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Please mention The Village Emporium when responding to advertisers Please mention The Village Emporium when responding to advertisers Charity News News and events from our local charities. Please spread the word and don't forget to let us know if you think there are other local causes we should be publicising here. Help to boost the FACT bursary fund! Last year 200 needy people benefited from the Fellowship Afloat Bursary Fund. The fund gave away over £16,000 of support to enable children, young people and adults to enjoy a life-changing residential onboard the Trust’s floating centre Trinity in Tollesbury. At the beginning of January, with just £2,000 left – the fund needs a big boost for 2015 – the trust has plans to serve many more needy people this year. Two Grand Fund Raising Dinners with entertainment onboard Trinity are planned for Friday 30th and Saturday 31st January, starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are £35 each, with concessions for booked tables – all proceeds to the fund. From Southend Havens Hospices’ charity shop. to the Sahara Her daughter Elena was born in The Havens Hospices team 2002 with a degenerative condition of eleven trekkers set off for that meant she would not reach Marrakesh in Morrocco on 4th adulthood. The family came to Little October and spent four days Havens in 2003 for respite care and trekking 80 km across the Sahara Elena was looked after until her in temperatures of up to 40°C. It death at the age of six in April 2008. wasn’t just an adventure break – it was a serious fund raising effort Janet said, “The support we resulting in over £30,000 being received from Little Havens was donated to Little Havens and Fair wonderful, I don’t know how to Havens Hospices. put into words how amazing it was. The care given to Elena Come along, bring your friends, After the trek the group spent two was so specialist that if anything have fun and help people who need days completing a community were to happen, I felt safe. It it – definitely a win-win situation. To project at a local charitable home allowed me to just be Mum again. find out more call: 01621 868113 or for young people and elderly with My family thought I was crazy visit www.fact.org.uk/Dinner n no family support. trekking the Sahara but I loved it and I’ve raised about £5,000.” Janet Evenden works as an Janet’s sister Debbie was also in Assistant Manager at the the trekking team. 50
Feature Havens Hospices Events Bit of a Do “Specialist search Fundraiser, Jane Hopkins took Little Havens is also asking its teams are looking for part in the challenge along with supporters in the community to a missing person...\" Sally Nayler, Stella Tredwell, Jill organise a fundraising ‘Bit of a How often Kitchenham, Ross Kitchenham, Do’ this year. The event could do you hear Diane Burns, Katherine Burns, Kim be anything from a bake off or that phrase Redwood-Lee, Laura White, Janet quiz to a gala ball or pamper on the local and Debbie. day, and could take place at news? Every home, work or school. The year thousands Jane said: “The trek was fantastic, charity’s campaign is supported of people are reported missing it was tough but it wouldn’t have by Jo Wheatley, winner of Great in Essex and, in the majority of been a challenge otherwise! I British Bake Off 2011, who said, cases, they turn up safe and well, have seen first-hand just how “As a mum and nan myself, I but sometimes they don’t. If the much the care provided by the cannot imagine the impact a missing person is one of your loved hospices means to the families life-limiting illness can have on ones, you will expect well-equipped, that we care for.” a family. But at least with Little well-trained search and rescue Havens Hospice, they have professionals to bring them home Kim-Redwood Lee and her somewhere to turn. The hospice safely to you. That’s when Essex daughter, Laura White, also made looks after every need of the Search & Rescue go into action. it a family affair. “We had a tour of children and those close to them Little Havens Childrens Hospice for as long as it’s needed. And, The team, made up entirely of and were so impressed; they do amazingly, this care is completely highly trained volunteers, responds such an amazing job and the staff free of charge. But they need at any time of the day or night to are just incredible. They care about our help to make sure this can Police calls for assistance in the the child and their family’s welfare continue happening. search for vulnerable missing not just the illness. persons, such as children, the “By taking part in a ‘Bit of a Do’ elderly, dementia sufferers, or We raised money by contacting you can have fun whilst you’re potential suicides. In each case all of our friends, family, clients fundraising and every penny will a fast response is vital to search and business contacts for be helping families across Essex woods, fields, or urban areas. donations and held a Charity who rely on the specialist care Night at the Orb restaurant in of Little Havens Hospice. Please Essex Search & Rescue is a Billericay in June. I got married have a ‘Bit of a Do’ and help registered charity and receives no on 26th July this year and, as we Little Havens today.” governmental or public funding have been together for years, whatsoever, being entirely reliant didn’t need any wedding presents, For ideas, advice or to get started on donations to function. so asked guests to donate to visit havenshospices.org.uk/ the fund. We have now raised bitofado or contact the Fundraising Essex Search & Rescue is always over £5,000.” Team on 01702 220305. looking for new team members, both in operational and support The charity cares for youngsters For more information on taking roles. No previous experience is and adults with life-limiting on a challenge for Havens necessary. If you can support the conditions, helping to control pain Hospices contact Emma Hamilton work of the team by a donation or and medication and offering respite on 01702 220308 in other ways, they would also be at home and in their two hospices, or visit www. very keen to hear from you. For Little Havens for children, and Fair havenshospices. more information, please visit www. Havens for adults. n org.uk/events. n essexsar.org.uk n 51
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Advertising feature Your home Looking to extend your property? Adding an extension may seem daunting, but with the right advice you can gain the extra space that you want whilst increasing the value of your home. Key to achieving success is establishing what works best for you, your property and your budget. details for planning permission, permitted development and building control. Our aim is to provide a high quality service at the best possible price. We offer fixed rates for our services and these can be found on our website: www.gpodesigns.co.uk. So if you are looking to build a new house, add an extension or a garden room, or if you want a loft, garage or barn conversion, GPO Designs specialises in call Mike or George for a free drawing building plans, applying no obligation quote on 01621 for building regulations consent 885855, or visit our website for and planning permission for further details of our full range extensions, new builds, loft and of services. We are open 7 days garage conversions, garden and help to develop your a week and we offer daytime rooms, barns and granny ideas. Measurements and and evening appointments to annexes and more. To allow you photographs are then taken to suit you. to visualise your designs more allow us to draw up detailed easily, we work with a 3D design plans. We communicate with system and colour visualisations you throughout the design GPO Designs Ltd are included as standard. process and only once you 8 Willow Grove, are completely happy with the South Woodham Ferrers Our design service starts design will we then submit the Tel: 01621 885855 with a consultation at your plans to the Local Authority for www.gpodesigns.co.uk property where we discuss approval. We produce plans and 53
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Advertising feature New moves for local wine business Local independent wine merchants Grape Passions recently moved to brand new warehousing and offices at Rosewood Business Park, Witham. Managing Director Mark Soudah says “We now have the space we desperately needed to continue to expand the business. We are also really pleased to announce that John Linton, former manager of the Oakhouse, Maldon has joined Grape Passions as Sales Representative, so it’s a very exciting time for our company and a great way to be starting our 10th year!” Grape Passions enjoys a strong The public is also encouraged to reputation for personal service visit and choose from the wide range and quality wines, and supplies of award winning wines from all many of the more discerning around the world, not available on the restaurants throughout East Anglia, High Street. Prices are a pleasant in addition to a number of corporate surprise and the choice of wines and customers such as Mercedes Benz. champagne is wide ranging. Do call to discuss your special event; with Mark believes the growing success no minimum quantities it’s easy to Grape Passions of the company is due to the careful test out their recommendations! Visit 01376 538888 Unit 7 Rosewood Business Park, Eastways, selection of the wines and the www.grapepassions.co.uk or email Witham CM8 3AA personal service they provide. [email protected]. 55
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Advertising feature Your home Hands that do dishes… Softflow Softeners is a family-run business based near Chelmsford, run by brothers Matt and Ben Ager, selling water softeners in Essex. Founded by the boys’ parents 30 years ago as a home business, the success of this environmentally friendly device soon meant the business needed its own premises. with all houses and all plumbing after customers with a small, systems and makes a big dedicated team of staff. “We difference to taps, pipes, washing moved to our current base machines, dishwashers and five-and-a-half years ago and showers. A water softener means are still getting busier. We believe you spend less on detergents; it in team work and we like to also means you don’t spend time make our customers and effort scrubbing limescale off happy!” taps and showerheads. Limescale can destroy kettles, washing machines and dishwashers so having softened water means a much-extended life for these appliances – and no need for those little tablets they advertise \"As the whole of Essex has hard on the TV! water we need to service the whole county, but the east of Essex – Matt and Ben have been involved Chelmsford, Bicknacre, Maldon with the company for many years, and Danbury – has the hardest initially taking on the role of water in the country, so if you fitting the equipment. live somewhere near these areas However, now their you really need a water softener,” parents have stepped explains Matt. back, the second generation is The family chose to promote a collaborating to specific piece of equipment, the run the company TwinTec S3. Matt says “First of as well as all it uses block salt which only carrying out some weighs 8kg, so when it needs of the hands-on work. loading with the salt it becomes much easier as other softeners They enjoy only use 25kg bags of tablet salt working together, (which are very heavy). It also helping and looking uses very little water and salt to clean itself and is very efficient.” For more information, ring Softflow Softeners on 01245 222203 or visit our website www.softflowsofteners.co.uk. Softened water can be used 57
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Feature Plume School news Ambassadors in our community The Head Boy and Head Girl have many responsibilities – and Naeem Ahmed and Cheyenne O’Kane have stepped into their roles superbly. They’re in demand both in and out of school including being invited to speak at the Maldon Rotary Club Dinner. Naeem talked about life at Plume College and the work of the College Student Leadership. Cheyenne then outlined how she and Naeem lead the School Council overseeing working groups on Student Welfare, Environment and Planning. They were asked to return after the summer exams to let the Rotary and a request to hold another with the probing questions posed members know how their plans similar event in future. by the judges. The judges finally had turned out. chose the winning team who Plume students enter came up with ‘illumiGlass’; a Let’s end bullying for all the Dragon’s Den glass that would react if a date The Plume Anti-Bullying Last November the top 65 rape drug was dropped into it. Campaign (ABC) group hosted students in years 10 and 11 took an evening workshop for two part in a Business Enterprise local groups, The Pioneers and Challenge. The brief was ‘To Plume Adult The Friendship Group. These conceptualise, design and create organisations work with people a product or service which will Music School with learning difficulties and the help prevent crime in the UK’. This takes place on event was linked to National Anti- Wednesday evening Bullying Week. Students carried out market from 4.30pm - research, produced marketing depending on which The evening was a great success and finance plans, and then made instrument you with everyone participating in a formal five minute presentation play. Lessons for drama and art competitions. to the panel of judges, who were singing, guitar, drums, Many of the group were from the business world. violin, steel pans, clarinet, concerned about bullying and saxaphone and various others shared how often people ‘had a The students were put into teams are available. You could also laugh’, at their expense. Everyone outside their usual friends to come and sing in the choir or agreed that the best way to solve develop their communication and play in the band. the problem was to tell someone. teamwork skills. For further information please contact Jean Ingram The evening ended with a light The presentations were first class on 01621 854681 ext 8295. supper served by the ABC group and the students dealt superbly 59
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Business news News and events from local businesses. Do get in touch with us if there are any businesses you think we should be featuring here. Business achieving the pinnacle of garden creation Cube 1994 have featured on our pages before and they’re back with more achievements, this time from the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI). The Cube team have won a BALI National Landscape Award for two of their projects; a contemporary New England garden and the Sensory Garden – Walkway to a Long Life. The New England garden was created for clients from the USA as a courtyard with entertaining space featuring a champagne reception Before After area, a dining area and a relaxing lounge area. Cakes v. Calories! “Slimming World taught me an The Sensory Garden is a Lucie was born in Tolleshunt amazing new way to eat, which government funded project to help D’Arcy and had a passion for quickly became a way of life! I dementia sufferers with features that cake making from an early loved being able to recreate dishes promote physical, cognitive, social age. She started her own cake that I never thought I’d be able to and psychological benefits. making business with her eat again! Cottage pie, curries, partner Jared - and loves baking even pizza! That’s what makes It’s been designed with safety in and creating masterpieces. us different, you can eat as much mind and there are no dead ends You can’t bake cakes without as you like - really! You never go to paths with plenty of seats for eating a few along the way and hungry and I’m excited to share people to stop and sit. There is a the calories started to stack up, this weight management method colour wheel created by the plants, so Lucie joined Slimming with my members.” a no-bend vegetable growing World in October 2013 and patch and even a postbox and a embarked on her challenge to Lucie runs two sessions on a bus stop to trigger memories. lose 4 stone. Thursday night in Tollesbury Activity Centre (aka the scout The garden was officially opened In just a few months Lucie hut) at 5.30pm & 7.30pm. by Angela Rippon OBE on achieved her goal in February Classes cost £4.95 a week after May 23rd 2014 and has been 2014 and enjoyed Slimming World the first week - look for vouchers described as a so much that she became a and offers in local papers and national example consultant in July 2014, opening magazines. To join Lucie’s of excellence in her first group in Tollesbury in group just turn up or give her a dementia care. n September with 44 new members. call on 07725 527775. n 62
Feature Make New Year Faith makes the final a new you. The Essex Wedding Awards took Like Mother, like Daughter: place recently and awards were Silke Ukena runs the Feelgood made to a variety of professional Factor Clinic in Danbury recently categories such as venues, got a new member of staff - her stationery, cakes, flowers, bands daughter Karelia. and entertainers. The biggest and most competitive category Originally trained as a Naturopath is photography and Faith Stone and Osteopath, Silke specialises McNitt, of Faith Stone Photography, in gentle functional methods was thrilled to make the finals for of Cranio Sacral Therapy and the second the Bowen Technique. Karelia year in a qualified with flying colours and row. gives relaxing neck, shoulder, a great stress-buster, Indian back and scalp massages to over- head massage has many other stressed clients. positive benefits. It can reduce headaches, improve sleep Karelia’s speciality is Indian head patterns, restore balance and even massage and is mainly used give you stronger, glossier hair. to strengthen hair and maintain beauty. It was introduced to The Feelgood Factor Clinic offers England in 1981 by Narendra a taster or a one hour session. Mehta; Karelia’s teacher was To find out more visit the website taught by him. at www.feelgoodfactorltd.co.uk or contact Silke on 07775814234 Whilst it’s very relaxing and or Karelia on 07814567089. n “I don’t enter many award competitions, but this award is judged by an independent panel that includes engaged couples, which gives the final award real weight. It’s very difficult to get to the finalist stage as the entries in my category grow every year. I’m absolutely chuffed to make the final and plan to enter again next year!” Faith is a portrait and wedding photographer based in Burnham- on-Crouch and more information is available at www. faithstonephotography. com or call her on 07792 670 461. n 63
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