YOUR COUNTY COUNCIL MAGAZINE SPRING 2015

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Frozen Council Tax remains the same See page 8 Ensuring the best start Supporting children and families See page 18 WIN – One of four family tickets to Paultons Park See page 31

IN THIS ISSUE Making a Superfast difference broadband Change lives Sign-up to superfast through care – see page 10 broadband speeds – see page 14

www.hants.gov.ukwww.hants.gov.uk From Councillor Roy Perry Welcome Leader of Hampshire County Council For another year, onwards, and we would like to hear for the present and future needs of the County Council your views on the services that are employers in Hampshire. will be keeping its most important to you, and where part of Council Tax you think savings could be made – Social care in Hampshire is seeing frozen, maintaining see page 9. considerable changes. In response it at the same rate Our work to provide high quality to an ageing population, the social for six years in a and cost effective local services care system is modernising and we row – one of the remains our top priority and often are working closer with colleagues lowest in the country. We of course this involves working differently in the NHS. With growing numbers recognise a responsibility to those with partner organisations. Featured of older people wanting to live who need our services but freezing in this edition of Hampshire Now independently, we are backing the tax is a way to help all residents is our partnership with BT to bring a campaign to recruit more care and hard-working families as well. superfast broadband to as many workers. We know that care workers However, we continue to face parts of Hampshire as possible. have the potential to positively financial challenges, and savings Also featured is our collaborative transform people’s lives, as well as are becoming harder to find. From work with skills centres such as the lives of those who are, or become 16 March, we will be consulting CEMAST near Fareham, providing carers – find out more about their on our budget proposals for 2016 young people with a range of skills important role on pages 10 – 11. To find out more about your County Council visit www.hants.gov.uk or call 0300 555 1375*

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* Call charges may apply, see page 30 @hantsconnect Inside this issue 4 17 25 News around Hampshire Enjoy the outdoors this spring! Supporting Armed Forces What’s happening around the county Try our Outdoor Activity Centres communities Support for Hampshire’s Armed Forces personnel and their families 8 18 Frozen: Council Tax remains Ensuring the best start the same Early Help Hubs and opportunities for young people 26 Hampshire Walk 10 Visiting Stockbridge Making a difference http://lifelink.radian.co.uk 20 Change lives through care What’s on Ideas for things to do this spring 30 Contact us 14 How to get in touch with the Superfast broadband County Council Sign-up for faster speeds Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Waste matters: changes to waste recycling centre News around Hampshire opening hours Opening hours at our Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) are Recording key changing from 1 April 2015. life events The change follows consultation with Each year, our Registration Officers residents on a number of options to deliver thousands of ceremonies, shape the service for the future. including marriage, civil partnership, These looked at affordable ways to baby namings/welcoming, renewal ensure the County Council of vows, commitment and conversion continues to deliver a modern, ceremonies (which enable couples value for money service for to convert their civil partnership to Hampshire’s residents. Our customer phone numbers have changed to 0300 a marriage). The overall response to the survey The Council has recently replaced option for contacting We are looking forward to another busy clearly showed that there was strong its 0845 contact numbers with 0300 Hampshire County Council. spring and summer and in preparation, support for the service and that it is numbers, as part of improvements You can also contact the we have been investing in our facilities, highly valued by residents. This was to the way residents access services. Hollywood needs you! Council through our website including moving the Winchester reflected in the decision taken to Fancy finding George Clooney Register now! Calls to 0300 numbers are www.hants.gov.uk where there Register Office to Castle Hill. implement changes which would relaxing in your living room? included in call packages. are self-service facilities to report You don’t need to own a grand help maintain current levels There are 140 licensed ceremony Customers calling the old 0845 problems, apply for permits Wishful thinking for some maybe, country house or historic building of service. venues in Hampshire which cater numbers will be advised of the and pay bills, as well as but did you know that you could to attract film crews. Film for a range of tastes, budgets The results of the consultation change and encouraged to use comprehensive information on be earning money from your home, Hampshire is getting an increasing and ceremony sizes. indicated that a later start in the the 0300 number as a cheaper all the Council’s services. number of requests for residential, land or commercial buildings by morning was the most preferred private houses and apartments. To find out more see our 2015 offering them up for filming? Some option in terms of reduced opening 4 It’s also not just Hollywood Ceremony Brochure available from our 5 directors will pay as much as £1,000 hours. Discussion with HWRC staff offices and libraries, or download it Celebrating the birth of Essential guide per day for the right location. looking for locations – your indicated that the first part of the property could fit the bill for a from our website: modern democracy for independent The Council’s Film Hampshire is the morning each day is crucial for the number of uses including TV www.hants.gov.uk/registration In 2015, Hampshire is marking the 800th living official film office for the county. It effective running of the sites to filming, commercials and anniversary of the signing of the Magna promotes Hampshire as a great film Follow us on Twitter @HantsReg ensure there is sufficient capacity for The new edition of our Guide magazine photoshoots. If you Carta. The county has strong links to the location and provides movie makers the day ahead and ensuring the to better care and support is think your property could have Children and Young document which, in 1215, limited the with a valuable free location-finding site is clean, tidy and ready for the available from the end of April. a starring role, then register your People’s Plan powers of the monarch and protected service. It currently has around 400 public to use. Analysis shows that details with Film Hampshire now. The Children and Young People’s personal liberties. The free, comprehensive guide locations on its books and is on the average peak usage times across Please note only property owners Plan is the overarching strategy for all sites are mid morning and lists a range of home care services lookout for more. Shortly before meeting the baronial may register. Hampshire Children’s Trust, which early afternoon. and provides a wealth of practical leaders, who wanted to curtail his With its wealth of scenery, historic represents all those working for and information on support for you, It’s easy and it’s free. Simply visit Taking all this into account, from houses, military space and popular with children, young people and powers, King John met the then Bishop your family and other carers. www.hants.gov.uk/filmhampshire 1 April 2015 the opening hours of tourist attractions, it’s hardly their families. of Winchester at Odiham Castle. Once and fill out the ‘register your HWRCs in Hampshire will be: There are sections on support surprising that Hampshire has the charter was agreed, the King issued property’ form. To show off your The Plan sets out the vision for for people living with disabilities, attracted the attention of Hollywood • 1 October – 28 February: 9am – 4pm an order from the Castle instructing the location, email a selection of good the Trust and how it will improve making your home safe, choosing royalty. See our Hampshire film map • 1 March – 31 March: 9am – 5pm Hampshire Sheriff to enforce it. A copy quality landscape images to outcomes for children and young home care services and alternative www.hants.gov.uk/filmhampshire of this order survives in Rouen, France. [email protected] people in Hampshire. It does not • 1 April – 30 September: 9am – 6pm housing options, including Extra Care seek to describe every service and We have been working with The Did you know? This is with the exception of Efford, assisted living. Your details won’t be published initiative, instead aiming to set out the Odiham Society to organise a number Highclere Castle (above) may be near Lymington, which will close at but if we do receive enquiries for Trust’s shared priorities for improving of events celebrating the Magna Carta You can also find information about best known as Downton Abbey, but 4:30pm in the summer as it has specific your property, you will be outcomes for children over the next – see our What’s on section on page 22. paying for care and the financial help it also appears in The Secret Garden, planning conditions governing its contacted to see if you want to three years. Two commemorative plaques designed and advice that is available. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and opening times. be involved. There is no obligation by Hampshire students will be unveiled, Bollywood movie Kabhi Khushi A new Plan will be launched for 2015 To obtain your free copy of the to accept any potential filming one at the Great Hall, Winchester and Kabhie Gham. and the Council will not apply any and we are seeking your views on 2015/16 guide call 0300 555 1386 the proposed new outcomes and To advertise your business in one at Odiham Castle. There will also be charges. We will simply put you in at the end of April. priorities. The consultation runs from Hampshire Now please visit a Magna Carta exhibition at Hampshire touch with the person submitting March until the end of April. Have your www.hants.gov.uk/advertising Record Office. For more information It will also be available online at the request and leave you to say at www.hants.gov.uk/cypp- call 01962 845520 or email visit www.hants.gov.uk/archives and www.hants.gov.uk/resicare- negotiate your fees and terms. 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Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Private Fostering: stay within the law Do you look after someone else’s child under a private fostering arrangement? If so, do you know that you must let the Council know about it as a requirement under the law? This is so we can ensure the placement is meeting the child’s needs and that you, the carer, have access to any advice and support that you may need. Private fostering is when a child under the age of 16 – or under the age of 18 if disabled – is cared for by someone who is not a parent or close relative, for 28 days or more under a private arrangement made between their parent or carer and another person. WWI Gallipoli ship opens to the public It is not private fostering if the carer is a direct relative to the child such as As commemorations of the First to complete her conservation and grandparents, brothers, sisters, uncles World War continue, a ship which enable full public access in time and aunts. played a vital role in one of the Great for the centenary of the Gallipoli Examples of private fostering War’s bloodiest campaigns will open campaign in 2015. Her £2.4 million arrangements include: looking to the public later this year. restoration has been paid for by 6 after a child when their parents are 7 HMS M.33 is the only surviving the Heritage Lottery Fund and temporarily away with work, on a Royal Navy vessel from the Gallipoli a County Council grant to the long holiday or living abroad, or campaign in 1915 and will provide National Museum of the Royal when parents are unable to look after visitors to Portsmouth’s Historic Navy, together with the transfer a child due to long-term illness, or Dockyard with a fascinating glimpse of the ship itself to the Museum. family conflict means a child is living Pro-Grow of what it was like to serve onboard HMS M.33 will be open to visitors elsewhere than with his or her own parents or relatives. “The natural way to garden” her and in the Royal Navy at the on 6 August 2015, but prior to that, beginning of the twentieth century. an exhibition opens in March 2015 The County Council is urging anyone Spring, the perfect time to ensure your soil Due to her shallow hull, HMS M.33 which will complement the ship engaged in such an agreement to get is in prime condition for the growing season was able to get close to shore to and include artefacts that tell the in touch to ensure they stay within www.pro-grow.co.uk fire at land targets and support story of the Gallipoli campaign. the law. We are also asking those ahead – particularly on the vegetable patch! troop landings and evacuations. who work with children, such as Soil Association Certifi ed Pro-Grow Peat Free Soil Conditioner The Gallipoli campaign claimed the The National Museum of the teachers, healthcare professionals is made entirely from recycled green material collected from and youth workers, to be aware of lives of 100,000 service personnel Royal Navy is currently seeking Hampshire households. private fostering arrangements and from around the world. In 1919, volunteers for the HMS M.33 Its open structure will break down heavy clay soils and add to make instances of it known to us so HMS M.33 was involved in the project. If you would like to get humus to light sandy soils, providing all the nutrients needed we can offer the relevant support withdrawal from Russia of Allied involved or find out more about to enrich your soil throughout the to children and families. and White Russian troops. the opportunities available, please growing season, improving the contact Volunteer Coordinator, If you are aware of a private fostering soil’s fertility and moisture retention. The County Council acquired the Alice Roberts on alice.roberts@ arrangement please remind the parent ship in 1990 to preserve her for the nmrn.org.uk or 023 9272 7591. or carer of their responsibility to Hampshire residents can buy six county and the nation. We have notify us by calling 0300 555 1384 60-litre bags of Pro-Grow Peat worked in partnership with the For further information on the or by sending an email to Free Soil Conditioner for just National Museum of the Royal Navy opening of HMS M.33 visit [email protected]. £30.00 – with FREE HOME www.nmrn.org.uk/m33 or to see You can also notify our Children’s DELIVERY throughout the videos on the M.33 project go to: Services about a private fostering county. Simply call quoting H15. www.youtube.com/ arrangement online, alongside further T: 0845 678 9955 NMRNPortsmouth information available from www. hants.gov.uk/private-fostering

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk What the budget will be spent on in 2015/16 Frozen: Council Tax To ensure every opportunity is 2015/16 gross expenditure = £1,900.7m explored, the County Council is undertaking an in-depth review of all Children’s services (including schools) £1,010.7m spending and activity across services remains the same to identify further ways to redesign services around residents’ needs. This Adult social care £428.6m Hampshire County Council has frozen Re-designing services The Council will be working more will inform the next round of changes its part of the Council Tax again this We have been re-shaping and closely with partners, the voluntary and savings, needed by 2017/18 – Culture, communities & other services £151.6m year – keeping it at the same rate for six transforming the services we provide, sector and local communities so it expected to be in the region of another years in a row. can act earlier and help to prevent £100 million. This equates to a reduction while placing a greater emphasis on Highways, transport, planning & waste disposal £139.5m This means that in spite of the preventative work. With an increasing problems occurring later down the of around 14.5% in the Council’s net Government further reducing the demand for social care services, we line, which often end up costing budget, or £75 less spent per resident Future inflation, contingencies & reserves £74.8m level of general grant we will receive are making greater use of technology, more money. The Supporting – bringing the cumulative savings total in 2015/16, by £29 million, Hampshire such as telecare alarm systems, which (Troubled) Families programme is for the Council to £340 million, residents will still be paying the lowest help people live more securely and a good example of this. It brings for the period 2008 to 2017. Capital borrowing costs £61.1m amount for services like social care, independently at home – particularly public services together to provide better and earlier support for families highways and libraries compared to older people and those with long- Have your say Capital costs paid from revenue £34.4m any other county in the south east. term conditions – offering peace of – making a real difference to their Between 16 March and 27 April The County Council has been able to mind that support is close at hand. We lives, and at a much lower cost to 2015, we will be consulting on our do this because it started early with its have launched a carers’ recruitment the taxpayer. As of October 2014, the programme has helped 1,150 families future budget proposals. Please tell savings programme, achieving campaign to ensure there are more 0 us what you think about these 0 200 How400 the budget600 is funded800 1000 £140 million since 2008, and is on care workers to provide personal social to improve their lives, against a target early proposals. course to secure around a further care as part of the reablement service, of 1,590 families by May 2015 in 200 £100 million by 2015/16. and help with activities of daily living phase one of the programme. From 16 March, an information

8 booklet and an online questionnaire 9 400 Investing in the future and other practical tasks – in order to Further opportunities will be sought give people more control over to share services with other public can be found at: www.hants.

At the same time, we will be 600 how and where their care is sector organisations. The approach gov.uk/budgetsurvey. You investing £876 million in Hampshire’s can request a paper copy of the delivered. See pages 10 – 11 for is based on the successful model

infrastructure to support growth - documents by emailing corporate. 800 more information. of Hampshire’s back-office support taking forward one of the Council’s [email protected] functions now shared with the Police biggest ever capital programmes, in or by calling 0300 555 1375. 1000 areas such as school places, transport and Fire Service - delivering combined infrastructure and superfast broadband. savings of up to £4 million each year. The County Council will be Managing further maximising the recent £3.1 million grant reductions This article is about the Hampshire grant from Government to develop Early action to respond to reductions County Council element of Council a digital strategy, using technology in Government funding has placed Tax. Your Council Tax bill also includes amounts for the Police to support the demand for better the County Council in a stronger and Crime Commissioner for Funded by: access to information and services financial position than many other Hampshire, Hampshire Fire and Council Tax £504.9m online, built around people’s needs local authorities. Our general grant Rescue Authority, your local district Income £257.4m to ensure Hampshire’s public services from Government has reduced by council and, in many areas, a parish Reserves £44.3m are both convenient and accessible In Children’s Services, the priority around 51% since 2010/11. However, or town council. Specific Government grants £855.5m for the people who use them. remains the protection and care of it is recognised that managing the General Government grants £182.4m We will be using our reserves to vulnerable children and we have next round of grant reductions is For more details about the Business rates £44.8m invest in new facilities that will enable added an additional £12.5 million to going to be much tougher than County Council’s budget Surplus on collection funds £11.4m us to deliver better services at lower Children’s Services for this purpose. before, as inevitably, further savings please visit our website: cost and generate income, like the The creation of Early Help Hubs has become harder to find. Furthermore, www.hants.gov.uk/budget transformation of our country parks enabled us to work with partners to reductions in funding come at a time Please contact your district council Hampshire County Council’s Band D to make them self-financing, or the ensure the right help is available to when demand for services is growing if you have any queries about Council Tax remains at £1,037.88 development of holiday facilities families at the right time, to prevent – particularly for social care services, your Council Tax bill or Council for families to hire at our Outdoor them needing more acute services at which for adults, costs over £1 million Tax Support. Please note that Hampshire Now went to print before Hampshire County Council set the budget, so there may Activity Centres – see page 17. a later stage – see page 18. per day to provide in Hampshire. have been some changes. The final figures are available on our website: www.hants.gov.uk/budget

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Making a difference: From retail to care Cindi Bronger’s career switch from retail to care is not only improving the lives of the people she cares for but it has change lives through care changed her life for the better too! Previously Cindi worked in customer “Someone comes in every morning independence and continue to live at care needs who want to stay at services for a large retail chain. Just and helps get me ready for the day, home. The carers who help Mary are home. Each year, our Adult Services over a year ago she became a carer helping me get showered and dressed among an army of dedicated people help more than 6,000 people to do delivering care to people in their own and preparing breakfast. It has been a making a difference to people’s lives this. With people living longer, that homes and she has not looked back. wonderful service. Right from the word around the county. They are not only number is likely to rise significantly, go they have treated me with kindness, supporting people like Mary after so we are fully behind a campaign to “I got a buzz helping people compassion and dignity. They have a spell in hospital, but also those recruit more carers. in my customer service job all become friends and I cannot praise with more complex and continuing but nothing like I do now. them enough.” If you think you have what it takes to help people like Mary and others who I love my job. I look forward These words from Mary in Winchester may have more long-term care needs, to each day at work. It’s so illustrate the difference that support visit our care recruitment web pages rewarding enabling people to from care workers has made to her www.hants.gov.uk/changelives Telecare: helping people People using the telecare service life as she recovers from a shoulder stay living in their own homes, to find out more. As well as helping live safely have told us it increases their feeling fracture following a fall at her helping them retain their change the lives of others, it may just of safety and security, contributing home. She is being supported by independence. It’s a nice The use of innovative ‘telecare’ change your own! See opposite why to their overall wellbeing. In the case carers, who provide the Council’s feeling to know you are part technology in Hampshire is helping one carer made the switch from retail more than 2,000 older people and of one younger person with multiple reablement services in Winchester. of that.” to care. young people with disabilities to lead disabilities, it has meant she is able to 10 Reablement care is intensive support She remembers the day she started – safe, independent lives, while providing attend university. It is also giving family 11 Find us on Facebook: provided in the home to people so nervous! Thanks to the induction vital reassurance and peace of mind to carers the reassurance and freedom www.facebook.com/ who, for example, may be leaving training she had, and spending family carers. they may not have had for some time. hospital, helping them regain their changelivesstartwithyours Carers report having the confidence to the first few weeks shadowing All service users assessed as having ‘critical’ leave their loved ones alone for short experienced carers, she soon settled or ‘substantial’ care needs are eligible for periods of time in the knowledge that into it. telecare, and it is preventing some from Social care is changing Council which will result in additional to care and support from this April. they can summon help instantly if they needing more acute care services or from Important changes are coming into support for Hampshire residents, The Council has been seeking views “I’m not there to impose things on need to. effect as a result of the Care Act including: on charging for brokerage (a set fee people. I find out what they can do for going into residential care. for arranging care at home for those The increased use of telecare services which is aimed at modernising social • Supporting Carers: Carers will themselves and what they can’t, and The service is now being made available who are able to fully meet the cost is not only enabling people to live care law. There will be a number of be entitled to receive support in support them with the things they can’t. to people wishing to pay privately for it, of care or support themselves), and in line with their wishes, it also has important new responsibilities for the their own right to help them with And I find out how they like me to do the from as little as 62p per day. on proposals relating to charges for the potential to save the Council County Council, some of which come their caring role, if they meet new things they can’t. I think it’s important deferred payments for care. The equipment installed by Argenti, the over £800,000. into effect this year, while the rest will eligibility criteria. they feel they have control over their Council’s telecare provider, includes: come into force in 2016. care and it’s important to give Future uses of telecare could include • Advocacy: The Council must people dignity. · Lifeline pendants and fall detectors, supporting children and young people The driving forces behind the new find an independent advocate to legislation are to provide people which connect people to a 24-hour with learning disabilities, where the help individuals who – without “Helping people with their personal with greater choice and control over monitoring service. greater independence it can enable advocacy support – will be unable care is a very personal aspect of their their care, keeping adults safe, and to participate in, or understand, the · Automatic medication dispensers could deliver benefits that last a lifetime. promoting wellbeing by ensuring lives. You have to think how upsetting care and support system. for people who may forget to take For more information about how advice, information and support is it may be for them not to be able to do vital medicines. telecare could support you or your readily accessible. • Cap on care costs: There will be a this for themselves. You need to make limit to the amount people will people feel comfortable.” · Door sensors, which alert relatives relative visit: www.hants.gov.uk/ Our Adult Services department is have to pay for care in their lifetime if someone leaves the house telecare or telephone 0345 265 8003 already well ahead with this work. We Cindi enjoys the flexible nature of (this will not come into force until and does not return within a for an informal, confidential chat with have well-established safeguarding the work – she works hours which April 2016). pre-programmed time. an Argenti telecare adviser. protocols and services which enable For more information about the Care fit around caring for two young people to live independently for In addition to the above changes, the Act and what it means for services in children. Would she recommend care · GPS tracking aids, which connect longer in their own homes. But there Care Act also allows local authorities Hampshire visit: www.hants.gov.uk/ work to others? “Yes. Give it a try! It’s a people to a monitoring centre while are some new responsibilities for the to make additional charges relating care-act great job!” they are out and about.

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Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Making the most of 100% Homes and businesses Total: 594,000 connected to superfast superfast broadband broadband To support rapid growth of digital services, we are encouraging 96% people to sign-up to superfast broadband. Total: 570,000

Britain is already ahead of the top five In addition, if the take-up of 1) Find the best place for your router European economies for broadband superfast services in areas covered Move the router away from sources of coverage. Greater access to superfast by Hampshire’s programme reaches electrical and radio interference. Make 90% For regular updates broadband will transform the UK above 20 per cent, then additional sure it’s at least five feet away from Total: 536,000 and more information by helping businesses to grow and funds will be made available through TVs, monitors, dimmer switches, PC on future phases, please create jobs, as well as giving more the ‘clawback’ mechanism in the speakers, halogen desk lamps, and so register your interest at people access to education, health, contract with BT. This money will be on. Wireless works best when there’s www.hants.gov.uk/ services and entertainment. reinvested into extending superfast clear space between the router and the 80% broadband coverage even further. So computer. That means no thick walls, Total: 473,000 broadband The Hampshire Superfast Broadband the quicker people take up the service, ceilings, radiators, and anything else Programme has already seen more the faster that money comes back. that could get in the way of the signal. Premises already Wave 1 Wave 2 Future phases Follow us on Twitter: than 505,000 properties connected covered by £10m £18.4m under evaluation to superfast services (as of January 2) Use micro-filters comercial roll-out 62,000 34,500 23,000 premises @superfasthants 2015). This has provided many rural Make sure that you have a micro-filter new premises new premises remaining communities with the opportunity on all equipment plugged into the 14 to access faster internet. Hampshire’s broadband line. If you’re plugging any 15 programme is helping to fill the gap item into a socket on your broadband in rural and hard to reach areas where line – phone, router, modem, fax, alarm Apptelic – making the most of online collaboration commercial provision has not been or a TV – you must always plug it into “Superfast broadband is crucial “Recently we’ve worked on a made – see the diagram opposite. a micro-filter before plugging it into the for the future of our business streaming feed for the National line socket. Our commitment to widening access and others. Thanks to the Basketball Association in to superfast broadband across the 3) Use the main telephone socket improved connection we can America with games starting county has been reinforced by signing For best results plug your router into now work on global projects at 11pm at night (in the UK) a second contract with BT to make your main telephone socket rather than without constant flights and and as we all are open to superfast broadband available to an an extension. instantly exchange ideas at extra 34,500 properties. This means To check if superfast broadband mixing up our hours, being 4) Problems with your device? that once work is completed in 2018, is available in your area, visit anytime and from anywhere.” available at that time wasn’t If you’re having problems accessing superfast broadband should be www.hants.gov.uk/broadband That’s the verdict of Philip Hopkins a problem. More importantly, available to 96 per cent of premises the network using one device, try Philip believes that you can still have a The Council is now working with who, along with his wife Sharon, we were able to immediately in Hampshire, and that at least 96,000 a different computer on the same close-knit team working from different district and borough councils started Apptelic, an innovative video address the client’s queries, additional premises will be able to connection. It also can also be helpful locations: “We usually meet once a and suppliers of broadband to app and software company based in which wouldn’t be possible access superfast services at a speed to empty the cache on your device. week to discuss projects and the rest of make it possible for more new picturesque Lymington. of at least 24Mbps. In Hampshire, the Do not forget to scan for viruses – they the time everyone works from home. if we worked standard homes (especially on large scale Since his local broadband cabinet County Council and its partners will be can also affect your speeds at home. The team members often choose their office hours.” developments) to be able to access in Hordle was recently enabled with investing around £30 million in total. own hours and it has worked really superfast broadband from the outset 5) Network security superfast broadband, he has noticed Flexible working also stimulates well. We are all available to contact with our new Getting Connected Check the security of your network to a game-changing improvement. creativity: “Some of our programmers Reliable broadband services are vital each other within specific times but as Programme. ensure that no one else is enjoying your Superfast broadband is vital for might get a great idea in the middle for the county’s economy but also for long as the projects are delivered on network for free and change your Wi-Fi Apptelic’s approach to online residents who wish to keep in touch schedule, it doesn’t mean that they have of the night, which will then have a Getting the best from password regularly. collaboration, with team members with family and friends, apply for to be at their laptops from 9 to 5.” significant and positive impact on the services or buy goods online, your connection Still not getting anywhere? There might exchanging ideas through Skype, project. They are more likely to pursue work from home or want to be able to Are you struggling to make the most of be a physical fault with your network. managing projects and sharing As the company often serves it if they know that they won’t have use computers, tablets, smartphones your broadband? Here are a few tips on Please get in touch with your broadband documents online from locations global projects, flexibility also to be up at 6am to commute and televisions all at the same time. how to improve your current speed: provider for additional support. across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. works both ways: to work.”

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Our part-time Business and Management Degree chance to try out activities including is designed for busy working people and is Try it, learn it, love it! archery and orienteering. As well as available one evening a week from Chichester With lighter, longer days on the way and cycling in the velodrome, you can also the high ropes, orienteering, mountain College, Isle of Wight College and South Downs the Easter holidays on the horizon, if you book onto bike maintenance courses to biking, kayaking, shelter building and College in Waterlooville. are looking for exciting outside activities, keep your bike in tip-top condition. problem-solving. There are also camping courses for teachers, youth workers and It is open to those who may not have formal try our outdoor activity centres. qualifications but whose work experience will those leading residential trips. have prepared them to succeed. Whether you are an individual or a group and whether it is water sports, At Runway’s End in Aldershot, To find out more about the flexible part-time courses climbing, cycling or archery that you’re abseiling, air rifle shooting, bush craft we offer, come along to our next open evening, interested in, there’s something for and rafting are among the range of details of which can be found everyone – with all ages and abilities activities on offer to groups. Customers at www.port.ac.uk/ can also have a go at caving in the pbsevents. catered for. centre’s new artificial caving system. Calshot Activities Centre has the For further information Areas of the system can be accessed visit: largest indoor climbing facility on If you are looking for Easter holiday by people with limited mobility and it the south coast as well as the only activities for your children then Tile T: +44 (0)23 9284 8200 provides an excellent introduction E: [email protected] indoor banked velodrome in the south Barn Outdoor Centre in Brockenhurst to caving. W: www.port.ac.uk/ of England. Added to this, it is the may have the answer. The centre hosts busandman www.port.ac.uk Solent’s premier water sports centre adventure days for youngsters aged Whatever you are looking for, 16 with dinghy sailing, power boating, between 8 and 14, offering a range of Hampshire’s Outdoor Centres offer a 17 windsurfing and canoeing. outdoor challenges and activities. rewarding and memorable experience. If land-based activities are your thing, Adults don’t have to miss out on the Find out more at: www.hants.gov. then there’s a range of other activities fun – the centre offers pre-booked team uk/outdoor-centres and contact the including climbing, snow sports, building ‘away days’ for groups with a individual centres for course information. Don’t flap about in traffic. Run Hampshire! supportive and non-competitive Physical activity has proven health environment. You may even get to and wellbeing benefits, as does being know your area better, as part of the Join the pledge. out and about in the fresh air, so group leader’s role is to plan runs in why not combine the two and join a your local community. running group? SignPle dupge tono savew and time, win! save money With around 100 groups dotted and burn calories The County Council supports the around Hampshire there should be want to progress. Run England initiative aimed at one near you. And if not, why not think of starting one as a Running Leader? England Athletics charges for the getting the whole country running Pledge now and win! There’s Leadership in Running Fitness Running Leader course but support as a recreational activity – not (LiRF) training available from England from Sport Hampshire and IOW is free competitively, though if you want Athletics. Once you start your group, once you have qualified, and includes to do that, there are plenty of local there is on-going support from Sport one-to-one mentoring sessions, running clubs to join. Hampshire & IOW’s Running Activator, handouts and information covering a range of topics to help you and your Regardless of your age, fitness level, funded by the Council. group get the most from your running. background or location, you can be There are four running leadership part of the running community. Run courses held in Hampshire each year, To find out more about this and other England groups are especially aimed and the training gives you the skills sports opportunities in Hampshire visit: at those who may be new to running and insurance needed to deliver fun www.hants.gov.uk/athletics as a regular, recreational activity. and safe sessions to groups of runners For Run England course information, www.pledgemyjourney.com It provides a chance to meet new with different abilities, including new and to find out where your local group people and run in a friendly, runners and those who already run but meets, visit www.runengland.org

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Ensuring the best start Two students among the first to train at CEMAST share their experiences… Here, we take a look at some of our work to support children and Putting theories to the test: their families, and to create opportunities for young people. Rosie, 22 Rosie loves her job and her continued Early Help Hubs Changing lives Future Skills: exciting studies in mechanical engineering. Re-designed support services for opportunities for She’s on a two-year HNC course as part “People need to know there’s of her three-year apprenticeship with children and families are making a real help out there – you don’t have young people difference to families across the county. the Ministry of Defence at the Defence to go through things alone.” We are investing in a network of ‘Future Munitions depot in Gosport. She The Early Help Hubs operate on a Skills Centres’ as part of our Hampshire wanted to put her physics degree from multi-agency, ‘team around the Jane, a single parent to four children, Futures programme to ensure young says she feels like she has a new the University of Southampton to good family’ model, ensuring families can people gain skills that meet the needs practical use, and says the combination household after support from her local of local employers, both today and into get the most effective help at the of work-based training with the MoD Early Help Hub. the future. right time. and the weekly day-release at CEMAST She was becoming increasingly They bring together a range of One such centre is Fareham is perfect for her. worried about her 12-year-old son professionals who can offer children College’s new Centre of Excellence Cameron. He had very low self- and families practical support in Engineering, Manufacturing and “The first year was esteem and had been bullied in and advice and refer them on to Advanced Skills Training (CEMAST). Flying high: so different to school. Although the past. Cameron had moved to a workshop-based at college other agencies for help. The help We contributed £3 million to this Gaurang, 17 we learn lots of theory and different school and good support and the next two years are covers a range of issues including: state-of-the-art training centre to was in place for him, but he was Gaurang has his sights set on a high- there is classroom work, we are parenting, health, substance misuse, provide high-quality education work-based with college still very low emotionally. He had flying career. He didn’t get the grades treated exactly as we would be housing, education, employment, and training in engineering and once a week. I love it! I am a history of self-harming. Jane was he was hoping for at sixth form college in the workplace. and domestic abuse. Providing early manufacturing technologies, including worried about how best to deal with maintaining weapons systems but CEMAST has given him another way support in this way is preventing marine, automotive and aerospace. “The BTEC Aerospace Engineering course 18 his changeable behaviour. for the combined forces. It’s into the career he most wants to pursue 19 children and families from needing – piloting commercial airlines. I’m doing really ties in the practical and the more acute, and more costly support CEMAST is part of a new breed of interesting and varied work. theory so well. After this, I want to go to at a later stage – enabling them to skills centres offering education and I loved the practical and applied “I looked at what CEMAST had university to study Aerospace Engineering training in cutting edge technologies, make sustainable changes to side of my physics degree to offer and it seemed a perfect and qualify for my private pilot’s licence.” improve their lives. giving students the knowledge and practical experience needed to enter but the theory didn’t feel real fit. The facilities are great. In the Gaurang was also attracted to CEMAST The Hubs, covering each district their chosen field and prepare them for enough. This is enabling me workshop we get to work on because of its links with industry. “That’s really important – it shows you the choices council area, are currently supporting direct entry into work or higher study. It to put the theory to real two different types of aircraft, around 1,400 children and young and opportunities available after college. has a curriculum that has been created a Wasp helicopter and a Jet people and their families. As well in partnership with the local industry, practical use and to build up This has turned out to be the best route for as supporting families directly, Within a week of being referred and together with its purpose-built my engineering knowledge Provost, which is a real joy! It’s me to take.” they also provide advice and to the Early Help Hub a support workshops, ensures that students gain and skills.” guidance to professionals who are worker, Colin, from one of the up-to-date industry knowledge and supporting families. Council’s partners Sovereign Housing hands-on practical experience. Rosie appreciates the brand-new Association, was assigned to help facilities at CEMAST. “They are In addition to family support workers Cameron. With support from the The college is a central part of the fantastic,” she said. “The workshop and adult social care workers, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Solent Enterprise Zone at Daedalus is incredible. We have equipment partners involved in the Hubs include: Service Colin was able to make a in Lee-on-the-Solent, near Fareham. here which I don’t have access to at children’s centres, schools, health positive difference. With more than 900 full and part work so I make the most of my visitors, school nurses, child and time students, it is the main learning Jane said the change in her son has opportunities here.” adolescent mental health services, centre for students in apprenticeship been amazing: “Colin got Cameron to housing providers, youth support programmes with companies such as Rosie has no hesitations about open up to him. He helped Cameron services, the Police, the Department BAE Systems, GE Aviation, Virgin Atlantic, encouraging other women to learn how to deal with his emotions of Work and Pensions, carers support Coopervision, Burgess Marine, the MoD enter what has traditionally been and problems from the past and not let organisations and domestic abuse and Jensen Motorsport, among others. the male-dominated world of them affect his present and future. He services. Organisations can refer mechanical engineering. helped Cameron set goals and targets For more information about Hampshire families for support or families can for himself which boosted his confidence. Futures and opportunities for young request help direct. “Yes! If you enjoy it, don’t people visit www.hants.gov.uk/ He did such an amazing job. Cameron think of it as a big thing, If you are worried about your child’s now smiles like I haven’t seen him smile hampshirefutures. For information health or need some parenting in a long time. It’s like a weight has been about what’s on offer at CEMAST visit just go for it. There’s nothing support, call 0300 555 1384. lifted. It’s like we have a new household.” www.fareham.ac.uk/cemast stopping you!”

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk 5 to 6 April, 11am – 5pm 16 April, 7.30pm 25 to 26 April, 10.30am – 12pm & What’s on in Hampshire Sealed Knot – Civil War Action An Evening with Tony Hawks 2pm – 3.30pm, London Camera Basing House, Bartons Lane, Old Winchester Discovery Centre, Exchange: all day Hide with a Guide and London Until 26 April Basing, Basingstoke RG24 8AE Jewry Street, SO23 8SB March April Camera Exchange (LCE) Tues to Fri, 10am – 4.45pm, weekends Adult £5.10, concs £4.60, child (5-15 £14 2 April, 10am – noon 11am – 4.45pm. Closed on Mondays yrs) £4.10, under 5s free, family £14.30 P Titchfield Haven Nature Reserve, Opening 20 March Pond dipping for adults Cliff Road, Hillhead, Fareham Bricks in Motion FP Tony combines storytelling, stand up, Critter Creek Lepe Country Park, Lepe, Exbury, PO14 3JT Milestones Museum, Churchill Experience the drama of the English musical comedy and film clips to create Paultons Park, Ower, Southampton SO45 1UZ Hide with Guide: adults £3.90, Way West, Basingstoke RG22 6PG Civil War with this charity re-enactment. two hours of fun. nr Romsey, SO51 6AL FREE (chargeable pre-ordered concs £3.50, LCE: Free Adult £8.95, concs £7.95, child 01256 463965 01962 873603 For opening times and to book tickets lunch available) FP please visit www.paultonspark.co.uk (5 –15 yrs) £5.25, under 5s free, www.basinghouse.org.uk www.hants.gov.uk/wdc family £26.75 P F Join an experienced birdwatcher in FP FP A rare chance for the grown–ups to 6 April, 10am – 3.30pm 23 April, 2pm one of our hides and find out about the New at Paultons Park is an exciting new see what can be found in the Lepe The Great Butser Easter Egg Roll Haven’s birds at this time of year. Explore the history of transport in The Writer’s Garden – with mini-land, CRITTER CREEK. It’s a fully Point pond. LEGO® bricks from pre-history Queen Elizabeth Country Park, author Jackie Bennett 01329 662145 themed world of strange, mixed-up, 023 8089 9108 Gravel Hill, Horndean PO8 0QE www.hants.gov.uk/titchfieldhaven creatures known as the ‘Curious Critters’! through to the future. Basingstoke Discovery Centre, www.hants.gov.uk/lepe £1.50 per egg Festival Place, RG21 7LS Come say hello to the Horned Swamp 01256 477766 30 April, 7.30pm Donkey, take a ride on the Cat-o-pillar www.milestones-museum.com P £5 3 to 19 April, 10am – 4pm Jack the Ripper rollercoaster and visit Beastie Burrow, Easter Trail Roll your decorated egg down Butser Hill P Gosport Discovery Centre, the real life bug emporium complete Until 24 May as part of this traditional family event. No Royal Victoria Country Park, Author Jackie Bennett explores how High Street, Gosport PO12 1BT with fascinating and unusual insects, Hiroshige’s Japan: need to book – just turn up and take part! fish and lizards! Netley, SO31 5GA Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl £4 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Road 023 9259 5040 and others used the gardens they knew 023 8081 4442 £2 per trail The Gallery at Winchester www.hants.gov.uk/qecp to inspire their work. P www.paultonspark.co.uk P Discovery Centre, SO23 8SB 01256 478670 Author Rupert Matthews tells the lurid 20 21 FREE Follow the clues to complete a quiz – a 11 April to 31 May, Tuesday to www.hants.gov.uk/bsdc tales that horrified Victorian London. prize (available from the shop) if you get Saturday 10am – 4pm 023 9252 3463 P F the answer right! Trench Coat: From 25 April, 1.30pm www.hants.gov.uk/gdc Utagawa Hiroshige is considered the 023 8045 5157 Fields to Fashion Doctor Who: A Voyage Through last great master of Ukiyo-e woodblock www.hants.gov.uk/rvcp Willis Museum, Market Square Time And Space printmaking. This, his most famous May Basingstoke RG21 7QD Forest Arts, Old Milton Road, series, captured the journey between 3 to 19 April, 10.30 – 3.30pm 2 May to 27 June Edo and Kyoto. A touring exhibition FREE New Milton, BH25 6DS Step into Spring Dinofest from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. £10, or £35 for a group of four Staunton Country Park, Middle F Red House Museum and Gardens, 01962 873603 Until 29 March Park Way, Havant PO9 5HB The exhibition charts key moments, FP Quay Road, Christchurch BH23 1BU www.hants.gov.uk/wdc Cloud by Susie MacMurray Small charge for activities illustrated by original garments, to tell Author Daniel Blythe takes us on a FREE the ever-evolving story of a coat which trip through time, discussing the The Great Hall, Winchester FP P SO23 8PJ 28 March, 7.30pm has survived its utilitarian roots. enduring appeal of Doctor Who and his Meet the newborns down on the farm. There are dinosaurs hiding in the FREE (suggested donation £3) The Poozies 01256 465902 involvement with the book series. Take our Spring Trail and get creative Gardens. Follow their tracks, find Ashcroft Arts Centre, Osborn www.hants.go.uk/willis-museum 01425 612393 F P with seasonal crafts. their eggs and avoid the scariest of Road, Fareham, PO16 7DX www.forest-arts.co.uk dinosaurs – the Tyrannosaurus Rex! See artist Susie MacMurray’s response £16, £15 concessions 023 9245 3405 17 April, 8pm to WW1. Reflecting the ominous www.hants.gov.uk/staunton 01202 482860 Mme Butterfly: The One 25 April to 30 May, Tuesday – presence of conflict which hung FP www.hants.gov.uk/redhouse Man Opera Saturday 10am– 4pm over Europe during 1914-18, artwork Sally Barker, a recent a finalist on BBC1’s Horizon 20:20 is dramatically suspended from the The Voice, joins Mary Macmaster, Eilidh Stuck for something to do? The Spring Arts and Heritage The boxed listings are paid for Hall’s roof, hovering over a drift of tags Shaw and Mairearad Green to grace the Showcase is our monthly e-newsletter Centre, 56 East St, Havant Andover Museum, 6 Church by advertisers. To advertise representing fallen soldiers. stage with melodic mastery. packed with ideas for things to do. PO9 1BS Close, Andover SP10 1DP your event in Hampshire Now, 01962 846476 01329 223100 www.hants.gov.uk/showcase £12.50, concs £11.25 FREE call 01962 845520 or email www.hants.gov.uk/greathall www.ashcroft.org.uk FP FP F [email protected] This sequel to Mme Butterfly imagines Hampshire pupils exhibit a collection what happens after Puccini’s opera, of original artwork, including print, including live singing to recorded music. sculpture, textiles and willow work. P Parking F Free event Catering Baby changing facilities 023 9247 2700 01264 366283 FP Free parking Disabled access Dogs welcome www.thespring.co.uk www.hants.gov.uk/andover-museum Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk 7 May, 9 May, 9.30am – 4pm 13 to 14 June, 10am – 5pm In partnership with

9.30am – 3.30pm Sew your own… Home Home Front at Manor Farm Home of Thomas & FriendsTM toys Garden and Gift Fair in Minstead Study Centre, School Manor Farm & Country Park, aid of Wellbeing of Women Lane, Minstead SO43 7GJ Pylands Lane, Bursledon SO31 1BH The Dummer Cricket Centre £55 Normal admission charge Dummer, Basingstoke, RG25 2AR FP P Adult £5, concession £4, child free Join us for a fun sewing day making Experience wartime life with re-enactment FP easy cushion covers, hand-rolled groups and period vehicles. The Wellbeing of Women Garden and lampshades and a fabric storage basket. 01489 787055 Gift Fair is being held for a second year 023 8081 3437 www.hants.gov.uk/manorfarm at its hugely successful new venue, www.hants.gov.uk/msc The Dummer Cricket Centre, with a 20 to 21 June, wide range of specialist plant stalls 15 May, 7 – 9pm 10.30am – 5.15pm plus ideas for the home and garden, Handbags and Gladrags – Unusual Plant Fair and the opportunity to visit the walled Museums at Night Gilbert White & The Oates garden of Dummer Down House. As SEARCH Hands-on Centre, Collections, Selborne, nr Alton well as gifts for all ages. Lunch and Gosport , PO12 1BU GU34 3JH Join Thomas & FriendsTM light refreshments available for a at a heritage Railway near you. £5 including refreshments Adult £7, child free Experience a ride on a real steam engine complete day out. and take part in Thomas-themed activities. A FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS P MID HANTS RAILWAY 24 – 28 JUNE 2015 For more information: P ‘WATERCRESS LINE’ PREVIEW EVENING 23 JUNE www.wellbeingofwomen.org.uk Alresford, Hampshire SO24 9JG ‘Great night out’ vintage-themed Set in the idyllic location of Gilbert collections on display, plus music and 3RD - 12TH 2015 Artistic Director White’s garden with an array of stall www.dayoutwiththomas.co.uk HANS HAVERKAMP refreshments. Booking essential. holders selling rare and unusual plants, In partnership with 023 9252 3463 the Unusual Plant Fair is a great day THE WESSEX AND JERSEY AREA OF NAFAS

TM TM Further details and ticket information www.hants.gov.uk/museum-search Day Out With Thomas Thomas the Tank Engine . Based on The Railway Series by The Reverend W. Awdry. out for keen gardeners and families © 2015 Gullane (Thomas) Limited. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Thomas & Friends and Day Out With Thomas are trademarks of Gullane (Thomas) Limited. © 2015 HIT Entertainment Limited. WINCHESTER-CATHEDRAL.ORG.UK | 01962 857 275 22 alike. With a gardeners’ question time, HCT_WingsofAfrica_ad_180x133_AW:Layout 1 14/1/15 14:58 Page 1 23 June competitions and a chance to enjoy our beautiful 25 acres of heritage garden, 6 June, 7.45pm this is the perfect Father’s Day weekend. Celebrate the Summer The Hawk Conservancy Trust, [email protected] – Evening Concert www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk where the sky’s the limit. 6 May, 8pm Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, From The Jam acoustic show Ampfield, Romsey SO51 0QA • World-class flying demonstrations Every visitor can hold a bird of prey West End Centre, 48 Queens Rd, Adult £15.95, child £8. Early bird • • Over 150 birds of prey on view Aldershot GU11 3JD (book before May): adult £13, child • Keeper talks and feeding sessions £22.50, concs £20 £6, group 10+: adult £12 and child £5. • Adventure play area FP • Ferret racing, duck racing and tractor rides FP during school holidays An acoustic set with The Jam bass player Join the City of Southampton Orchestra • 22 acres of woodland and wildflower meadow Bruce Foxton, followed by Q&As. for music and fireworks. Picnic hampers • National Bird of Prey hospital 01252 408040 available. Booking essential. • Feathers Restaurant and Trust shop www.hants.gov.uk/westendcentre 01794 369318 www.hants.gov.uk/hillergardens 28 June, 4pm Hampshire County Youth ALL-NEW See African bird life in Andover. 9 May, 11am – 4pm Watch Sacred Ibis fly elegantly 10 June, 6.30pm Orchestra and Hampshire Youth alongside Vultures and Kites, VE Day 70th Anniversary The Dudley Keep Memorial Lecture County Band and experience the Savannah Commemorations with the dramatic impact of a on 800 years of the Magna Carta The Anvil, Churchill Way, DISPLAY bushfire and African rainstorm. Aldershot Military Museum, Great Hall, Winchester Basingstoke RG21 7QR Evelyn Woods Rd, GU11 2LG FREE £12, concessions £8 CONSERVATION EDUCATION RESEARCH REHABILITATION Normal admission charge F P P Visitor Centre, Sarson Lane, Weyhill, Andover, Hampshire, SP11 8DY FP A lecture by the University of Including: Bernstein’s Candide Overture, WE ARE LOCATED JUST OFF THE A303 Investigate some real WW2 artefacts Southampton’s Dr Nicholas Karn on Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Barber’s 01264 773 850 www.facebook.com/hawkconservancy and try our Street Party Challenge. English Law in the central middle ages. Adagio for Strings, and The Look of Love. www.hawkconservancy.org @HawkConservancy 01252 314598 01962 847272 01256 844244 CHARITY NO: 1092349 www.hants.gov.uk/aldershot-museum www.hants.gov.uk/greathall www.anvilarts.org.uk

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Supporting Armed Forces “ I want to be a communities in Hampshire As commemorations continue to mark picnic bench the First World War, Hampshire Now takes a look at some of the support the Council gives to one of the largest Armed when I’m recycled Forces communities in the country. In ” Hampshire, there are more than 130,000 people – equivalent in population to a district council area – who are either serving personnel, their dependants and families, veterans or reservists. We have a long history of partnership Supporting service families and their children work with the Armed Forces, formalised Childhood is often seen as a be worrying them, or they can sit by the signing of the Hampshire Armed carefree time of life but imagine and write ‘blueys’ (airmail letters) Forces Community Covenant in 2011, having the worry of parents to send to their parents overseas. which aims to ensure serving personnel serving overseas, especially in areas There are also ‘keeping in touch’ and veterans are not disadvantaged as of conflict. afternoons for parents with a result of their service. As a result of this, many Hampshire younger children to meet, and a Family Liaison officer is also 24 Maddhat Shamuha: schools offer a range of support to 25 working for the service families and their children, available to support families. community in in recognition of the particular Meanwhile, at Peel Common North Hampshire issues which affect them. This Infant School in Gosport, they have sensitive support ensures that the Maddhat Shamuha means ‘help group’ ‘meerkats on deployment’ (see Pledge to recycle children of service families achieve above) – toys which go with parents in Nepali. The community group was well in Hampshire schools and formed more than six years ago by a who then send back pictures and your bottle and attain the same standard as other letters telling of their adventures. group of former Gurkha soldiers, children. One of these schools is give it the chance with support from the Council. Crofton Hammond Infant School, To find out more about Hampshire’s With more Gurkha families choosing to near Fareham, which has a high support for Armed Forces families, settle in the Farnborough and Aldershot proportion of pupils who have visit www.hants.gov.uk/adult- to be reborn areas of Hampshire, it became clear parents in the Armed Forces. The services/armed-forces, and that a self-help group would enable the school has weekly service family for specific information around Make your pledge to recycle at families to obtain important information drop-in sessions where children supporting service children go to regarding education, housing and can talk about things that may www.hants.gov.uk/hpdw least one more plastic bottle a health services, as well as helping week using community integration. Strengthening ties with the broadcast project, and Hampshire’s Festival of Paralympic Sport. Maddhat Shamuha works with a range Armed Forces One exciting project which received of other public sector organisations, More than £1.6 million has been funding under the grant scheme is voluntary sector groups and charities awarded to 43 projects in Hampshire as or by visiting the creation of two camping ‘pods’ to provide information to the part of the Ministry of Defence Armed at the Council’s Tile Barn Centre in pledge4plastics.co.uk/hants Nepali Community. Forces Community Covenant Grant Brockenhurst. The sustainable wooden In turn, the group has also taken part in scheme, supporting projects which pods will be available free for service a range of community events such as strengthen the ties between the Armed personnel, veterans and their families volunteer gardening, stewarding at local Forces and the wider community. to enjoy holidays and short breaks fireworks events and cultural events Projects benefitting have ranged from at the Outdoor Centre. Schools and where Nepalese traditions are shared. In support in schools and community community groups will also be able to 2012, the group was awarded a Queen’s settings for service personnel and their book these pods. Visit www.hants.gov. award for their volunteer work. families, to a Military and Civilian uk/tilebarn for more information.

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The town was given the Marsh Colt up-to-date route, fare and timetable Woolbury Ring House The Old Windovers 26 right to hold a market before 1190, Parsonage 27 information on 0871 200 2233 (calls There are 13 tumuli (burial mounds) on North Park then extended to an annual three day Farm cost 10p per minute plus network the Down, dating back to the Bronze fair by Henry III. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012 extras) or visit www.traveline.info Age some 4,000 years ago. Situated µ In the nineteenth century, Stockbridge Point C More information: About the parish, on the highest point of the Down is was well known for the Stockbridge visit www.stockbridge-hampshire. Woolbury Ring, an Iron Age hill fort. Turn left along the Down for three- Races, becoming a major feature in com; about Stockbridge Down, The hand-dug ramparts are thought quarters of a mile. Turn right onto a the racing calendar from about 1831. see www.nationaltrust.org.uk; to be over 3,000 years old. The Ring footpath skirting the bottom of the The most famous race-goer was and about the Test Way, visit was used in the Second World War as Down, downhill along the tree and the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, www.hants.gov.uk/testway. a lookout post for enemy aircraft. On fence line. At the foot of the hill, bear accompanied by his mistress Lillie Please note there are no toilet or the southern ramparts is a 27ft tall hill left to follow the tall hedges along the Langtry. In the late 1800’s, part of refreshment facilities available en figure of a horse (the only example in bridleway to Fair View Farm. the racecourse was passed to a lady route but public conveniences Hampshire), constructed crudely of Stockbridge Down who did not approve of any form of Image: Mike Finchen Point D and local pubs and restaurants are rough flints painted white. The earliest gambling and the racing stopped. documentation of the horse was in Here you have a choice to continue available in the town centre. ROUTE DESCRIPTION taking care as there can be 1846, and local legend suggests it the walk on a longer route or to head fast moving traffic on this Features along the walk commemorates a highwayman’s horse. Point A back to Stockbridge. To return, turn winding road. About Stockbridge This walk begins in the east of the town, Please note this walk is anti-clockwise. left onto London Road (A30) for half a Stockbridge lies in the heart of the Test near the remains of the Old Church of Starting in Stockbridge with the High mile, taking care if there is traffic and Point B Valley. This picturesque Hampshire St Peter’s. Now a grade II listed building, Street behind you and Old St Peter’s using the grass verges where possible. market town is still as busy today as it this twelfth century church was Church straight ahead, turn right Turn left at a wide entrance with several Just before the roundabout, turn left was in the eighteenth century. demolished in the 1870s with only the onto Trafalgar Way following the Test lanes, following the footpath sign onto the Old London Road, which will chancel remaining today. For a short Way. Continue to Manor Farm House, along the track known as ‘Penny Lane’. take you back to the start of the walk. It is thought that Stockbridge was while, this walk takes you along the turning left to reach Lion’s Den car Continue past Penny Lane Farm until To continue the walk, turn right onto once an Iron Age crossing point Test Way, a long-distance path starting park in Marsh Court Road. Here, turn you reach a small road. Turn right at London Road (A30) for about a third with the settlements of Danebury, at Inkpen, mostly following the course left along Cows Drove Hill road. On Colt House, then left at North Park Farm of a mile, turning left before Sandy Woolbury and Meon Hill all close by. of the River Test, to Eling. Throughout your right you will soon find a marked along a footpath that follows the field Down Cottage. Follow the byway track The centre of the town started as a the walk, you can follow rights of footpath which climbs through line and over a stile. Cross Winton Hill running past Leckford Golf Course, until track which developed into a chalk way which are maintained by our woodland to the Stockbridge Road Road (B3049) and onto Stockbridge you reach Leckford Lane (A3057). causeway with a log bridge over the Countryside Service – look out for the The Test Way, Trafalgar Way (A3057) by Steepleton. Turn right Down through a gate marked with the Re-join the Test Way to return back main river channel. The causeway was yellow footpath arrows along the route. Image Matt Dobrowolski onto the A3057 for half a mile, National Trust logo. to Stockbridge.

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