Charnwood News Summer 2019
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Charnwood News Charnwood Borough Council’s Residents’ Magazine Summer 2019 Outwoods play area Inside this proving popular Issue... – Page 11 Full list of Charnwood Borough councillors Page 18 Summer holiday activity programme Page 5 Packed schedule at Loughborough Town Hall Page 23 Advert Welcome Charnwood News is Charnwood Borough Council’s residents’ magazine. It is sent to every household in the Borough three times a year in March, July and November and is designed to keep residents updated on Council services and local events. The editorial content is provided by the Council’s Communications Team and the magazine is produced at zero cost to taxpayers. The cost of the magazine is met through the sale of advertising. Sales, design, production and distribution are provided by CIS Group Ltd. To advertise or for more information, contact: Telephone: 01253 885777 • Email: [email protected] • www.cispress.com Dear Resident, I’d like to start this invest in our tenants’ homes, and ensuring all column by congratulating our services are of the highest standards. all councillors who were elected in the recent borough We will also be looking at how we can council elections. support our changing high streets. The retail It’s easy to contact us and we’d love to sector is not the same anymore and we hear from you! Out of 52 Members, we have 11 new faces have to think differently to ensure our town and I hope they are looking forward to centres remain vibrant. The Council has a key Charnwood Borough Council Southfield Road, the challenges ahead. I would advise our role to play in this. Loughborough, newcomers to dive into the training provided, Leicestershire, listen (a lot) and if they need some advice, Looking after the finances also remains a LE11 2TR just ask one of the many wise heads who top priority as it gives us a solid platform to Tel: 01509 263151 already have a few terms under their belt. deliver our services from. www.charnwood.gov.uk Local government is complex, even more so email: [email protected] when on the inside and there’s nothing wrong What will also remain in our focus is the asking for help. need to put residents at the heart of @CharnwoodBC everything we do. I was delighted to be re-elected as leader Like us on Facebook: of the Council at a recent meeting and it We’re here to serve. Every Councillor knows facebook.com/charnwoodbc continues to be an honour and a privilege that. And while we can’t always deliver to serve the borough. I have appointed everything people want, all 52 members, the This information is available in different Cabinet and it means we can now get on with Council’s staff and our partners will work formats and languages on request. Please contact the Communications Team for delivering excellent services. hard each and every day to do the best for details on 01509 634603. our borough. We will be developing our new corporate Charnwood Borough Council does not accept responsibility for or endorse plan this year, and this will guide our work Here’s to the future! any products or services offered by for the next four years, setting out the advertisers. All information correct at Council’s aims and ambitions. It will include time of printing. our manifesto pledges such as planting of Cllr Jonathan Morgan, 100,000 trees in the borough, continuing to Leader of Charnwood Borough Council When you have finished with this magazine please recycle it. this, you can keep up to date with Council Printed on environmentally friendly paper Sign up to our news and all things Charnwood and get all from renewable sources. Newsletters the info you need sent direct to your inbox. If you’ve visited our website recently, you You can also sign up here: may have spotted an invite to sign up our www.charnwood.gov.uk/charnwood_now. newsletter pop-up on the screen. By doing Sign up and stay updated! 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Cllr Seaton has been a borough councillor for Cllr Brenda Seaton was 12 years, is also a serving appointed as the borough’s Leicestershire county first citizen on Monday councillor and has been a night (May 20) at the Thurmaston parish councillor council’s annual meeting at for 17 years. Loughborough Town Hall. Her chosen Mayoral charity The Mayor will attend is Dementia UK’s admiral hundreds of events over the coming 12 months with nurse service. Admiral nurses her Mayoress, sister Helen provide specialist dementia Johnson. support for people with dementia and their families. The Mayor said: “I am proud and honoured to serve as Cllr Seaton’s appointment the Mayor of Charnwood. marks the end of the Mayoral I am looking forward year for Cllr Christine Harris. to the year ahead and meeting some of the Cllr Harris said: “I have wonderful people around thoroughly enjoyed my year the borough. of office and I have met some extraordinary people. It has “Being the Mayor is a been a privilege to serve the great opportunity to see borough as Mayor and I would how people, groups, and like to thank my mayoress, businesses are making a Cynthia Bradley-Stevenson positive contribution to for her support. I would Charnwood.” also like thank the people who given both myself Cllr Seaton was born and and Cynthia a warm welcome raised in Birstall and has lived in Thurmaston for over 30 at many events over the year. years. After leaving school We wish Brenda and Helen all aged 15, Cllr Seaton worked the best as they take on the as a window dresser and chains of office.” cashier before moving into retail. A-levels and then a degree with the Open Cllr David Snartt has been elected as University. She later worked at Longslade Deputy Mayor and will be supported At the age of 35 she went back to school Community College in Birstall as a during his year of office by his wife, to study eight GCSEs, followed by NCQs, specialist maths teaching assistant and Deputy Mayoress Joan Snartt. New energy switching scheme is coming to Charnwood Charnwood Big Switch – a new energy switching scheme to save Auctions are held three times a year, the supplier which offers the residents money on their fuel bills is being launched. cheapest deal wins the auction. The collective switching scheme helps residents to change energy The average saving is around £200 a year. It is free to register and suppliers and pay less for their energy. there is no obligation to switch. The scheme is being delivered by the Council in partnership with Registrations for the first auction will open on August 6. iChoosr an independent specialist provider in collective switching. For more information visit: www.charnwood.gov.uk/bigswitch. @CharnwoodBC Charnwood News facebook.com/charnwoodbc www.charnwood.gov.uk 5 Search is on for Charnwood Community Heroes 2019 Residents are being urged to enter nominations for Charnwood Community Heroes 2019. The awards, run by Charnwood Borough Council, are a chance to thank people, groups and Charity Night organisations who have carried out a good deed – Grab your family and friends for a girl’s no matter how small or large night out with a difference! – in our community. It could be someone who has helped a Brilliant Board/Trustee Member.