Contact Us Message from Parish Councillors Beware - Scams Fill In the Chairman Chairman Residents are asked to be on Cllr John Dalton and Parish the lookout for scams in the Tel: 01772 622597 area. Vice Chairman Council We’ve had reports of phone calls Cllr Pamela Sloan Dear Residents offering to help residents with Tel: 01257 451091 incorrect council tax banding, in Cllr Graham Bird The Members of the Council are return for a fee - what the callers Tel: 01772 601505 here to serve the community of are doing is not illegal, however Ulnes Walton so, if you have any residents can get the same Cllr Eileen Doran problems or issues you would information for free by contacting Tel: 01257 452516 like to raise, please contact the Council.

Cllr Dorothy Todd Clerk and we will try our best to Another scam includes calls from Tel: 01772 601264 help you. a company purporting to

Cllr Nicola Watkinson A great amount of activity is represent the Telephone Tel: 01772 601959 taking place within the village Preference Service (TPS) with clubs, groups and offering to screen or block sales Clerk to the Council calls for a monthly fee. The information courses all catering All correspondence to: Telephone Preference Service is for local residents. We do hope the only official opt out register to Alan Platt that you will join in the many stop receipt of live unsolicited 9 Ambleside Avenue community groups and gain sales calls and is a free service. benefit from them. Call 0845 070 0707 or visit Chorley A copy of the Annual Report for www.tpsonline.org.uk for details PR7 6NX or to register. the year ended 31 March 2014, Tel: 01257 234003 which provides a financial Trading Standards has received em: [email protected] summary together with a review reports of door to door fish sellers of Council activities during the using aggressive selling practices Council Meetings year is included in this and targeting vulnerable residents. Parish Council Meetings are newsletter. In one incident an elderly lady paid held on the second Monday of over £326 for a box of fish! each month, starting at 7.30 I would be delighted to welcome pm at The Old School, Ulnes you to our parish council Several complainants said they Walton Lane. Forthcoming meetings which are held on the have had to throw the fish away as second Monday of each month it tasted odd. dates for 2014 include: and commence at 7.30pm. We Trading Standards advice is never ▪ 12 May meet at the Old School on Ulnes buy this type of product from door- ▪ 9 June Walton Lane. Agendas for to-door sellers who are not regular ▪ 14 July meetings are posted on the rounds men. You may not get the notice boards at the junction of Time is set aside at each weight, quality or hygiene Leyland Lane/Holker Lane, Moss meeting for local residents to standards you are expecting. speak to the Council and you Lane/Willow Road, Wymott and are welcome to come along to the layby on Ulnes Walton Lane There have also been reports of share your ideas, express your before the boundary with South mattresses being sold door to door views or even raise concerns Ribble. in the Chorley area. Consumers are often approached in the street. you have about a particular Cllr John Dalton issue. We are here to listen It is also not clear whether these Chairman mattresses meet the flammability and can help in providing guidance and direction. Ulnes Walton Parish Council requirements of the regulations.

Since we last appeared in the Parish Newsletter the Community Group has had a very busy program including December’s Christmas

Beetle and Bingo, our very successful Christmas lunch at the Grapes Protect your gadgets and in , the over 60’s Hotpot Lunch in February and, finally the other electrical items Easter Beetle and Bingo on the 4th April.

Why not register them for free on the national property register via Christmas 2013 www.immobilise.com at The Grapes, Registration only takes a couple minutes, should you Croston lose or have property stolen and it is recovered, it allows all police forces to identify an item and return it to the rightful owner. Looking forward we have the Anything from your TV to Soup and Sandwich Lunch your Toaster can be th on the 15 May, which, as registered on Immobilise for usual, is open to all ages. more information visit Please just drop in for a www.immobilise.com or sandwich and a chat and get www.lancashire.police.uk/ to know your neighbours. help-and-advice/advice/ Looking just a bit further ahead there is the Over 60’s Summer Buffet immobilise-property-database th on the 17 July. We are trying very hard to arrange some If you need to report an entertainment for you after the meal, remember the Dollymops! emergency dial 999. For non emergencies dial 101 and for Later in the year other events including a Bonfire Night firework display and barbecue will be confirmed. Police Office dial 01257 246103 (answer One recent disappointment was the low turnout for the Easter Bingo machine facility). Night. It was a shame considering all the effort that went into

PCSO 7932 Maria Featherstone presenting it. Still, some people went home laden with chocolate and bursting with tea and home made cake.

Now some of you may have forgotten that we have been to great Ulnes Walton expense in organising free over 60’s exercise classes at the Old Women’s School on a Friday morning at 9.30am. These are low key exercises Institute with a professional tutor specifically designed to keep you moving. They are chair based so there is no excuse not to give it a go - no We hold monthly meetings on leotards or tights, just as you are. the third Wednesday of the month (except December) at Recently all houses in the village recently received a copy of our End 7.30pm. and have a good of Life Care booklet which we compiled in response to a project programme of speakers and request from Skills for Care Ltd. I realise that the concept may be a activities, but above all tea, little off - putting for some but it has been well received in some cake and friendship. quarters and the information it contains may help or give food for

We are active in local events thought. At this stage we have no plans to update it so I apologise if with time and financial help. If some information you personally may expect to see has been omitted you are interested in attending but a voluntary group, such as ours, cannot think of everything, our meetings we would be however committed. delighted to welcome new members. Finally, if anyone has comments on the work of The Community Group or suggestions for future events please get in touch with any If you require further information group member or email to [email protected] please telephone Dorothy on Brendon Pickthall 01772 601264.

FREE LOCAL HOME DELIVERY Volunteers Needed OF QUALITY PET FOODS Could you spare a few hours to help us transform a roadside Premium ranges of locally verge into a haven for wildflowers and bees? produced dog and cat food at affordable prices. Action for Ulnes Walton has been granted permission to manage

the verge along Southport Road near its junction with Lydiate Lane FOOD FOR ALL YOUR PETS: for the benefit of local wild life .We hope to maintain the beautiful

Small Animals, Pond Fish, wildflowers already present as well as to introduce new flowers Poultry and birds. native to our local area such as primroses, bluebells, oxeye daisies Peanuts and wild bird food. etc. This, we hope, will encourage small mammals, birds and insects, especially bees, to make use of the verge.

Phone Kevin on We have already started work by cutting back the turf which was Tel: 01772 457956 encroaching on the path and planting five hundred snowdrops .We Mob: 0758 595 1425 now need help to remove the more thuggish weed such as brambles and docks, plant wildflower plugs and clear patches to www.maplewoodonline.co.uk sow with native seeds. You can appreciate this is a huge job and we really would welcome your input.

Please phone Pam Sloan on 01257 451091 or if you see a small group of us at work just introduce yourself and get stuck in. You’ll be sure of a warm welcome! Ulnes Walton Village is on Facebook. For our local news and events page click on Could you share your home with an

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What is Shared Lives? Wymott Art Group Shared Lives involves caring for an adult in your family home, The Old School because they cannot live with their own family or live on their own. Ulnes Walton Lane It is a family-based care provided by individuals or families, enabling Every Wednesday adults to share in family and community life, as well as supporting 10.00am to 12 Noon them to develop their strengths, abilities and independence. £2.00 per session (including tea/coffee/biscuits) People who require Shared Lives support come from a variety of

We are a small social Art Group backgrounds and may be an adult with a learning disability or an and would invite any adult and older adult. An extensive matching process is put in place between make you very welcome. the carer and the person to be placed. We have qualified teaching in painting and ribbon embroidery. Our carers come from many different backgrounds and no formal qualifications are required. What really matters are your personal We do class projects in watercolour painting, making cards and pictures qualities – you need to be patient, positive, flexible and have a with ribbon embroidery, others person-centred approach. do their own projects. To find out more about the benefits and rewards of becoming a All proceeds to go towards the Shared Lives carer, give us a Old School roof fund. Ulnes Walton Parish Council accepts no call on 01257 516036 or email responsibility for items published that are Tel. 01772 457428 or 01772 451189 directly attributed to named contributors. for further information sharedlives@.gov.uk Ulnes Walton

Charitable Fund In Memoriam

To acknowledge the Centenary of the onset of the First World (Reg Charity No 225833) War, local author Stuart A Clewlow, If you would like information about the of Euxton, has Old School, hire arrangements and kindly donated a availability, or the Ulnes Walton copy of his book Charitable Fund which manages it, “In Memoriam” please contact: jointly to the parish councils of Ulnes John McKie, Secretary/Treasurer Walton, Eccleston, Ulnes Walton Charitable Fund 11 The Stables, Rufford New Hall and Rufford, Park Lane, Rufford, . L40 1XE The book, which is a Tel: 01704 821350 thorough directory of All the projects associated with the Old all the military memorials and graves in and around the borough of School have the full support of the Chorley, has been delivered to Eccleston Library, where residents

Parish Council and we are grateful to will be able to view it. the Trustees for their efforts on behalf of this essential village asset. Neighbourhood Watch

Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) is alive and well in The Elderberries Ulnes Walton. Whilst times have changed with cutbacks in Police funding, NHW continues to We are A social group for the over function with the massive support of our volunteers. 55’s. Chorley and the surrounding villages are supported We meet At the Old School, Ulnes by the Chorley & District Neighbourhood Watch Walton Lane, Ulnes Association (CADNWA) a constituted body which oversees all NHW Walton. activities in the area. When 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month - 1.00 pm to 3.30 NHW Coordinators are volunteers who provide the link between NHW/ pm. Police and the local Watch members. The Coordinator is the most important person in any group because it is his/her task to manage its We have regular speakers who give include talks on a huge variety of topics activities – you do not need any particular qualifications, but you do need commitment.

We also have quizzes, and crafts. A Registered Watch is where the Coordinator’s details are held on the We would make any visitors welcome ’s database. One significant advantage of being so why not come along and have a cuppa with us and see what we do. a member of a Registered Watch is that many Home Insurers will give a reduction in premiums. Contact number for further information Tel 01257 269352 If you are interested to know if there is an established Watch local to where you live, wish to know more about NHW or would like to set up a new Watch, please contact Lynn Wareing on 01257 246384 or by email to Villages in Partnership [email protected]

Where the money we raise is given back to your community Flood Alerts from Volunteers are required for our 3 The Environment charity shops at Agency

265 The Green, Eccleston, PR7 5TF To sign up for a flood alert call Floodline on 0845 988 1188 or sign up online - https://fwd.environment-agency.gov.uk/app/orl/home Unit 3, 31-33 Liverpool Road North, Burscough, L40 0SA As the village is not in a flood warning area, the flood alert is for the 2c Franklands, Longton, Preston, whole of the Douglas Catchment, which is an early warning of PR4 5PD heavy rainfall which could lead to flooding in the area.

For details contact 01257 452698 or Visit the website at www.environment-agency.gov.uk and follow us email: [email protected] on Twitter at @EnvAgencyNW

Published by Alan Platt. 9 Ambleside Avenue, Euxton, Chorley, PR7 6NX. Tel 01257 234003