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Friday 11 November

Get your winter vaccination

If you live or work in Redbridge, it is incredibly easy to get your Covid-19 autumn booster or flu vaccination if you have yet to do so.

There are dozens of locations on our high streets where you can get your jabs and there is often no need to book.

Remembrance Day parades and services: where you can pay your respects

Remembrance parades and services will take place across Redbridge as the nation honours those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of wearing a remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. 

Re-imagining Gants Hill for the future

Gants Hill residents joined Redbridge Council to share ideas on enhancing Gants Hill at five themed workshops.

Local people and the Community Hubs team led the workshops and discussed what they wanted to change and opportunities to work together to make them happen. 

The topics included:

• Women’s safety
• Making the area more attractive and cleaner.
• Bringing people together and supporting young people

Help us improve the quality of rented accommodation in Redbridge

Over the next three months, the council is consulting on proposals to renew selective licensing in the borough. We need your views to help us improve rented homes/properties in the borough.

We aim to ensure that all rented properties are safe and well-managed. Providing us with your feedback via our online questionnaire will help us to better understand how and where we can make a difference.

Council Tax Reduction Scheme Consultation

We know people are struggling right now and finding things tough.

One of the things we're already doing to make life that bit easier for residents is the significant level of support we provide through our current Council Tax Reduction Scheme for working-age residents.

We are now proposing to retain this scheme for the forthcoming financial year, 2023/24.

Please complete our online survey and share your thoughts on this proposal by Friday 16 December.

New City College launches vibrant Arts and Culture show

A community-based Arts and Culture Show featuring practical workshops for members of the public to try FREE launched at The Spark Lab this week.

New City College staff and students have begun a six-week residency at the shop in Ilford High Street to offer sessions on Drawing, Lino Cut Prints, Stencilling, Collographs, Photography and Graphic Design.

Don’t miss this chance to get involved! There is something for everyone, but places are limited, so don’t delay.

'Redbridge Rescue & Recovery' outreach service launched

We recently commissioned nationally recognised expert George Charlton to work with Redbridge service users to develop a local naloxone service called ‘Redbridge, Rescue & Recovery'. 

The service will work with individuals and community providers to reduce opioid overdoses within Redbridge. Whilst drug-related-deaths in Redbridge remain low compared to the rest of London; we want to ensure this position does not change in the future.

Peer mentors assigned to the service have undergone a two-day intensive training course at the R3 specialist substance misuse service. 

Redbridge Rescue and Recovery practitioners will all be wearing branded jackets and jumpers which read, “ask me about naloxone”, so please feel free to stop and ask one of the practitioners to tell you more.