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Issue 102 Winter 2019 Lights, camera, action! All systems go for cinema project Also in this issue: Voting in the General Election Festive recycling guide Winter events 2 Contact us All the latest Council news and information online Keeping in touch with us Daventry District Council provides a wide range of services including waste and recycling collections, street cleaning and grounds maintenance, Council Tax collection and benefits, elections, Homechoice lettings, economic development and regeneration, community safety, planning and development control and environmental health issues such as dealing with food safety, noise, pollution Follow us on and environmental crimes. Twitter Call: 01327 871100 Council news and updates: @DaventryDC Email: [email protected] Customer services: @ContactDDC Web: daventrydc.gov.uk Love Daventry: @Love_Daventry Scan this image with your Write to: Daventry District Council, Lodge Smartphone to take you to Road, Daventry NN11 4FP DDC’s website – daventrydc.gov.uk Other useful Council news: www.facebook.com/daventrydistrict contacts Daventry Country Park: www.facebook.com/daventrycountrypark Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) Love Daventry: www.facebook.com/lovedaventrydistrict NCC deals with various services including: Instagram: @DaventryDistrictCouncil roads, paths, street lighting and drainage, potholes, bus passes and bus services, Blue Badges, road gritting, social care, Daventry Calling is a quarterly magazine with the next issue due out in the Spring. schools admissions, register of births, It is delivered to households district-wide using a combination of services supplied deaths and marriages, libraries, household by Royal Mail and Smart Distribution Ltd. waste and recycling centres. For all delivery queries please call 0800 160 1220 or email Call 0300 126 1000 [email protected] northamptonshire.gov.uk We’re always keen to hear what you think about the magazine and any Your town or parish council suggestions you have for future editions. Daventry District has 72 parishes and Please contact us at [email protected] or call 01327 871100 one town council covering services such as allotments, village halls and recreation You can also read Daventry Calling online at grounds, grass cutting and street cleaning www.daventrydc.gov.uk/daventry-calling and cemeteries. To find out contact details for your parish, visit Daventry Calling is available on request daventrydc.gov.uk/parishcouncils in large print, audiotape or in Braille. 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Government services and information by advertisers and their inclusion in Daventry Calling gov.uk should not be taken as endorsement by Daventry District Council. Citizens Advice Daventry and District Call 01327 701640 News 3 Sporting heroes are celebrated Local sporting heroes from across Daventry District have been honoured for a year of achievements at an awards ceremony. Northampton Saints player Tommy Freeman was on hand to present the accolades at A great the Daventry District Sports Awards. Dozens of clubs, groups and individuals were nominated across 11 categories, with place to more than 130 people attending the annual ceremony, hosted by BBC Northampton’s Martin Heath. The event, now in its 17th year, was hosted by Daventry District Council’s leisure partner live Everyone Active and took place on October 24. The winners were: Daventry District has been named the best place in Community Club of the Year: Daventry Tigers Northamptonshire for life Community Sports/Activity Group of the Year: Moulton Masters FC satisfaction. Team of the Year: Daventry Tigers’ Mini Ninjas – Isabel McDowell, Alara Yildirim, Caoimhe Adams and Daniella Kaufman The District scored an overall Coach of the Year: Mark Robson wellbeing score of eight out of ten Volunteer of the Year: Saffron Small in the Personal Wellbeing in the UK Young Leader of the Year: Mabelle Gwilliam report released by the Office for National Statistics. Sport School of the Year: Overstone Primary School Disabled Sportsperson of the Year: Eliza Humphrey The survey is carried out by asking a Young Sportsperson of the Year: Selina Yildirim sample survey of people from each Local Sportsperson of the Year: Tom Symons district authority area four questions Lifetime Contribution to Sport: John Love about their personal wellbeing such as: “Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday?” And: “How satisfied are In this issue: you with your life nowadays?” People are asked to respond on a Christmas collections: Find out about the arrangements for waste and recycling scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is “not at collections over the festive period. all” and 10 is “completely”. Pages 6-7 Across the UK the average life Talking pictures: Read about the exciting developments to bring a new cinema satisfaction score for 2018/19 was and restaurants to Daventry town centre. 7.71 out of ten, taking a mean score Pages 8-9 from all the answers. Go to the polls: Find out about arrangements for the General Election on 12 December. Our District was followed by Page 11 Kettering, East Northamptonshire, Northampton, Wellingborough, What’s on: Get ready for Christmas with our winter events guide, including details South Northamptonshire and Corby. of where Santa will be and when. Pages 13-15 4 News Good Neighbours schemes Good Neighbours Schemes are always keen to hear from people are tackling rural isolation who need help as well as those who can offer to volunteer. Get in touch with schemes in Daventry District via the contact details below: Byfield Good Neighbours Phone: 01327 227000 Email: [email protected] www.byfield-pc.gov.uk Crick Good Neighbours Phone: 07517 802097 Email: [email protected] www.crickparish.org.uk Moulton Good Neighbours Phone: 07484 907438 Email: communityconnector@ More than 160 elderly and 88 volunteers who have collectively moultonparishcouncil.org.uk vulnerable people have accessed helped more than 160 residents. There www.moultonnorthants-pc.gov.uk support from a scheme which aims are six further schemes pending in to tackle isolation in rural areas. Kilsby, Woodford Halse, Long Buckby, Welton Good Neighbours Boughton, Welford and Creaton. Daventry District Council (DDC) works Phone: 07938 237070 with Northamptonshire ACRE (Action DDC offers grants of up to £1,000 to with Communities in Rural England) groups in the District wanting to set to develop Good Neighbours Schemes up a Good Neighbours Scheme in their Daventry District. They really are making across Daventry District. area, as well as a toolkit, based on a difference and helping older people national good practice, to help them get to make friends and feel part of the Good Neighbours Schemes work by established. community. setting up a volunteer co-ordinator in a village, parish, or neighbourhood area, DACT (Daventry Area Community “We’d love to see more schemes whose job is to match people who need Transport) can help set up Village Travel established throughout the District and help with volunteers in the area who Clubs, and Daventry Volunteer Centre’s there is funding and support available, are willing to be a good neighbour by Happy at Home Partnership can help so I would urge parishes and community offering that help. with the recruiting of volunteers. groups to please get in touch with us to find out how to get involved.” The first scheme was established in Maria Taylor, DDC’s Executive Director Moulton in April 2017, and further for Community, said: “Good Neighbours Find out more at www.daventrydc. schemes have since been set up in Schemes are already proving really gov.uk/goodneighbours Byfield, Crick and Welton, establishing valuable in a number of areas of Help spread some Comfort and Joy Warm-hearted residents can offer The project also raises awareness of All of the items donated will go directly some cheer to people in need this domestic abuse, incidents of which tend to local people living in refuges as well Christmas by donating items to a to increase over the Christmas period. as other vulnerable families in Daventry festive parcel scheme. District, South Northamptonshire and the Parcels for men, women and children as wider county area this Christmas. The annual Comfort and Joy campaign well as Christmas food parcels are being helps those who are staying in refuges as put together and a list of suggested The Northamptonshire Domestic Abuse a result of experiencing domestic abuse, donations can be found at www. Service, which runs a number of refuges as well as other vulnerable families who daventrydc.gov.uk/CommunitySafety across Northamptonshire, will once again are struggling at Christmas. be helping to distribute the parcels. Donations can be made at the Daventry Jointly organised by the Daventry District Council offices, in Lodge Road, Anyone who is experiencing District and South Northamptonshire Daventry, at Daventry Police Station, in domestic violence is urged to call the Community Safety Partnership and the New Street, at Daventry Fire Station, Northamptonshire Domestic Abuse Daventry District Forum, its aim is to in Staverton Road and at the South Service 24-hour helpline on 0300 provide them with a few gifts and treats, Northamptonshire Council offices at The 0120154 or visit www.ndas.co as well as food, toiletries and other Forum, Moat Lane, Towcester, up to and essential items.