Wickford Town

This service offers up to 12 hours of free and impartial business advice for local entrepreneurs.

Businesses can:

• access finance and receive advice on funding

• discover mentoring and networking opportunities

• find training programmes and workshops

• receive guidance on marketing and branding

• learn about strategic planning

The service is delivered by Let’s Do Business Group and funded by Essex County Council. It has already offered tailored support to 844 businesses across a range of sectors. These include fashion, hospitality, technology and logistics. Support has helped to safeguard over 700 local jobs.

Over the next year, Backing Essex Businesses aims to engage even more entrepreneurs. The team will continue to offer successful programmes, such as the Group2Grow Network Programme. Businesses can also expect new initiatives, including additional training and sector-specific events. Visit the Backing Essex Business website at www.backingessexbusiness.co.uk to access support.

Become a Member of Basildon Mind

Are you interested in mental health in the Basildon Borough

(Basildon, Billericay and Wickford)? Do you want to support a local mental health charity?

If you answered yes to the above questions, please consider becoming a Member’ of Basildon Mind.

Basildon Mind is run by its Members, who attend AGMs and elect the Executive Committee.

Role of Being a Member

• Be interested in mental health and Basildon Mind.

• Influence how we are run and what we do.

• Vote for the Executive Committee.

• Consider our Annual Report and Accounts.

• Select our external auditor. Benefits of Being a Member of Basildon Mind

• Entitled to vote at AGM (elect Board, etc).

• Receive our monthly Newsletter.

• Have access to our specialist library.

• Opportunity to volunteer for Basildon Mind.

Membership costs £3 per year. Please email info@basmind.org for more details.

Headway Essex Looking for Volunteers

Headway Essex are seeking volunteers to help support them with their events and at their centres in Colchester and Benfleet. If you can donate your time, they would love to hear from you!

Please get in contact with via the contact details below:

Email: fundraising@headwayessex.org.uk Tel: 01206 845945

Has your child missed their school vaccinations? Don’t worry, summer holiday catch up clinics are available across Essex

If your child has missed their school vaccinations, it is easy to catch up in one of the local vaccination clinics being offered by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) during the summer holidays. Clinics are open across most major towns and cities in Essex throughout the summer holidays. Vaccinations for HPV are offered to year 8 pupils and over. Vaccinations for Meningitis

ACWY and Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio Booster (DTP) are offered to year 9 pupils and over. Visit EPUT summer vaccinations to find a catch up clinic near you. Book an appointment at your nearest clinic, or for more information about missed vaccinations on 0300 790 0597