Main Contact: Andy Turner Handley Safety Net 01725 552430 [email protected] Newsletter 03/04/20 Other contacts see reverse Thank you to our volunteers The whole parish has been spacing customers and ensuring We have secured funding to supporting each other through staff there can put items on provide fi nancial support where these challenging times. I have shelves at the same time. Thank access to a bank card or cash is to say thank you to everyone you to the shops and staff for all not possible due to self isolate. who has volunteered to be a they are doing to keep us supplied Contact one of your support buddy, collecting shopping and with delicious food. contacts for access to this prescriptions for those of us in self- capability. isolation and also being available It is great to hear so many people on the phone for a chat. I can also are thinking of others when out If you have any ideas or would like testify that the “customer not walking too, keeping 2 metres to join the group of volunteers, present systems” at the NISA shop distance and moving into hedges please contact Andy details above. and Clarke’s Butchers for buying as I saw when my friend took me over the phone have been tried out on her walk via Facebook and tested and come up trumps. videochat. You will notice many Volunteer stats so far... of the gates around our footpaths Volunteers: 77-more needed This week another team of have been removed, another great Prescriptions collected: 6 volunteers has been helping idea to stem potential infection Food collected: 16 during busy times at the shop rates by those people exercising. Buddy phone calls: 16

Dorset Council Notices Government Notices Clap for NHS 8pm Thursdays The 8.00 p.m. clapping on both If you go out to exercise, take your Stay at home Thursdays during our lockdown litter home with you, especially You can spread the virus even if has been very moving. Even here dog waste. Street and dog bins are you don’t have symptoms. in little Deanland, we could hear not being emptied on a regular Mental Health Advice applause and clapping all around basis. People struggling with their mental us. Maybe a cue for a competition health during the coronavirus – Sixpenny Handley v. , outbreak will be off ered additional Deanland v. Newtown, online support and practical v. Woodyates? Who can make the guidance. Links to important most noise? We will no longer return to empty government notices can be found any missed bins until your next at www.sixpennyhandley.info. Next week maybe we should bring regular collection day. Do not try out our saucepans and bells, to report missed collections to us. Sixpenny Handley Surgery whistles and drums? Post your The Surgery would like to thank videos on Facebook and to share in everyone for their understanding our group (name below ). during the Covid-19 outbreak. Please understand it is taking longer to order medication at Let us know how it goes in your Do not travel to a household present. The wider NHS plans part of the parish. If you have recycling centre (HRC, or ‘the tip’) for contacting more vulnerable ideas for notice sheet items or any recycling bank in a car park patients is still in progress and you email me naomi@thewebbooth. as these are all now closed and are will hear from them directly. You co.uk or for the next Downsman no longer being serviced. do not need to call the surgery. (available in village shops). Thank you. www.sixpennyhandley.info Facebook - Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge PC - COVID 19 Outbreak Support Hospital There have been large scale of frontline staff are at work, but there had sadly been 6 deaths at preparations for Covid-19 at everyone is required to work the hospital, but within 24 hours Salisbury Hospital. remotely where possible. Morale that had nearly doubled to 11; is high despite the worsening there have been no more since We are indeed fortunate to live in situation nationally. Radnor then. The foremost concern is the South West, which was one Ward has already been divided the percentage of people infected of the last regions in into separate Covid-19 and non- with the virus who do not display to record deaths from the virus. Covid-19 intensive care wards. symptoms, which is much higher However, for visitors to Odstock, There are 240 beds with oxygen than early estimates. These a large new structure occupying and 40 with ventilators. The developments are all the more one of the car parks is an alarming dedicated isolation areas currently reason why everyone should symbol of just how serious still have empty beds. However, follow Government and NHS this pandemic may become, the situation changes very rapidly. advice to Stay at Home. representing the location of a temporary mortuary. As of Friday morning, the hospital We can all take comfort that our was treating 18 patients who hospital’s state of readiness is on Testing of staff has not yet have tested positive for Covid-19 target. Let us not forget that the begun but it is expected within and 32 patients with symptoms most recent major incident of this the coming days. Thanks to awaiting results, while 46 patients nature in Salisbury resulted in the good management, there has have been tested negative. Chief Executive being awarded the been time to procure suff icient Nevertheless, the most dramatic M.B.E. for her calm management of Personal Protective Equipment for development is the sudden the Novichok nerve agent attack, frontline staff . A large percentage increase in deaths. By Wednesday and she is still at the helm.

Children’s Diaries Families isolated at home with perspective, we will all look back children during this emergency on this emergency period as one period are looking to fi nd ways of where the whole family was united gainfully employing the attention together at home. The diary could of those children. A recent TV include plans for what the family programme came up with the idea propose do aft er the emergency of encouraging children to start a measures are lift ed such as a trip diary of their home activities. This to the beach and all the things that diary could include accounts of might be seen there. The scope for the activities of the day supported the diary is limitless bound only We’ve all loved seeing the by drawings and photographs; by children’s imagination. Why not rainbows and teddies appearing family stories and jokes. One start one and see what they put in in people’s windows - keep up the day in the future, with historical it ! good work!

Let us know if you can help or if you need help! Email your leader if online or call so that we can keep everyone up to date and issue this newsletter or updated contact lists going forward. Area Leaders Telephone Email 1a - Sixpenny Handley, lower end & Sheasby Ros Adams 01725 553032/ [email protected] 07495343720 1b - Sixpenny Handley, upper and out to Burley Road Farm Maureen New 01725 552539 [email protected] 2 – Newtown, Deanland and out to Garston Wood Derek Mariner 07557 955759 [email protected] Ian Callaghan 01725 552233 [email protected] 4 – Handley roundabout out Woodyates and Pentridge Mike Dyer 07584 315550 [email protected] Richard Hancock 01725 552182 [email protected] 5 – Rushmoor, Dean End, Minchington and A354 to Handley Roundabout Kim Angeli 07917 403307 [email protected]

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