Are you planning on spending time outdoors? Play your part in helping to keep our environment clean and litter-free: bring a bag to take your rubbish home with you to throw away or recycle. Don’t leave rubbish next to a full bin. Litter ruins our great outdoors by harming our wildlife and polluting our waters. Remember, bins aren’t always available outdoors, especially in the countryside
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Solihull MBC have advised that although playgrounds are allowed to reopen from July 4th, along with other local authorities they are advising that their playgrounds cannot reopen before Monday July 6th.
Plastics Challenge From Canal and Rivers Trust, please click the link below:
1. Join the Community.
From here, useful tips, resources and guides. You’ll receive a monthly newsletter from the community plus the ability to sign up for alerts you may be interested in. The address is:
https://www.ourwatch.org.uk
2. Join the Dickens Heath Neighbourhood Watch Scheme
https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/scheme/50710/dickens-heath
Please bring your library books back!
Solihull residents are being asked to return their library books – so they can be issued safely next month.
In order to give library staff sufficient time to quarantine books and prepare them for safe reissue, people are asked to return their library books to any of Solihull’s libraries from 10am to 1pm on Saturday 20 June or Thursday 25 June.
On Monday 6 July staff at Solihull Library Service will start issuing books through a new Click and Collect scheme at The Core. This will be followed by similar schemes at Chelmsley Wood Library and Shirley Library a few weeks later on 20 July. The service will be available in 30 minutes slots with users submitting requests for books via an online booking system on the Library Service web pages.
Forms will be available online from Monday 29 June for collections from The Core and from Monday 13 July for Chelmsley Wood and Shirley Libraries. Anyone unable to use the online form can place an order by phoning 0121 704 8001. The Home Library Service will also restart on 6 July.
Solihull Council’s Cabinet Member for Stronger and Safer Communities, Cllr Alison Rolf, said: “The launch of Click and Collect and the restart of our Home Library Service next month means we will have two very safe ways for people to borrow library books. Please help us to make this a success by dropping your book loans off this Saturday or next Thursday.
“Unfortunately we are a long way off from opening our doors as normal – so please don’t visit our libraries yet, other than to drop off your books for safe reissue.
“If you are unable to drop books off at these times and friends and family can’t do this for you, please don’t worry. We understand it may be difficult for some, so all books currently out for loan have had their return dates extended until the end of September. But to those of you who can – please bring your library books back!“
In National Volunteers Week, the Parish Council would like to send out a massive thank you to all of our Dickens Heath Heroes who have been doing so much in recent weeks to help the local community. Thank you to our Pharmacy volunteers who have been delivering prescriptions to self isolating residents, thank you to Tesco and everyone involved in the food bank donations, thank you to our residents who have been planting up the planters, watering our new trees on the Village Green, and helping with litter picking. Thank you to Catherine of the Library for all of your support with the Covid-19 Support Facebook page, and thank you to all other volunteers who are helping in the community – you are all very much appreciated.
Having suspended the April and May meetings due to coronavirus, the Parish Council have decided to hold a virtual meeting, using Zoom, on Tuesday June 9th at 11am.
Along with all of the usual PC business, there are 2 items that may be of particular interest to residents:
1) Although the playground is currently closed, we are already starting to think about the process of procuring a replacement playground – which is likely to include consultation with children at the school.
2) The Parish Council has been approached by the Directors of the Village Hall, with a view that the PC take on the administration of the Village Hall on their behalf, and this is therefore on the agenda for discussion.
The public are very welcome, and if you would like to attend – please contact the Clerk on 07772 469271 or dickensheathpc@hotmail.com for the meeting details.
We will aim to have the usual public participation session at the beginning of the meeting, but please bear with us – as this is our first virtual meeting, we are all still learning.
