The community magazine for the Isle of Wight Issue 29 September 2010 Get fit the One Card way See inside for new Fall into Fitness campaign WELCOME The community magazine for the Isle of Wight How to contact us Issue 29 September 2010 Welcome to September’s One Island If you have community news to share In this edition we feature a on Ryde fire station, currently with other readers, we would like to hear special eight-page annual at the forefront of the from you. We also welcome your letters. report supplement, giving important modernisation You can contact us by post, email or you details of the council’s plans for the Island’s fire and telephone. achievements on your rescue service, and take a look behalf in 2009/2010 and at the exciting Fall into Fitness Post One Island, Communications, the priorities as we move initiative at the Island’s leisure County Hall, Newport PO30 1UD through the next financial centres – including special Email [email protected] year and beyond. offers available through the Get fit the We also turn the spotlight One Card scheme. Telephone 823105 One Card w a y See inside for new Fall into Fitness campaign USEFUL CONTACTS Advertising in EMERGENCY NUMBERS COUNCIL MEETINGS Isle of Wight Council, County In an emergency dial 999 Unless otherwise stated, One Island all meetings are in public Hall, Newport PO30 1UD Fire and rescue control More than 43,000 copies of Fax: 823333 centre (24hrs) 525121 at County Hall. 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County Hall, Newport PO30 1UD 30 September (4pm) information and a copy of Popular numbers Mon to Fri: 8am to 6pm 6 October (4pm) 26 October (4pm) our rate card: Automated Cowes Help Centre 16 November (4pm) Tel: 823351 telephone payments 559310 Library, Beckford Road, Cowes Audit Committee Email: oneisland Building control 823580 PO31 7SG. Wed: 1pm to 4pm @iow.gov.uk Council tax 823901 (committee room one) East Cowes Help Centre Education 823455 21 September (6pm) ADVERTISING RATE CARD 2010 Environmental health 823000 Library, 11 York Avenue, Ethical Standards Committee Housing benefits 823950 East Cowes PO32 6QY. Wed: 9am (committee room one) Leisure services 823828 to 12 noon 25 October (6pm) ONE Libraries 203880 Ryde Help Centre Overview and Scrutiny Licensing 823000 Tel: 812678 Committee Parking services 823714 ISLAND Ryde Library, 101 George Street, (committee room one) A brighter life for Rachel Planning 823552 29 September (6pm) Ryde PO33 2JE. Mon to Wed, Fri Refuse collection 823777 11 November (6pm) Golden summer es for Island athlet Registrars 823233 Sandown Help Centre Adult Social Care, Health THE COMMUNITY MAGAZINE FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCIL AND ITS PARTNERS Roads and highways 823777 Council offices, Broadway, and Housing Scrutiny Panel Tourism 813813 Sandown PO36 9EA (committee room one) Trading standards 823396 14 October (6pm) You can also download a Consumer Direct 08454 040506 West Wight Help Centre Children and Young People copy of the rate card from Wightbus 823782 Tel: 756140 Scrutiny Panel the council’s iwight.com Dial-a-bus 522226 Freshwater Library, 41 School Green Road, Freshwater PO40 (committee room one) website. Community services 13 October (6pm) Adult services 823340 9AP. Tues and Fri (Adult duty, emergency) 534227 Economy, Environment Wootton Bridge Help Centre andTransport Scrutiny Panel PARTNER CONTACTS Children’s services 525790 Tel: 884361 Local centres: Cowes 291144 (committee room one) NHS Isle of Wight Joanne’s Walk, Brannon Way, 27 October (6pm) Tel: (01983) 524081 Newport 823340 Wootton Bridge PO33 4NX. Mon Police Ryde 566011 Fire and Community Safety Tel: 0845 45 45 45 Sandown 408448 and Fri: 9am to 1pm Scrutiny Panel Rural Community Council Headquarters 520600 Please ring 821000 to confirm (committee room one) Tel: (01983) 524058 Housing 823040 opening times. 18 October (6pm) 2 One Island CONTENTS 4 FIRST WORD Council and community news FEATURES 9 Autumn Walking Weekend All set for popular October event 10 Fall into fitness in 2010 Special offers at council leisure centres 14 Dedicated to the community A modern fire service for the Island CENTRE PAGES (PULL OUT) page 14 Isle of Wight Council Annual Report and Summary of Accounts 2009/2010 page 22 SUPPLEMENTS page 10 page 19 17 The Island’s NHS Your feedback on key issues 18 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police Policing priorities and focus on community work 22 COAST AND COUNTRY Rural and coastal news 24 TIME & PLACE Events and activities Cover picture: Medina Leisure Centre staff, Annual report supplement Yvette Nicol and Richard Nembhard (centre pages) One Island is a community magazine produced by the Isle of Wight Council with its key public sector partners – NHS Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Police (Hampshire Constabulary) and the Isle of Wight Rural Community Council. Working together through the Island Strategic Partnership, we are striving to create an Island that is safe and well kept; healthy and supportive; inspiring; and thriving. This magazine is ONE ISLAND is published ISSN 1752-8038 by the Isle of Wight Council. © COPYRIGHT 2010 available on request The council does not accept Isle of Wight Council, responsibility for goods or as an audiotape, in County Hall, Newport, services offered by advertisers. Isle of Wight PO30 1UD. large print, in Braille, Additional copies are available in other languages from the Customer Service Printed on paper from Centre at County Hall, libraries sustainable sources by and online at and other council facilities. Belmont Press. www.iwight.com Typetalk calls welcome. For further details, Written, designed and produced by the Communications please contact One Department, Isle of Wight Island on 823105. Council. One Island 3 FIRST WORD Give your support to the Isle of Pink The Breast Cancer Campaign’s Isle of Pink initiative has hours of aerobics including sessions of Zumba, Street Cheer, returned to the Isle of Wight for the third year running this Broadway Boogie and Pilates led by top Island fitness instructors month. at Carisbrooke High School on 26 September. The annual initiative, supported by the council and many local If you would like to take part in Pink Aerobics please visit businesses and fund raisers, aims to bring the colour pink to the www.breastcancercampaign.org/isleofpink and sign up online. fore throughout the Island. In the past two years the Isle of Pink has raised more than All kinds of businesses and organisations are encouraged to £46,000 for the Breast Cancer Campaign – equivalent to £1 for show their support by giving the campaign prominence and every person diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK. making a donation or buying a pink ribbon. To find out more about the Isle of Pink and how This year the charity has launched an Isle of Pink ribbon pin you can get involved, please call 0207 7493708, badge so fund raisers can have a special way to show their support. email: [email protected] or visit The pink month climaxes with Pink Aerobics, involving two www.breastcancercampaign.org/isleofpink Bestival helps with water awareness Island schoolchildren are where both staff and pupils can part of each visit. being taught about the receive advice and assistance Any Island schools keen on importance of water saving, on reducing water wastage in hosting a workshop should thanks to an initiative involv- school and at home. contact The Footprint Trust, Keep collecting for ing the Bestival Foundation. Full eco-audits will also form tel: 822282. the hospice The foundation, a new Keep collecting your plastic charity launched to help milk bottle tops. That is improve Isle of Wight life, is the message from the Earl working with The Footprint Mountbatten Hospice at Trust charity to fund the Newport which is using the programme about water items to raise vital funds. saving. Collecting bins are set up at Every Island schoolchild aged all the hospice charity shops under 16 is being provided in Newport, Ryde, Cowes, with a free, fully recycled water Ventnor and Freshwater, as bottle as part of the ‘Adopt a well as Morrisons at Lake. Bottle’ initiative over the next Only plastic milk bottle tops three years. are needed, and for each ton In addition to the Adopt a sent for recycling the hospice Bottle scheme, schools are gets £50. Almost all the being given the chance to host appropriate tops will carry a free water-saving workshops recycling sign and have the number two or four in them. 4 One Island A thriving Island ... A safe and well-kept Island ... A healthy and supportive Island ... An inspiring Island ... A thriving Island ..