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You and your ambulance service - Get involved (information about the Trust)

Download here - http://tinyurl.com/6xdepmw

This booklet (link above) highlights what happens when you call 999 in a medical emergency and gives more information about the professionals who may attend you. It also outlines how you can help South Central Ambulance Service to help the communities they serve. This could be as a community first responder, volunteer car driver, fundraiser, or by becoming a member on their journey towards becoming a foundation trust. 

Recycled Art Competition

Create a work of art from recycled materials and raise £400 for your charity or school

The recycling centre in Port Solent will be relaunched in May 2011 after a period of redevelopment to improve its' capacity for recycling. To raise awareness of recycling facilities across the city, we are inviting all charities and schools based in Portsmouth to create an artwork from recycled materials.

All short listed artworks will be displayed at a public exhibition and two prizes will be awarded:

Help rename the recycling centre

Help rename the recycling centre and you could win £50 worth of vouchers

The Paulsgrove Household Waste and Recycling Centre started life as a Civic Amenity site in the 1960s, known to most as the rubbish dump or ‘tip’. They now recycle more than 75% of everything you take to the site. The site is currently being redeveloped. The changes will mean:
• more recycling capacity
• more parking
• less queuing
• a brighter, ‘greener’ recycling space
• a more cost-effective operation
• no access restrictions and better traffic flow while bins are being changed

They want to change the name now, at no additional cost, as the old signs need to be replaced. Can you help them choose a name which better suits how you use it?
Complete the survey and enter a prize draw for the chance to win £50 worth of All4One vouchers.

Complete the survey online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/recyclingcentre
Deadline for entries is 28 February 2011.

Help rename the recycling centre

Help rename the recycling centre and you could win £50 worth of vouchers

The Paulsgrove Household Waste and Recycling Centre started life as a Civic Amenity site in the 1960s, known to most as the rubbish dump or ‘tip’. They now recycle more than 75% of everything you take to the site. The site is currently being redeveloped. The changes will mean:
• more recycling capacity
• more parking
• less queuing
• a brighter, ‘greener’ recycling space
• a more cost-effective operation
• no access restrictions and better traffic flow while bins are being changed


They want to change the name now, at no additional cost, as the old signs need to be replaced. Can you help them choose a name which better suits how you use it?
Complete the survey and enter a prize draw for the chance to win £50 worth of All4One vouchers.

Complete the survey online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/recyclingcentre
Deadline for entries is 28 February 2011.

Scamnesty is coming!

From the 1- 28 February 2011, bins will be placed around the city to enable residents to drop off any unwanted scam mailings. To find out where your nearest bin will be contact the community officer for your sector. The team will also be hosting events in all sectors of Portsmouth to raise awareness about scams:

Friday 4 February – Commercial Road 10.30am - 2pm
Tuesday 8 February – Cascades Shopping Centre 10.30am – 2pm
Monday 14 February – Derby Road Post Office 10:30 – 2pm
Friday 18 February – Palmerston Road 10.30am – 2pm
Tuesday 22 February – Commercial Road 10.30am – 2pm
Thursday 24 February – Cosham High Street 10.30am – 2pm

The Learning Place launch and open day

The Learning Place launch and open day

Saturday 29 January from 10 am to 4 pm

Official opening by the Lord Mayor at 2 pm

Come and see the new centre, meet the Adult & Family Learning team, try new fun and free activities like cookery, juggling, face painting, playing the guitar, IT and much more

6 Derby Road (next to the post office)
North End, PO2 8HH

Tel: 023 9262 1860
Email: thelearningplace@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
www.learnportsmouth.ac.uk/learningplace

Big Society Podcast now available

If you attended our "Big Society" event early in December 2010 you will recall that Francis Davis of The Young Foundation gave us a great presentation on how "BIG" it is and how we might approach the agenda here in Portsmouth. Well if you missed that or want to digest some of his argument a little further, we now have the podcast from the session uploaded. You can listen here.

You might also be interested in a recent BBC Radio 4 programme "Beyond Westminster" covering the subject. Available on i-player at this link.

We are currently planning follow up sessions and are keen to take suggestion for topics, themes and formats.

Happy listening!

Community Trading Standards

Community trading standards is dedicated to making sure the residents of Portsmouth are safe, smart shoppers. If your forum would like a talk from a community officer or has a trading standards issue which needs addressing please do not hesitate to contact a member of the team:
Central Sector – Holly Shelbourne
Email: holly.shelbourne@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Tel: 023 9283 4689
Cosham – Laura Small
Email: laura.small@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Tel: 023 9283 4689
Fratton – Amy Forster
Email: amy.forster@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Tel: 023 9283 4689
Southsea - Hasina Begum
Email: Hasina.begum@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Tel: 023 9283 4689


Portsmouth City Council trading standards service is now approved to administer BIIAB qualifications, the professional body for the licensed retail industry.

Qualifications offered are:
PCC (PUAS) Preventing Underage Sales
BIIAB (AAA) Level 1 Award in Alcohol Awareness
BIIAB (NCPLH) Level 2 National Certificate for Personal Licence Holders
BIIAB (ARAR) Level 1 Award in Responsible Alcohol Retailing
For details of any of these courses please contact the trading standards service on 023 9283 4689.

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Join them and Get involved

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust is on a journey towards foundation trust status.

What does this mean for you?
Whether you are mature or young (aged 14 or over); active or prefer a quiet life; employed or not; and live in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire or Oxfordshire, you can get involved in planning the future of your ambulance service as a member of their Trust.


Come and hear their plans
Monday 17 January 2011 - 2pm
Portsmouth Guildhall
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
PO1 2AB

Alternatively, visit their website at: www.southcentralambulance.nhs.uk
or ring 01869 365 000

Seafront cycle route - small scale remedial works

Some small scale remedial works will be taking place on the seafront cycle route towards the end of this month.

It is envisaged that the start date will be 24th January (this date is subject to change due to weather) and that the disruption, if any, will be minimal.
Please cascade this information to anyone that you feel may benefit from being informed.

Thank you.

Jayne Rodgers
Sustainable Transport Officer
Traffic Safety and Sustainable Transport Group
Civic Offices
PO1 2NE
07788 988825
023 9283 4590
FAX: 023 9283 4214
roadsafety@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

All Fora meeting

Conference Room A at the Civic Offices has been booked as the venue for the next All Fora meeting on February 2nd.

The meeting will begin at 6:30pm.

If you have any items you wish to be discussed please let us know by January 27th.

Portsmouth Local Involvement Network (LINk)

The Portsmouth Local Involvement Network (LINk) is a group of residents who are interested in bringing about improvements to Health and Social Care Services available in the City.

The LINk has a special interest in reaching all sections of the Community and to this end they extend an offer to attend meetings in order to deliver a short presentation (or informal talk) about the aims of the LINk and how to get involved.

If you are interested in booking a date please contact Victor Vine on 0783 345 2331 (LINk Support Officer)

For more information about LINk visit www.portsmouth-link.co.uk

Community Tasking Groups

Community Tasking Groups (CTGs) meet every four weeks in the four policing areas of the city. The CTGs are made up of police and partner agencies such as the council, fire brigade and other community groups, and they meet to discuss current community issues, their objective is to work in partnership to resolve local community priorities. These priorities are identified through different consultation processes with local groups and individuals.


Together they work to resolve quality of life issues that impact on the local community and often include anti social behaviour, youth problems, environmental issues and anything else that could have a negative impact on your and your neighbours lives.

If you would like an issue raised at the meeting please contact your local Police Safer Neighbourhood team or City Councillor who would be able to represent your views.

The following links show the issues currently being addressed in each area.
Community Tasking Group - Cosham
Community Tasking Group - Fratton
Community Tasking Group - Portsmouth Central
Community Tasking Group - Southsea

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VISIT TO GLA (December 2010)

A small group of us went to the Greater London Authority (GLA) to attend a session of the London Assembly (Plenary) and to hear about some of the work undertaken there.

Particularly relevant to us were some of the ways in which they seek to undertake the scrutiny function. Useful points made included the following:-

All Fora meeting

The next all fora meeting will be on February 2nd 2011, the meeting will cover the latest on the forum review, publicity and distribution issues and the use of social media, if you have other items you want to discuss please let us know by January 27th 2011. (Venue to be arranged)

Police beat surgeries

Information on forthcoming Police beat surgeries is available at
http://www.hampshire.police.uk/Internet/localpolicing/portsmouth/index.htm

Once the screen has opened, click on the map on the area of the city you live in, and then on the next screen click on your part of the local area map.

Under the Quick links: click on ‘Where can you meet the team?’ and you will be taken to the list of local beat surgeries.

They have also been included in the calendar at the bottom of the page.

Adverse weather continues to affect services in Portsmouth

Following freezing overnight temperatures, adverse weather is continuing to affect some services in Portsmouth.

Snow affects council services

Please share the following information for the voluntary sector

Adverse weather affects services in Portsmouth

Although the snow is affecting some services in Portsmouth, most of the city is running as normal.

BIG unequal?

Our man on the scene said...

"Points for and against the Big Society initiative were keenly argued by academic staff from the University of Portsmouth in a public debate held on Monday. (October 15)

The Oxford Union-style debate was on the motion: “This house believes that the Big Society initiative will lead to a more unequal society.”

Professor Dan Finn and David Carpenter spoke for the motion, while Dr Paul McVeigh and Dr Nancy North spoke against it.

Before the start of the debate 55 of those attending indicated they were for the motion and 25 indicated they were against it.

Following the debate, and comments from the floor, a concluding vote showed that 65 were for the motion and 32 against.

The debate, which was held at a lecture theatre in the university’s St Michael’s Building, attracted a large audience and is one of a number of events organised for Portsmouth Local Democracy Week 2010."

So what did you think?