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Help shape the refreshed Essex Rural Strategy

What matters to you the people who live and work in our rural communities?

PUBLIC CONSULTATION IS NOW OPEN UNTIL 30th MARCH 2020

Working with Essex County Council, North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group EALC are delivering the Suicide Prevention Grant intended to fund projects from groups, charities (with local delivery) and organisations that support men's suicide prevention, mental health or other underlying factors.

Plough Sunday - All are welcome!

Celebrating Plough Sunday with a special service
to support all those who work on the land followed by a Ploughman’s Lunch

SUNDAY 12 JANUARY 2020, 11.00am
THAXTED PARISH CHURCH
with The Right Revd John Perumbalath, Bishop of Bradwell

Date: Tuesday 15th October 2019

Time: 10:00am 

Location: Chelmsford City Racecourse, Chelmsford CM3 1QP

Member Invitation only - please contact Lizze Rose if you wish to attend: elizabeth.rose@essexrcc.org.uk

SHOP workers have a vital role in your community but face increased abuse or violence.
The latest Association of Convenience Stores Crime Report shows that 83% of shop staff have been subjected to verbal abuse and increasing violence within the past 12 months. There were also more than a million incidents of theft during the same period. 

For advise and contact details regarding convenience store crime please click here

To read the latest CrimeStoppers Newsletter please click here
 

Community Libraries to get structured support in the new ECC strategy announced on 15th July.

If you have an unwanted or unlicensed firearm you are being encouraged to hand it in to Essex Police to help keep Essex safe and prevent it from falling into the hands of criminals.

Essex Police are running a two-week firearm surrender from Saturday 20 July until Sunday 4 August where you can hand a firearm into Essex Police and won’t face prosecution for possessing it illegally.

Time: 10:30am tea & coffee. Meeting start time 11am

Location: Essex Young Farmers Club HQ, Chatham Green, Chelmsford Essex

Member Invitation only - please contact Lizze Rose if you wish to attend: elizabeth.rose@essexrcc.org.uk

Key Speaker:  Cllr Susan Barker ECC Cabinet Member for Customer Care and Corporate

                           Essex Future Library Services Strategy

Taking place:  Friday 18th of Jan 2019 starting at 10am 12:30pm followed by a light lunch at the:

Agrii Technology Centre, Throws Farm, Stebbing Nr Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 3AQ.

The initiative is being launched in partnership with the Farming Community Network (FCN) to try and tackle the issues of loneliness & Isolation, along with Mental Health challenges some farmers are facing.

For more information about the initiative and the event please call: 01371 878400 or visit CVS Uttlesford webpage: www.cvsu.org.uk/farmerscafe

Lambent Productions will be filming in Essex as part of a six-part documentary series, filming takes place from now until the end of November.  In particular Lambent Productions would like to know of private landowners who regularly suffer from fly-tipping on their land, and also who may be happy to speak on camera. 

It’s a series about community and helping others, as well as covering important issues around waste disposal and environmental crime.

For more information please contact: Kim@lambentproductions.co.uk

www.lambentproductions.co.uk

Full Partnership meeting -  we are pleased to announce ERP’s keynote speaker for this meeting:

Tim Goodship, Director of Rural Policy at Defra

Meeting starts: 11:00am - 13:15

Venue:  Young Farmers Conference Centre, Chatham Green, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 3LQ

Lunch:  13:15

All are welcome!

Chelmsford Cathedral 30th September 2018  at  3:30pm

The National Harvest Torch will be coming to Chelmsford Cathedral.

Followed by a cream Tiptree Tea.

Priti Patel, MP for Witham, paid a visit to RCCE recently to hear about their projects and to discuss support for rural communities.

The Rural Community are invited to the Essex Police Rural Crime Day.

The event is free to attend and takes place on Wednesday 14th November 2018. To be held at Slamseys Farm, Blackley Lane, Great Notley, Braintree CM77 7QW

OPEN TO VISITORS FROM 10AM TO 3PM

The NFU has launched a new service for farmers and the public to give information anonymously about rural crime, in partnership with the charity Crimestoppers.

The “Rural Crime Reporting Line” is part of the NFU’s ongoing work to tackle the serious issues surrounding criminal behaviour on farms and in the wider countryside.

Call:  0800 783 0137 or visit www.ruralcrimereportingline.uk

The May edition includes the latest news on the Government stepping up to fight against waste criminals.

click here to read now

Members Anouncement!

It is with regret that the ERP Strategic Board meeting: Tuesday 27th February 2018 is now CANCELLED.

The decision has been made due to the weather warnings issued for the county as the ‘beast from the east’ approaches.   An alternative date will be announced soon with the aim of a meeting in March.

We wish you a safe and warm week ahead!

Do you know somebody in your community who goes the extra mile to support vulnerable people, prevent crime and make their communities safer?  If so then why not nominate them for the award!

A national charity that helps communities to take control of their challenges and overcome them through co-operation. The charity supports people, predominantly in rural areas, to set up and run life-changing community co-operatives; enterprises that are owned and run democratically by large numbers of people in their community. 

It also helps people to tackle a range of issues such isolation, loneliness and poverty, and come in many forms including shops, cafes, pubs and land-based initiatives, and anything in between.

The next full ERP meeting will take place on Tuesday 24th April at Essex Young Farmers Conference Room, starting at 2pm (with lunch available from 1.30pm) More details will be circulated in due course.

Please note this is a members only event.

RHS have a few spaces left on their Free Secondary Science Teach Meet, taking place on Thursday 16th November, 4.15 – 6.15 pm at Hartismere School, IP23 7BL.

Find out how Essex Police will tackle crime in rural areas

Thursday 16th November 1.00 - 4.00pm

Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome

FREE ADMISSION!

DIRECTIONS: http://www.stowmaries.org.uk/contact/how-to-find-us

Please note:  The postcode gives the correct location, however if you wish to use a satnav or google map it will direct you to an entrance which isn’t accessible. Please use the above link.

Apologies due to unavoidable circumstances the next ERP Full meeting to be held on Tuesday 24th October has been postponed.

An alternative date will be organised to discuss the topic Brexit.

Do remember to come along on Thursday 16th November for the Essex Police Fighting Rural Crime Day, member arrangements for the morning session will be sent out next week.

Please download here for the event poster which can be printed and displayed.

More information at http://www.essex.pfcc.police.uk/events/fighting-rural-crime-essex-rural-crime-strategy-launch-event/

Member Notice

The date for the next Full Partnership Meeting has changed to Tuesday 24th October, to be held at the YFC Conference Centre.  Meeting start time 14:00 to finish 17:00.

Full details will be distributed accordingly.

NB: ERP Meeting is by invitation only.

DNA testing of dog faeces has been backed by a parish council in a bid to stop fouling in an Essex village

On May 21^st the roads minister Stephen Hammond announced the three possible sites for a new River Thames crossing between Essex and Kent.

On Tuesday 8^th January a small group representing Essex Rural Partnership met with David Heath CBE MP, Minister of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 

The Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP has been confirmed as the new Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whilst David Heath MP has been announced as the new Minister of State. 

The Essex Rural Partnership has been chosen as one of 14 Rural and Farming Networks, announced by Agriculture Minister Jim Paice today (4th January).

The ‘Pigs Are Still Worth It’ campaign is urging the public to make the pork promise to buy high welfare Red Tractor pork.

The Big Lottery Fund has joined forces with the Village SOS initiative in a ground breaking partnership to support rural community enterprises across the UK.