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Citizens Advice are supporting people with their rising energy prices. A free energy advice service is available to people in Rotherham.
This includes guidance around what support is available, as well as some of the things you can do to try and reduce your energy costs.
The advice is tailored depending on your circumstances. Appointments are available and a typical advice appointment includes:
- A benefit calculation as part of income maximisation
- Energy efficiency
- Switching advice if applicable
- Information and support on the Priority Services Register
- Information about the Warm Home Discount 2022/2023
- Any other possible schemes/grants available that can support you
- Advice on energy complaints
- Smart Meter information and advice
- Carbon Monoxide awareness - they can also order people a free Carbon Monoxide alarm along with this
- Energy debt support
Citizens Advice will assess your situation and support in every way they can.
Get in touch
To access this available support, please email: Energy@citizensadvicerotherham.org.uk
You can find out more on the Citizens Advice website at: Get free energy advice and support - Citizens Advice
 Struggling with stress, depression, anxiety, panic or low self-esteem? Self-refer to Rotherham IAPT – Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.
Offering talking therapies, group sessions and workshops, Rotherham IAPT can support you to improve your mental health and wellbeing.
Appointments are available within a week. Self-refer at https://iapt.rdash.nhs.uk/about-rotherham-iapt/self-referral-form/ or call us on 03000 215 108.
Aston-cum-Aughton History Group will be opening the William Layne Reading Room on Aughton Lane in Aston for Heritage Open Days.
The Heritage Open Days will take place on Friday 9th September 2022 from 6pm to 8 pm and on Saturday 10th September from 10am to 4pm.
Come and discover our local history through documents, maps and photographs. Visitors can browse albums of photographs of Aston, Aughton, Swallownest, North Staveley, Fence and Ulley.
The Group will have albums of information about local men who died in the two World Wars and the results of recent research into mining fatalities in local collieries.
You can also see the results of their research into all the graves in Aston churchyard, including photographs. Display cabinets will also show the history of mining, education, churches and chapels, notable people and memorabilia.
The Group are also collecting a pictorial history of the villages of Aston, Aughton, Swallownest, Fence, North Staveley and Ulley. If you have any photographs of local people places and events, please bring them along. The Group would love to see them and copy them for their albums. Their local history books will be on sale including new book 'Volunteering in Wartime – Local Defence in Aston-cum-Aughton 1939 to 1945'. An ideal present.
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This annual event will be hosted by Aston-cum-Aughton History Group and will be held on Saturday 1st October in Aston Parish Hall, Rosegarth Avenue, Aston, Sheffield, S26 2DB from 11am to 4pm.
It will include twenty history and heritage groups from North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire who will have merchandise, displays and information about their latest news and events.
Also on display will be the Holderness Map, drawn in 1762 for the Earl of Holderness, it shows his estate in Aston and Wales. It measures 8ft 4in by 8ft 6in and illustrates the area before the enclosure of the fields and commons and before the present Aston Hall was built. It is kept in Rotherham Archives and was last on display in October 2009.
Come and see this important part of our area's local heritage.
Refreshments will be provided and this event is free to attend.
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This month Aston Library will continue to host its weekly sessions aimed at adults. The sessions are as follows:
- Board Games Group, Fridays, 9.30am to 10.30am
- Craft Group, Fridays, 11am to 12pm.
Both groups are free to attend and there is no booking required. If you have any questions, please contact the Library on 01709 254134.
National Highways (formally Highways England) will be carrying out essential maintenance work on the southbound M1 junction 32.
They will be resurfacing the road on the M1 southbound at junction 32, and the northbound link road from the southbound M1 carriageway to the M18. They are also renewing road markings and road studs. Completing this work will mean safer and smoother journeys for customers.
Work is planned to start on Monday 5 September and the aim is to complete the work in early October 2022. During this period there will be night-time closures, so please do check before you travel!
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