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New Road Name for Brunswick Gets the Vote! ISSUE 20 - Winter 2018 New road name for Brunswick gets the vote! A new road being built in the Representation of the People’s Act, Brunswick is to be named which gave women the right to vote for Sylvia Pankhurst Way - as the first time in 1918. chosen by S4B residents. The road is being built as part of the regeneration of the Brunswick area and A special ceremony was held on will form the new boulevard running Wednesday 3 October, attended by directly through the neighbourhood, guest of honour Sylvia Pankhurst’s just half a mile from the Pankhurst Centre granddaughter, Helen Pankhurst, where the suffragette movement began. Residents decided on Sylvia Pankhurst Full story on the S4B website and Way - named after the Manchester-born more photographs on the S4B women’s rights campaigner and artist, Facebook page. daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and co-founder of the suffragette movement. Turn to pages The name was chosen as the opening of 3 & 8 for important Christmas messages. the road coincides with the centenary of Brunswick Tenants and Stay Safe! Here are some tips to help Residents Association (BTARA) keep you safe this Christmas: Election results of BTARA for 2018-19. • Bogus callers - Always check details Housing Office of anyone calling at your home, ask Officers: A special feature highlighting all of for ID and if you have any concerns Ray Nelson (Chair), BTARA’s achievements so far will be Christmas don’t let them in to your home. published on the S4B website soon... Craig Eastham (Secretary), Keep all your doors and windows Martin Toal (Treasurer), Opening Hours • BTARA meetings are the first closed and locked. Martin Greenwood (Vice-Chair). Wednesday of every month - 7pm at Open Don’t leave presents under the Committee members: Brunswick Parish Church. Everyone Monday 24th December – Christmas Eve • Christmas tree before the big day. Ann Carroll, Debbie Ellison, welcome. – 9:00am-5:00pm Don’t leave any valuables or Kirsty Fletcher, Zoe Hopkins, • presents in your car. Mavis Jeggo, Dean Miller. Closed Tuesday 25th December – Christmas Day • Don’t carry large amounts of cash Wednesday 26th December – Boxing Day or valuables. • Make sure you dispose of Please recycle your old Open packaging from presents - don’t Thursday 27th December – advertise your presents by leaving real Christmas trees 9:00am – 5:00pm big boxes outside. Please email Biffa to arrange to have your real tree Friday 28th December – 9:00am – 5:00pm collected in January 2019. Closed Email: [email protected] Saturday 29th December Recycle it! Sunday 30th December Don’t forget... recycle, recycle recycle! Paper, cardboard and gift wrap goes in Allotment News... Open Monday 31st December – New Year’s Eve your blue bin. The Hartfield Close allotment allocation If you see anyone fly-tipping, report it meeting was held in October with S4B Closed and help to put a STOP to it. and Chorlton on Medlock Allotment Tuesday 1st January – New Year’s Day Tel 0300 555 0128 or email Society (COMAS), and a decision has [email protected] now been made. For any emergency repairs during this Your usual Friday bin collection will take time, please call 0300 555 0128 (24 hours). place on - Customers who registered an interest in having a plot at the new Sunday 30th December and allotment site and were successful have been contacted. For any ASB or Domestic Violence Emergencies, please call 999/101 in the Saturday 5th January. A launch event will be announced soon. first instance. Collections will return to normal after For more information contact Suzannah Clothier T: 0300 555 0128 the festive period (Fridays). E: [email protected] or call into the S4B housing office. 02 03 Skatepark New boundary Demolition ramps up walls and fences... update ...will be completed over the Demolition of the old S4B housing donations next few months as part of the office on Brunswick Street is now A crowdfunding drive by Projekts regeneration of Brunswick. complete, making way for new MCR skatepark was extended following a homes to be built. Each fence is treated to British Standards late flurry of donations, which included The old shops on Brunswick Street a contribution from Onward as part of S4B. and designed to last seven years so should not need to be painted within will be demolished at the end of the Onward joined a number of local organisations The funding will also go towards the city’s this time - if you want to paint your fence, year when all services have been in contributing to the fund, donating £5,000. first skate café, community space and a disconnected. Work will start in the spectator viewing platform, plus the creation you must ask S4B first. The funds will be used to expand the skatepark’s new year to build a 60-bedroom extra of a youth engagement room and meeting current ramp capacity allowing the Projeckts Tenants can report fencing repairs to S4B: space to provide classes, coaching care development for older people. team to work with up to 10,000 more of T: 0300 555 0128 and training. Manchester’s children and young people E: [email protected] or Further updates will be published in each year. call into the S4B housing office. your development update - In Brunswick. 16-18 and looking to get into work? Training opportunities and courses available with Longsight Training Centre. We helped Andrew save over £200 and Visit gceducationandskills.ac.uk for more information or get in touch. T: 0161 225 4241 E: [email protected] we can help you too... S4B contacted all single households in Artillery Court to look at a way to reduce their water rates bill. The Salv ation Army, Grosvenor Street On average a metered bill is half the cost of standard charges. Most properties in . high rise blocks are unable to have a meter fitted due to shared pipework, so can 4:30 - 6.30pmpm ev ery MondaM yy. request that they go onto an assessed charge. For a single person household the assessed charge would be £267.42. Financial Inclusion Yvette Brown helped one Brunswick Youth Club re-opened of the residents, Andrew, save over £200 per its doors on Monday 29th October. year in a reduction in water rates. With everything from indoor football, badminton and table tennis, to face painting, arts and cras, seed planting and If you are a single tenant in any of our high henna painting, there really is something for everyone... rise blocks and want to look at reducing There is also be a chill out area and free refreshments, your water rates bill, please contact your plus lots more on oer. Financial Inclusion Officer, Yvette Brown - For more information contact S4B community Ages 8+8+ T: 0300 555 0128, development ocer, Sharon Thomas. E: [email protected] T: 0300 555 0128 or call into the S4B housing office. or E: [email protected] 04 05 Brunswick Community Festive Ball S4B will soon Friday 7th December 2018 be Five! S4B turns five on 6th January! To celebrate our achievements so far and to mark this significant milestone, we will be running a series of events and activities throughout the year in 2019. Details of upcoming events will be published on the S4B website, Facebook and Twitter pages,5 so keep a look out! Brunswick Community Projects Funding 5 Brunswick Community Projects Funding coming soon... Brunswick community group funding Photographs from the day! Full details coming in 2019 06 07 Food items such as: • Cereal Over Tips to help you stay • Soup well this winter • Pasta/Rice Christmas... • Tinned tomatoes/ Most building work in Brunswick pasta sauce will now have ceased for the • Lentils, beans and pulses • Tinned meat Christmas holidays, and will start • Tinned vegetables up again in the New Year. Keeping seasonal coughs and colds at bay • Tea/coffee Always seek advice from your pharmacist • Tinned fruit To report any issues on the demolition • Biscuits at the first sign of a cough or cold before it sites, new build homes construction • UHT milk sites, or unauthorised person(s) on gets more serious. FOODBANK COLLECTION POINT • Fruit juice a building site during the Christmas Stay warm for The Trussell Trust, • Long life juice period, please tel: 0300 555 0128 It is also important to keep warm in winter - • Halal tinned meat 24-hour line (select option 1). Manchester Central Foodbank. both inside and outdoors. • Tinned fish • Peanut butter In an emergency, contact Archon Keep your bedroom window closed on If you have any items you wish to donate mobile security patrol direct. winter nights - breathing cold air can be please bring them in. Non-food items such as: Tel: 07903 916 044. bad for your health as it incråeases the risk • Toiletries For more information - of chest infections. • Household items High-rise blocks and maisonettes T: 0300 555 0128 E: [email protected] • Feminine products Issues at high-rise or maisonettes - Stay active or call into the S4B housing office and speak to Yvette Brown • Baby supplies 24-hour emergency service. Keep active when you’re indoors. Try not to Tel G4S: 07786 312 672. sit still for more than an hour or so. Stay informed Emergency repairs Learn how to make your home more Please continue to use the energy efficient, at 24-hour contact number: Brunswick www.gov.uk/phe/keep-warm. Tel: 0300 555 0128 (select option 2). Catch it. Bin it. Kill it! Bonanza Smell gas? Flu is very infectious and spread by germs On 13th November, S4B held its second If you smell gas or think there may be from coughs and sneezes, which can live a gas leak (anytime).
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