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News for Havering residents, Thursday 4 July 2019.
 Armed Forces Day was celebrated in Havering on Saturday.
In searing heat, veterans, currently serving troops, and cadets paraded through South Street, Romford Market and on to the Town Hall in Main Road.
Shoppers and well-wishers packed the route of the parade, which concluded with an event attended by Havering's Mayor, local MPs and councillors.
Armed forces charity SSAFA’s Havering ex-veteran community group are running a free informal afternoon café this Sunday, 7 July, from 2 - 4 pm at French’s Café, 3 North Street, Hornchurch RM11 1RL.
It's for all ex-veterans or serving personnel and their families.
Pop in for a free cuppa and a chat and find out how SSAFA can provide advice and support.
Havering has teamed up with neighbouring boroughs Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge to support vulnerable children and families.
The Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge Safeguarding Partnership is an agreement between the three boroughs, the NHS and the Metropolitan Police to collaborate in a bid to keep children, young people and their families who are at risk of exploitation, knife crime and other pressing issues, safe.
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Havering Council has begun a consultation looking at extending its successful landlord licensing scheme.
Plans to expand the scheme from the current 12 wards would see regulation of local housing in multiple occupancy (HMOs) rolled out to a further six wards in the borough, covering Cranham, Emerson Park, Hacton, Hylands, Saint Andrews and Upminster.
The proposals will also consider looking at introducing a selective licensing scheme to cover single family properties in Romford Town and Brooklands wards only.
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The Community Stage will be back at the Havering show next month. This year it is sponsored by Marlborough Highways.
It will host performances from local theatre and dance groups as well as party dances with your favourite children’s characters plus a special performance from Lee Van Geleen (pictured).
Lee is from Romford and has been working professionally as an actor since 2013. He is currently appearing in Only Fools and Horses The Musical at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. His other credits include Les Misérables, H.M.S. Pinafore, Camelot and Pacific Overtures.
The Havering Show returns to Harrow Lodge Park, in Hornchurch, on the August Bank Holiday Weekend, Sunday 25 and Monday 26 August.
Tickets are available now at a discounted rate of just £3 per day for the show, which features performances from Aswad and Toploader on the main stage sponsored by London City Airport and hosted by Time FM. There will also be a Sports Zone sponsored by Everyone Active, licensed bars, street food and children's attractions.
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 Noak Hill Sports Complex is holding an Open Day on Saturday 20 July from 10am - 4pm.
It's free to attend and you can sample mixed junior football for 5-11 year-olds from 10-11am and tennis coaching between 10am and 4pm.
You can sign up on the day for four weeks of free tennis coaching sessions. Limited spaces available, age limits apply.
 BBC Children in Need has awarded new grants totalling £59,436 to two Havering projects working with disadvantaged children and young people.The grants have been allocated through the charity’s Small Grants Programme.
Home-Start Havering will use a three-year grant of £29,568 to provide home support to families. Funding will help to encourage emotional support and wellbeing.
Havering Women’s Aid received a three-year grant of £29,868 to provide a breakfast and after school club; counselling and therapy sessions for children and young people who have experienced domestic violence.
Across Havering, BBC Children in Need is currently funding seven projects to a value of £397,352.
 Queen's Theatre is making a towering collection of stiletto shoes for its world premiere production of the play Stiletto Beach and is in need of over a hundred unwanted heels.
So whether you wore them once for a special occasion or have simply fallen out of love with them, bring your shoes along to the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch and drop them off in the box in the foyer by Thursday 1 August.
Write your name on the sole and be part of the show that runs at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch from 4 – 28 September as part of the theatre’s Essex Girls and Boys season.
 Citizens Advice Havering will be celebrating their 80th birthday on 4 September.
Now based in Romford Library, they held a promotional event in the Mercury Mall last week to start the celebratory period.
There will be a special feature on the organisation in the October edition of Living in Havering magazine.
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If you have ever wanted to turn your household waste into nutritious plant food for your garden then Havering Council has a workshop for you.
Free compost workshops will be held this Saturday 6 July, 10am -12 noon at The Forest Centre,Thames Chase, Pike Lane, Upminster, Essex, RM14 3NS, and on Wednesday 17 July at Rainham Hall, Broadway, Rainham, RM13 9YN.
Sessions are suitable for total beginners as well as those who would like to improve the quality of the compost they are producing.
Booking is essential and spaces will be awarded on a first come, first served basis.
 Havering Council's consultation on the way the borough’s libraries and children’s centres services should be delivered in the future continues.
Please have your say. The next public meeting is a drop in session that will be held this Friday morning at the Hilldene Children's centre in Harold Hill. There is a full list of the public meetings, timings and venues on the council's website that you can see by clicking the button below.
The consultation is open until Wednesday,18 September.
 The National Lottery Heritage Fund are offering a free workshop for groups or organisations who are considering doing a heritage project.
This session covers requests from £3,000 - £250,000.
It's being held at the Havering Museum, 19-21 High St., Romford, RM1 1JU on Thursday 11 July starting at 9.45am. Places are limited so reserve your place early. Book your place online or call 0207 591 6151.
 In you live in Havering the latest edition of our Living in Havering magazine will be dropping through your letterbox next week.
Packed full of information on things to do this summer, it also includes an update on the new Hornchurch Sports centre and the Council's £40m investment in the borough's roads and pavements.
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