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Welcome A warm welcome to the August 2018 edition of the Castle Point Local Business Guide. We’ve had some fantastic weather recently and so why not visit some of the lovely gardens that we have on our doorstep. Our feature ‘ Gardens in Essex’ on page 6 will give you some great ideas of where to go. In our regular ‘What’s On in Castle Point’ on pages 16 and 17 we feature a Heritage Talk on the ‘History of Stibbards’ the local Funeral Director, an Essex Summer of Art at the Old Fire Station in Hadleigh, a Coffee Morning, a Poetry Reading, the Dutch Cottage Museum’s 400th Anniversary Garden Party and the Hadleigh Community Summer Fayre. Plenty for everyone to enjoy! In our regular Acres Way feature (pages 10 and 11), we are really pleased that both Jerry the Labrador and Oscar the Boxer Cross that we featured last time have now found new loving homes! Unfortunately, Bear the Rottweiler Cross is still currently at Acres Way awaiting a new home, so we are featuring him again this month, along with 2 new dogs needing new homes. Within our Community section this month we focus in on the Hadleigh Summer Fayre (page 8) which is being held at John Burrows Recreation Ground, Rectory Road in Hadleigh with live music, arena displays, beer tent, bouncy castle, face painting, BBQ, craft & game stalls, international food area, savouries, cakes and sweets. We also have a feature about the history of the Kynoch Hotel on Canvey Island (page 18), the Castle Point Bowls Club (page 24) and volunteering opportunities with local charity CAVS (page 21). Our regular financial expert Martin Lamb from Joseph R Lamb Financial Advisers provides his regular contribution (centre pages).
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Gardens In Essex There are some lovely gardens in Essex so why not take advantage of the lovely weather and pay them a visit. Audley End House and Gardens in Saffron Walden is one of England’s grandest stately homes. Audley End House was built to entertain royalty and includes a Victorian Service Wing complete with kitchen, laundries and a dairy. With beautiful grounds to explore, including an impressive formal garden and the working Organic Kitchen Garden, there’s so much to see and do. For opening times and prices visit www.english-heritage.org.uk or call 01799 522842. Beeleigh Abbey Gardens near Maldon is a delightful series of gardens in three acres with plenty to explore and a river view, between Maldon and Woodham Mortimer. There are refreshments and a chance to buy plants, but the Abbey itself is now a private residence. Abbey Turning, nr Maldon, CM9 6LL. For opening times visit www.english-heritage.org.uk or call 07779 223321 Bridge End Garden in Saffron Walden is a series of seven interlinked gardens laid out by the Gibson family in the nineteenth century. These grade II-star listed gardens are now under the control of Saffron Walden Town Council, and remain open to the public each day free of charge. Careful restoration has replicated gardening techniques and designs typical of the Victorian era and has brought the garden back to its full splendour. Bridge End, Saffron Walden, CB10 1HR. Hyde Hall is a 360 acre estate near Chelmsford. This inspirational garden has a great diversity of plants and planting styles where you can watch the changing seasons and get closer to nature. It’s a garden to be enjoyed by people of all ages Facilities include a licensed restaurant, plant centre, shop, information centre and library.For more details visit www.rhs.org.uk/hydehall
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Can you help Re-Home a Dog from Acres Way Kennels? Adopting a Dog If you think you can offer a dog a good home, the firs thing you need to do is to go down to the kennels, select a suitable dog you like, take it for a walk and see how you get on. Some people and dogs just don’t get along, so before reserving a dog, the Acres Way staff would need to see if you suit each other. If you have children, or another dog, they recommend that you bring them with you, to make sure that everyone will get on. Once you have visited the dogs, and hopefully found one that matches your lifestyle and expectations, a member of staff will arrange a convenient time for a home check. These are usually carried out within 2 or 3 days of your visit and take about half an hour. Once the home check is complete, you’ll
be able to collect your dog. You will need to bring with you some identifiction showing your current address, and the £130 adoption fee. Their staff will be on hand if you have any questions, and will be able to guide you through the adoption process. All the staff and dogs at Acres Way look forward to seeing you.
Re-Homing Update We are really pleased that both Jerry the Labrador and Oscar the Boxer Cross that we featured last time have now found new loving homes! Unfortunately, Bear the Rottweiler Cross is still currently at Acres Way awaiting a new home, so we are featuring him again this month, along with 2 new dogs needing new homes..
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- Staffie Aged 7 years Loves : Lots of fuss and attention . Looking for : Daisy is a lovely little Staffie who is looking for a quiet life and comfy home. She is ok with children but due to not getting on with other dogs we would not have here with small children. She also may suffer with a little separation anxiety.
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Money Guidance I have written several articles about Pensions following the dramatic changes Pensions Freedoms have made. To recap personal pensions are now much more simple, and very flexible long-term savings accounts. The only limitation for most is that they can’t currently be accessed until age 55, but if you could access it earlier you might end up with no pension! Tax relief is given on contributions at your marginal rate of tax, for high earners this is simply too attractive to miss, and for basic rate tax payers there are still long-term advantages. Pension funds accumulate free of capital gains or income tax, 25% of the total fund can be accessed tax free, the balance is taxed as income when you draw it, but most should be earning less in retirement so the income tax due on it should be less than the tax reliefs given. In addition, pensions are normally free of inheritance tax. If you run your own business and your business pays your pension contribution this is normally all set off against corporation tax as well, so you can extract money from your business into your own pension account free of corporation tax, income tax and national insurance. If you are happy to tie the money up to age 55 it really is a ’no brainer’ mathematically. Remember that after 55 (57 after 2028) you can access as much of your pension as you wish and when you wish. You can use the 25% tax free part as ‘income’ and draw it down without any tax until it is exhausted, and you could draw up to your income tax allowance from the taxed part of the pension, if you don’t exceed the allowance this will also be free of income tax. Pensions now really are just too good to miss out on, especially if you are a higher rate or additional rate tax payer. There is some confusion in the savings market however, as a Lifetime ISA broadly replicates a pension for basic rate tax payers. There is no tax relief on contributions, but the entire fund can be withdrawn without income tax and you can access them earlier than a pension. They are subject to certain limitations, but they do make sense as a form of long term savings. However, things may be about to change. The Government are looking to raise more money and are unlikely to want to borrow further. As economic growth is somewhat slow at the moment it is almost certain they will raise it from taxation but will want to limit 14
direct tax increases so tax preferred savings may well be in for a change. In fact, the Treasury Committee have very recently suggested simplifying the savings market by scrapping Lifetime ISA’s and limiting the attractiveness of personal pensions as they spend £billions on tax reliefs, mainly for higher earners. At the moment you can pay up to £40,000 a year into your pension if all your earnings total less than £150,000 per year and get tax relief at your marginal rates. The Treasury Committee are also proposing to reduce the £40,000 and to have a flat rate of income tax relief, (maybe 25%?). This will be fairer to lower earners as they will have an increase in tax relief and should encourage more to save, yet 25% tax relief is still attractive enough for higher earners to want to continue saving for later life, albeit with less available allowance if the £40,000 is reduced. Currently if you have not used your full pension allowance you can claim it back for three previous years, so potentially you could pay £160,000 in this year if you have made no pension funding. This facility could also be reined in by either limiting the years or limiting the carry forward amount to whatever the new reduced annual limit may become. Or by scrapping it all together! These proposal, or similar have been kicked around for some while now and look increasingly likely, as they are getting more support within the Government. So if you have any spare cash to invest to age 55, especially if you run your own business and are sitting on more cash than you need to trade and are limiting your drawings to reduce income tax, now may be an opportunity to extract money from your business more tax efficiently than any other method. Don’t wait until the Autumn statement if this is the case, seek advice or this massive tax saving opportunity may well be lost.
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What’s On In Castle Point Hadleigh Heritage Coffee Morning & Talk ‘The History of Stibbards, Family Undertakers’ by Martin Stibbards Saturday 18th August 2018 Starts: 10.30am for start at 11.00am Location: St James the Less Church, High Street, Hadleigh SS7 2PA. Find out the fascinating history of Stibbards, a local family undertakers. Coffee served from 10.30am. Talk starts at 11.00am. Free admission. St James the Less Church website: http://hadleighchurch.org.uk
Essex Summer Of Art Hadleigh Old Fire Station Open Weekend Saturday 25th – Monday 27th August 2018 Starts: 10.00am to 5.00pm At: Hadleigh Old Fire Station, High Street, Hadleigh SS7 2PA. For more information, e-mail Brian Hickey at b.hickey990@btinternet.com. HOFS website: http://www.hofs.org.uk
Dutch Cottage Museum 400th Anniversary Garden Party Saturday 1st September – Sunday 2nd September 2018 Starts: 11.00am - 4.00pm. Celebrating its 400th anniversary in 2018. Join us for music, singing, dancing, stalls, hot and cold food, drinks and ice cream. Organised by Benfleet & District Historical Society – www.benfleethistorical.org 16
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Hadleigh Community Summer Fayre Sunday 2nd September 2018 Starts: 10.00am – 4.00pm At John Burrows Recreation Ground, Rectory Road, Hadleigh, SS7. With live music, arena displays, beer tent, bouncy castle, face painting, BBQ, craft & game stalls, international food area, savouries, cakes and sweets. Essex Lottery – We are now one of the good causes on the Essex Lottery – see: https://www.essexlottery.co.uk/support/improveappearance-of-hadleigh-essex HCG Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hadleighcommunitygroup
Coffee Morning Thursday 16th August 2018 Location: At the United Reformed Church, 1 Church Road, Hadleigh, SS7 2DQ. (Opposite Iceland car park/behind Choice.) Starts: From 10.30am to 12 noon. With bric-a-brac table for Christian Aid. Free re-fills. Profits donated to HARP homeless charity. Church website: http://www.hadleighessexurc.org.uk
Poetry Reading Group Meeting Thursday 16th August 2018 From 2.30pm to 3.30pm. At Hadleigh Library, 180 London Road, Hadleigh, SS7 2PD. This month’s subject – Edward Thomas. Meetings held on the 3rd Thursday of each month. For more information, phone 0345 603 7628
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History of Castle Point
The Hotel Kynoch - Canvey Island
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he Hotel Kynoch (right) was located approximately 800 yards east of the Lobster Smack on Haven Road. As the sign on the side of the building in the photograph above shows, the Hotel Kynoch was built in 1900. It was built by the Kynoch Dynamite Company which was based on the other side of Hole Haven Creek in Kynoch Town - now known as Coryton. Hole Haven Creek was an important place for the Kynoch Dynamite Company. Although the shipping of explosives bound for London had been banned beyond a certain point by the Thames Conservators, the Dynamite Company had been licensed to moor storage hulks in the creek - against the wishes of the Commissioners of Canvey. More than a dozen hulks were moored between Hole Haven Point and Pitsea, gunpowder being transferred from them to barges and then caves in Benfleet Creek.* Kynoch’s bought approximately 240 acres of land at Brickhouse Farm on the south west side of Canvey Island in order to build the hotel to accommodate their directors and business associates. The hotel proved to be an expensive investment and whilst the initial building estimate had been £2,500, a total of £7,000 was spent by the end of 1900 and opening was delayed until 1903. The Hotel, although a very pleasant residence, was quite isolated and it’s only access was via a track running below Brickhouse Farm along the Seawall. A roof terrace
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was provided giving a fabulous panoramic view across the Thames Estuary and enabling guests to view passing shipping An elevated walkway led to the sea wall. The first recorded manageress of the Hotel Kynoch was Mrs Annie L. Bee. She was replaced in 1909 by a Mr James Went who later went on to become the landlord of the Lobster Smack. Subsequent hotel managers were Douglas Hemus and Edward Hibbert Smith. The hotel continued to run until the mid 1930s. During the war, it served as an army billet and then became the offices for the London and Coastal Oil Wharves. Sadly, this magnificent building was eventually left to fall into disrepair and was demolished around about 1960.
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Would you enjoy? • Supporting and mentoring young people aged 5 to 19 in your community? • Empowering children, young people and their families with strategies to handle difficult and challenging situations? • Making a positive contribution to community life? • Showing a child or young person that they are valued and that they matter?
As a volunteer mentor you will… • Build trusting relationships maintaining clear professional boundaries.
• Empower young people to lead positive, happy, and healthy lives and find solutions to their own challenges and difficulties. • Provide support to help young people make positive lifestyle choices and feel connected within their community. • Help young people recognise their own on-going achievements thereby building self-confidence and independent. More information on this opportunity can be found on https://www.volunteeressex. org/opportunities/cavs-essex-childrenyoung-people-s-service-volunteer-mentors-required-10437 or call Zoe at CAVS on 01268 638416 or email cavsessexcyp@ castlepointavs.org.uk. www.thelocalbusinessguide.co.uk
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astle Point Bowls Club, located at Woodside Park, Manor Road, Thundersley, was founded in 1980.
The outdoor season runs from the end of April through to the end of September and from October until April the Club plays Short Mat bowls in the Clubhouse next to the Bowling Green. During the Summer, the Club plays in Essex County and local league competitions as well as a programme of friendly games against local Clubs. They also organise a comprehensive programme of internal competitions and has Club “roll-up” days during the week and at weekends. There is something arranged for everybody, from the beginner through to the competitive and experienced bowler. The Short Mat season features a similar menu of activity with County and internal league games, friendlies and “Roll-up” days allowing players of
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all standards to enjoy a game of bowls. In addition to the activity on the Green, the Club organises a series of Social events throughout the year in the Clubhouse for Members and their guests. The Club always welcomes new Members, either experienced bowlers or beginners. The Green is owned by Castle Point Council and is located in Woodside Park, at the top end of Manor Road, Benfleet. There is a well equipped club houseright next to the green. For more details about becoming a member contact Bob Pashley on 01268 742523 or Peter Humm on 01268 741346. To read more about the club visit www.castlepointbowls.co.uk.
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07791 680397
Hospitals 24hr A&E - Basildon
01268 524900
Southend
01702 435555
Health NHS Health Advice
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Benfleet Clinic
01268 346840
Central Canvey Primary Care Centre
01268 686000
Hadleigh clinic
01702 578600
Thundersley clinic
01268 366820
Councils Essex County Council
0845 7585592
Castle Point Council
01268 882200
Canvey Island Town Council
01268 683965
MP - Castle Point - Rebecca Harris
020 7219 7206
rebecca.harris.mp@parliament.uk
Libraries Canvey Island Library
01268 683 741
South Benfleet Library
01268 758558
Great Tarpots Library
01268 757361
Hadleigh Library
01702 559676
Sports & Leisure
Age UK 0800 1696565 Alcoholics Anonymous 0845 7697555 Childline (24hr) 0800 1111 Citizens Advice Bureau 0844 477 0808 Cruse Bereavement Care 0844 4779400 FRANK - National Drugs Helpline (24hr) 0800 776600 GamCare - Gambling Issues 0845 6000133 Missing People (24hrs) 0500 700700 National Debtline 0808 8084000 National Domestic Violence Helpline (24hr) 0808 2000247 NSPCC Helpline (24hr) 0808 8005000 Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre 0808 8029999 Runaway Helpline (24hr) - under 18 0808 8007070 RSPCA (24hr) 0300 1234999 RSPCA - Southend Branch 01702 290889 Samaritans (24hr) 08457 909090 Sexual Health Direct 0845 1228690 Shelter 0808 8004444 South East and Central Essex Mind 01702 601123 Victim Supportline 0845 3030900
Travel
Traveline National Rail Enquiries Benfleet Train Station National Express
0871 2002233 08457 484950 08456 014 873 08717 818181
The Local Business Guide 01375 402546
www.thelocalbusinessguide.co.uk
Emergency Utilities
Waterside Farm Leisure Centre
01268 694342
Runnymede Swimming Pool
01268 756514
Castle Point Golf Course
01268 510830
Boyce Hill Golf Club
01268 752 565
Canvey Island Football Club
01268 682991
Canvey Island Rugby Club
01268 681881
Electricity - UK Power Gas - National Gas Emergency Service Anglian Water Services Essex & Suffolk Water Directory Enquiries
0800 7838838 0800 111999 0845 7145145 0845 7820999 118 500
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