COUPLE therapy charity Tavistock Relationships is holding a free Alternative Parents Evening online on Monday 8 November, 7.15pm to 8.30pm, for parents who are feeling under pressure and need relationship support.
THURROCK Council has completed a consultation on the closure of its meals on wheels service and two day care centres in a bid to save more than £500,000.
THE £1.3bn regeneration of Purfleet-on-Thames town centre was one of 53 strategic investment opportunities promoted by the UK government at its Global Investment Summit yesterday, and features in the Department for International Trade's new Investment Atlas, which is designed to encourage overseas investment into British infrastructure and nationally significant projects.
THIS National Adoption Week (18th October–23rd October), the charity is calling on the Government to make a ten-year commitment to the Adoption Support Fund (ASF), which provides adoptive families in England with therapeutic support. A third of parents told Adoption UK support accessed through the ASF had helped them avoid a family breakdown.
CHARITIES and voluntary groups that are playing a vital role in keeping people safe from harm, helping victims of crime or delivering activities that are making their local communities safer places to live and work, are being given the chance to apply for funding to support their work.
WORK to progress the major redevelopment of Stanford-le-Hope railway station is now moving at pace following the successful planning application in the summer.
DEMENTIA UK’s fundraising event Raise Your Game is back again for more rolls of the dice, whilst aiming for a record number of fundraisers for more life-changing support from dementia specialist Admiral Nurses.
A NEW series of litter picks on the north bank of the Thames have been highlighted by local River Action Clean-Up Facilitator Steve Catchpole of the Thames21 River Action Group.
TO mark 'Green Week' (which concludes today (25 September) members from Bulphan WI set up a stand at the Bulphan Community Café to raise awareness of all the recycling, reuse and repurpose projects they are involved in.
