Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

Updated with presentation.

Having heard nothing for 6 months I contacted Cllr Simon King who chairs the committee.
(Portfolio Holder for Equalities & Transport)

Greater Anglia presentation can be viewed Here

Click on picture to enlarge:

The contents are very ambitious and far reaching, including replacing ALL Diesel Locos.

I have attended on many occasions meetings with what was Anglia Abillio – Cllr King is very confident after last weeks meeting that these ambitious plans will be delivered.

Last nights meeting of the New Queens Street Surgery – Patient Participation Group was very well attended by some 15 members. Various updates were given and we found out that ‘The Tesco planning application’ (outline) which is directly behind the surgery has been passed! – There are some reserved matters yet to be decided and a full application to be submitted.
I raised the issue of getting appointments, over the last 3 weeks, there have been no online appointments available – (All gone) and that’s looking 2 or 3 times a day, telephoning is again somewhat stressful and the only guaranteed way is to queue up at around 7:45 in the morning which I and many other do regularly. It a sign of our ever increasing population.

There will be a PPG awareness week 19th – 24th June.

 
There is a ‘new’ Health App – which can be downloaded and tells you of the nearest medical/dental/chemist services etc. It is available in several languages.
“MyHealth C&P CCG” on
Apple App Store
Google Play
Microsoft

Click on picture above for move information.

Next NQS PPG is on 15th May 2017 @ 7pm – New Queen Street Surgury,

Just in case – here is what NISA has advertised…
 
Apologies about the skewed pictures best I could do. So ‘The Shop will be closed at the end of business on Friday 14th April and re-open Saturday 29th April.
The ‘New opening times’ are from Saturday 28th April – see picture above.

There are that many events going on over the next few weeks – quizzes, coffee mornings etc I can not keep up with them – however if I spot them I’ll post them up.

See attached poster re Charity Walk – the details have not yet been finalised and further news will come from ‘The Fens’ magazine in the months to come.
Not overly challenging and you will raise money for two local good causes.
Defibrillators for All and the Whittlesey Young Peoples Counselling Service. – More info as received later.

Apologies this is the only information I have about Whittlesey Emergency Food Aid.
However – congratulations are in order.
At a recent Pride in Fenland Award Ceremony Defibrillators for All had achieved Runner Up status in the Organisational Section and Whittlesey Emergency Food Aid won the Outstanding Achievement Award.

The first spring Fair arrives in Whittlesey, some may see it as an inconvenience – but only held 4 times a year.
The Fair has a Royal Charter dating back to King John.
They have a right to hold 4 Fairs a year.

My thanks to who-ever informed Cllr David Connor that he had made my website?
David did call me and we had a good hours dialogue and meaningful conversation.
What I questioned in my article and I stand by and will not remove, as what I wrote is true and correct. I am not questioning Cllr Connors amount of work that he may have done, I said that he had made statements without any substantiation and I therefor invited him to send me any material to back up his election leaflet and I will be more than happy to publish it.
As I stated in my article – anyone who puts material through my door will be treated the same – fairly and without prejudice.

I have created a separate page heading on the top bar menu.
It is his/their call – I await his/their material.

My article was on 25th March and can be viewed either by scrolling down or
Click Here

My website goes far and wide, I get a number of ‘foreign’ visitors weekly, and it is nice to have reached parts of Fenland I would not normally have visitors from – my thanks again for informing Cllr David Connor.

Have a good weekend

Yesterday I attended a 4 hour seminar about Cyber Security at Hinchingbrooke Police HQ, there was a morning and afternoon session. Our group consisted of around 40 individuals including several high ranking Police Officers, Cyber specialists and some members of the public like myself and Morcom Lunt from Cambs NHW Executive committee.
Very informative and wide ranging, but the presenter kept hammering home the need for people to use ‘Strong Passwords’ and NOT to use the same passwords throughout the whole of their internet browsing.
NHW Secretary Robin Sutton attended the morning session, we hope to put together a simple presentation that can be put to other community groups within our area in the near future.
Passwords should always be between 10 and 15 characters long….upper & lower case and at least (1)@”£$% ‘Special character’

The government – Police and private cyber companies all suggest the website:

www.getsafeonline.org for a vast amount of information (Beginners to expert levels)

Every day – someone in the Whittlesey area is a victim of scammers/skimmers or what-ever you want to call them.
Please visit the site above and you will be surprised by carrying out just simple tasks you will reduce your risks.

Note: The Technical Director Rob Hadfield quoted ‘Mobile Banking is more secure than Internet Banking’ – yes there is a difference….

Friends of Whittlesey Library are putting on another event.

Updated 170330-12:21

          
The ‘newly created’ WBF is in its 2nd year under the current membership, this has reached a very healthy number of over 40+ local businesses, with a few like myself who are interested in passionate in promoting our town the best way we can.
At last nights meeting about 34 members attended a very good turn out.

On the agenda.
A very good presentation by Cllr Michelle Tanfield, the Portfolio Holder for Tourism & Leisure at FDC – she made a very good shortish presentation which was very articulate in both content and delivery, Whittlesey was mentioned a number of times, but it was ‘Fenland’ as a whole that needs better tourism promotion.
Update: Here is the link to the website : http://www.visitcambridgeshirefens.org/

Next was Liz Cooke Business Manager at Barclays Bank,  she informed the Forum that ‘locally’ there are no plans to change anything at Barclays Whittlesey – that’s not to say that Corporate decisions higher up may at sometime change?.
She said she had been very busy in transferring Ex Norwich & Peterborough Building Society accounts.

Natasha Shiels Editor of the Fens Magazine will be organising a charity walk – more on this later. Two Whittlesey Charities will be supported by this event – more to follow.

Cllr Eamonn Dorling updated the Neighbourhood Plan –
Click Here to see article 22nd March
Some 7,500 forms have been sent out to the Whittlesey/Village areas – so far some 10% have been returned (a good number by survey standards)

Finally Cllr/The Mayor, Alex Miscandlon gave the Forum an update on ‘Must Farm’ – again Whittlesey Tow & District Councillors appear to be promoting our town hard on this item.
Must Farm is in the Whittlesey area – not as many times quoted Peterborough, WTC/FDC Councillors sit on a steering committee planning the future of the Must Farm artefacts.
A very good and informative meeting.