A dedicated weekly food waste collection service for households will launch this October in Bracknell Forest to reduce the borough’s impact on climate change.
On Tuesday 28th January, Executive councillors approved proposals to implement a weekly food waste collection this autumn.
The Executive approved:
Introducing a weekly food waste collection service to all houses in Bracknell Forest from 5th October, 2020. Encouraging all residents to reduce, reuse and recycle everything possible to cut the amount of waste going to landfill.
Maximising performance of the food waste collection service by changing refuse collection frequency to once every 3 weeks.
The weekly food waste collection for every house in the borough aims to cut the amount of rubbish going to environmentally costly landfill sites by around 4,000 tonnes a year.
This waste will then be turned into renewable energy and recycled into fertiliser.
Read more: Bracknell Forest to Launch Food Waste Collection
Girls from the persecuted Yazidi community in Northern Iraq, who formed a choir to help keep their folk traditions alive, visited the UK last week and were hosted by the charity at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. They also gave a special performance to staff and guests, during their stay.
The awareness-raising visit included performances at Westminster Abbey, Clarence House, the Houses of Parliament, and in the Bodleian Library and New College Chapel, Oxford.
The girls come from the Mount Sinjar region of Iraqi Kurdistan, where thousands of Yazidi people have been murdered by ISIS fighters in what has been recognised by the United Nations are genocide. The girls – some as young as 15 - have been personally affected by the violence and now live in a refugee camp, in exile.
They performed in the Library at Cumberland Lodge on Thursday evening, along with Qawal musicians, presenting both religious music and traditional folk songs from their home villages.
Pictured: Cast of Half a Sixpence at LVS Ascot
You can watch and embed a short highlights film from the LVS Ascot production of Kipps: The New Half a Sixpence Musical, here: bit.ly/KippsVideo
Almost 50 students across seven year groups from LVS Ascot took to the school’s professional stage last week to perform the musical Kipps: The New Half a Sixpence Musical to great acclaim. Aspiring actors at the independent all-ability school performed to almost 1,000 people across four shows from Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th January, receiving standing ovations as well as attention from those behind the West End smash hit.
Theatrical producer Cameron Mackintosh, behind hit musicals such as The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Cats, sent a letter to the cast and staff in advance. He wrote: “I am sure the audiences will be screaming for more and that you will all have a wonderful time! Good luck to you all”.
Actor Charlie Stemp, currently starring in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre, came to prominence playing Arthur Kipps in the West End production of Half a Sixpence and sent a video good luck message to the LVS Ascot students which you can watch and embed here: bit.ly/AscotStemp. He said: “Wishing you all the best of luck with Half a Sixpence, I hope it goes really well”.
Read more: LVS Ascot | Musical Spectacular Draws Standing Ovations & Celebrity AttentionRoyal Borough secures additional funding to support rough sleepers |
The Royal Borough’s success at developing and implementing a rough sleeper pathway has resulted in the Council securing £490,000 from the government’s rough sleeping initiative.
The funding will be used to:
- Broaden the reach of the council’s preventing rough sleeping approach
- Provide the necessary intense support required to deliver a successful 3 stage pathway for rough sleepers
- Reduce rough sleeping the Royal Borough
- Share the council’s learning with partner agencies and other local authorities
Research has found that areas which previously received funding have seen a reduction in rough sleeping of up to 32%.
Cllr Ross McWilliams, lead member for housing, communications and youth engagement said: “This funding will enable us to help more vulnerable people off the streets into long term, sustainable accommodation.
“We know all too often that people who are sleeping rough are unable to access the wraparound support they need to move forward with their lives. This funding ensures we can continue to provide the intensive support we know will support people to move away from sleeping rough.”
Read more: Royal Borough Secures Additional Funding to Support Rough Sleepers
The Creative Arts Faculty at Charters School has built quite a reputation over the past few years with their annual stage shows, and this year has been no exception.
As the students got back into the swing of things after the two week half term, more than 80 students from Years 8 to 13 donned their ball gowns and pantaloons as they travelled back in time to bring Belle and her friends to life in this heart-warming musical.
The cast began rehearsing in September to become the well-loved characters we all remember from the Disney films, learning not just lines but also energetic dance routines and a highly sophisticated musical score.
Read more: Charters Pupils Perform Beauty & the BeastE-mail: ealbery@cumberlandlodge.ac.uk
Cumberland Lodge, the educational charity in Windsor Great Park, is inviting members of the public to come and see the vibrant exhibition it is hosting until March 2020, by local couple, Sally Anne and Peter Jones.
There will be public opening mornings from 9-11am on Saturday 15 February and Saturday 28 March.
‘For Love in Creation' is a collection of works inspired by the landscapes of Windsor Great Park. Sally Anne, and husband Peter, a chartered surveyor by profession, share a love of the natural environment. For the last three years, they have been working together on canvases, to create a unique collection of paintings that portray the historic parkland that surrounds Cumberland Lodge.
Sally Anne Wake-Jones studied art at London University College of Education. She had her first solo exhibition at the Century Gallery, Henley, and has exhibited her paintings in galleries across the south-east of England. Her work is featured in four editions of the French publication R.E.G.A.R.D.S. She divides her time between her art and the family business, Guinea Pig Education, which sells educational material all over the world.
Their paintings are large, spontaneous statements, infused with light, and inspired by the beauty of nature. The couple are frequent visitors to the South of France, and the intense light of that region influences their bold use of colour.
