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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.
The first ever election for a mayor for the East Midlands will take place in just three weeks’ time on Thursday 2 May, and people in Derbyshire are being encourage to vote and have their voice heard. Â
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).Â
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. Â
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.Â
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.Â
Make sure that you're:
You can also apply for free voter ID. The deadline is Wednesday 24 April.
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Know someone who's aged 16 who'd like to get their first experience behind the wheel before taking lessons? Then tell them about our First Gear pre-driver sessions.
The First Gear pre-driver training day gives 16-year-olds either living in Derbyshire, or in education in Derbyshire, their first experience behind the wheel of a car, in a safe, controlled environment with fully qualified driving instructors.
First Gear also offers trainees valuable information to help them prepare for their theory, hazard perception and practical driving tests, as well as getting them to consider how they will continue driving safely once they have passed their test.
The course costs £85.99.
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Are you part of a group that's working on projects to support climate action? Or wants to?
The UK's National Lottery Community Fund has £20 million in funding for community-led projects to inspire more people to take climate action.
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, your application needs 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
- not-for-profit organisations
- schools, colleges, universities (as long as the project benefits and involves the wider local communities)
- public sector organisations
- co-operative societies.
You don't have to be a climate or environment-focused organisation to apply.
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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.Â
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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