No meetings, but some significant successes for the County Council, the PCP and our PCVC, plus progress on Mental Health … along with ideas of things to do next weekend, and the latest POLITICAL / Aycliffe Radio news.
Find out more about all the following on my blog at: bit.ly/CNB133
COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
• Last week, DCC’s Single Use Plastics Pledge won Best Waste Minimisation or Prevention Project award at the LARAC (Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee) annual awards.
• DCC’s building and facilitates maintenance team was named Best Service Team of the Year at the 2019 APSE awards.
• DCC’s Payroll and Employee Service is one of just seven authorities to have been awarded Payroll Assurance accreditation by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals.
• DCC Pest control experts have achieved Confederation of European Pest Management Associations (CEPA) certified status for a second year.
• DCC does NOT send large amounts of its recycling abroad.
• Drugs work has earned PCVC Ron Hogg the first international Sir Robert Peel Award for Excellence in Policing.
• The Hate Hurts campaign took to social media during Hate Crime Awareness week, 12-19 October 2019.
• The PCP has been shortlisted for Charity of the Year!
• On World Mental Health Day (10 October), DCC announced a new framework to promote mental health wellbeing in workplaces across County Durham.
• If you need them, Samaritans runs a text service on 07725 909090.
• Aycliffe Business Park firm Tekmar has bought Pipeshield International.
• Santa STILL needs three flat back, 3-seater vehicles to enable his Christmas Eve Santa Tours to go ahead – please contact 01325 300700.
THINGS TO DO
NEXT WEEK
• Greenfield Arts’ Cornish Exhibition is an evocative hit.
• Tickets have gone on sale for Aladdin (this year’s pantomime at the Gala Theatre Durham), and don’t forget the Gala’s Christmas show for the under-fives, One More Sleep.
• TakeOff Festival, England’s leading festival of theatre for children and young people, 21-26 October 2019 across County Durham.
• ‘Stones of Durham’, Durham Cathedral, Saturday 26 October – guided walk (10:30am) and talk/tour (1:30pm): £5 each event, book on 0191 338 7178.
• Ghastly gargoyles trail, Hardwick Park, 24 October-3 November, £1.
• Egyptian mummy masks (5-11s), Durham Oriental Museum, drop-in 1-3pm Saturday 26 October, FREE.
• Divali late-night opening (families), Durham Oriental Museum, 6-8pm Saturday 26 October, tickets £2-£7: book on 0191 334 5691.
• October half term events, Locomotion Museum Shildon, 26 October-3 November.
AYCLIFFE RADIO
• The guest on POLITICAL / Aycliffe Radio, live at 6-7pm Sunday 20 October, will be the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Darlington, Peter Gibson: bit.ly/ARLIVE
