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JULY 2018 INCLUDING WHAT’S ON 23 JULY TO 4 SEPTEMBER ALSO INSIDE Destination Mansfield Poppy display Get into gear appeal Tour of Britain is here! See page 4 @mymansfielduk @MDC_News www.mansfield.gov.uk ContentsContents Welcome to the July edition of Foreword Executive he way you can access Mayor council services is changing Kate Putting to make them more efficient Allsop customers first 3 T and available at the touch of a button any time of the day or night. Tour of Britain 4-7 Our new online Customer Portal gives improved access to a variety of services and you can access it either from the comfort of your own home or in the We want Mansfield to make the most digital hub in our new-look Civic Centre of what it has to offer to visitors with the reception. Create your account at council leading campaigns to communicate www.mansfield.gov.uk/portal. the benefits of our location at the heart of Sherwood Forest. The portal is part of the council’s wider vision to embrace automation and digital Our aspirations to encourage people technology so that it works both for our to visit this area go hand in hand with Waste and Recycling 8-9 residents and for the council by delivering encouraging ‘doorstop tourism’ in which your services more quickly and cost- our residents can make best use of this district’s fantastic leisure and cultural School holiday effectively. assets. Explore your district at www. What’s On guide 11-24 We will also be helping to sustain services visitmansfield.co.uk. through commercial activities, including renting out office space freed-up by our And don’t forget, you can keep up to date digital transformation. with council news by signing up for my e-newsletter at www.mansfield.gov.uk/ Our 21st Century thinking can be seen in signup. the way we are promoting our district, too. Mansfield on Lottery the tourist trail 25 numbers Your wellbeing 29 stacking up Contact your Local good causes have received their councillor 31 first payments of money raised through Robin Hood Lottery ticket sales. Contacting the council 32 At the time of writing, the top beneficiaries so far were John Eastwood Hospice Trust (£466.50), SSG Suicide Support Group If you know someone who lives in the Mansfield (£210) and Mansfield Soup district but does not receive a copy of Kitchen (£194). My Mansfield by 28 July, please email [email protected] The 72 good causes that are signed up or contact 01623 463021 with their full stand to receive an estimated total of have each won £25, while many more address and postcode. £49,500 in the first year based on the have won three extra tickets. All material published in My Mansfield current levels of play. Tickets are only £1 per week with 60p including adverts, articles and all other content is published in good faith. The biggest cash prize to date is £250 won going to local good causes and prizes up My Mansfield accepts no liability for by a resident of Warsop. Other players to £25,000. any errors or omissions and does not endorse any companies, products or services that appear in the publication. To sign up as a good cause, or buy lottery tickets visit www.robinhoodlottery.co.uk. 2 www.mansfield.gov.uk | July 20162018 www.mansfield.gov.uk | July 2018 News Putting you A 21st Century reception area in control Our new and improved shared reception area in the e’ve Civic Centre is open and made ready for business. it even You can access a range of W easier council and Jobcentre Plus for you to access more services all at the same time council services at any in one place. Thank you for time of the day or night your patience while the work was carried out. Our new Customer Portal can be found on the There’s a digital hub where homepage of our website you can access a range of www.mansfield.gov.uk council and DWP services on and also on the computer computers, a main reception screens in the digital desk, and enquiry points for hub in the improved Benefits and Housing matters. reception area that we Customer Service Advisors share with the Jobcentre at will direct you to the best place the Civic Centre. to deal with your enquiry in the Set up your own secure most efficient way possible to account so you can reduce your waiting time. receive tailored information specific to you you have reported to us without having to Many council services are and the area where you live every time you call, write to or visit us. available online and staff can visit. It takes just a few minutes using the help you get set up on our simple instructions online and you can then Our most popular forms including Council new Customer Portal in the use it on any device wherever you are. Tax reduction and Change of Circumstances digital hub so you can receive forms are also on there to make it quicker personalised information You can find out your bin collection days, and easier for you. In the future you will also about our services. Council Tax information, ward councillor be able to see your balances and payments details and receive updates on any matters in one place. There are new waiting areas, a range of meeting rooms and Our reception staff are available in the digital hub during our a Parent and Baby Room with baby changing facilities. normal office hours. If you need any help to get started – just ask! Have a go at balancing the council budget Have you ever wanted to be in charge of spending the budget so we can understand more than £90m? what services you value most. Now you have a ‘virtual’ chance by taking part in an We also hope it will give you a chance interactive online consultation, which runs until 14 to understand the financial challenges August, on how the council spends its £92.5m budget. we face in having to make savings in A budget simulator gives you a chance to say if you order to balance our budgets in the would spend more or less and explains the impact of coming years. any changes. The council’s Government grant to help pay for You can also comment on how you found the task of our services has reduced from £10.3m in 2010/11 balancing the budget, and send us your final budget. to £4.6m in 2017/18, when it made up eight per cent of the council’s income. We want as many people as possible to try to balance To sign up as a good cause, or buy lottery tickets visit www.robinhoodlottery.co.uk. Try out our budget simulator at https://mdc.budgetsimulator.com. www.mansfield.gov.uk | July 20162018 www.mansfield.gov.uk | July 2018 3 NewsPlace Get in gear again for Tour of Britain Top cycle race whizzing into Mansfield 8 September 11am to 4pm 8 September 11am to 4pm We’ll need volunteers to help us with a range of tasks on the day. ansfield is again gearing 8 September and winds its way Find out more and up to welcome the OVO around Nottinghamshire for 225km register your interest at Energy Tour of Britain (139 miles), taking in landmarks such www.mansfield.gov.uk/ M cycle race – one the as the new Sherwood Forest Visitor UK’s biggest free-to-attend sporting centre, Newstead Abbey, and Clumber TOB. events. Park. About five miles of the route will Organisers of the prestigious race, pass through Mansfield district. which attracts 120 of the world’s top Last year more than 200,000 people cycling stars, credited the county lined the county’s streets and the your help to make sure we create for its outstanding community race generated almost £3.5 million a warm Tour of Britain welcome in engagement and warm welcome, in revenue for the area. In Mansfield, Mansfield. which helped us secure involvement it is estimated that visitor spending In addition to the thousands of for the second year in a row. brought £167,500 into the local visitors coming to watch, the event economy. This time Mansfield will host the also attracts a global TV audience of end of the penultimate Stage 7, the This year, those figures are expected millions so organisers locally want to longest stage in the race, which to be even higher, with the event being make the most of showcasing what starts in West Bridgford on Saturday held on a weekend – and we need Mansfield has to offer. Visit www.mansfield.gov.uk/TOB for route information and details of all the ways you can get involved. 4 www.mansfield.gov.uk | July 2018 www.mansfield.gov.uk | July 2018 Paint the town yellow and green! We want the Tour of Britain to receive a Why not...? warm, colourful and noisy welcome Decorate your business, home, or when it reaches Mansfield and is beamed garden yellow and green around the world on live TV. Mow giant shapes into a hill or field If you want to think really big, how about Colour giant posters, banners or bunting creating some land art in larger open spaces to decorate buildings on the route to look impressive when viewed from the Create floral displays in the shape of a sky? It doesn’t have to be too complicated or bicycle in your garden ambitious; it can be as simple as using items Arrange floats or inflatables into large to spell out ‘Welcome to Mansfield’.