issue forty one autumn 2019 the council magazine for the local community Golden girl! Bonnie comes home with five golds from Dance World Cup Page 4 To contact the council call 01642 774774 or www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk facebook.com/redcarcleveland or on @RedcarCleveland DO YO U KNOW H OW TO P REVENT AD ULT AB USE AND N EG LEC T? Find a wide Know h ow Loo k o ut net work o f to a void for supp ort Know h ow nanc ia l vulne rab le and he lp to re por t or l one ly sc ams adu lt a buse pe opl e and ne glect Everyone h as t he r ight t o l ive i n s afety, f ree BY P EOPLE AN D O RGAN IS ATIONS WORKING T OG ETHER I N A from a buse a nd n eglect. A buse i s n ot j ust ‘WHOLE C OMMUNITY A PPROACH’, a s ingle a ct, m ore c ommonly i t i s a s eries WE C AN H ELP P REVENT A ND S TOP, of a cts , l arge o r s mall, w hich i mpacts o n BOTH T HE R ISKS, A ND E XPERIENCE OF A BUSE A ND N EG LEC T” the i ndividual. So met imes t he se a busive (A NN BA XTER, acts w ill b e d eliberate, b ut t hey c an a lso INDE PENDE NT C HAIR) be u ninte nt ional. No o ne s hould t ake advantage o f a pe rson w ho i s v ulnerabl e. There w ere 1, 338 S afe guarding C onc er ns i n Redcar & C leveland i n 2 018-19. t s a b For m ore i nformation v isit t he w ebsite: www.t sab. org.uk Tees wide Saf eguar ding Adults Boar d Welcome INSI DE Welcome to the autumn edition Golden Girl! ... 4 Royal red letter day of this is Redcar and Cleveland. for Janette and Neil ... 5 A day in the life of While the summer weather hasn’t achievement in winning five gold always lived up to expectations, there medals at the Dance World Cup in an Occupational erapist ... 6 have been so many fantastic events Portugal is remarkable. Well done, Historic bible “comes home” which have showcased Redcar and Bonnie! to Guisborough ... 7 Cleveland as a wonderful place in Finally, we would like to ask for a which to live, study, do business and few minutes of your time to help us ey got knocked down visit. improve Redcar and Cleveland. but they got up again! ... 8 & 9 It is the time of year when months In the centre pages of this of hard work comes to fruition for the magazine, you will find a short survey. Caring Joanne wins student hundreds of young people who have Taking part will give us vital award at Redcar & received their exam results. It is information about what you value in Cleveland College ... 11 fantastic to hear about their the borough – and what you would achievements and we would like to like us to improve. Apprenticeship scheme wish them the very best of luck in the In less than the time it takes to wins national award ... 12 future, whether they are going on to drink a cup of tea, you can make a From Redcar and Cleveland study further or moving into the world real difference – and it won’t cost you of work. a penny. to the stars! ... 13 There is clearly some true talent We look forward to hearing from Meadowgate Centre set to coming through at a younger age as you. boost independent living ... 14 well – nine-year-old Bonnie Bullock’s Councillor Mary Lanigan Success for Dion at the Hub ... 15 Council Leader Recycling campaign urges Councillor Karen King residents to ‘Check it before Deputy Council Leader you chuck it’ ... 17 Pupils celebrate GCSExcellence! ... 18 A for amazing! ... 19 Muddy Boots Featured Walk: Saxon Princess Trail - Loftus ... 20 HRH e Princess Royal celebrates borough’s iconic tourist landmarks ... 21 Let’s tie the knot! ... 22 Join the fun at Festival of rift ... 23 at was the summer, that was! ... 24 & 25 What’s on… 26, 27, 28 & 29 Ward Surgeries … 30 & 31 Council Diary ... 31 this is Redcar & Cleveland is a free council magazine distributed to households in the borough. Extra copies are also placed in council offices, libraries and at the offices of other organisations. If you are a resident and do not receive a regular copy of this is Redcar & Cleveland at your home, contact the communications team on 01642 774774. Call the same number if you want additional copies, to read the magazine in alternative formats or if you are visually impaired and require the magazine in a different type face and type size. Every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate and up to date at the time of publication. this is Redcar & Cleveland is designed by Stewart Hindmarsh Advertising and printed by Precision Colour Printing Limited on 100% recycled paper. When you have finished with this magazine please recycle it. MEDAL WINNER: Bonnie Bullock, nine, of Skelton who won five gold medals in the Dance World Cup in Portugal. page 3 Golden Girl! A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl has returned from the world’s biggest dance competition with five gold medals. Bonnie Bullock, of Skelton, won girl from South Shields, Rose Blair, “Bonnie was so proud she was gold in the tap duet and in four when the national anthem was walking around with the medals for different ‘troop’ or group dances at played. They were ecstatic.” weeks afterwards,” smiles Tara, who is the Dance World Cup at Braga in Tara, who runs the Puma Club in also mum to two boys and another Portugal. Skelton which offers gymnastics, girl. “There’s no stopping her and The Guisborough St Paulinus RC cheerleading and trampolining we’ll support her as long as she Primary pupil also won a silver medal classes, explained that Bonnie dances enjoys it. But I must admit my and a number of fourth and fifth with the Val Armstrong School of husband and I are quite pleased her placings at the huge competition Performing Arts which was the sixth siblings enjoy more everyday pursuits involving 6,000 dancers from 53 placed dance school in the world. that don’t involve leaving the countries. The family had to fundraise to get country!” “She really enjoyed just going, and there and Bonnie’s costume was Bonnie’s said her proudest it was some achievement just to get made by Guisborough woman, moment was telling her classmates. there as part of Team England,” said Samantha Farndale, who donated it “I really liked it when the teacher Bonnie’s mum, Tara. “She found out for free. Bonnie’s grandparents take showed the video of me dancing to she’d won the tap duet with another her to Hartlepool most days to train. whole class and school.” page 4 Royal red letter day for Janette and Neil BIG DAY: Foster parents Janette and Neil Dewsbury tell of their special MBE moment. AN important looking, official letter “But the good times far outweigh marked ‘Cabinet Office’ drops the more challenging,” says Neil, who through the door of an everyday, explains they provided long-term and terraced, Liverton Mines home. medium-term care for 25 young Foster parent Neil Dewsbury, 64, people and short-term care for, holding his cup of morning tea, has “dozens and dozens more – too half an eye on a baby as he picks up many to count.” the letter. His mind is really on the Janette, mother-of-two and a baby, a newborn given to him and his great-grandmother, reveals some of wife, Janette, 63, to foster at just one their young people have gone on to day old. “I remember thinking, have successful careers and are now ‘Cabinet Office…what the devil’s loving parents themselves. this?’” he says. people who needed a home. “Our “And now we have this young The following words sprang out: neighbours even came with a lady,” smiles Neil, looking at the ‘The Prime Minister is recommending bouquet of flowers, a bottle of baby. “We’re going to be working that Her Majesty The Queen may be champagne and a plaque saying, with her dad too. The idea is that they graciously pleased to approve that ‘congratulations from the village,’ I both might move in here for a while you be appointed a Member of the can’t tell you how touched we were,” before becoming independent.” Order of the British Empire (MBE).’ says Janette. Won’t it be hard when it’s time for the That joyful day came after many baby to move out? Janette nods and Tears of happiness. much tougher periods. Since 1983, picks up the baby. “It can be hard,” It was a lovely, happy moment for the the Dewsburys have helped prevent a says Neil. “But you’re helping her get Dewsburys and hugely deserved deeply troubled teenager from to the next stage. You’re helping her recognition for their 36 years committing suicide, have been called and her dad have a great life providing care for children and young to police cells at 3am and much else. together. It’s beyond satisfying.” Could you help change the future of a child or young person? Contact the fostering team on 01642 444087 or visit www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/fostering page 5 A day in the life… of an Occupational erapist MEET Beth Newbold, an home.