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MAIDENHEAD COMMUNITY WATCH ASSOCIATION
 
Security Items for Vulnerable & Elderly
 
Maidenhead Community Watch Association (MCWA), as part of its commitment to fostering a safe and secure community, has successfully initiated this project and wishes to introduce it to more participants..
 
The safety of your home and your overall well-being are of paramount importance. That's why we are offering a free Home Security Assessment to residents within Maidenhead. .
 
This initiative is being financially supported by generous assistance from The Prince Philip Trust Fund, Thames Valley Police Windsor & Maidenhead LPA, the Louis Baylis Trust and Maidenhead Lions.
 
The first step is a free home security survey, to be conducted by a trained operator, who will assess the security of your property for any potential vulnerability and will then make recommendations on how you can improve your safety and security.
 
On offer are various security items such as alarms, timers, fake TVs, etc, all of which are available, at no cost, courtesy of MCWA, for those who cannot afford to purchase their own.  Further, we can supply and fit, with the help of our volunteer tradesmen, additional security items such as fake cameras, door chains and exterior lights.
 
To benefit from the above, you will need to -

Reside in Maidenhead and be considered as Vulnerable or Elderly

What do we mean by Vulnerable or Elderly?

A vulnerable adult is defined as someone who can’t easily take care of themselves or it might be someone who is unable to protect themselves against significant harm or exploitation.

Elderly, for the purposes of this project, means over 80 years of age.

 

Your safety matters to us, and together, we can build a safer and more resilient community.   

If you would like to have a free home security survey, we would be delighted to hear from you.   Contact  -  jrdmcw@gmail.com

From Holy Trinity Church

Music for a Summer Evening on Harp and Piano
Sunday 6th August
at 6.00pm
Holy Trinity Church, Cookham
 
Tickets are free
Everyone is very welcome!
 
Join us for a drink from our bar and enjoy a delightful evening of Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky.

From the Advertiser

Cookham neighbours showed up in support of Strande Park residents on Saturday where unwanted and unexpected clearance works have been taking place in the past week.

People living in the park home neighbourhood have called the Advertiser reporting that hedges and fences are being destroyed by workers against the will of occupiers.

Multiple sources living in Strande Park – who all wish to remain anonymous, and include many elderly and disabled people – have expressed being shaken up by the way things have been done.

This week's headlines

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📣 Smoking Skewers: Smoking Skewers are attending their first morning market providing a traditional Desi Breakfast!

📣 Afternoon Market: Next week we're back with our double Market. On August 11th we're open from 8:30-1:00pm and 3:30-7:30pm.

🎟️ Raffle time!: This week our Charity Raffle is supporting Chemo Gift Bags. Find out more about them and how to enter below.

📣 Tell your friends: We'd love for more people to experience the Metre Market and support our wonderful local business, so bring your friends and share away!

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First Winners in the Windsor & Maidenhead Community Lottery

Last Saturday (29 July) saw the first draw of the new Windsor & Maidenhead Community Lottery, an exciting new fundraising initiative launched by the council for good causes across the borough.

To celebrate the first draw of the community lottery, there were two additional special prizes won by two local residents – for one a luxury spa session at the Fairmont Windsor Park Hotel and for another, an overnight stay at the MacDonald Windsor Hotel. Fourteen local players each also won three free tickets to play in the lottery because they matched two of the numbers drawn.

1,043 tickets were entered into Saturday’s first draw for the 69 local good causes across the borough already signed-up to benefit from the lottery.

Councillor Joshua Reynolds, cabinet member for communities and leisure, said: “Congratulations to our first winners. They, and the rest of the lottery players are making a huge difference to the grassroots good causes across the borough.

“We’d like to thank everyone who has joined the lottery so far, and we encourage anyone who wants to support a good cause to take part. When you buy your ticket on the lottery website you can see the full list of local good causes you can support. There’s a huge range of different groups on there. Something for everyone.”

The community lottery is a great opportunity for Royal Borough residents to directly support, in a fun way, local grassroots good causes of their choice, plus have the chance to win cash prizes. Up to 60% of each £1 ticket sale goes to the local good cause they nominate. And you don’t have to live in the Royal Borough to play the Windsor & Maidenhead Community Lottery, though you can only choose to support the local good causes signed up.

Windsor Horse Rangers, Maidenhead & District Stroke Club, and the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service are currently at the top of the local good causes fundraising board. Just behind them are the Alzheimer’s Dementia Support Charity, Lilliput Learners Pre-School, Swan Lifeline and Wessex Primary School PTA.

The Windsor & Maidenhead Community Lottery draws take place weekly on Saturday nights. For more details on how to play, or sign up as a good cause, visit the borough’s community lottery website.

And on Saturday 26 August, there’s also the chance to win an Apple MacBook Air in the lottery’s summer draw.

Heavy showers and thunderstorms could hit Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead tomorrow.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for London and the south east of England from 9am until 9pm.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected to develop throughout the day and could cause flooding and travel disruption.

Up to 40 millimetres of rain could fall within the space of two to three hours.

Lightning and hail is also possible, the Met Office added.

On Thursday, July 27, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead cabinet met to discuss the future of Broadway Car Park in Maidenhead.

The car park had been closed since New Year's Eve after a piece of the ceiling fell down sparking serious safety concerns.

Since then a report found that the ageing structure had failed and water ingress had eroded the reinforced steel.

The car park dates back to the 1960s and has been found to have now reached the end of its "economic life" with warnings of "significant structural failure".

In the cabinet meeting the visual inspection report of the car park was discussed, along with concerns about the demolition.

It also came to light that Broadway Car Park was due to be demolished under plans for the Nicholsons development.

Now given the go-ahead by the cabinet, Broadway car park could begin to be demolished and cleared as early as this autumn, in a process which is estimated to last a year.

Executive Director of Place Services, Andrew Durrant added that due to the position in the central park of time with close proximity to various different neighbours, the demolition will "come with its challenges".

Traffic management arrangements will be put in place in Maidenhead town centre during the works.

A council spokesperson previously said: "While this might seem a while, this time is needed for such a major project to safely demolish a large multi-storey building in a busy, built-up area."

The council have stated that they will be looking to create a temporary car park once Broadway has been demolished.

Some photos can be seen here.

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Food business operator prosecuted for failing to correctly label food items, provide suitable hand washing facilities and comply with Hygiene Improvement Notices
 
A food business operator has been sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid work and fined more than £2,000 in a successful prosecution by the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s Environmental Health team.
 
Bartosz Rybka appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Friday 21 July where he pleaded guilty to a number of failings at the Pierozek deli which had been located in Market Street, Maidenhead. The business has now closed.
 
At the hearing Rybka, 37, admitted the following offences:
 
Failing to comply with a Hygiene Improvement Notice - by failing to provide adequate facilities for washing hands behind the deli counter and in the staff toilet at the business, contrary to The Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013
 
Failing to provide suitable and sufficient hand washing facilities – by failing to provide hand washing facilities in the immediate vicinity of the staff toilet at the business, contrary to The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 and the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
 
Failing to comply with a Hygiene Improvement Notice – by failing to provide adequate facilities for washing utensils and equipment used behind the deli counter at the business contrary, to The Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013
 
Failing to correctly label food items – in that he displayed a quantity of food items that were incorrectly labelled, in that they did not display the required information with respect to allergens, and/or were not labelled in English, contrary to the Food Information Regulations
 
For failing to comply with the Hygiene Improvement Notices, Rybka was fined £623 for each offence, and for failing to correctly label food items was fined a further £1,038.

For failing to provide suitable and sufficient hand washing facilities in connection with the staff toilet he was handed a 12-month community order with 100 hours of unpaid work.

He was also ordered to pay £2,000 in costs and a victim surcharge of £190.

Obi Oranu, Environmental Health Service Manager at the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, said: “Our Environmental Health team regulates businesses through inspections and checks compliance. Occasionally, where there is non-compliance, the team will work with the business to ensure this is achieved. Where necessary, to protect the public, the team serves statutory notices requiring operators to make improvements.

“Where these notices are not complied with, the council will consider prosecution to protect residents and visitors and ensure regulations set out in law to promote health and safety and hygiene are complied with. Correct food labelling is incredibly important, not only to help consumers make informed choices, but also so they are aware of any potential allergens contained within products on sale.

“This successful prosecution demonstrates the council’s commitment to protecting its residents, and I’d like to congratulate the team on securing this positive result. They will continue to carry out checks across our borough and act upon information received to help ensure businesses are operating within the law.”

If residents have concerns about hygiene at local businesses, these can be reported to the council’s Environmental Health team at https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/home/environment-and-waste/environmental-health.

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