Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

The percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 continued to increase in England and Wales, while the trend was uncertain in Northern Ireland and Scotland in the latest week.

The estimated percentage of people living in private households (those not in care homes or other communal establishments) testing positive for COVID-19 was:

• 1.57% in England (1 in 65 people)
• 2.07% in Wales (1 in 50 people)
• 1.26% in Northern Ireland (1 in 80 people)
• 2.22% in Scotland (1 in 45 people)

Earlier this week, we published data which showed there were 347 deaths involving COVID-19 registered in the UK in the week ending 16 September 2022, down from 414 in the previous week.

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Round 2 of the Comic Relief programme will open on 31st October 2022 and will remain open until 30th November 2022. If you applied to our first funding round, you should have now received your decision.

The Comic Relief Community Fund is supporting community led organisations with an income of less than £250,000 to deliver projects within four strategic themes.

We are pleased to be managing this new fund on behalf of Comic Relief in England. It will provide grants of up to £10,000, supporting project delivery and organisational capacity building, helping organisations flourish.

The funding is split as follows:

Up to £1,000 for capacity building
Up to £9,000 for project delivery

We will fund applications from grass roots, community led organisations that can demonstrate how people with lived experience of the issues being tackled are involved in the organisation and the project.

Applications must sit within one of the four key themes:

A Safe Place To Be: Supporting people to rebuild their lives because of homelessness or forced migration.

Children Survive & Thrive: Supporting children up to the age of 11 to grow, play and learn

Gender Justice: Championing those who identify as women and girls, including initiatives tackling domestic violence, abuse or exploitation

Mental Health Matters: Supporting good mental health in communities and tackling stigma and discrimination.

https://www.groundwork.org.uk/comic-relief

We’re sorry we’ve been a little quiet lately, but we have been so busy that we’ve barely had time for a cup of tea and a doughnut!

However, over the last couple of weeks your March, Chatteris and Whittlesey neighbourhood team have arrested 10 people for possession with intent to supply class A and class B drugs. These arrests come from proactive and intelligence-led policing, and the arrests account for a number of different investigations.

As a result, we have seized more than £90,000 in cash and a significant quantity of drugs.

For those who continue to supply drugs and cause harm in Fenland, we may not have not got round to them yet, but rest assured we will catch up with them as soon as we can.

If you have information or concerns about drugs, you can report online here.

Have a lovely weekend Fenland!

Sent on behalf of Inspector Andy Morris, from the Fenland Neighbourhood Policing Team