Thorpe Bay May 2015

Thorpe Bay

May 2015

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his has been an extremely busy month, what with producing two bumper editions and hosting another successful Oracle event on the subject of ‘The Care Act’. The main reason for the evenings success was my great speakers and I would like to take this opportunity of thanking them all,Caroline Southgate and her team from Doris Jones Ltd., Sarah Baker from Southend Borough Council’s Care Act Programme, Jeff Watson from Broom Financial Consultants and Clive Rowe from Oracle Estate Planning.

New Bathroom?

Leaking Tap? Boiler need attention?

The residents who attended found the event both informative and interesting and at the same time enjoyed a delicious curry at the Café Masala. We already have a waiting list of people who want to be informed in advance of our next event. If you would like to be added to this advanced waiting list then please give Michaela a call on 01702 393838 and give her your details.

Grateful Heads has donated this month’ s competition.

Win a cut and blow dry with a senior stylist worth £40.

Grateful Heads has been providing expert hair care to Southend for over 30 years. For more information on their services please visit their website www.gratefulheads.co.uk or call 01702 340965.

To enter simply send your details to:Oracle/Grateful Heads Competition, Oracle House, 11 Clarence Road, Southend, Essex SS1 1AN or email info@oraclepublications.co.uk.

Closing date 29 May 2015.

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here is a touch of Mary Poppins about Sally Whittle - aka Miss Whittle - with her warm smile, bright eyes and calm reassuring manner.

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“Men look after themselves today in a way that was almost unheard of ten or even five years ago.

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“Eyebrows are a developing market,” she assures.

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Naturally, Miss Whittle’s core audience is women.

Asked what her signature treatment is, Sally says: “It must be my facials. My customers tell me they are the best they have ever had. I complement the actual treatment of your face with massage, of the hand and scalp, gently concentrating on your pressure points. You feel really pampered and special afterwards and for me, it’s a nice treatment to do.”

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The Art Ministry – Caring through creativity

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t is claimed that participation in creative arts and crafts activities can help keep you young. Leigh on Sea resident Margaret Armstrong is proof of that. She has attended The Art Ministry’s weekly art and craft session for visually impaired adults for over a year and she reckons it has made her feel younger – at £3.50 a session it’s better value than any beauty treatment!

The support of the local community is key to The Art Ministry’s longevity. It is managed on a voluntary basis by its trustees, with the help of 30 local residents. It employs 5 part-time session leaders, most of whom started as volunteers.

Natasha Davis started as a volunteer with The Art Ministry 3 years ago. She was unemployed and unsure what direction to take her career. After helping at the session for children with learning Affordable art sessions difficulties, she set her sights on working in a Hadleigh based charity The Art Ministry has similar environment and is now employed at a served residents of the south-east corner of Essex local college, supporting young people. What’s since 1992. At the heart of its services are a range more, Natasha became a trustee a year ago and of affordable weekly arts and crafts sessions for a raised funds for The Art Ministry by abseiling variety of local people. Trustee Allan Webb says, down Essex House.

“We focus on people who are most likely to benefit from being involved in creative activity by The Art Ministry is looking for new trustees, so if providing opportunities for making friends, you can spare 4 or 5 hours a month to help boosting self-confidence and improving self- manage the charity, please get it touch with esteem.” With that aim in mind, The Art Ministry them. runs sessions for adults with physical disabilities, partially sighted and blind adults, adults with mental health problems and children and adults with learning difficulties.

The Art Ministry complements its core activities by reaching out to other groups in need. They run a monthly session for young carers and, in June, The Art Ministry will be providing the arts and crafts activities at The Lions Mid-Summer Sports Day and Fun Festival for Disabled People.

In addition to its core activities, The Art Ministry runs a weekly art club on Friday mornings and a sewing bee on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday morning of each month. These are open to everyone.

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Club of Leigh on Sea by providing free arts and crafts activities to over 200 children and adults.

They included a Leigh Regatta picture competition, which was won by Frank, aged 4 and three quarters after a vote on social media. They also provided arts and crafts activities at the Leigh Night of Lights and Leigh Family Fun Easter Event.

The Art Ministry are signed up for the Leigh Maritime Festival and Leigh Regatta, so if you want to see them “On Tour” then get along to these events:

On Tour - 2015

Get involved!

Session fees of £3.50 cover about a third of The Art Ministry’s running costs. It relies on fundraising to raise a big chunk of its money. If you want to help, why not take part in the Moonlight Colourthon for them on 4th July. If a 13-mile walk is too much for you then donate your unwanted arts and crafts materials and declutter at the same time. The Art Ministry receives some funding from local groups such as the Lions, Rotary Club and ROSCA Trust. It is also supported by Children in Need and the Co-operative Membership Community Fund. All in it costs about £25,000 a year to keep The Art Ministry going for its 60 service users.

Small Charity Celebration Day 1 Church Road, Hadleigh - 20th June The Art Ministry Annual Exhibition Hadleigh Old Fire Station - 9th July Leigh on Sea Maritime Festival Leigh Old Town - 2nd August The Art Ministry Arts and Crafts Activity Day 1 Church Road, Hadleigh - 8th August Leigh Regatta - Leigh Old Town 20th September Leigh Lights - Leigh Community Centre 27th November

The Art Ministry is all about helping people like Cindy Carter feel part of the community. She has been coming to The Art Ministry for over 3 years and says, “It’s the best club in Essex”. Cindy loves working with sequins but has recently developed as an artist and was very pleased when she sold one of her paintings. Cindy says that she loves being able to create things and let other people see her work, and she also likes helping at To publicise The Art Ministry it has been very fundraising events. active in Leigh over the last 6 months. At last year’s Leigh Regatta, they got stuck in with The Lions

Volunteering oppertunities

You can find The Art Ministry’s session timetable and volunteering opportunities on their website or phone or email them for details. Sessions cost just £3.50 and the first one is free.

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This year the General Election will be on the same day as the Local Election so therefore you will have two votes. Whatever your political affiliations are nationally, the local part of the election is about the future of our town and I would urge you to once again vote Independent.

In the past we were dissatisfied with the way residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; views and concerns were ignored.

With my new administration we have changed that by becoming a listening, open, and transparent Council, which is accountable to residents.

Last year by voting Independent your votes counted and you now have an administration that has kept its promises by: 4 Saving council care homes 4 Protecting library services 4 Saving Shoebury Common from a pile of mud and future development 4 Keeping our street lights on 4 Developing our economy and creating jobs 4 Starting to build affordable homes 4 Cutting planned council debt Despite having to contend with huge government spending cuts and financing costs, I have ensured that necessary funding is available (without borrowing) for improvements on our junctions at Kent Elms, The Bell and an improved entrance to the Airport. These are key pinch points and this work is hugely important to support both businesses and the leisure and tourism industries. As a town we need to expand, bringing in new jobs and regeneration.

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they serve. As a first step the Council constitution has been changed to allow more Councillors an opportunity to become involved in the decision making process of the council.

I have many ambitions for the future of our town and if re-elected my priorities will be: Schools: enhance opportunities for our young people. By working with primary schools to raise results we can increase the chances of our children being able to attend the best secondary school for them. We can also improve the record of having only 1 in 3 of our children attending local grammar schools Apprenticeships: actively promote apprenticeships and training, especially in social care Pier: regenerate and attract investment for our pier Council Debt: Put in place plans to reduce borrowing by ÂŁ47 million by 2017/18 Airport: support continued economic growth and the development of the airport business park Infrastructure: continue A127 improvements at Kent Elms, The Bell and the Airport entrance Public Transport: analyse and improve bus routes and their connections with rail networks, with proposals to introduce a smart travel card Local Economy: liaise with local businesses to generate growth and create local jobs Care Homes: invest in adult social care, making this important area sustainable for the future. Independents intend to build a new 60 bed dementia care home, extra care sheltered housing and a day centre for the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s severely disabled residents on a specially designed adult care campus â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all receiving quality care by Southend-on-Sea trained staff Housing: continue to build much needed social housing to enable our local families to live and work in our town

Victoria Avenue: continue the regeneration of this neglected entrance to Southend-on-Sea Shoebury Common sea defences: continue to work with local people on the new design I and my fellow Independent Councillors and candidates remain committed to maintaining, and where necessary improving, the wards we represent and to make sure they are not neglected. I do not want to go back to the bad old days of party politics! We intend to ensure roads are resurfaced where needed, potholes are filled, pavements repaired and street scenes are generally pleasing to the eye. We are still fully committed to ensuring there is no overdevelopment in our wards and our work with residents is proving effective in halting large, inappropriate developments.

To support my continuing efforts to bring back purpose and responsibility into local government, I would ask you to vote Independent in the local elections on the 7th May. Vocal About Representing Local People Independent Councillors Have Now Turned the Tide of Local Politics

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Alongside this positive statistic however is a slightly more worrying one; it is estimated that between 50 - 65% of runners will pick up some form of injury. This means potentially between 1 and 1.3 million people being injured by running.

1 – 1.3 million. That’s an awful lot of people!

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Using shiny surfaces will add glamour and luxury.Mix up the textures and materials to energise the space and hold the users interest. Accessorise with decorative ornaments as you would an interior – vases, statues and lanterns all work well in a garden.

Screens Adding screening helps break up the space and can actually make the garden feel much bigger. It allows you to define areas and hide away unsightly utility areas. Screens become the ‘walls’ of your outdoor room, adding height and personality. They also increase privacy and make the enclosed space more intimate and personal. A pergola can be used to support a sail or canopy to make the space even more secluded.

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Throughout the week, students were engaged in a number of STEM-themed challenges.

Learning groups were challenged to design and build a self-propelled boat using simple materials such as plastic pots, elastic bands and lollipop sticks. Important skills such as collaboration were emphasised and the boats which were constructed were pitted against each other at lunch time on the final day of British Science Week on Friday 20th, with a Year 7 design ultimately beating all of the competition!

Build a Rocket A rocket building competition tested students’ ingenuity during lunchtime on Monday. Using only cardboard, sticky tape and Plasticine, our budding engineers needed to build an airpowered rocket which could be launched over the school buildings. Lessons in aerodynamics and air pressure were quickly learned, with early failures prompting innovations in design and a number of very successful rockets being built.

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who watched teachers receiving electric shocks will testify! Our Van De Graaf generator demonstration was extremely popular on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes, as Physics teacher Mr C Smith demonstrated several scientific principles using the generator, whilst a number of teachers volunteered to be charged and discharged to the delight of a big audience of students of all ages.

Solar eclipse On Friday 20th March, the finale of British Science Week should have been seeing the best solar eclipse in the UK for many years. Members of our very active Astronomy Club had spent recent meetings making eclipse viewers and practicing how to safely view the eclipse with our specialist solar telescope. Unfortunately the weather was not on our side, with 100% dense cloud cover throughout the time in which the moon cast its shadow over Shoeburyness.

Despite this, our astronomers did follow the progress of the eclipse, with a little help from the BBC Stargazing Live broadcasts. The clouds did clear later in the day, so some of the astronomers were able to use the solar telescope safely to observe sunspots on the surface of the Sun. Once again, British Science Week proved to be a great success. STEM subjects are extremely successful and popular in our school, and we are very proud of the achievements of our students in these subjects. Our excellent examination

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