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Eligible businesses invited to apply for Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant

The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead is inviting eligible hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses to apply for further Covid grants to support them following the Omicron outbreak.

The council is offering one-off grants from the Government of either £2,677, £4,000 or £6,000, depending on the rateable value of their trading premises, to help eligible rate-paying businesses in these hard-hit sectors. 

 The Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant aims to support eligible hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses that offer in-person services where the main service and activity takes place at the fixed rate-paying premises, including restaurants, pubs, bars, hotels, B&Bs and many visitor attractions.

Among the national eligibility criteria, businesses must have been registered to pay business rates on Thursday 30th December 2021 and must be able to prove they were trading from the premises immediately before that date.

Applications with supporting evidence must be made by Sunday 27th February 2022. To see full eligibility criteria, check exemptions and apply, visit www.rbwm.gov.uk/covid-business-grants

 NEW SERVICE IS AVAILABLE TO YOU: Tell us where you feel unsafe:

Are there parts of your local area where you feel unsafe ?

You can now anonymously tell us where you feel unsafe and why using a new online form.

StreetSafe is a new nationwide online form, where you can report any areas where you feel unsafe, whether that’s somewhere in the Thames Valley or another part of the UK that you’ve visited.

You can pinpoint the area on a map, so you don’t need to know the exact address and tell us why you feel unsafe. This could be due to poor street lighting, behaviour you have experienced from a group or an individual, or something else.

Each report is sent to the local police force to review with their partner agencies. This so we can identify and improve the areas that are concerning our communities the most.

Make a report via the new StreetSafe tool at https://www.police.uk/streetsafe

WEBSITE  https://www.ascot.co.uk/ascot-racecourse-supports 

Ascot Racecourse is proud to announce a number of initiatives and funding commitments that will provide crucial support for local charities and the wider community in 2022 and beyond.

Through the Ascot Racecourse Supports community and charity programme, these commitments will build on the wide-ranging help and assistance provided to many organisations through 2021.
Charity funding commitments continue to grow In excess of £25,000 grant funding has already been promised to seven fantastic charities for the year ahead through the Berkshire Community Foundation. That includes £5,000 to the Renova Trust which provides housing to formerly homeless or precariously housed people and ex-offenders.
The Windsor-based charity DASH will also receive £5,000 to help them in their work to provide specialist support to adults and children experiencing mental health issues, modern slavery, trafficking, homelessness and complex needs associated with domestic abuse.

Pictured Below:  Alexander McCullough  and  Toby Spong read their poems out to racegoers  during the Howden Christmas Racing Weekend at Ascot on 18th December 2021.

Sarah Wilson, Headmistress at Heathfield, a leading independent secondary boarding and day school in Ascot for girls aged 11-18, discusses ‘attitude’ and its impact on achievement and life chances.

Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst described ‘attitude’ as an individual's predisposed state of mind…a responsive expression towards something, which in turn influences the individual's thoughts and actions’, and is therefore an important consideration in every student’s education and the responsibility of every school and parent.

Attitude determines how students react to adversity, overcome challenges, create bonds with others and how they learn. It has an important role to play in defining a student’s destiny – how well they perform on a personal level, in school and in their future career. Building a positive attitude, responding and viewing things in the right way, positively impacts their future and success - not just in exams, but in all areas of their lives.

 On Friday 10th December, students at Charters School in Sunningdale,   helped to plant the Queen’s Green Canopy, a tree planting initiative which is being coordinated to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee next year.

One student from each Key Stage helped to ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’ in the school’s beautiful grounds.

The trees, which have been supplied free of charge to groups, organisations and individuals throughout the UK, will enhance the school grounds for future generations of Charters Students and will be a lasting legacy from a truly remarkable monarch.