YOUR COUNTY COUNCIL MAGAZINE SUMMER 2015

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WIN – Portsmouth Park and Ride flexipasses See page 12

WIN – two night break with Red Funnel & The Royal Hotel See page 16

WIN – Family tickets to Marwell Zoo See page 23

IN THIS ISSUE Don’t just watch, Your life in their get involved hands: behind the Harry’s on a mission scenes with – see page 15 Scientific Service – see page 8

www.hants.gov.ukwww.hants.gov.uk From Councillor Roy Perry Welcome Leader of Hampshire County Council Summer is now of their high quality, good facilities the Men’s Shed – a successful initiative upon us and with and well-managed green spaces. We combating social isolation among the the school holidays continue to do all we can to ensure retired and providing a real sense of fast approaching, our sites keep these awards. However, community. I am sure many of we could not do it without your help you will be looking - so thank you for working with us, Love of sport often brings people forward to family respecting these special parks, and together too, and Harry (on page days out. We are making sure everyone can continue 15) – is one of Hampshire’s inspiring fortunate to have six of the best to enjoy Hampshire’s beautiful volunteers, working at a local and country parks in the country, as countryside and coastal areas. national level to motivate young well as two National Parks, right people to take part in sport. here in Hampshire. Working in partnership is becoming an increasingly important area for us. Working together with the support of Each has something unique to offer On page 10 we look at the joint work some of the partnerships set out in this visitors, as well as various activities to of our adult social care staff and our edition of Hampshire Now is helping enjoy, see page 14. All of our parks have Health colleagues to help older people to ensure Hampshire continues to be Green Flag awards from environmental maintain their independence for a great place in which to live, work and charity, Keep Britain Tidy, in recognition longer. We also go behind the doors of grow up. 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 Ask the expert Fostering What’s happening around the county Leon Churchill, Hampshire Highways Making a difference 8 18 26 Your life in their hands Smart living Hampshire walk Hampshire Scientific Service How to re-use, revamp and recycle A walk around the Parish of Hyde 10 28 Supporting independence 20 A man’s world What’s on New ways of working The Men’s Shed in Gosport http://lifelink.radian.co.uk Things to do in Hampshire 14 30 Make the most of summer Contact us Ideas for things to do this summer

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Buy with confidence! Whether it is a builder, plumber, Volunteering: new opportunities decorator or landscape gardener you in children’s social care are looking for, look no further than our Buy With Confidence 2015 directory. Exciting opportunities are opening practice for other local authorities The type of people we are looking The Directory is free of charge and up for volunteers who would like to follow. for are those who can mentor to use their skills and experience young people, provide support to will help you avoid falling prey to These focus on the creation of rogue traders. to support vulnerable children and excluded children or children in new specialist family intervention their families. care, or can help support parents It is compiled by our Trading Standards teams, making more use of with parenting skills. There are a Service and lists more than 650 local The new volunteer roles will be voluntary support to connect with businesses – tradesmen and women range of volunteering opportunities part of an innovative re-design of communities and improving the you can trust. available, and volunteers can give children’s social care support. support to social workers so they as little as an hour or two per week, All the businesses listed in the have increased time to spend or more if interested, providing directory have been visited and The County Council has been with vulnerable children and on-going family support.

Photo supplied by Amey PLC Amey supplied by Photo vetted by Trading Standards and awarded almost £4 million from 4 young people. 5 Roadworks ahead: TV documentary their performance is monitored on a the Department for Education’s If you think you have what it takes continual basis too. goes behind the scenes Innovation Fund for this reform. We will be setting up networks to help support vulnerable children The service responds rapidly to Hampshire’s bid for the funding of volunteers to work with children and their families in this way then emerging situations, such as rogue Did you know that on average The cable did not appear on any included innovative new practices and families in their communities. register your interest with us now traders, scams and doorstep crime. more than 130,000 motorists maps of the site and had it been which have the potential to Training will be provided at: innovation.volunteers@hants. Trading Standards officers offer advice a day use the M27 between accidentally cut, workers could establish new standards of good to volunteers. gov.uk and a timescale for a trader to comply have been at risk and costly Junction 7 at Hedge End and with the law. They also have the power Junction 5 at Eastleigh? damage could have been caused to to confiscate illegal goods, or launch Ten new clubs for older players have the electricity supply. Ping Pong: sign up for That is why it is vital the roads criminal proceedings. 2015 event sprung up around the county since around these busy junctions are Quick thinking by the excavation To order your free copy of the last year. kept in good repair and traffic is crew and painstaking efforts Buy With Confidence Directory Calling all table tennis enthusiasts! kept moving. When the bank at to uncover the cable, by hand, 2015 visit www.hants.gov.uk/ Brian Edwards-Picknett from the Upper Northam Road in Hedge prevented this from happening. tsguide-bwc-directory or call The 2015 Ping Pong event for over Emsworth club said: “The sessions 65s will be at Fleming Park, Eastleigh End near to Junction 7 looked in It was all in a day’s work for 03454 04 05 06. mean so much to people. It’s a on Saturday 3 October. Last year danger of collapsing, Hampshire the road crew who went on to workout for the brain as well as the County Council, its highways complete the works ahead of Shaping Hampshire the event attracted more than 90 body and the atmosphere is one of contractors Amey and other schedule using 5,000 tonnes of Spending review consultation beginners and non-league players, fun and competition but in the nicest partners, swung into action to fix stone to shore up the bank. with the oldest competitor aged 94. possible way. One of our members Thank you to everyone who took the problem. said it makes him feel 15 again!” The remedial works are featured in part in our six-week consultation, The campaign was started by the Their sterling efforts were episode 5 of a six-part series which giving us your views on options for County Council’s Older People’s Applications for the Annual Ping Pong captured on camera as part of a takes a look at how local authorities managing the latest anticipated Wellbeing Team. event will open on 3 August; fly-on-the-wall documentary to be keep the vital road networks moving. shortfall in central Government Further details are on the website aired later this year on Channel 5. funding. The feedback you gave Active people are more likely to be In the meantime to read more www.hants.gov.uk/ping-pong us will be considered by the less anxious, sleep better and increase It turned out to be quite a drama, about the County Council’s County Council in October 2015 their chances of staying independent. with the discovery of a national approach to maintaining We also need people to volunteer when decisions will be made on It is also a great way to get out and as umpires and to help on the day. If grid power cable carrying 250,000 Hampshire’s busy roads turn the money available for the years meet new friends, helping to prevent you would like to get involved please volts of electricity through it. to page 17. 2016-2018. social isolation. email: [email protected]

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of agricultural qualifications. He said: “I have friends who moan about their jobs in offices or shops, but not me. My office is out there,” he grins gesturing to the farm yard. “I love the variety the apprenticeship offers, the people I meet, and the supportive atmosphere,” he added. To find out more about apprenticeships and other post 16 opportunities visit: www.hants.gov.uk/youthtube Deciding what you want to do after It is especially important for those secondary school can be hard. who have not yet made up their For more information about minds, putting them in touch with Hampshire Futures see: Following the raising of the other organisations and training www.hants.gov.uk/ participation age, from summer 6 providers who can help and support hampshirefutures 7 2015, young people must remain them to make the right choice. For in education or training until their example, the Hampshire Award 18th birthday. There are lots of Programme, offers the chance Hampshire’s Local Offer opportunities available in Hampshire, to develop practical life and including school and college courses We are continuing to develop teambuilding skills, experience what or work-related training schemes such the content on Hampshire’s Local a workplace is like through work as apprenticeships and traineeships, Offer, which provides details of placement opportunities, and gain providing on-the-job training services and support for families nationally recognised qualifications. and qualifications. in Hampshire with children and If it is apprenticeships you are young people (aged 0 to 25) who Hampshire Futures helps young interested in, the County Council has have special educational needs Protect yourself or a loved one today. people and adults access its own programme offering a variety and/or who are disabled. employment, education and training, of exciting opportunities. Our telecare service and supports them to develop the The local offer covers health, provides: education, special equipment, skills they need to live purposeful and One young person who is already Reassurance and fulfilled lives. pursuing his career dream with therapies and leisure as well support 24 hours Hampshire is Dan George, an as information to help young a day Hampshire Careers and Employability people with special needs prepare apprentice with the County Council’s Help at the touch Service, part of Hampshire Futures, Countryside Service. for adulthood. of a button helps young people with career We want to know what information From as little as 62p choices and is especially keen to hear Dan,18 from Waterlooville, was a per day. from all recent school leavers about volunteer at Manor Farm and Country is important to you. What do you what they are doing in terms of work, Park near Hedge End. An opportunity find most helpful about the current further education or training. to become an apprentice became site and what information would available which he jumped at and has you like to see? 0345 265 8003 Get in touch by emailing not looked back. www.argenti.co.uk [email protected]. Get in touch with us with your As well as tracking opportunities, it The 18-month apprenticeship views through the feedback ensures young people have access to includes day release at Sparsholt section on the website: www. all the information they need. College where Dan can study a range hantslocaloffer.info/en/Feedback

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Your life in their hands One recent trend in baby care, Amber necklaces marketed as teething aids for babies, was the subject of rigorous Behind the scenes with Hampshire Scientific Service testing by the team. Tests were carried out to check the strength of the cords From the outside there is nothing and the beads. Poorly made necklaces remarkable about the office and other decorated children’s wear building that houses Hampshire can represent a real choking hazard. Scientific Service (HSS). A consignment had to be scrapped after tests by the HSS team revealed However, step inside and it is a hive such a choking hazard. If it does not of scientific activity. There are vials of pass the safety tests it will be removed blood awaiting analysis, petri dishes from sale or recalled for modification. growing bacteria, vivid coloured The team works with Trading Standards liquids in test-tubes, crime scene to help keep the public informed. items being dusted for prints, and a Around 750 toys and other products Making a safer place soft toy being tested to the limit in are tested each year. a vice. Anne Scarrett does not look the sort If something is not safe HSS will do all it of woman who has a vicious streak, can to prove that, and contributes The work being undertaken in the Crime Scene Investigation but she reveals that what drew her to to work that will recall or remove laboratories plays a vital role in Hampshire the job at Hampshire Scientific Service any unsafe products. It’ s not just keeping residents of Hampshire, and A large sink and a drying cabinet was an advert. It said: Hampshire residents who benefit from beyond, safe. containing various items including plastic Food: is it what you Safety: it’s not child’s play this. Their analysis can result in bags, gives a hint of another important ‘If looking at this picture makes Europe-wide bans. think it is? The toy duck draped over the lab part of the work by HSS. The equipment you want to pull the eyes and nose 8 If it is true that you are what you equipment represents another is used in the recovery of fingerprints. off this teddy bear then this job is “All our staff are highly 9 eat, then the integrity and safety important element of the work done Scientists at the labs work closely with probably for you!’ trained scientists who are of the food we eat is crucial to our at HSS. While most manufacturers . The joint It did and it was. Behind the passionate about what they wellbeing. Last year scientists at HSS abide by the strict regulations forensic service, the first of its kind in the eye-catching advert lies a very do,” said Anne. “It is not about tested 2,000 samples of food and governing the production of toys country, provides nationally accredited, serious remit. collecting data. We take it to drink to make sure produce entering and other goods, some do not. Lack high quality forensic testing. As well as the country through Hampshire’s of safety warning labels can also fingerprint recovery, this includes DNA Looking into things that will do the next level and ask what ports, or produce being sold in shops contribute to the risk of injuries or recovery and the analysis of human serious harm to people is all in does this mean for the public? and markets around the county, was serious harm. tissue. Last year around 2,000 crime a day’s work for Anne. She is a Is it safe? We are scientists not contaminated and was safe to exhibits were submitted to the lab for Perilous projectiles, folding scooters qualified microbiologist, with a interested in the bigger consume. In addition, around 2,500 fingerprint recovery. The human tissue that could a slice a finger off, Masters degree in Biomedical picture. We are trying to make microbiology samples were tested analysis is carried out on behalf of the flammable nightwear and exploding Sciences. Anne joined Hampshire sure the world is a safer place to check the quality of food and Coroner’s Service to help determine why County Council’s Scientific Service toy guns are among the hazardous and that’s a very good reason the environment in which it was someone has died. 12 years ago and loves her job. produced. The scientists are looking items of toys, clothing and other for getting up and coming for dangerous contaminants, for products uncovered following The toxicology work of the team is “You never know what you to work.” safety tests. example deadly strains of E. coli in also used to identify, and help other will be working on,” she said. food, or hidden ingredients which agencies keep track of, the numerous HSS is part of the frontline battle “It could be anything from should not be present. so-called legal highs. Government being waged against food fraud and plans to introduce a blanket ban on testing swimming pool water dangerous manufacturing processes. Recent examples include: ensuring anyone producing and supplying these to ensure it is safe, examining That work brings together agencies food items labelled gluten-free really substances, which can have very harmful baby food for toxins, testing including Trading Standards, Police, were; that colouring used in curries side effects and were never meant for the quality of food served Port Authorities, Environmental Health did not contain banned artificial human consumption. The work of the in the Council’s schools and and Public Health teams. HSS has colours and checking that foodstuffs team contributes to a national ‘library’ residential care homes, to established a reputation for quality have not been ‘bulked out’ with that keeps authorities up-to-date on finger print and DNA recovery. testing and analysis, which is attracting ingredients which if not accounted new legal highs coming onto the streets business from other local authority for on the label, could cause harm to and will work with Police and Trading It’s done to keep people safe. areas and generating income. allergy sufferers. Standards on enforcement. Not many jobs can offer that.”

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Supporting independence Balancing act: working together for you A look at the new ways of working for Health and Social Care staff Ruth Davies and Michael Longstaff are key to the successful operation of the A typical day for Colvin might start “As well as home care support, Integrated Discharge Team. with an alert that a vulnerable Adult patients may be referred to Ruth, a matron for Portsmouth Services client is injured or sick and on ‘reablement care’, which is intensive Hospitals NHS Trust, oversees the the way to the hospital. support provided in the home to help Discharge Bureau where the patient people regain their independence, or He liaises with the hospital’s discharge planning process begins. to ‘discharge to assess’ beds, which are Community Emergency Department They are managing around beds within care homes where social Team (CEDT). Nurses, physiotherapists, 100 cases. Between 20 to 30 of those occupational therapists and social care care needs can be assessed without patients may need Adult Services to staff work together to find the best a hospital stay. Alternatively, they source care packages or reablement overall care plan for a patient. He is also may be transferred to a community beds and 10 may be referred to a vital link for the patient’s relatives. hospital to continue their recovery. the Discharge Bureau for a This can take time to arrange as it is multi-disciplinary review due to the “We are seeing people when important the right support is in place complexity of their needs. The right they are having the worst day,” to meet a person’s needs.” care must be in place before patients said Colvin. “They may have are discharged. Time to recover Support offered includes occupational Helping you get home As Colvin is explaining this, his pager therapy and physiotherapy to help left their home in the morning Discharge to assess and reablement bleeps. On the telephone is an “No-one wants to stay in hospital with any mobility issues and to identify from hospital to pay the paper bill or buy beds also play a key role in enabling occupational therapist from the CEDT. if they do not need to,” said Ruth. if they may benefit from specialist Last year, Adult Services staff, working some milk and then their people to be discharged from hospital The therapist has assessed an elderly “There is an emphasis on discharge equipment such as walking aids or in partnership with Health colleagues, whole world is turned upside in a timely fashion. 10 man and thinks he may be able to from the moment of admission. adaptations to their homes. 11 supported more than 14,000 older down when they have a fall Sometimes it is a balance between go home but he will need some Based in care homes across the county, people to leave hospital and return and injure themselves. They are what the patient is happy with, and Bill, 91, is being helped to regain his additional care support. they give people time to recover and home, or to other supported settings, what relatives feel should happen. independence following a stay in in shock, feeling embarrassed regain their independence with support to continue their recovery. We try to be sensitive to all the needs hospital after a fall. and apprehensive.” Colvin heads to the offices to see from social care staff, who work closely what can be arranged. “It is a bit like but our main focus, at all times, is on Hampshire County Council Colvin’s role is to ensure they have with GPs, occupational therapists, “They are giving me exercises being a trouble-shooter,” he says with what is the best outcome for committed additional funding of the support they need to return physiotherapists, and nurses. to get back my strength and a smile. “But we all want the same the patient. £500,000 to support this work at home once their medical needs have The joint commissioning of these showing me how to use a Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham. been stabilised. With up to 60 patients outcome - to enable someone to Michael manages the County beds is an example of the new, walking frame and support for New ways of working, for health and coming through the hospital’s Acute get back to independence as soon Council’s Social Care Team based collaborative approach being taken when I get back home,” he said. social care staff, are helping people Medical Unit in any one day, it is a as possible.” at the hospital, and he and by the County Council and its Health leave hospital as soon as possible. demanding task. Ruth attend twice-daily patient “I’m hoping eventually to get partners, including GPs and Portsmouth planning meetings. back to using two sticks like I Hospitals NHS Trust. Problem solving used to.” on the move “One of the key issues for us “They are having a very positive Bill is fiercely independent, used to Colvin Walder’s office is his notebook, is that circumstances can impact,” said Ruvini Silva, Consultant shopping and cooking for himself, so is pager and mobile phone. The Care change rapidly for older people Occupational Therapy Manager for keen to get back to the bungalow Manager is one of a 22-strong Adult reablement services at Hampshire admitted to hospital, and what he has lived in for the last 57 years: Services team based at the Hospital. County Council. might be the right next step for “It’s where all my memories are and the The experienced and dedicated them at 9am could change by photographs of my wife who died six team is part of a wider ‘integrated “Acute Medical Units are not the lunchtime,” said Michael. years ago. All being well discharge’ team, with health and right setting to be making long- I will be back there social care staff working together. “We have to have a flexible approach term decisions about a person’s soon,” he said with and be responsive to changing needs. care needs. These beds give Colvin is an important link between a smile. We want to offer people choice but people the opportunity to regain medical staff and specialist therapists, also to give them clear assessments to their confidence to manage who treat patients in hospital, inform that choice. Our key aim is and social care services in the to give the best service we can at living independently before wider community. all times.” returning to their homes again.”

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COMPETITION WIN 20 days of free parking The new flexipass for Portsmouth’s Park and Ride means drivers can bulk buy tickets, reducing parking to £2.24 a day. You can buy 10, 20 or 50 days, which is perfect if you travel to the city regularly but not consecutively. You can buy or top-up at the smartcard machine in the Park and Ride terminal building or online. In addition to Gunwharf Quays and the city centre, there's a new route to Southsea. Sit in a deckchair instead of traffic as the bus takes you straight to the beach, or hop off at Old Portsmouth or Southsea shops.

We are giving away four flexipasses, with 20 days of parking, worth £48 each! To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer this question: Where does the new bus route go to? main logo R to L Send your answer along with your name and address to: [email protected] putting ‘P&R’ in the subject box, or on a postcard with your name and address to Hampshire Now, Park & Ride Competition, PO Box 511, Winchester, SO23 3DS. The closing date is 30 September 2015. Terms and conditions apply: Four winners will each claim one ‘20 day flexipass’. Flexipasses are valid for 20 days of parking at Portsmouth’s Park and Ride and must be used within 6 months. The prizes are non-transferable and cannot Regain the use of this valuable space and start be exchanged for cash. This competition is only open to residents who live in Hampshire, excluding those households covered by Southampton or Portsmouth enjoying your conservatory again by contacting City Councils. Your details will only be used to contact you if you are a winner and iCon Roofs today for a free, no obligation quotation for no other purpose.

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk With the school holidays fast approaching here are some ideas to Make the most of summer! Explore our country parks Activities that do not Things to do on rainy days We are fortunate to have six of the cost a fortune Do not worry if the sun is not shining, best country parks in the country. • Bring some paper and crayons to there is still plenty to do at our They all have Green Flag Awards in do bark and leaf rubbings in the country parks: recognition of their quality, and all woodland at our country parks • Explore the farmhouse and cottage have something different to offer. • Play a family game in the wide at Manor Farm and pop into the Want to be a Record Whether it is coastal walks at Lepe, open fields Puzzle Barn Breaker this summer? heritage parkland at Royal Victoria • Go on a scavenger hunt to see what • See the park and beyond after How about encouraging your and Staunton Country Parks, trails and can be found on the forest floor climbing the 166 steps of our children to take part in this year’s paths at Queen Elizabeth Country • Go crabbing in the river at Manor chapel tower at Royal Victoria Summer Reading Challenge? Park, the nature reserve at Titchfield Farm and Country Park Country Park. We offer tours by Organised in conjunction with the Haven, or a unique glimpse into the expert guides every Sunday and • At Titchfield Haven Nature Reserve Reading Agency, it is taking place past at Manor Farm, they can be Bank Holiday Mondays. marvel as the young of many bird in all our libraries over the summer enjoyed by all the family. species – Oystercatcher, Black-headed • Venture into the tropics of the Sport: Don’t just watch, holidays. Children are challenged to get involved! We are planning enhancements at Gulls and Avocets, in particular Staunton Country Park Victorian read or listen to six books. They can the sites but there is loads to enjoy – take their first steps right in front of Glasshouse, the largest on the South track their progress using stickers and Harry Stow is a man on a mission. and his remit is to represent young now. To find out more visit: the hides. Or watch Dragonflies and Coast, and be amazed by exotic a chart, and work towards a certificate people. He spends about seven or He wants to see more young people www.hants.gov.uk/country-parks Damselflies buzz in the air. species on display. and medal. There is even an app. eight hours a week volunteering, 14 involved in sport – not just playing for but says it is not the amount of time 15 Country Parks The key themes emerging are: The ambitious programme will see local clubs but also volunteering. you spend, it is what you do with Transformation update • Enhanced play opportunities, more than £12 million invested in “You do not have to be good at sport that time. specifically adventure play, in our parks over a five-year period, to get involved,” said Harry, a project Thank you to everyone who took “Volunteers are the backbone of keeping with the environmental improving services and providing officer for Sport Hampshire and part in the surveys about our sport,” he said. “They contribute to qualities of the respective parks. more activities for people to enjoy, IOW’s Sportivate programme, which Country Parks Transformation making sport happen. You may not while supporting the unique aspect provides funding to local clubs to programme. We received around • More wet weather facilities. want to play a particular sport but of each park. We want to make them help them get young people aged 2,000 responses and we have been • Improved signage and interpretation This year, the Summer Reading perhaps you have another passion all-year-round visitor attractions. between 11 and 25, who are inactive, busy analysing your feedback. to help visitors explore the parks as Challenge also offers the chance for which could help a club. well as gain a better understanding For information about the Country your child to take part in an official involved in sport. of the heritage and natural Parks Transformation programme Guinness World Record attempt! For example, if you are good see: www.hants.gov.uk/ environment found there. It is open to all children aged 4-11 with numbers you may be able countryparks-future • Greater car parking capacity to and all participants will be given to volunteer as a club treasurer, meet increasing demand, and a Wacky and Weird World Record or if you are good at IT you improvements to the condition of Breakers poster and smelly stickers. All could develop a club’s website. some car parks. those who read their six books from “It is a great way to meet people, • Improvements to paths and trails, the library over the summer will win a to utilise and develop your skills, and where possible, to make them Record Breakers Medal. Harry is leading by example. His own sporting or otherwise, and it can more accessible for wheelchair Last year, over 26,000 Hampshire sporting passion is tennis. He has be a great way to expand your users and buggies. children took part in the challenge. been playing since he was four years professional network.” The Summer Reading Challenge 2015 Cleaning up litter costs taxpayers Do not let ticks spoil your summer – ticks are small old and is also a volunteer with the To find out more about volunteering starts on Saturday 11 July and finishes almost £1 billion a year in . spider-like creatures found in moist, dense vegetation, newly-formed British Tennis Youth in sport visit: www.hants.gov.uk/ on Sunday 13 September. Sign up at The social and environmental long grass, woodlands and some urban parks and Group. He is their current chairperson shiow/volunteering your local library, it is completely free costs take that figure even higher. gardens. They can transmit bacteria which cause diseases and late last year, he was also invited to take part. Please remember to take your litter such as Lyme disease which, if left untreated, can lead to to join the Lawn Tennis Association For more information about home with you or dispose of it serious conditions. Find out more at NHS Choices: For more information visit: as a councillor. Aged 24, he is the Sport Hampshire IOW see: responsibly after your day out. www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease www.hants.gov.uk/library youngest person ever to do that www.hants.gov.uk/shiow

Hampshire now www.hants.gov.uk Do you have Where a University Degree in Business is Ask the expert a spare not beyond your reach Roadworks ahead! We are always looking for new If someone reports a road techniques that are more efficient, Earlier this year, problem how long will it room to let? cost less to the taxpayer, are durable, our high-speed take to fix it? Two Saints are looking for supported lodgings long-lasting and more sustainable. One hosts/landlords to offer accommodation ‘Jetpatchers’ were Our part-time Business and Management Degree way we are doing this, in partnership We prioritise repairs by their type, size and support to people aged 16-25. out and about is designed for busy working people and is with our contractors, is trialling the use and location. Safety issues are always available one evening a week from Chichester fixing potholes, · Rental income for of recycled highway materials. If we the highest priority. Then defects that your spare room College, Isle of Wight College and South Downs caused by the (up to £70 a week*). find tar during resurfacing, it has to be threaten the structure of the road or College in Waterlooville. frosty weather. disposed of at a specially licensed tip footway. Cosmetic repairs will usually be · Additional payment for These innovative the support you give It is open to those who may not have formal (at a greatly increased price). We are a lower priority. (around £60 a week*). machines can fix up to 250 potholes a qualifications but whose work experience will producing a recycled material, which have prepared them to succeed. week. Each repair can be done within · Help a young person to re-uses this existing tar-bound material reach their full potential. minutes, leaving the road ready for How can people find and reduces the need for disposal, To find out more about the flexible part-time courses traffic almost immediately. out if a route they use · Our support for both you which cuts costs. Results have been and your tenant. we offer, come along to our next open evening, “I feel as though I am putting will be affected? details of which can be found very positive. *figures correct at January 2015 something positive into a young Hampshire has 5,280 miles of person’s life by having them in at www.port.ac.uk/ road, and our aim is to keep You can check our webpage my home.” pbsevents. Why do you sometimes Claire – Supported Lodgings Host Hampshire moving, as this www.hants.gov.uk/hampshire- For further information infrastructure plays an essential role surface dress rather roadworks. We also put up advance If you are interested or would like Telephone 02380 647164 visit: more information please contact us. in the county’s economic progress than re-surface? warning signs. @twosaintstoday T: +44 (0)23 9284 8200 and future prosperity. E: [email protected] It is a fast and economical way of What is done to minimise W: www.port.ac.uk/ We continue to prioritise road preserving road surfaces to ensure Visit our website busandman disruption to road users www.twosaints.org.uk maintenance and this year have set they are kept in a safe and useable www.port.ac.uk 16 aside £56 million to make more of condition for as long as possible. and residents? 17 Hampshire’s roads resilient to the The process involves spraying a new Street Works Co-ordinators handle all layer of bitumen to provide a new effects of extreme weather and applications to work on the highway waterproof seal, and then rolling in COMPETITION heavy traffic. network, not only by us, but also utility Brendoncare Clubs: chippings, which gives a new, skid- On this page our expert, Leon companies, developers and others. Where friends meet resistant surface. We do it in summer Churchill, Principal Engineer, They check to ensure the works can and age is just a number WIN a two because bitumen and chippings explains Hampshire’s approach: bind better into the road in warmer be done at the proposed times and Have a cuppa. Have a chat. Try something new. Get night IoW break weather. Signs go up warning drivers ensure disruption is kept to a minimum. fit. Get out of the house. Whatever you do, you’re sure Red Funnel is the original Isle of Wight ferry company operating Where is the money of loose material; if they stick to the Sometimes emergency repairs need to of a very warm welcome. 24/7, 365 days a year from Southampton with a modern fleet of being spent? lower speed limit then there is less risk be undertaken at short notice. Weather Hillside & Wymering Kurling Hartley Wintney Good Friends passenger and vehicle ferries. 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Have you caught up with our new Five ways to save money • Lettuce going limp or sludgy? Put waste prevention campaign yet? and waste less food remaining leaves into a plastic pot Smart Living was launched earlier this with a piece of dry kitchen roll and summer. • Work out what most of your meals will seal. The leaves will stay fresh for a be for the week ahead - leave one or week longer. “We hope it’s inspiring many two days free to eat from the freezer. Feeding your garden: One person’s trash is Fab Four: tips for of you to reduce waste and Check your cupboards, write a list, take • Frozen bananas, grapes, peas and how to compost another’s treasure upcycling old furniture yoghurts make a great cheap get creative whether it be with it to the shops and stick to it. Composting is an inexpensive, natural Re-using and up-cycling to breathe • To achieve the ‘antiqued’ or ‘shabby and healthy snack. Frozen berries leftover food or old furniture.” process that transforms your kitchen new life into old objects for the home chic’ look, use a chalk-based paint • Store your food in the best way also work well as a flavoursome and garden waste into a valuable and has never been so easy. and wax. Chalk-based paints can says Zoe Clegg, Hampshire possible to keep it fresher for longer. alternative to ice cubes. For a fat nutrient-rich food for your garden. be applied directly to varnished County Council’s Waste Apples (and all other fruit other than free ice-cream take a frozen peeled Charity shops are a good place to start Compost helps improve soil structure, wood without any sanding or Projects manager. bananas) go in the fridge, onions in a banana and whiz in a food processor looking for second-hand goods. By maintain moisture levels, and keep your preparation required. cool dark place, and store bread in the - and that’s it! Dealing with household waste costs soil’s pH balance in check while helping spending your money there, it is being cupboard or freezer. If you buy food put to good use to help others. • To achieve the ‘distressed’ look, sand local authorities in Hampshire around • Finally, make the most of leftovers. Last to suppress plant disease. It’s easy to in packs, keep them in their original over random areas. Then apply wax £100 million a year. Zoe and the night’s leftovers and today’s forgotten make and use, and your plants and But did you know that some of our 18 packaging to keep the moisture in and to seal the paint. 19 Council’s Waste Prevention Team have your food crispy and fresh. foods could be tonight’s feast. flowers will love it. household waste recycling centres some great ideas to help save you also have sections where you can buy • Chalk-based paints can be mixed to money and make the most of what you What makes good compost? Aim for a balance of 50% greens and 50% second-hand furniture? create new shades. An average tin buy before throwing it away. Super Summer Smoothie will cover a couple of large items, or browns in your compost bin to get If, on the other hand, you have furniture a table and chairs. For example you can make your garden Ingredients: the right mix. that you no longer want but think could flourish by home composting, re-style • 60g strawberries, leaves removed be used by someone else, then you • Alternatively, you may have a piece your home by finding a unique piece of Greens include: Grass mowings; fruit • 1 soft banana, peeled and sliced and veg peelings; coffee grounds; can get in touch with the Hampshire of furniture made of MDF or similar, second-hand furniture and revamping Furniture Reuse Network www.hants. in which case, use a special wood • 2 over-ripe peaches, chopped, any hedge clippings; tea leaves and it, or get creative with your leftover food. gov.uk/furniturenetwork paint and sand and prime the soft bits removed tea bags. Read on for some tips to help you live in wood first. style but waste less. • 125ml orange juice Browns include: Autumn leaves; We are working with local furniture

cardboard, paper bags and used reuse providers to help families in The advantage of upcycling is that you Make your food and your Method: crisis obtain affordable (sometimes kitchen paper; eggshells; vacuum transform something old and unloved 1. Put all the ingredients into a free) furniture, white goods and money go further cleaner contents and evergreen and into a unique piece of furniture exactly blender and whiz until smooth. electrical items. to your taste. Often the furniture will be Are you tempted by supermarket thorny prunings. 2. Pour the drink into glasses, serve of a much higher quality than buying multi-buy deals and then find that you “This provision not only resolves and enjoy! Hampshire residents can buy reduced something new for a similar price, so it throw food away? In Hampshire we immediate need but can prevent price compost bins and equipment at: will last longer. dump some 62,000 tonnes of food in the escalation of other problems For more recipe ideas and more www.hants.getcomposting.com our rubbish bins every year, the majority information from Love Food and pressures,” said Dan Stoneman, Follow the Smart Living campaign on of which could have been eaten. Hate Waste visit: www.england. For more tips visit: www.recyclenow. Hampshire County Council’s Supporting twitter @smartliving_hcc Nationally, that waste is costing us all lovefoodhatewaste.com com/reduce/home-composting Families programme. www.hants.gov.uk/smartliving around £12.5 billion a year and it is bad for the environment. That’s why we are backing the national Love Food Hate STOP PRESS Waste campaign aimed at helping us all Watch for news of our Community Champions in a future edition of Hampshire Now. We have recruited community to make the most of the food we buy. volunteers who can talk to groups or attend local events to talk about how to reduce food waste and increase Doing that could save families as much composting, in turn saving money and learning new skills. For information email: [email protected] as £60 per month.

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Foster carers are making a very real Family Link: Little things difference to the lives of children and supporting families mean a lot! their families. It is amazing what you can do A text on Mother’s Day The County Council needs more homes with a weekend! is something many for Hampshire children and has a range mums may have had. reasons to park & ride more Gill and Derek from Winchester of opportunities that could suit you. What made it extra special this year for are Family Link carers. For the past Claire, from Cowplain, was that it came As well as the more full-time fostering seven years, the retired couple from a young person she fostered eight roles, there is the Family Link scheme, have provided weekend care more buses years ago. which helps children with disabilities once a month to a young boy who Gunwharf Quays and city centre – and their families by providing regular has learning difficulties and some “It is little things like that which short breaks to give parents a physical disabilities. mean so much,” said Claire. during school holidays much-needed break – usually one “I like to think we have made weekend a month. As well as supporting the 13-year-old, they know the weekends also provide a difference to the lives of all A package of training and support vital respite for his parents from their the children who have come more routes is offered to people interested in intensive caring responsibilities. through our door. Getting a becoming foster carers. If you have a now includes Southsea “No matter how much you love your text like that, knowing that 24 spare room and childcare experience 25 speak to Hampshire’s adoption and child it can be enormously wearing she was thinking about me all fostering recruitment team now providing such intensive care,” those years later, is lovely.” said Gill. “With him coming to us more savings on 0300 555 1384 or visit Fostering is a family affair for full-time once a month it gives the whole www.hants.gov.uk/ foster carer Claire, who is married with family a chance to have a break and from £2.24 a day with a flexipass adoptionandfostering a 16 year-old daughter. “I realised it was feel genuinely refreshed. That is why I buy from the smartcard machines going to be a life-changing decision,” wanted to be involved with this she said. “We discussed it as a family. at the park & ride or online type of care. As a district nurse I My husband Stewart was very had seen families under strain and supportive. My daughter Charlotte was I thought: only eight at the time and I wanted to “This is something small we be sure she was happy about it too.” Find out more could do to help another Claire feels that fostering has helped parkandride.portsmouth.gov.uk family along the way.” shape Charlotte’s outlook to life: “Charlotte is a great advocate for all the “It is good for him too,” said Derek, a young people who share our home,” retired teacher. “Coming here is his she said. “I think she appreciates what own ‘me time’ which is special to him.” she has and wants to help other young The couple enjoy the weekends very people make the most of opportunities.” much. “It is a pleasure spending time Claire and her family currently share with him,” said Derek. their home with four girls, a 17-year- “We have had the pleasure of old who has lived with Claire and her family for the past four years and three watching him develop over young sisters who are on a long-term the years. Every little bit of placement with the family. progress is a big step for him Claire says fostering is not always and that is great to see and to easy but she cannot imagine doing

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Point A – The viewpoint The A – Point of Blissford, Frogham, , heathland. The earliest records of Spindleberry Hungerford, , , Frogham date from the beginning of the 14th century. An ancient roadside and . Frogham well provides refreshment for both Frogham Hill Frogham Frogham Hill This walk takes you across ancient animals and humans and is called Cross P heathland with a range of flora and ‘Abbots Well’ - formerly known as Frogham fauna, including rare birds such as Alleynewell. This perpetual spring was Mount the Stonechat, Dartford Warbler and for centuries, the main watering place A Nightjar. To the east is open heathland for travellers on the old road and forest and if you’re lucky you to Southampton. 26 Distance: 3.5 miles 27 might spot the protected southern Legends identify the Frogham area as Duration: 1.5 hours damselfly and the scarce blue-tailed being a centre for smuggling in the damselfly in the flourishing wetland Transport: Nearest stop 2 miles - 18th century. It is best known today habitat. To the west, grazing land The walk Wilts and Dorset bus company X3 for the Frogham Fair – a traditional slopes to the Avon Valley. bus from Salisbury to Bournemouth August Bank Holiday fête, with the Point A highlight a wheelbarrow race up the via Fordingbridge. For more From Abbots Well car park, walk to the History steep Blissford Hill. information phone 01202 867100 viewpoint and turn right to follow the The ecclesiastical parish of Hyde or visit www.wdbus.co.uk track towards a white house. Cross the was formed in 1855 when the church OS map grid reference: SU 169-123 minor road with care and continue of the Holy Ascension was built, but on the track ahead. After about 200 Postcode: SP6 - 2JD the village of Hyde remained in the metres, go through the kissing gate Path condition: Mainly footpaths of Fordingbridge until on the right and follow left field edge, and tracks across farmland, which 1979 when the civil parish of Hyde over stile and through more kissing can be muddy. was created. gates to the road. Cross over to the There are lots of stiles, so the walk Something which has shaped the stile opposite and follow track to stile, is not recommended for pushchairs landscape of the New Forest is cross over. or accessibility vehicles. Parts of Commoning – rights attached to Turn left then right at ‘T’ junction of the walk are on roads without L. Webb land or property such as the right to paths. Before path veers right, turn pavements. pasture sheep or ponies, the right to left over stile into woodland. Keep on Follow the path, across stile and bridge, Turn right onto Blissford Hill and follow Suggested parking: Abbots Well turn out pigs in the Autumn to this path, over stile and between the with Ditchend Brook to your right. Cross footpath on the right. Continue over the car park feed on the acorns. Without their houses to the road at Frogham Hill. the Brook via bridge on the right and stile and follow field edge on the left, work grazing, the Forest would More information: About the Turn right along the road then right follow field edge with the wood on over a ditch to another stile. Follow field be overgrown with gorse and parish www.hydeparish.net through the gates before Celandine the left. Continue over the footbridge edge track, entering the wood on the brambles and in the case of the House. Cross a further stile, across on the left, through the woods and go left. Turn left at path junction (back the Refreshments: the Forester’s Arms, pigs, eating the acorns helps other the field to stile and footbridge, through the gate. Continue on along way you came), then right towards the Frogham; the Royal Oak, North animals on the heathland as acorns climbing slightly to reach another stile the path and at the fingerpost turn right road. Turn left onto Abbots Well Road Gorley; George Inn Fordingbridge. are poisonous to ponies and cattle if opposite. Over stile, turn right to cross to Blissford, then straight ahead to a and follow the road past the Forester’s eaten in excess. L. Webb another stile immediately. metal gate then the road. Arms and back to the car park.

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