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If you’re an unpaid carer, did you know there are lots of activities, training and events which are free for you to take part in this month?
From soap making and guided walks to reading groups and a session on understanding dementia, there’s lots on offer hosted by Derbyshire Carers Association (DCA).
Take a look at what’s available and book yourself a place.
The Derbyshire All Age Carers Support Service – which is delivered by DCA on our behalf – includes:
- Information and advice helpline
- Face to face, home visits and telephone support
- Planning for emergencies
- Support groups
- Carer’s assessments
- Skills for caring
- Financial advice and grants
- Social activities and events
- Volunteering and more.
Follow DCA on Facebook and X for news, updates, and events.
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The first ever election for a mayor for the East Midlands will take place in under three weeks’ time on Thursday 2 May, and people in Derbyshire are being encourage to vote and have their voice heard.
Derbyshire, Derby, Nottinghamshire and Nottingham have opened the door to a massive investment in transport, skills, housing and the environment after securing a deal for a new combined authority – the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA).
EMCCA has been formed by Derbyshire County Council, Derby City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council, and will be led by a mayor, similar to areas like the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire.
The mayor will have new powers and resources to begin a long-term process of growing the region’s economy by investing in skills that lead to better jobs, transport that works better across the region, housing where it’s needed, and an economy equipped to deal with net zero.
Its small team will have specific responsibilities – housing, skills, transport and the environment – and the transfer of powers means it will be doing work previously carried out by government. It will collaborate with councils and will not duplicate what they do or provide services that are best delivered locally.
Make sure that you're:
You can also apply for free voter ID. The deadline is Wednesday 24 April.
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- Wednesday 24 April, 10.30am until 1pm, Hill Street Baptist Church, Swadlincote, DE11 8HL
- Wednesday 15 May, 10.30am – 3.30pm, Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton, DE55 2EJ
- Tuesday 11 June, 10.30am until 1pm, Erewash CVS, Granville Avenue, Long Eaton, Notts, NG10 4HD
- Monday 24 June, 10.30am until 1pm, St Thomas Centre, Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield, S40 3AW
- Monday 8 July, 10.30am until 1pm, St Oswald’s Church Hall, School Lane, Ashbourne, DE6 1AN
- Tuesday 30 July, 10.30am until 1pm, Medway Community Centre, New Street, Bakewell, DE45 1DY.
No registration required. For more information, call the Sight Support Derbyshire team on 01332 292 262.
 The UK's National Lottery Community Fund has £20 million in funding for community-led projects to inspire more people to take climate action. You do not have to be a climate or environment focused organisation to apply.
The funding is from the Climate Action Fund - Our Shared Future, to support projects that reach more people by either:
- linking climate action to the everyday lives and interests of local communities
- influencing communities at a regional or national level
To be eligible, applications need to be submitted by partnerships consisting of a mix of organisations and sectors, and smaller groups working at a local level. This includes:
- voluntary and community organisations
- registered charities
- charitable incorporated organisations
- not-for-profit organisations
- community interest companies
- schools, colleges, universities (as long as the project benefits and involves the wider local communities)
- public sector organisations
- co-operative societies
The minimum grant is £500,000; however, it is expected that most projects will receive funding of between £1 million and £1.5 million over 3 to 5 years. A small number of larger or longer projects may be funded. It is anticipated that up to 25 projects will get grants.
Organisations can apply at any time until at least the end of 2024. The fund is expected to close to applications in early 2025.
April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, a fantastic annual opportunity to raise awareness of bowel cancer, the fourth most common cancer in the UK.
The earlier bowel cancer is spotted, the more treatable it’s likely to be. In fact, more than 9 in 10 people survive bowel cancer when it is diagnosed at the earliest stage.
Why not get involved this April and help spread the word:
- take the bowel cancer quiz, and then share it with your friends and family
- attend an online awareness talk given by a volunteer with real life experience of bowel cancer
- follow Bowel Cancer UK on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn then tag, share and encourage others to get involved.
Over £5 million of Government funding is set to help reduce the number of people who smoke in Derbyshire. The Government aims to see the number of people who quit smoking double over the next five years.
 Smoking is the single most entirely preventable cause of ill health, disability, and death in the UK. It increases your risk of developing more than 50 serious health conditions including cancer, heart attacks and strokes.
Latest figures show that in Derbyshire 14% of people aged 18 and over are smokers, and the highest numbers of smokers are in Erewash (18.9%), Bolsover (17.3%) and High Peak (15.9%). If you're one of them, check out our lifestyle support programme – Live Life Better Derbyshire. It offers a free, 12-week stop smoking service.
The new money will go towards expanding that stop smoking service, as well as to increasing demand for services, and providing training to partners.
Did you know that farmers and landowners along the eastern and southern fringes of Derbyshire can get government grants to plant hedgerow on their land as well as trees?
It's all part of a project to create Derbyshire’s Heartwood Community Forest, which is being funded by the England’s Community Forests Trees for Climate fund.
The fund, which is part of the government’s Nature for Climate programme, offers one of the most competitive grant schemes for tree and hedgerow planting available today, and grants can be used to support a range of different woodland options – from hedgerow planting with or without trees and small-scale tree planting, to large multi-use woodlands extending more than five hectares.
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In case you missed it - we opened a re-use shop at our household waste recycling centre at Bolsover.
The shop stocks good quality items collected at the county’s recycling centres and sells them at low cost including:
- furniture
- crockery, pots, cutlery, kitchen goods
- books, CDs, records, DVDs – all should be originals and not copies
- ornaments
- pictures, picture frames and pieces of art
- garden furniture, garden tools, garden ornaments
- premium clothing and footwear – donated directly to the shop
- toys and board games.
The shop is run by contractors H W Martin who operate eight household waste recycling centres for us.
Purchases can be made using cash or electronically, and proceeds from sales at the re-use shop will go towards running costs of the shop.
Any profits will be shared equally between the county council, H W Martin and charitable causes. Our share of any profits will be put back into our waste management budget which pays for services like running household waste recycling centres.
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