Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

Countdown is on for the Fenland toy appeal!

It’s officially December, which means the countdown to the end of our Christmas Toy Appeal is on!

This year’s appeal is running until Saturday, 7 December. Donations will be accepted at Tesco, in Hostmoor Avenue, March, and Wisbech Police Station, in Nene Parade, where the yellow phone outside can be used to contact staff.

When dropping off donations at Tesco, keep an eye out for the collection point with our poster!

Need some inspiration on what to donate? Here is a sneak peek of the few of the donations we have received this year.

Want to know more about the appeal and how to get involved? You can read all about it on our website.

How will Whittlesey Town Council vote on the agaenda items tonight.
Update presentation on the proposed Science Park.

Police have located the lady and she is safe.

The Grinch will be arriving 12pm on the square outside Wetherspoons.

Whittlesey Cinema @ Queen St Church!

Next screening – Saturday 30^th Nov – doors 6.30pm for 7pm start.

“21” – cert 12A – stars Kevin Spacey and Jim Sturgess

(True story crime drama)

All free with refreshments served at interval (donations welcomed)

(Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa in the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter Jill Taylor predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.)

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Police and Crime Commissioner has announced an investment plan which supports the tackling of anti-social behaviour.

Darryl Preston has offered his support to Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week 2024, which ran from November 18-24.

A host of activities took place to signpost victims to support services and raise awareness of how to report problems.

The investment plan will also help to tackle other local issues including road safety and fly-tipping in every district across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Funding for problem-solving co-ordinators has been extended in each of the county’s six Community Safety Partnerships until March 2026.

The commissioner has also reopened his Safer Communities Fund, giving the Community Safety Partnerships the opportunity to bid for vital funding to target prevention efforts on the issues that impact communities the most.
Mr Preston said: “I wholeheartedly support weeks such as Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week. ASB is distressing. It can erode quality of life and will not be tolerated in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Our CSPs are working hard to prevent these issues and have achieved fantastic results.

“The continuation of my funding demonstrates how seriously we treat ASB and my confidence in the community work underway to make our county safer, stronger and more resilient to nuisance behaviour.”

During Anti-social Behaviour Awareness Week, neighbourhood officers visited Littleport Youth and Community Centre to speak to young people.

A community safety stall was also held in Ely Market Place.

In Huntingdon, patrols were out in the Ramsey PSPO area and Cambridgeshire Police officers visited youth sessions in St Neots.

A youth focus event was hosted at the Manor Leisure Skate Park in Fenland to engage with young people.
In Peterborough, the local policing team met with the community to talk about their concerns. Partners also met to discuss a Peterborough City Centre Public Space Protection Order.
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