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Your Store Your Say: Deliveries to Upchurch's Co-op - Traffic Cone Trial

Until Sunday 9th May, Upchurch's Co-op is currently receiving 2 main lorry deliveries per day.

To ensure Co-op lorries have space to park safely and are not turned away, colleagues have been running a trial, placing traffic cones in the road outside the store before they arrive. Once deliveries are in store, they move the cones back onto the pavement.

In preparation for morning deliveries, colleagues place the cones in the road again as late as possible each evening or when they gauge it to be quiet.

your store

your say

Please tell us how well our “Traffic Cone Trial” is working and about your experience at Upchurch's Co-op, using store number 7889 at: www.coop.co.uk/yoursay

You could win £250 of Co-op vouchers - 10 prizes to be won per month.

Thank you 

Nik - Upchurch’s Co-op

New Litter & Dog Waste Bin in Oak Lane

Upchurch Parish Council has installed a new litter & dog waste bin in Oak Lane opposite the junction with Chaffes Lane.

It's hoped more owners will now clean up after their dog and dispose of their bagged waste responsibly instead of allowing their pet to foul the grass verge used as a footpath between Chaffes and Canterbury Lane.

You can dispose of bagged dog waste in any public litter bin or take it home to your green wheelie bin.

It is an offence to allow a dog under your control to foul a public place, and Swale Borough Council has the power to fine owners who do not clean up after their dog.

You can report dog fouling to Swale Borough Council at: https://bit.ly/2VA0csW

Allowing your dog to mess in a public place and not clean it up is antisocial and unacceptable to all residents.

Please leave our village spaces clean and tidy for others.

Thank you

Upchurch Matters

NHS Kent and Medway CCG - Community Bulletin

Covid-19 vaccines update

Vaccinations begin for 45-49 year olds

This week the Government announced that the next phase of the vaccination programme is beginning, with people aged 45-49 now eligible for the vaccine. GP services are starting to invite people and appointments at large vaccination centres and pharmacies have seen a surge in bookings.

Second doses ramping up

We are now more than four months into the Covid-19 vaccination programme and the number of people getting the extra protection of a second dose is increasing significantly. Over 213,000 people have now had two doses, including 64% of frontline health staff.

Booking service reopens for health staff

From 19th April the national booking service will reopen for frontline health and social care staff to book appointments. You will be able to tick a box to confirm you are eligible and will then need to bring ID to your appointment. Full details will be on the national booking service from next week.

You can read more about these stories in our weekly vaccines update

New maternal mental health service trial

The NHS in Kent and Medway is piloting new maternal mental health services for women who have experienced birth trauma or baby loss, as announced by NHS England on 6th April 2021

‘Thrive - Psychological Support for Birth Trauma and Loss’ is running throughout 2021 in east Kent, as a partnership between the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

Thrive has been built and shaped with input from women who have lived through birth trauma and birth loss themselves. One of them is Charlotte, who suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after the birth of her first child in 2018.

You can find out more about her experience, and how the Thrive service is already helping local women like her on our website

Online mental health and wellbeing support

Kooth, an online mental health and wellbeing service for young people, is now available to all 10 to 25-year-olds across Kent and Medway.

Anyone aged 10 to 25 (up to 26th birthday) can log on to www.kooth.com and begin accessing free counselling, advice and wellbeing support.

Kooth provides a safe, secure means of accessing help via the internet including:

• Out-of-hours availability with counsellors available from 12 noon to 10:00pm on weekdays and 6:00pm to 10:00pm at weekends, every day of the year on a drop-in basis
• Online counselling from a professional team of qualified counsellors
• Discussion boards, which are all pre-moderated, allowing young people to access peer-to-peer support
• An online magazine full of moderated articles

No referral is required. Young people can register at www.kooth.com

Transforming acute adult mental health services

Across Kent and Medway commissioners and providers are working together to transform acute mental health services for adults, so that the right support is available for those who need it.

If you, a carer or family member or loved one has needed to seek support, or help for a severe acute mental health problem, we would really like to hear about your/their experience, and what you would like from future mental health services in Kent and Medway.

We’d be grateful if you would complete this complete this survey to let us know your thoughts. Please complete it by 7th May 2021.

If you have any questions or need any further information, please contact kmpt.engagement@nhs.net

You can find out more about our current engagement activities on our website

Help develop NHS Talking Therapies

Engaging Kent CIC in partnership with NHS Kent and Medway CCG is holding two engagement events to hear people's views about the development of IAPT (NHS Talking Therapies) for Kent and Medway from 2022.

The two events will be held on Zoom on Thursday 29th April 2021 starting at 10:00am and 1:00pm. Both events will have the same content and last for one hour and forty-five minutes.

You can register your interest by completing a Google form https://forms.gle/79Q64gqEea1fsrLp7

Registration will close at midnight Monday 26th April 2021.

Meeting details will be sent on Tuesday 27th April 2021.

If you have any questions about the events or are unable to use this form, please email the Kent and Medway CCG Adult Mental Health Team using KMCCG.mentalhealth@nhs.net

Read the full bulletin at >> https://bit.ly/3mVXx9X

NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group

Co-op Community Update

Our Local Community Fund for support between November 2021 - November 2022 opens for applications on 4th May 2021 and any community group, club or charity can apply. This year with your application you are required to be registered on our Co-operate platform which can be found by visiting co-operate.coop.co.uk

Co-operate, as you may already be aware is a great way to share events, activities, fundraisers and even community work that requires volunteers. This resource is being used more and more by the local community so please do join and upload any events and activities you have going on.

If you are not currently a cause supported through the Local Community Fund, we also have a Community Donations Scheme that is run by each of our stores and you can apply for up to £250 to support your organisation. I can support applications made through the Community Donation Scheme.

For anyone who was unable to join our first meeting, we may look to hold a second one soon, please do keep a lookout for any updates on this.

If you haven't joined already, you can find a group on Facebook called Swale Co-op Community Updates. You can request to join and again post any updates, events and activities that you wish to share.

Thank you

Jamie Rhodes

Member Pioneer

The Co-operative Group

Mobile: 07929 830988

Urgent Road Closure - South Bush Lane, Hartlip

It will be necessary to close South Bush Lane, Hartlip from Thursday 22nd April 2021 for up to 10 days.

The road will be closed outside the entrance to the Christmas tree farm.

The alternative route is via A2 London Road, Spade Lane and Meresborough Lane.

This is to enable gully installation works to be carried out by Kent County Council.

KCC 24hr Contact Centre: 03000 418181

For details of roadworks see: https://one.network

Kent County Council - Highways, Transportation & Waste