Category: General News

Affinity Water urges customers to get in touch for help with bills

Affinity Water has a range of measures in place to help customers who may be struggling to pay their bill?
They are currently running a campaign to urge customers to get in touch to see how they can support them.

Households on low incomes or who receive certain benefits or have a medical condition that require the extra use of water may be eligible for a range of different tariffs that we have in place to support those most in need.
Anyone who has been affected financially by coronavirus may also be eligible for payment breaks, different tariffs or spreading the cost of their bill.
We know this has been a very challenging time for many of our customers and we want to let them know that we are here to help.
We want to make it easy for everyone affected to get the support they need as quickly as possible and we are asking your help to get the message out to the people you represent.

We are urging customers who have been affected financially by Covid-19 or are struggling to pay their bill to visit www.affinitywater.co.uk/help

The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal is running differently this year due to Covid safe guarding regulations.

Poppies can be obtained and donations made at:

• Eastcote Pharmacy 109 Field End Road Eastcote
• Hammond Roberts 136 Field End Road Eastcote
• Youngs Newsagents 205 Field End Road Eastcote
• Royal British Legion Southbourne Gardens Eastcote (Mon-Thu 4-10pm, Fri-Sun 12-10pm)
• Sainsbury’s Long Drive South Ruislip
• Asda 6 Old Dairy Lane South Ruislip
• Aldi Unit 1 Victoria Retail Park South Ruislip
• Sainsbury’s 12 Barters Walk Pinner
• M & S Simply Food 4 Bishops Walk Pinner
• Authorised Collectors will be at Eastcote / Ruislip Manor / South Ruislip / Pinner station at various times (26 Oct – 07 Nov).

The London Borough of Hillingdon (LBH) has arranged for Remembrance Maroons to be launched from 11 sites across the borough at 11am on the 11th November.  https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/remembrance

Residents are asked to commemorate from the safety of their own homes and strongly advised that any visits to memorials are made at times other than Remembrance Sunday or Armistice Day.

Remembrance parades are cancelled due to the pandemic, so here are some poppy pictures to print, colour in and put in your window.

If you would like to get hold of poppies from the Royal British Legion please see our earlier post:  https://www.eastcoteresidents.org.uk/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-poppy-appeal-2020/

LEST WE FORGET

The Eastcote Branch of the Royal British Legion laid an RAF Roundel Wreath at Eastcote War Memorial to remember all who gave their everything for our today.

For more information please go to:  RAF Benevolent Fund Battle of Britain 80th Anniversary

or

The Royal British Legion

We have been asked by at team at the LSE for their support with a survey (this was also featured on our website last month):

It is hard to find land in London to build on. One suggestion is to increase density – to allow more to be built on a piece of land. To this end, my colleagues and I at the London School of Economics have put together a survey to better understand what Outer London residents think about this.

Link to the survey: https://urban-experiment.com/share/jzx8JB

The survey can be accessed by clicking on the link and then, after having read the instructions, by clicking ‘Continue’.  It consists of two parts. The first is a short questionnaire and the second contains a series of images for the participant to respond to. It should take about 4-6 minutes to complete. More detailed information, including a consent form, can be found on the survey’s introduction page. Participants are encouraged to complete the survey by 14 June. Responses will be anonymous. If there are any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email: j.g.karlsson@lse.ac.uk

Eastcote Residents’ Association (ERA) has been in continuous existence and “your voice in local affairs” for 90 years, so has a great deal of experience behind it.  The work of ERA is mainly carried out by a small committee and the Road Stewards.

The committee members and Road Stewards are all volunteers and yes, you’ve guessed it, you can never have too many volunteers! Modern life is ever busier – the more volunteers we have, the less arduous and time consuming the task.

Could you give some time, however little, to volunteer, either as a Road Steward, to help an existing committee member or even to take on a role of your own? Perhaps you have a particular area of interest, would like to help with the newsletter, take meeting notes, or have an organisational skill to offer? Please take a couple of minutes to think about the work we do and then, if you would like to join us or discuss this further send an email to chairman@eastcotera.co.uk.

ERA has historically been about face-to-face contact. Road Stewards talking to their neighbours, meetings and events.

The pandemic has led to a fundamental re-think of how to continue for the time being, so please visit us online.

If you have some time and would like to help our local community in any way, please contact us at chairman@eastcotera.co.uk

If you are willing, please click here to pay your £2 subscriptions by direct debit as we are currently unable to collect in person .