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Hertfordshire Constabulary has launched a scheme – Pegasus – to help those with communication challenges when they have contact with police and other emergency services.
In partnership with the East of England Ambulance Service and Hertfordshire Fire & Rescue Service, Pegasus is designed to assist those who sometimes find it difficult to speak or make themselves understood, especially in pressured situations. It may be useful to anyone with any conditions, to help with any communication issues, including those neuro-diverse needs or visual or hearing impairments.
Registration is easy, free-of-charge and involves providing a few simple details via our dedicated webpage.
Following registration, the individual will receive a membership card and a PIN. When calling for assistance, the cardholder simply needs to say ‘Pegasus’ and quote their PIN for call handlers to provide the appropriate information to responding officers. There is also a Textphone option.
The card can also be shown in person to a police officer, paramedic or firefighter.
To apply or for further information please visit Pegasus card scheme | http://tinyurl.com/57caa6hs

Did you know that there are now several ways to reach Hertfordshire’s domestic abuse safe accommodation provider, Safer Places?

If you, or someone you know or are working with, needs to flee and requires access to emergency safe accommodation, or would like to talk about the community-based services they provide, Safer Places can be contacted at:

As you may have heard the OWL service will be replaced from the 1^st April with a new platform, Herts Connected.

The new messaging platform will start sending messages on the 1^st April.  We are already promoting it via OWL – encouraging members to sign up as OWL will switch off on the 31^st March.  Already we have had 12,000 people sign up which is great – especially as it has only been promoted this week.  We will continue to proactively promote on OWL and obviously beyond post April to encourage sign ups.

Below is the link to the website:

Home Page – Herts Connected

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,