Annual Parish Meeting Agendas

Cllr Paul Rickett Report  Saltfleetby Annual Parish Meeting 2024

Mental Health Awareness Week – a personal perspective

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Shaun Gibbons Group Manager – Communications and Engagement has shared his personal perspective on mental health in this LGComms blog: https://loom.ly/-PzkEEI

Advice from ICT - Telephone Technical Support Call Scams

The telephone technical support scam is becoming increasingly sophisticated and difficult to distinguish from legitimate tech support calls. In this scam, individuals claiming to work Microsoft, or another tech company, make unsolicited calls to customers and insist there is a technical problem with their product. They ultimately try to defraud customers by pressuring them to pay to fix the issue.

For the ICT team this provides us with a great deal of entertainment. Our mission being to see how long we can keep the scammer on the phone for before they realise that they are getting nowhere and hang up.  If they are on the phone to us then they can’t be calling someone else.

However. the best protection from these scams is to hang up immediately if you receive a suspicious call. Here are ICTs five tips to help you avoid being scammed:

Hang up! If an unsolicited caller pressurises you to act quickly and give up sensitive personal and financial information to fix an issue and/or engages in threatening, aggressive behaviour, that’s a sign of a scam.

Never hand over your financial information to unsolicited callers who try to charge you to remove computer viruses, malware, or ransomware, even if they have specific information about your computer.

Never pay for tech support services any type of gift card or by wiring funds. 

Never visit unverified websites and never download and install software that unsolicited callers try directing you to.

Never agree to give control of your computer to any unsolicited caller to fix an issue you did not report—despite how convincing they may sound.

South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership’s Cultural Conference

The South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership is hosting a Cultural Conference, with the aim to provide arts and heritage organisations and practitioners across the region the chance to network, share ideas and get involved in the launch of a new creative programme of work.

The main focus of the day will be to inspire links between arts and heritage projects for place transformation and connect people across the partnership area, as well as share plans on activity for the year ahead including information from the Partnership’s Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation project, which has already facilitated a variety of amazing events across East Lindsey, South Holland and Boston and is continuing to deliver events as the months go on.

The cultural conference is due to become an annual event taking place across South and East Lincolnshire, as part of the Partnership’s commitment to help connect the cultural and heritage sectors across the area and create a strong and lasting community to support each other and share best practice.

The conference is free to attend for all, and will be held at Blackfriars Theatre, Boston, on Wednesday 22 May from 9:30am to 4pm.

If you are available on this date and time, it would be a great pleasure if you could take the time to visit the event and potentially engage with the various practitioners and organisations visiting on the day, but to also get a feel for the amazing work that is happening, and will continue to happen, through the Partnership’s ACENPO project.

Please make sure to book your place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-south-east-lincolnshire-cultural-conference-2024-tickets-884953328227?aff=oddtdtcreator if you’re interested.

Station Leisure & Learning Centre in Mablethorpe update

Please see the attached photos showing the latest progress works at the Station Leisure & Learning Centre Mablethorpe.

The Station Sports Centre has now been demolished to make way for the new car park.

Work is still on track for opening in July – the date will be confirmed closer to the time.

Paddling Pools

The pools at Queens Park Mablethorpe, and The Fairy Dell Skegness will open on Saturday 25 May in readiness for Spring Bank Holiday and they will remain open through to Monday 30 September 2024.

They are available for people to enjoy for free every day during the summer between 10am and 6pm with no need to book!

Due to the ongoing development work of the new Colonnade building at Sutton on Sea, the Maple Leaf pool will not be opening this year to ensure the safety of residents and visitors, returning in 2025.

However, the council is taking this opportunity to carry out lots of refurbishment work to the pool and will be holding a series of events in Sutton on Sea over the summer months for people to enjoy.

New NHS community diagnostic centre, Skegness

Construction work is underway for two new NHS community diagnostic centres in Lincolnshire as part of a £38million investment in services.

The centres in Skegness and Lincoln will offer a variety of diagnostic services, including X-ray, MRI, CT and non-obstetric ultrasound, for convenient, timely care away from busy hospital sites.

Read more on the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust website here: https://ow.ly/4Pp050RyHsT

Dementia Action Week events happening across East Lindsey

A range of events are taking place during Dementia Action Week to support those living with dementia and carers.

The attached posters detail the planned events, including a café meet, information market stall, buffet lunch, walking, a spring games sports day, and other forms of support.

Dates, start times, locations and more details are listed on the posters. For further information, contact Tracey.wilkinson@mvtic.org

Love Your Local Market campaign returns for 2024

East Lindsey District Council’s markets are once again joining other markets across the country taking part in 'Love Your Local Market'.

This national campaign led by the National Association of British Market Authorities will be celebrate the important role markets play within local communities from Friday 17 May to Saturday 1 June.

Love Your Local Market is designed to encourage new traders to give the markets a go and local communities to support their local market. With this in mind and as part of our celebrations, ELDC is offering new traders the opportunity of eight stalls for the price of four on the markets in Louth, Horncastle or Spilsby.

Find out more about our other market initiatives on our website: https://bit.ly/44pTY1w

Upcoming Lincs Digital events

We are pleased to share details of new ‘digital inclusion’ sessions across South & East Lincolnshire.

People can drop in (no booking required) for help with devices, accessing services online or any other digital query (including being ‘assisted’ if they chose not to go online) and be welcomed by the friendly Lincs Digital team.

There will also be a range of learning and training available if people are interested in expanding their skills or increasing confidence.

The drop-in sessions can assist with:

Online services or general use of your phone, tablet or laptop

Data Bank for help with data for your phone.

Help with the Council website: Planning, Council tax, Housing

Blue Badge applications

NHS and online GP services

Future sessions open in East Lindsey include:

Louth Community Hub Drop-in: Wednesday 15 May, 10am-12pm at Eastgate Union Church, Louth

Wragby Community Hub Drop-in: Wednesday 15 May, 10am-12pm at Wragby Town Hall

Holten-Le-Clay Community Hub Drop-in: Tuesday 21 May, 2pm-4pm at Holten-Le-Clay Village Hall, Grimsby

To see the full list of events and book a place: https://lincsdigital.org.uk/events/

Upcoming housing register drop-in sessions 

Our officers will be at the following locations to accept drop off proofs and to assist residents with any application queries:

Methodist Church, Louth - Friday 17 May – 10am to 12pm

Skegness Storehouse – Monday 20 May – 9am to 11am

NHS ‘111 press 2’ a big step forward for access to urgent mental health support

The NHS ‘111 press option 2’ for mental health is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for all ages.

People can use this number if they have an urgent mental health concern themselves or about someone they know.

By providing access to a mental health professional, without the need for a GP referral, it can help support people to manage a mental health crisis and in many cases be an alternative to attending emergency departments or calling the police.

The service can be accessed by calling NHS 111 and selecting ‘option 2’. Callers will be transferred to a dedicated member of a mental health team in their local health board area.

It includes an assessment of needs and telephoned based intervention to reduce distress. Where appropriate individuals can be referred to mental health services, given self-care advice or signposted to other support.

The service has been rolled out across the UK and has so far received more than 15,000 calls. The majority of callers have had their problems resolved through advice on self-management or been referred to local third sector groups, with a minority of callers referred to urgent mental health care services.