Volunteer marshalls are needed to help with the fun run being organised by the Heathfield Rotary Club on Sunday 29 April. Help will be required between 10.45am - 2.00pm but could be earlier depending on your position. For more information or to volunteer please contact Trevor Goldsmith on 01435 865858.
Volunteer marshalls are needed from around 8.00am until around 4.00pm (depending on exactly what role someone has) on Sunday 1 April for the first marathon to be held in Heathfield. Most volunteers will be needed to marshal out on the course, help at an aid station (with drinks/food) on the course or at the start/finish area near to the Community Centre. Some volunteers will be required earlier in the morning for registration at the Community Centre (probably from 7.00am).
Full details will be sent out to all marshals in advance and will have a Marshal Co-ordinator and Team Leaders around on the day for any queries, so it should be a very enjoyable day for all involved and the athletes really will be grateful for the assistance.
If you are going to volunteer on behalf of the Heathfield Partnership's indoor swimming pool fundraising project it would be useful if you could mention that, so they know where your donation of £20.00 will go towards.
If anyone is interested or if they have any queries please contact:
Natasha Fielden
natasha@tlsportsevents.co.uk
01424 810096 (office)
TL Sports Events
HEATHFIELD WORKS!
New 10 week employment programme begins January 2012
Limited Places available
If you are aged between 16-19Living in Heathfield and Waldron Parish
Not working, training or in education and prepared to participate 100% to gain employability skills
Interested?
For more information on the background of the project go to:
www.heathfield.net/Heathfield-Works
Then please contact Julie or Frances for further information:
Julie Kaye: 07710 230715 Frances Conway; 07795 174055jkaye@tomorrows-people.co.uk fconway@tomorrows-people.co.uk
You are able to edit the details of your club/organisation shown on this website. Please go into Clubs and Groups, then onto your page and then click on Edit Your Details and set-up log-in and password details. Once this has been verified, you will then be able to edit your own details. Please make good use of this free facility to promote your club/organisation. If your club/organisation is not listed, please contact 01892 610314.
Community Responders have been operating within the South East since December 2000. The schemes were first introduced in an effort to provide early pre-hospital care to communities we have particular difficulty in reaching within those life critical early minutes following cardiac arrest, a heart attack, patients who are unconscious or suffering any other form of life threatening illness or injury. Whilst South East Coast Ambulance Service performs very well, we have to recognise that there are some communities that are extremely difficult to reach.Even if we significantly increased our ambulance resources, we would still not be able to deliver the speed of response necessary to get to some patients with life threatening conditions. This is where the role of the Community Responder is vital. Volunteer Responders receive training in basic life support and use of an automatic defibrillator (machine to shock the heart) by the Ambulance Service.
The 999 Emergency Dispatch Centre (EDC) is then able to send a community responder to life threatening calls within their local community, to provide the care and comfort necessary whilst the ambulance is on its way.Community Responders are not a substitute for the ambulance crews, but are an added bonus for any patient they may attend. Working with the Ambulance Service, Community Responders can ‘buy time' for the patient until the crew arrives. In 2010 over 10,000 patients throughout the South East Coast area have already benefited from the intervention of Community Responders.
Our aim within South East Coast Ambulance Service is to provide the appropriate care to life threatening emergency calls within 8 minutes. Sometimes, particularly in the case of cardiac arrest calls, this can still be too long and this is where the Community Responder role is of particular benefit.
For more information please contact:
Garry PerkinsVolunteer Development CoordinatorHPC ParamedicSECAmb ListenerSouth East Coast Ambulance NHS Trust40 - 42 Friars Walk LewesEast SussexBN7 2XWNetwork office 01273 897836Mobile 07881831147
All local groups/organisations based in Heathfield are able to hire minibuses for one-off outings. For more information please contact: 01892 610314 or email heathfieldpartnership@fsmail.net.
Can you help to keep Age Concern on the road?
Age Concern for Heathfield and District are in desperate need of new volunteer drivers and admin staff to continue to run its minibus and car service. If you are able to help please contact John Banks on 01825 733799.
Please see Chairman's Report 2011 for full background information on this project.
Rupert Simmons met with officers of Wealden District Council and East Sussex County Council and the Chief Executive of the former on Friday.
We hope to have found a way to resolve the problem stalling the broadband project. Rather than having to decline the funding offer from SEEDA/Defra at this stage, Wealden have agreed to join with the County Council to approach Defra with a view to using the grant alongside the rollout of the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) funded programme when that initiative comes forward.
I know that we have had a number of false dawns on this project, but one thing I am convinced about is, that all parties remain united in their objective and fully committed to delivering high speed broadband to our area as quickly as possible. I would add on behalf of the Partnership that we are hugely appreciative of the efforts of Officers of both Authorities in the best efforts being shown to bring this pilot into reality. Superfast Broadband would in all of our minds be the single best investment in a boost for the economy and most importantly new jobs being created in the area.
Cllr Rupert Simmons
Chairman of the Heathfield Partnership Trust Ltd
