Have you got a broken electronic item or
small appliance that could be fixed instead of being thrown away?
Come to a Restart Party at Harold Hill
Community Centre on Saturday 10 September and our volunteer repairers will see
if they can help you fix it. Drop in between 11am and 2pm. The event is free and open to everyone. Find out more here.
If you’d like to volunteer your repair skills
at a Restart Party then please get in touch – we’re always looking for new
volunteers! Just come along to the
Harold Hill event to find out more. If you’re a community group who might be
interested in hosting a future Restart Party please email us.
Don’t
forget that electrical and electronic items that cannot be repaired can be
recycled at our reuse and recycling
centres,
and some items can be collected at the kerbside.
To celebrate a record
11 Green Flags for Havering parks, Cllr Melvin Wallace, Cabinet Member for Culture
and Community Engagement, joined representatives from park friends groups and
the Council’s parks team on Monday 1 August at one of the two new parks to join the list of
winners.
Central Park in
Harold Hill and Rise Park in Rise Park are the two parks that will be entitled
to fly a green flag, awarded by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, for
the first time during 2016/17.
Vic Gower, a committee
member of the Friends of Rise Park said: “I think one of the things that
helped us win the award this year was that we were able to get teams of
volunteers cleaning up all seven entrance areas to the park and painting all
the railings around those entrances so that everyone has a nice welcome to our
park. However even though we have a green flag now we still know there’s lots
we can do to improve our park further and then hopefully win it again next
year!”
Green Flags reward the best parks and green spaces across the
country. A Green Flag flying overhead is a sign that the space
boasts the highest possible standards, is beautifully maintained and has
excellent facilities.The 9 Havering parks that won Green Flag status in 2015
and have retained their awards are Raphael Park, Bedfords Park, Cottons Park, Harold Wood Park,
Hylands Park, Lawns Park, Lodge Farm Park, St Andrews Park, and Upminster Park, Upminster.
For more
information on Havering parks visit www.havering.gov.uk/parks
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Our Recycling team is
working with the National Citizen Service (NCS) in Havering, to give young people the chance to build up their skills and their
CVs. The 15 to 18-year-olds will encourage residents to give away their
unwanted household items and take away something they want for free at a Give
& Take day from 11am to 2pm on Monday (22 August), at Highfield Towers
Community Room, Hillrise Road, in Collier Row.
Come along if you have any
items you would like to ‘give’ or to just look around and ‘take’
something away with you, whilst meeting other local residents for a chat.
This is a free community event and open to all residents in Havering.
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Love Food Hate Waste at the Havering Show
Come along to the Havering show this year on Sunday 28
& Bank Holiday Monday 29 August 11-6pm and visit the Recycling stand. There you'll get lots of
information and advice about various initiatives in Havering from Love Food
Hate Waste and cloth nappies, to electrical repair workshops and home
composting.
Chefs will be onhand on both days demonstrating
some easy, low cost, healthy dishes as part of our Love Food Hate Waste
campaign. Pop by to watch and sample these whilst also
registering your details to attend one of the free Love Food Hate Waste Cookery
workshops or composting workshops.
On average nearly half of black sack rubbish in Havering is food waste. Together we can reduce this figure to help the environment and save money. If you waste less food it's estimated that the average family can save up to £60 each month.
Visit the Recycling stand to pick up lots of great
tips to help you save money by reducing your household food waste, along with
advice and free recipe cards. For more information about Love Food Hate
Waste visit www.havering.gov.uk/lovefoodhatewaste.
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Our green waste collection
crews have experienced a couple of small fires which we suspect may have
originated from waste collected. Garden waste can reach very high temperatures
when it starts to biodegrade, so it is important to keep bins in the shade
until the morning of collection, and dampen the waste down if you are worried
about it getting too hot.
* Also at this time of year please ensure all BBQ coals are cooled down before placing them in your black rubbish sacks.
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Help keep Havering clean
Reporting online is an easy way to help keep Havering clean, as your report goes direct to the people responsible for taking action on the issue you raise.
You can report the following online:
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