, residents and naturalists believe that Thurrock Council have taken things to extremes.
SCOUTS and Guides from across Thurrock have been rehearsing every Sunday since the beginning of October,and are ready to tread the boards at the Thameside Theatre with their traditional annual “Stride On” Gang Show, which they first staged in 1968.
A VERY well attended members meeting took place at The Pegasus Club on Tuesday 19th February. Members were informed of the progress being made to secure the tenure of the land and buildings in Herd Lane.
THE newly accredited ngage Volunteer Centre has been successfully operating since July 2011 and is in the process of recruiting a new Volunteer coordinator.
THREE natural history writers are set to swoop on the new Thameside Nature Park as part of the Essex Book Festival. The three authors will be talking about their passion for the natural world in the setting of the new Thameside Nature Park, with its fantastic views and ambience.
AVELEY Village Community Forum is holding its next open forum meeting on Tuesday 19th February at 7.30pm.Top of the agenda will be representatives of Thurrock Council’s planning department who will be talking about possible developments in housing and other building in and around Aveley and the new Local Development Framework.
HAVE you taken advantage of the FREE courses available through the ACE ‘On a Learning Curve’ training programme? There are many courses available that are FREE and offer informal, bite size learning. There are still places available for the following courses:
A PACKED audience. Correction, two packed audiences, came to the Pegasus Club in Herd Lane, Corringham on Tuesday night (Jan 29th) to hear exactly how the members could save the club from being sold off. The committee told the assembled throng that they had been given notice to quit by the administrators, Price Waterhouse Cooper by June 20th, 2013.
OVER the last couple of months North Stifford have had an enjoyable time. Our members had a nice day out visiting the Christmas market at Bury St.Edmunds, somewhere we would recommend as not only was the market good and lots of members made purchases but the Cathedral held carol services and the local church was equally impressive especially as serving tea and cakes, but a good time was had by all.
THE ngage Volunteer Centre are holding a ‘New Year, New You’ free drop-in coffee morning for residents on Friday 18th January between 10.30am – 12.30pm at the Beehive, West Street, Grays, Essex.
Julie Rawson, Volunteer Coordinator for ngage said “Our New Year, New You Coffee Morning will be a perfect way for residents who are considering volunteering in 2013, to find out more by talking to ngage and other people already volunteering in Thurrock. We will have lots of free cakes and refreshments available, and our coffee mornings are very informal and have a lovely friendly atmosphere”.
THURROCK residents are only too acutely aware of problems on the roads, on the pavement and in their streets. Now a website called www.fixmystreet.com may help speed the process by which problems are addressed. You simply log onto the site, detail the problem, attach a photoraph (if you can) and sit back and let the site do the rest.
2013 could be the year that the landscape of Aveley changes forever.
For years, the campaigning community leaders, residents and councillors have tried to control, petition and negotiate over the possible changes to the area. For some it is a futile, King Canute type exercise. For others it is a vital attempt to prevent a small community, a village in many ways from being engulfed by the town called London which it borders.
