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Age UK Somerset is looking for friendly people in our area who would like to get involved with making life happier for local older people.

As we get older, living alone and lacking the confidence or mobility to get out of the house can lead to anxiety, low mood and devasting loneliness (and as if that wasn’t bad enough, this has been linked to an increase in health problems).

To solve these issues local charity Age UK Somerset have two wonderful free schemes running here – Walk and Talk which matches a volunteer with an older person for a weekly gentle walk and chat, and Wellbeing Friends where a volunteer visits each week to offer some friendly company.

However, they are desperate for volunteers to lend a hand and be matched with the older people they have on their waiting lists for both services.

If you can spare an hour a week (flexible) and would like to feel like you are making a difference in your community they would be very happy to hear from you – volunteers@ageuksomerset.org.uk or 01823 345627.

Fish and Chip Night

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THE OLD DAIRY COMMUNITY CENTRE, TIMBERSCOMBE            07815 693627

FISH & CHIP   NIGHT

FRIDAY 29th MARCH

       5PM TILL 7PM

WE ALSO DO BATTERED SAUSAGE   OR PIE AND CHIPS WITH MUSHES PEAS OR GARDEN

Fish & chips £6.50 Sausage & chips £4.50 and pie & chips £5.50 all with either mushy or garden peas.

 

check your collection days

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The upcoming Easter weekend means changes to recycling and rubbish collections across the county.

Collections that would usually happen on Good Friday, 29 March, will take place on Saturday, 30 March instead.

There are no collections on Easter Monday, 1 April, and Easter week collections are one day later, including Friday collections taking place on Saturday 6 April.

To help crews speed up collections, please present boxes, bags and bins by 7am on the day of collection, or the night before.

With waste collections a day later a higher volume of waste is likely. Squashing, crushing and flattening waste can help to reduce the number of trips that teams need to make to empty their trucks, as well as creating more space in residents’ containers.

As well as changes to collections, the county’s Recycling Sites will revert to their summer opening hours from Monday, 1 April.

All sites will remain open from 9am to 4pm on weekends, midweek sites will be open from 9am to 6pm. Opening days vary from site to site, check recycling site opening times online before you visit.

Somerset Council are asking residents to be “good eggs” this Easter and recycle as much as possible. Almost all Easter egg packaging can be recycled in weekly kerbside collections.

·      Cardboard box – flattened and into your black recycling box.

·      Aluminium foil – scrunched and into your Bright Blue bag.

·      Plastic mould – into your Bright Blue Bag.

Not yet recyclable at the kerbside or at our recycling sites are chocolate bar and sweet wrappers, plastic bags and plastic-foil pouches, plastic ‘windows’ in boxes, and similar thin-soft plastic film. These can be taken to TESCO.

Many of these plastics can be dropped off at supermarkets and some are taken in TerraCycle recycling schemes. Please check where you shop or have a look at the Council’s guide to supermarket and TerraCycle recycling schemes.

For more information, please contact the Press Office on 01823 355020 or emailpressoffice@somerset.gov.uk.

Knife Angel to visit Somerset

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Please find below information about the Knife Angel that is visiting Somerset in April, along with details of the opening ceremony.

 You can read the press release here: The Knife Angel visits Somerset in April

 Any queries or questions, please contact Chloe Warden, Cultural Project Delivery Lead, chloe.warden@somerset.gov.uk.

 Best wishes

 Democratic Services

Somerset Sight Recruitment Drive

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Somerset Sight is a local charity that has been supporting sight impaired people across Somerset for over a hundred years, and one of the various services we offer is the Volunteer Visiting Service, whereby volunteers are matched locally with a sight impaired person for regular visits to alleviate their loneliness and isolation. Our organisation currently has a number of visually impaired people who would welcome a volunteer visitor but are on a waiting list, as there are not enough volunteers to match them with. Can you help?

Go to www.somersetsight.org.uk or, if you’d consider helping in other ways such as driving, fundraising or admin, click here to fill in a form to register your interest.

Thank you.

Joanne Thorogood