If you’re a homeowner or residential landlord you can apply for a Green Homes Grant voucher towards the cost of installing energy efficient improvements to your home.
Improvements could include insulating your home to reduce your energy use or installing low-carbon heating to lower the amount of carbon dioxide your home produces.
Check if you are eligible on the link below
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-green-homes-grant-scheme
Lord Willy Bach, Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, invites you to share your views on crime and anti-social behaviour in your local area by completing a questionnaire. This survey has been created in partnership with his office and Community Safety Partnerships across our area.
What will the findings be used for?
This is an annual survey. It is separate to the recent surveying carried out by Leicestershire Police. Your views will be used to improve the wider work undertaken in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to prevent crime and anti-social behaviour and to protect our communities. This includes services provided by a range of local organisations, not just the police. It will help us better understand changes in the levels and types of crime and anti-social behaviour in your local area over time.
Who should complete the questionnaire?
Please complete the questionnaire if you are aged 16 or over and live in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland. The survey should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete. The survey is voluntary and you do not have to answer any questions that you feel uncomfortable with. You can withdraw from the survey up until the point that it is submitted.
The information collected through the survey will be handled in accordance with data protection legislation and will be presented anonymously in any outputs. Please click here <https://www.leics.pcc.police.uk/DOCUMENT-LIBRARY/Transparency/Policies-and-Procedures/Privacy-Notice-September-2020.pdf> to read our Privacy Notice. Your data will be processed by SurveyMonkey and you can view their terms for how they do this.
To complete the survey, please click here <https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/GG6H5R6> .
Watch a video message from Lord Willy Bach <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5PjKAV9IHQ> .
As the evenings start to draw in, officers are reminding people to ensure their homes look occupied during the darker nights.
The force traditionally sees a seasonal rise in burglaries around the time the clocks go back, with offences often rising through December and January.
The winter months can make it easier for burglars to go unnoticed and also makes unoccupied homes easier to spot. The force is encouraging residents to review their home security and take a few simple and inexpensive precautions to protect their homes.
One of the easiest things you can do is to leave a light on when you go out, you can use an automatic light timer to switch lamps on in your home when you go out for the evening or when you go away to give the appearance you are home.
There are lots of other things you can do to make your home more secure including:
* Keep doors and windows locked at all times and remove keys from the lock
* Keep valuables, bags, cash and keys out of sight and keep them in a safe place
* Don’t keep large quantities of cash and jewellery in your home
* Avoid leaving packaging from expensive items outside your house – take it to be recycled or put it in the bin
* If you have a house alarm make sure you remember to set it before leaving the house
* Check your outdoor security lighting is in full working order
* Prevent easy access to the back and sides of your home with locked gates and fencing
* If you’re going away, don’t advertise this on social media
* Ask a neighbour or relative to collect post and open and close curtains while you’re away
For more information on how to protect your home, please visit https://www.leics.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/residential-burglary/
If you do spot anyone acting suspiciously, report this to us online via https://www.leics.police.uk/report-online or by calling 101.
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Please find details of a road closure taking place at Church Street Twycross on 7th November
Please find attached the September newsletter from Bosworth Police.
Please find attached the latest trading Standards Newsletter highlighting scams being carried out in the region.
To all the volunteers and Good Neighbour Scheme supporters,
On behalf of the local authority, I am writing to you once again to thank you and all your volunteers for your support to our community. During what has been, and will continue to be, a very challenging time, it has been so uplifting to see how local residents and volunteers have joined together, and made a significant and meaningful difference to the experience of our elderly, vulnerable and less able in our local communities. We are immensely proud and grateful to you all.
We recognise that your local support arrangements may now be changing i.e. some volunteers have or may be returning to work, demand for community support may have eased off a little, previously established groups may be trying to return to more of their core work, or if people have volunteered for the first time they may wish to continue. With this in mind, I am also getting in touch to set out the range of support, including financial support that is available to voluntary groups and volunteers:
There are a number of support options available to both established groups, and those wishing to establish a new group, or individuals wanting to continue to volunteer within the Borough:
Contact Next Generation at: VCSINFO@nxt-gen.org.uk or telephone on 01455 632984
The Rural Community Council (RCC) can offer initial advice for those communities in Hinckley & Bosworth wishing to explore the idea of establishing a more permanent community scheme to deal with the ongoing support needs relating to Covid-19 and beyond, such as a Good Neighbour Scheme. For further information please contact John Preston, on 01455 856317 or by e.mail jpreston@rural.org.uk
In response to the Covid19 pandemic the Borough Council in conjunction with our partners set up a specific borough wide Befriending Service offering a regular phone call to those who were self isolating/vulnerable, and more recently a Fitness Friends Scheme where a volunteer will offer to take a short walk with someone to help them regain their confidence outdoors and get some gentle exercise. These schemes will continue to operate going forward.
You can refer someone for this support, or they can self refer by contacting the Borough Council on 01455 238141. If you would like to register to volunteer for one or both of these schemes contact Next Generation – details above, or visit the website at www.nextgenhinckley.org
We hope that you find this information helpful, and please feel free to share this with other groups and individuals within your neighbourhood, who may also be interested.
Thank you once again, and we wish you well with any of your future support work. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries.
Kind Regards
Tracy O’Grady
Community Planning Officer
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Green Homes Grant: make energy improvements to your home