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Garden Waste – subscribe now for collections
 Our new subscription service is live. From April 2024 we will only collect from households that have subscribed to the service and have our Garden Waste Collection Service sticker on their green bin. We’ve been able to make the first year’s subscription completely free. This means nobody will need to pay anything before April 2025, which will coincide with our new weekly food waste collections. Sign up to get your Garden Waste Collection sticker You will receive a sticker through the post, which must be placed on your bin to identify it as part of the service. You should put this on your bin as soon as you receive it. The sticker should be displayed on the back of your bin underneath the handles and the bin should be presented for collection with the handles and sticker facing out toward the road, so the sticker is clearly visible to the collection crew. There will be a grace period until the end of May 2024 to ensure everyone has had time to subscribe and has received their Green Waste Collection Service sticker. Once you are signed up to the service you will automatically receive a renewal reminder next year before the new subscription charge is due. More information and FAQs. |
Nagler Simmons Radlett Rotary Fun Runs, Bank Holiday Monday 6 May 2024
I hope you are well, healthy and raring to go, as we’re back yet again with our annual fun run event on Bank Holiday Monday, 6 May 2024.
We hope you will join us again, and this year you can register on-line at https://www.radlettrotaryclub.com/funrun. However, in case you prefer, you can still complete and send off the entry form found here. Please note that early registration ends midnight Saturday 4 May, after which we ask you to register on the day.
We really hope that you and your family and friends will come along and support us, please. Running is a brilliant way to keep fit and healthy, and by joining us on the 6th May you can also support charities, both local and national. All of your entry fees go to charitable purposes as all costs are covered by our generous sponsors, local accountants Nagler Simmons.
As usual, there will be 2 runs, both completely off-road and centred around Tabard Rugby Club; one of 1.5 km for children under the age of 11, and another of 5 km for everyone 7 years of age and over. There will be medals for all finishers, as well as trophies for the winners. For the 5 km event, as well as trophies for the first 3 male/female runners past the post, there will also be trophies for the first boy/girl under 12 and under 16, the first male/female veteran 45 and over, the first vet 60 and over, and for the winning team of 4 (to be registered in advance).
As well as inflatables for the children (provided and managed for us by Keen Bean Sport), there will also be a jazz band. And food and drink will be available from 9:00 am.
Please try to persuade all your friends, relatives & colleagues to take part. If there are 4 of you for the 5 km run, then why not enter as a team, but please note that team entries can only be accepted in advance & not on the day.
We would really like to thank local chartered accountants Nagler Simmons for their continued support of the event, thereby ensuring that all entry fees received will go straight to Rotary charities. And as with last year, we hope you will also be personally sponsored by friends and relatives to raise money for our nominated charity, “Hertsmere Mencap”. More information on this worthy cause can be found at https://www.hertsmeremencap.org.uk. Sponsorship forms are also attached here, and again, you will also find copies on our sponsor’s website.
Hoping to receive your entry in the near future & to see you there on 6 May – if you have any queries or comments in the mean time, or if you wish to unsubscribe to these emails, then please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Thanking you for your support,
Simon Pyzer
01923 854978
For Radlett Rotary Club
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 |