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Delivered FREE to 10,000 Homes issue 23, January 2016 Community Chepstow^ Matters Telephone 01291 606 900 Matters Magazines have been ‘in the community for the community’ since 2005 Happy New Year! South Wales Premier Home Improvement Company Installing a wide range of products to suit your budget and needs, including: • Conservatories • Orangeries • Home Extensions • Windows • Doors • Fasia & Soffitts Thermotech Showsite, Chepstow Garden Centre, Pyllmeyric, Chepstow, Monmouthsire, NP16 6LF Showroom Winter Opening Times: Open Tuesday & Thursday 10:30 – 16:00, Open Saturday – Sunday 11.00 – 15:30 FreePhone: 0800 917 1106 Email: [email protected] Your Local Community Magazine for Services, Businesses, Groups and Community Events NDAC_2015_A4-5mm-bleed_v2a-300DPI_OUTLINES.pdf 1 03/12/2014 15:50 Dear Readers... We hope you have all enjoyed a joyful Christmas and have managed to find Contact Us : some time to rest, recuperate and spend time with friends and loved ones. 01291 606 900 The ethos of Matters Magazines [email protected] when I first initiated it over 10 years ago, was to be a [email protected] voice to celebrate all the good news that goes on in our communities every day - Good people doing Good www.mattersmagazines.co.uk things. There is never a shortage of things to write Chepstow Matters about! It’s so easy to watch the news and get dragged Editor: Jaci Crocombe down by what we hear, it can make us want to close our c/o Batwell Farm, Shirenewton NP16 6RX door on the outside world; but the good far outweighs Reg Office: Matters Magazines Ltd, the bad. In this issue we bring you several good news 130 Aztec West, Almondsbury BS32 4UB stories to start the New Year with. Great people Co Regn No: 8490434 achieving Great things! Follow us on Twitter If you haven’t connected with us on Twitter or Facebook, @ChepstowMatters then we would love you to join us in 2016, we are still relative newcomers in this area but we continue to grow! /ChepstowMatters If you belong to a club or local organisation that you Chepstow Matters is independently published every month and would like featured - please do get in touch with us. delivered FREE to approximately 10,000 homes across NP16 5, As always, we must give a massive thank you to all 6 and 7 on a rotational basis so that every home receives one our advertisers who, by supporting this community through their door once per quarter. magazine, enable us to keep bringing you this little ray The views and opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the editor (unless it is a personal review of a service that we have of sunshine every month! Please do support them and participated in). We cannot vouch for every advertiser personally give them your business when you have a need. (although we endeavour to use as many of our advertisers’ services ourselves as we can). Any feedback or experience is Alternatively, if you have a business that you would like welcomed. to see feature in our pages, then please do give us a We would like to thank all the advertisers who support this call, I would be very pleased to help you. publication and therefore make it possible. Please return their support by utilising their services when and where you Enough from me, I hope you get chance to grab a can. It is the advertiser’s responsibility to ensure conformity cuppa, sit down and enjoy the read. The deadline for with the Trade Descriptions Act 1975, Business Advertisements our next edition will be 15th January, do get in touch if Disclosure Order 1977, Sex Discriminations Act 1975 and the you would like to be featured! Consumer Credit Act 1974. We cannot be held responsible for misrepresentations in the adverts included. All artwork created We hope you have a Happy and Healthy New Year 22 by us must not be published in any other media without our and look forward to bringing you more permission. © Matters Magazines Ltd 2016 community news and information in 2016. Jaci x DOUBLE DIAMOND Dog Grooming & Healthcare Based in Sedbury & Chepstow Karen Lewis 07717 663728 [email protected] www.DoubleDiamondPets.com 2 To advertise Your Business in Chepstow Matters call 01291 606 900 FIND US ON FACEBOOK: Chepstow Matters - Facebook/ChepstowMatters Police Matters - Update from Inspector Thompson The Home Care Specialists Hello Residents, a Very Happy New Year to you from Chepstow Police. I hope the Festive Season passed without incident for you all and you had a safe and enjoyable Christmas. The Team will be continuing in 2016 with the Come & visit Chepstow’s new “Your Voice” Priorities set for your Wards. Do you need a Toy Shop at Following the last set of “Your Voice “ Surveys carried out in November the current Ward Helping Hand? 16b Moor Street Priorities for Chepstow are (opposite Weeks Fish & Chips) Our Chepstow care team has been · Devauden – Speeding Vehicles providing award winning quality Our toys range from pocket homecare since 1989. · Larkfield – Illegal parking money to special occasions for In the meantime, Please continue to follow · Shirenewton – Speeding Vehicles We offer you a one-to-one live in care kids of all ages the activities of the Team on our Local Twitter accounts @gpchepstow and @gpcaldicot and service which enables you or your loved Join us on · St Arvan’s – Speeding Vehicles one to remain at home with compassion our Monthly Blog updating residents of the Crime Facebook/Toytastik.uk · St Christopher’s – Illegal parking and dignity. and ASB across our Wards. · St Mary’s – Illegal Parking To find out how we can help, Call us on 01291 627200 If you do not need to report an incident but would like to contact the Neighbourhood Team · Thornwell – Youth Nuisance call: 0808 180 1017 or Visit and shop on our website about any local issues or concerns they can visit: www.helpinghands.co.uk www.toytastik.co.uk The priorities identified reflect our Low levels of be contacted on 01633 642068 or email at Crime and the Team will continue to link in with [email protected] our Partner agencies for assistance in tackling Best Wishes these issues. Inspector Lysha Thompson Your Local Officers co-ordaining this approach remain as CSO 70 Andrew Jones for Devauden, South Monmouthshire Geographical Inspector Shirenewton and St Arvans. CSO 205 Emma Chepstow Police Station / Heddlu Gwent Police Studley for St Christopher’s, Thornwell and Ffôn symudol / Mobile : 0781 389 8420 [email protected] We specialise in: Larkfield and CSO 164 Mike Martin and CSO 170 Geraint Reynolds for St Kingsmark and St www.facebook.com/gwentpolice a Domestic Cleaning (Weekly/Fortnightly Available) Mary’s Wards. Throughout the year, the Team www.twitter.com/gwentpolice will continue provide updates on the work in their a Deep Clean Service Yr we / Web : www.gwent.police.uk Wards. a Landlord & Property Agent Cleans As you may be aware towards the end of last a Elderly Clean & Care Service year we ran a number of Engagement events We are a reputable company that’s fully insured whilst in your home. You can be 100% and Community Action Days across South comfortable that your property is in safe hands and that the Maids that clean your house Monmouthshire. We will be continuing with this are qualified & professional. in the New Year, rotating the events across the Wards, we will publicise these details in advance. HAVE YOU REGISTERED? Tel: (01633) 300718 or 0740 333 9595 Gwent Police use the OWL online [email protected] Contact Us watch link to update residents of IN AN EMERGENCY ALWAYS DIAL: 999 or visit our website www.maid2shine.co.uk for more information. Chepstow on current crime, appeals FOR NON-EMERGENCIES DIAL: 101 for information and also to hold on- SPECIAL OFFER- Book a regular Weekly/Fortnightly clean Calls to 101 (from both landlines and mobile networks) cost 15 pence line surgeries. This system is used per call, no matter what time of day you call, or how long you are on the force wide and has helped catch and receive a FREE hour on your first VISIT. many offenders. phone. FOR GENERAL ENQUIRIES DIAL: Residents of Chepstow can sign up 01633 838111 via: www.owl.co.uk it’s completely FREE! 4 To advertise Your Business in Chepstow Matters call 01291 606 900 Email address for enquiries: [email protected] Children Helping Children: The Annual Rotary Shoebox Appeal A lorry containing 14,220 shoeboxes left the UK Rotary warehouse on Thursday 10th December destined for Kiev, from where shoeboxes will be distributed across the government controlled area of Ukraine. It should arrive within a week. The Windows, Doors & Conservatories gift of a shoebox that contains toys, toiletries, educational items or household goods is a drop of happiness to the people of Eastern Europe who live in a world of poverty. For many, it will Before be the first present that they have ever received and it lets them Buy now, know that somebody, somewhere cares. The national Rotary Shoebox Scheme provides packages Pay next for the unfortunate children and foster parents in Central and year Eastern Europe. (see http://www.rotaryshoebox.org/) The After local Rotary Club provides empty boxes to the schools and over the term they are invited fill the boxes with articles for the v children or their “carers/parents”. They include simple items Visit our showroom Solid roof conservatories in Gardener Haskins such as a bar of soap, a toothbrush, a soft toy, a notepad and t.