South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust needs your help

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust needs your help – just one simple and easy action that could really make a difference.

We would like to recruit 150 new members of SECAmb by the end of June. That’s about a week away.

We need these new members so we reach our public membership target of 4,500 people in time for the next stage of our Foundation Trust application process. We are doing well – but your help could make all the difference.

Please help us by forwarding the link to our online membership form (below) to as many friends and family, colleagues and neighbours as you feel able to, and encouraging them to have an interest in their local NHS ambulance service. If you’re that way inclined, you could even put the link on Facebook or Twitter about us! If your partner, children, aunts and uncles aren’t already members and they live in the South East – please encourage them to join us.

This is the link to our membership form: http://www.nhs-membership.co.uk/seas

If you would prefer printed forms to send out or hand out to people, please let me know.

For more information about membership, please direct people to this page on our website: http://ysyc.secamb.nhs.uk/member.htm

Many thanks for taking the time to read this. Please do forward the link and encourage more people to get involved.
The more representative our membership is, the better we can understand what people need from us.

Become a Councillor in Spelthorne

Become a Councillor!! If you feel strongly about improving your local community, you can stand as a councillor, if you live or work in the borough. Most candidates belong to a political party, but you can stand as an independent. In Spelthorne there are 39 councillors in 13 wards. A candidate nomination pack is available by contacting:-Electoral Services on 01784 446238 or email electoralservices@spelthorne.gov.uk or talk to me for more info.See more

Spelbound Victory Parade

Spelbound’s celebration parade through Spelthorne in an open top bus on Saturday 12 June. This will start at the Town Tree end of Church Road in Ashford (High Street) from 2pm before moving along Kingston Road (around 3.10pm), onto the Two Rivers Retail Park in Staines (around 3.20pm) and parking outside the front of Debenhams in Staines (around 3.30pm). The parade will end at the Council Offices in Knowle Green at around 4pm where the troupe will meet with the Mayor of Spelthorne, Cllr John O’Hara.

Pamper Night

Waste Consultation

How can we help you reduce your waste?
What would help you recycle more?
How should we deal with Surrey’s remaining waste?
We are reviewing our Plan for Waste Management in Surrey
and want you to help shape it
Take part in our public consultation between
17 May and 12 August 2010 and tell us your views
Visit www.surreywastepartnership.org.uk or call 03456 009 009
Your waste,
your views
Surrey waste partnership
Your councils working together

Fostering Fortnight

Next week (17 May) sees the start of Fostering Fortnight, a national campaign promoting the need to recruit more foster carers across the country.
In Surrey we always need more foster carers for the children in our care. From time to time we focus on specific groups and locations, depending on shortages or where there is a need to find carers for specific groups of children, such as: children with disabilities sibling groups 0-5 age group teenagers.
This fostering fortnight we are specifically targeting two locations - Guildford and Staines, where the number of children needing care outweighs the number of available carers. We are also focusing on two groups of children, teenagers and the 0-5 age group, for whom we are having particular difficulties finding suitable foster carers.

Ashford Have your Say Event

This year’s Ashford “Have Your Say event” organized by Spelthorne Borough Council is on Thursday 17th June
Venue: Thomas Knyvett College, Stanwell Road, Ashford, TW15 3DU Time 7pm – 9pm
There will be opportunities to meet with local councillors, chat with partner agencies at their stands in the marketplace and hear presentations on a variety of topics. These will include the Police Restructure; a Fire Service presentation; an update from Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals; information around local regeneration projects including Stanwell New Start; planning matters; Strong Leader vs Mayor consultation as well as an open forum question and answer session.
Please come along and support this event, thank you