Forthcoming Healthy Hearts sessions

Improve your health, keep that heart beating and get a FREE pair of trainers!

Healthy Hearts is 6 completely free sessions designed to help you improve your health and gain a better understanding of what affects your body.

Healthy hearts tackles issues around weight management and healthy eating. Each two hour session runs once a week across six weeks. 

The following venues will be hosting sessions starting as follows:

Mountbatten Centre from 26th August
St. Cuthberts Centre from 29th August
St George's Business Centre from 9th Sept
Buckland Community Centre from 7th Oct
Southsea Community Hub from 21st Nov

To find out more, please contact course tutor Yvette Carr on 023 9229 6460 or at yvette.carr@learninglinks.co.uk

Free child car seat inspections

Come and have your child car seats inspected for free by our IOSH-certified staff at the Baby 2000 shop on Copnor Road on

Thursday 4 September, or

Thursday 2 October, from

10.30am - 3.30pm each day.

A 2012 inspection in Portsmouth suggests that 70% of child car seats are improperly installed, putting children at risk of serious injury or death.

For more information call 023 9268 8949 or search 'child car seats' at www.portsmouth.gov.uk

Free Summer Activities in Fratton

http://frattonbiglocal.org.uk/

Visits to Portsmouth Libraries

Visits to Portsmouth Libraries

Carnegie Library 28^th July

Cosham Library 31^st July

Paulsgrove Library 1^st August

Central Library 27^th August

All sessions from 11am - 12noon

Storytelling and information

Come along and meet an Education Dog

Suitable for 5 - 11 year olds accompanied by a parent/carer

 These are ticketed sessions as places are limited - Free tickets available from participating libraries

Volunteers' Week 1st - 7th June

The 30th annual Volunteers' week takes place from 1st - 7th June and this year Portsmouth City Council will be working in partnership with Community Action in Portsmouth to help you find out more about volunteering opportunities in Portsmouth  

Throughout Volunteers week there'll be a display table in the Central Library where you'll be able to pick up information about a range of different opportunities in the city.

And on Thursday 5th June, between 10.00 and 3.00 Southsea Library will be hosting a "Pop-up Volunteer Shop" where you'll be able to call in to find out more about volunteering over a cup of tea and a chat. 

National Bookstart Week 2014: June 9th - 15th

To go to: www.bookstart.org.uk/myhero click on the picture above

Other Library activities can be found by clicking here

D Day 70 commemorations

There are numerous events and activities taking place locally between June 3rd and June 8th to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D Day .

Including 

• Ceremonies 
• Choral recitals
• Concerts
• Displays by the Red Arrows, Navy and Royal Marines
• Films
• Parades
• Presentations

And much more, details of which can be found on the Visit Portsmouth website 

Mental Health Awareness Week 12th - 18th May

1 in 6 people in the UK struggle with mental health problems, during the week of the 12th of May The Learning Place has teamed up with local support organisations to promote the services available for mental health sufferers in Portsmouth.

Drop in and have a cuppa and a chat with the services supporting mental health in your area.

Monday 12th May 10am - 2pm
     Portsmouth MIND & The Richmond Fellowship
Tuesday 13th May 1pm - 4pm
     Solent Mind (Employment Services)
Wednesday 14th May 11am - 1pm
     The Carers Centre
Thursday 15th May 11am - 1pm
     The Carers Centre
Friday 16th May 11am - 3pm
     The Richmond Fellowship Drop-in
Access other mental health services online via the NHS website

The Learning Place are also raising funds for their new garden project.

The Learning Place, 6 Derby Road, North End, PO2 8HH
(023)9262 1860
thelearningplace@portsmouthcc.gov.uk 
www.learnportsmouth.ac.uk

Easter Eggstravaganza

Events and activities at the City Museum this Easter bank holiday weekend

Click on the poster below for more details

Free performances

Booking for these free events is essential, click on the poster below for details.

The Lost Hour - this Saturday

Please click on this picture for more information

National Libraries Day 2014

Saturday 8 February 2014 is National Libraries Day, a culmination of a week’s worth of celebrations in school, college, university, workplace and public libraries across the UK. Portsmouth Library Service is celebrating with loads of fantastic, FREE, events across our libraries.

Anyone who joins a Portsmouth library as a new member on the 8th will receive a voucher for one free DVD or CD loan, or if you're already a member and introduce a friend then you'll get a voucher as well!

National Libraries Day Programme

School for Social Entrepreneurs recruitment 2014-15

Click the logo to go to the HSSE page

Hampshire School for Social Entrepreneurs (HSSE) are running a series of Taster Sessions for budding social entrepreneurs including one in Portsmouth on 19th February, to promote the Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneurs Programme which could provide you with a place on the HSSE’ innovative learning programme as well as a grant to help you develop and grow your project.

If you are interested click here for the Taster session details.

First World War Centenary commemoration

2014 will mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. 

Using Portsmouth’s museums and archive collections and with your help Lest We Forget will tell the story of some of the people who took part in the First World War.

At the heart of this project will be an exhibition, opening July 2014, which draws on the museum and archive collections which hold First World War related material connecting to some 200 or so individuals: servicemen and women and civilians supporting the war effort at home. 

Click here to go to the First World War Centenary page 

Get Involved: you can add details of your ancestors who contributed to the First World War. 

Whether you have only have the sparsest detail or have researched more thoroughly you are invited to contribute. 

Click here to add details of your family members to the project

Reducing the Strength

As part of a new initiative 'Reducing the Strength', Portsmouth off-licences are being asked by Portsmouth City Council and Hampshire Constabulary to stop selling any beer or cider over 6.5% in volume, not including premium products.

Why?

It is estimated that alcohol misuse costs the NHS, criminal justice service and employers £74 million annually in Portsmouth. Much of this can be linked to the availability of "super-strength" alcohol.

Also, Portsmouth's hospital admissions due to alcohol are above the average for the UK.

What is being done about it?

Local off-licences are being asked to stop selling this super strength beer and cider. Portsmouth City Council and Hampshire Constabulary are working hard to meet all the local shops and encourage them to support the campaign.

You can help

Please help to build a safer and healthier Portsmouth by supporting your local shop to reduce their strength. Whenever you see the green logo in a shop window, it means that the shop is supporting the campaign by not selling super-strength alcohol.

Two Road shows are planned for:-

Palmerstone Rd on Wednesday 18th from 10am - 4pm

and

Commercial Rd on Sunday 22nd from 10am - 4pm

Where there will be information available from the Police, Community Wardens, NHS, Street pastors and the Alcohol interventions team about the campaign as well as the anti-begging and One Punch Can Kill campaigns, recommended allowances and anything else alcohol related in this the festive period.

Portsmouth City Council local flood risk management strategy - your chance to share your views about flooding

Portsmouth is experiencing changing weather patterns and more floods, so we need to make sure plans to prepare the city against future flooding are up to date and accurate.

You can help.

Portsmouth City Council (PCC) are inviting comments on the new local flood risk management strategy (LFRMS).

The strategy looks at how the council, its partners and residents can better manage flooding from the sea, surface water, groundwater and sewers.

From November 25th there will be a four-week consultation on the DRAFT strategy.

PCC are asking you to:

• let them know about flooding in your local area. You can do this by
FREEPOST to: Flooding consultation, c/o Community Engagement Team, Freepost (SCE 4514), Civic Offices, Portsmouth, PO1 2YZemail to: drainageteam@portsmouthcc.gov.ukor web survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Portsmouthflood
• help them check that their information about previous flooding is correct
• comment on the plans for managing flooding in each area of the city

The DRAFT strategy will be available at your local library and you will be able to make comments via the online form.

Or you can view documents, make comments, ask questions, talk through concerns or share experiences of local flooding by coming along to one of the drop-in sessions. These will be held at:
    28th November 2013 - Anchorage Lodge, Sywell Crescent - 2 - 6pm
    2nd December 2013 - Cathedral House, St. Thomas Street - 12 - 7pm

For more detailed information please visit

• Surface water - http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/living/22002.html
• Coastal strategies and studies - Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership website http://www.escp.org.uk/

The groundwater study is not yet published in full

This consultation closes at 4pm Friday 20th December 2013

PCC look forward to hearing from you.

Has your life been affected by cancer?

Join us for coffee and mince pies on Wednesday 4 December at 10.30am at the Macmillan Info Pod, First Floor, Central Library.

Get support, share concerns or find information, in an informal and relaxed setting, no need to book, just come along.

Alcohol Awareness week - 18th-22nd November

Remembrance Sunday Service

Portsmouth's annual service of remembrance will take place in the Guildhall Square on Sunday 10 November 2013.

Serving military personnel and members of ex-service groups will parade on to the square at 10:30am, where representatives of the Scouts and St John Ambulance will be present.

The Royal Marines Band will lead the parade of serving military personnel, including representatives from Portsmouth Sea cadets, Air Training Corps, Territorial Army and the Army Cadet Force.

The ex-service military associations, including the Royal British Legion, Normandy Veterans Association, Women's Royal Army Corps Association and Parachute Regiment. These will be led by the Salvation Army Band at 10.50am.

The service of remembrance will be led by Dean of Portsmouth, The Very Reverend David Brindley of St Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Cathedral and The Reverend Canon Dominic Golding of St. John’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, and will begin at 10:58am.

A gun from HMS Nelson will fire at 11am to start the official two-minute silence and again at the end.

Hampshire Police Choir will lead the singing accompanied by the Salvation Army band. The Royal Marines Band will also play during the wreath laying.

The Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Cllr Lynne Stagg will lead the Civic Delegation, which will include the Deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, local MPs Mike Hancock and Penny Mordaunt and Council Leader Cllr Gerald Vernon Jackson.

Senior Officers from the Armed Forces, and representatives from the free churches will also be in attendance.

Wreaths will be laid at the Cenotaph and WWII memorial to honour all those who have died in all wars and conflicts.

Northern Quarter development consultation

Developers, Centros, are consulting with residents on the new Northern Quarter development (background information and an opportunity to give your views is available at http://www.northernquarter.info/)

The display is in a temporary building in the Marketway car park close to the road crossing to Sainsbury’s with representatives of Portsmouth City Council also on hand to explain how the proposed development would be integrated into the city centre’s road network.

It will be open to the public on 

• Thursday from 9am to 8pm; 
• Friday 9am to 4pm; and 
• Saturday 9am to 4pm.

The anticipated timescale for the development of the Northern Quarter is:

• Submission of 'outline' planning application in 2014
• Start of construction in 2017
• Completion and opening in 2018