The Community Access to Cash Pilot (CACP) initiative has today announced the plans for the nine Cash Pilot locations across the UK, where trials are being tested to help address challenges of improving cash access and acceptance. In June, eight locations were chosen based on the location, the issues the communities faced, and the local people...
Comedian Bob Mortimer announces Essex feline OAP Cookie as this year's purring lockdown legend in Alternative Cat Awards Twenty-one-year-old Cookie, whose peaceful purring melted the hearts of cat lovers, has been crowned the winner of Cats Protection's Alternative Cat Awards. With its annual National Cat Awards...
A vibrant Remembrance Ribbon Display will be on show at Memorial Garden in Clacton-on-Sea to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week 2020. After the success of last year, Maria Gormley is working with Sands, Stillbirth & neonatal death charity to raise awareness of pregnancy and baby...
2020 amplified the capital’s need for City Harvest, redistributing nutritious surplus food to those unable to access food. More than 2.3 million Londoners face food poverty - a figure rising faster than can be reported. Businesses waste more food than is being missed by those facing hunger...
With one week left to participate, MP John Baron’s Fun Walk has already raised thousands of pounds for Charity, with help from local businesses. John Baron said “We are delighted to see so many organisations participating in this year’s virtual event. We know the bonus pot...
Basildon Council is encouraging residents to have their say on proposed changes to its council tax reduction scheme. The changes would affect households with apprentices and low income households living with a disabled person. The council is consulting on two specific changes to the council tax...
SANTA is still coming to Colchester this festive season at Poplar Nurseries’ magical Grotto, despite lockdown restrictions tightening throughout UK. With many Christmas events and parties already shelved for 2020, the Essex garden centre has worked tirelessly to put processes in place to bring Father...
Charity hero Paul Hannant will tackle Britain’s highest peaks and walk more than 200 miles in a month-long challenge to help boost the depleted coffers of a Norfolk cat centre. The Great British challenge is the brainchild of Paul, manager at Cats Protection’s Dereham Adoption...
Creative school children have revealed how they imagine Basildon in the future as part of a town centre masterplan drawing competition. This summer we asked borough residents how they imagine Basildon in the future as part of a consultation exercise. Leader of Basildon Council Councillor Gavin Callaghan...
Last year's WellChild Award winner Helen Uludag from Benfleet has joined national children's charity, WellChild, in the call for nominations for the 2021 WellChild Awards, in association with GSK. This prestigious annual event celebrates the inspirational qualities of the UK's seriously ill children and young...
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