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Neurodiversity and Employment Talks
Carers in Hertfordshire are organising two talks (one in person and one lunchtime zoom event) on Neurodiversity and Employment.
Neurodiversity and Employment Talks
Louis Sanford shares his experience of the world of work as a Neurodiverse individual. Louis is currently a programme manager working across the NHS, Social Care, and voluntary sector improving services for people with Severe Mental Illness, Learning Disabilities and Autism; and provides insightful reflections and relatable anecdotes for some of the 31 jobs he has had up to the age of 25, what it means to himself accepting his own Neurodiversity today, and what it means for him as a parent of two neurodiverse children.
Online event
Date: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Time: 12.30pm to 2pm
Location: Online via Zoom (you will receive the link to join closer to the time of the meeting)
To book a place, click HERE.
In-person event
Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Time: 10.30am to 1pm, including a light lunch and refreshments
Location: Birchwood Leisure Centre, Longmead, Hatfield, AL10 0AN
To book a place, click HERE.
To book your place, please either use the links above, email contact@carersinherts.org.uk with the subject “Neurodiversity and Employment talk” or call our office on 01992 58 69 69.
When booking the in-person event, please inform us if you have any dietary requirements by Monday 15th April 2024.
Hertsmere’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Grant
Local community groups and voluntary organisations are encouraged to apply for small grants of up to £750 to help celebrate Hertsmere’s 50-year anniversary during 2024!
Applications will be open until Tuesday 2 April.
Find out more: hertsmere.gov.uk/50thanniversarygrant
Garden Waste Collection Service FREE for first year! UPDATED
  Great news – our new Garden Waste Collection Service will be free for the first year! In September 2023 we announced ambitious new plans to make a number of changes to our waste and recycling service to increase recycling rates, reduce avoidable waste and further meet our environmental commitments. The changes include introducing a weekly food waste collection from April 2025, bringing in a new and fairer chargeable opt-in Garden Waste Collection Service from April 2024, just like other well-performing councils, and enforcing our existing single black bin policy. Those commitments have not changed, but our early anticipation of new government requirements has allowed us to secure one-off indicative funding and make our new Garden Waste Collection Service free for residents for the first year. You still need to sign up to the Garden Waste Collection Service to have your green bin collected from April 2024. Charges to garden waste collections will start in April 2025 and coincide with our new weekly food waste collection. Signing up this year will not automatically commit you to an ongoing subscription. We will let you know in good time of any charges prior to the new subscription year starting. The subscription form for the Garden Waste Collections Service will be available from 4 March at: www.hertsmere.gov.uk/gardenwaste To find out more about waste and recycling service in Hertsmere, please visit www.hertsmere.gov.uk/recycling Find out more |
Community response to current events in Israel and Gaza – 01/02/24
Please see below some information on the Holocaust Memorial Service which took place last week in Potters Bar.
Ongoing we will now be issuing bulletins on a monthly basis or as and when there is information to share. The next one will be issued at the beginning of March.
If you would like to share information through this bulletin, please do not hesitate to contact community.services@hertsmere.gov.uk
Honouring Holocaust Memorial Day
The Mayor of Hertsmere, Cllr Chris Myers, led a poignant candlelit parade and ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day last week.
The candlelit parade travelled from Manor Road Car Park in Potters Bar last Thursday (25 January), to the Wyllyotts Theatre where a ceremony took place which included a first-hand personal account from Hertsmere resident, Judith Hayman.
The event was held to remember the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
During the ceremony, the Holocaust Memorial Day Prayer was read by Reverend Philip Green, representing the Mayor’s Chaplaincy, followed by a two-minute silence. There were speeches by the Lord-Lieutenant, Mr Robert Voss CBE CStJ, Hertsmere resident, Judith Hayman, Mayor of Hertsmere, Cllr Chris Myers and the Leader of Hertsmere, Cllr Jeremy Newmark. Music was performed by Potters Bar Community Choir and videos shown. Also in attendance were a number of Hertsmere Borough Councillors and staff, dignitaries and members of the public.
Mayor Cllr Myers said: “I was deeply honoured to lead such an important event for our borough.
“The theme this year was ‘Fragility of Freedom’ to acknowledge that freedom is fragile and it cannot be taken for granted. Not only do perpetrator regimes erode the freedom of the people they are targeting, they also restrict the freedoms of others around them, to prevent people from challenging the regime.”
The event was held ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, which is on 27 January, the anniversary of the day in 1945 when the Soviet Army liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
To watch a video of the event, please click here. To learn more about why this day is significant, and how to get involved, visit https://www.hmd.org.uk/
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