Message Sent By Gillian Fleet (Police, Preventing financial fraud officer, Lincolnshire) to Neighbourhood Watch

If NHS Test and Trace calls you by phone, the service will be using a single phone number 0300 0135 000.

The only website the service will ask you to visit is https://contact-tracing.phe.gov.uk.

Contact tracers will never:

• Ask you to dial a premium rate number to speak to us (for example, those starting 09 or 087)

• Ask you to make any form of payment

• Ask for any details about your bank account

• Ask for your social media identities or login details, or those of your contacts

• Ask you for any passwords or PINs, or ask you to set up any passwords or PINs over the phone

• Ask you to purchase a product

• Ask you to download any software to your device or ask you to hand over control of your PC, smartphone or tablet

• Ask you to access any website that does not belong to the Government or NHS

Share this information with family and friends, protect yourself and others.

Do you want a new job co-ordinating help for those in need ?

The Rural North West Peterborough Good Neighbours Scheme Charitable Trust seeks a Co-ordinator

See details of the job £12/h here

There are a lot of children around locally, it is a bound to be confusing to many. This book aimed at children might help help them understand what is going on: https://nosycrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Coronavirus-A-Book-for-Children.pdf

Bainton & Ashton Allotments: now have a 1/4 plot and a micro plot available

If you want to get out of the house and have a go at running a small allotment. We can all keep a safe distance and it is a good contribution to your reguar exercise.

To express an interest the just contact Malcolm Maurice 740865

Parish News:

There is an excellent list of new local delivery services to help with lockdown in the parish magazine or here

https://parishnews-online.co.uk/companies-offering-local-deliveries-for-those-isolating-shielding/

The Village Thursday Thanks

(23rd April 2020) was again well supported from 2-year-olds banging pans to 80-year-olds blowing whistles.

As it became dark enough I played with a few more images, this time on the garage wall.

Thank you Bainton and Ashton Residents

Bainton and Ashton Parish Council Good Neighbours Scheme gets to work.

Late in March, Bainton and Ashton Parish Council were contacted by Peterborough City Council to ask if our Good Neighbours’ Scheme could pilot a joint project to help the work of the newly formed ‘Peterborough Covid-19 hub’.

The idea was to channel the efforts of local people who wanted to help those who do not have a support network and are in immediate need of help.

Donations were to be collected via what is being called the “Bright Ribbon Campaign’ and distributed to vulnerable families and the Peterborough Food Bank operated by the Kingsgate Church. It was decided that the scheme would start on Monday the 6^th of April and donations were safely collected that morning from houses throughout Bainton and Ashton using a minimum number of volunteers. A big thank you to them!

In that first week an astonishing total of 170 kilos items were donated, including not only food, but toys, games, and books for children stuck at home. A sincere thank you to all our residents.

Goods are assembled at Hawthorn Farm in Ashton from where they are collected by a Peterborough City Council truck for distribution. Collections continue to be repeated each Monday from 9.00 am. The immediate response was so generous that we don’t expect the same volume every week but anything that people can spare will be welcome and following our successful pilot the Peterborough City Council are contacting other villages to see if they too would like to join in the effort.

So please, if you’d like to join in, leave something by your gate in a bag on a Monday before nine a.m., ideally with coloured ribbon attached. We seem to have enough toys books and DVD’s for now, but would still appreciate non-perishable foodstuffs like pasta, rice, pulses, tinned vegetables and fruit, and condiments like sauces and mustard. We’d particularly appreciate baby care items like nappies and powdered milk, and any kind of pet food product.

Residents can feel justifiably proud of the efforts they are making. You are all stars! Very best wishes and stay safe!

Susie Lucas

Parish Council Chair 01780740159 susie.hall34@gmail.com

Anita Philips

Parish Councillor and Good Neighbours Scheme Lead

07725 855492 anita@ruizuk.co.uk

Irene Walsh

Peterborough City Cabinet Council for Communities

Irene.walsh@peterborough.gov.uk

Bainton St Marys Church

• Have a look at the St Mary's Church page to see the changes in the Diocese due to Covid-19 and the resources that are available. See details here
• A new Barnack with Ufford, Bainton, Helpston and Wittering Facebook Group page has been create https://parishnews-online.co.uk/staying-connected-within-the-community/

9th of April 2020 at 8:00pm there was lots of NHS applause to be heard

(Because it is now lighter nights this picture was taken a little later in the evening at Bainton Buttercross)

Message from Cambridgeshire Council

· Cllr Steve Count’s Vlog - Today in his video message Cllr Steve Count, leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, encourages people who the Government has asked to ‘shield’ themselves - to sign up and make sure that they get the support that they need to help them do this. Those who have received a letter are asked to go to:

https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable where there is an online form or to call 0800 0288327 which is the dedicated government helpline.

People who haven’t received a letter but believe they should be in the shielded category are asked to do the same.

Once they register, their details will be passed to the countywide COVID-19 co-ordination hub who will make contact to establish what support they might need and so we can prioritise those at greatest risk. (NB: this will never involve asking individuals for money or their bank details)

Evergreen Care Trust

Dear all Re:Corona Virus

If I might pen a note to let you know what the Evergreen Care Trust are coordinating, in conjunction with two Stamford groups that have been set up, to help folk through the Corona Virus self-isolation in Stamford, Bourne, The Deepings and the surrounding villages.

We are:-

• Holding/collating a list of people who have volunteered to shop and collect prescriptions
• Matching up volunteers with those asking for assistance
• Preparing guidelines on good practice
• To put posters up in town, the villages advising “we are here to help” with our phone number etc. on
• Also looking at distributing materials such as books, magazines, jigsaws
• Organising regular phone calls to keep in touch

If you have any other ideas or might like to let us know what you are co-ordinating we can then put people &/or organisations in touch to assist folk further through these coming months. Also if you would like to be listed as a volunteer or have someone who needs help then also please get in touch.

Thank you. Regards Su Fletcher su.fletcher@outlook.com Evergreen Care Trust

New Food Delivery Service:

Willowbrook Farm Food

DO YOU NEED HELP? CAN YOU HELP?

Bainton and Ashton Parish Council Good Neighbours Scheme:

1. Want to let those in need know that HELP IS AVAILABLE
2. Are pulling together a list of volunteers who can help those stuck at home

If you need help with anything, such as: Picking up shopping, Posting mail, A friendly phone call, Urgent supplies, Walking the dog

Please contact;

Anita Phillips on 01780 749128 / mobile 07725 855492 or email anita@ruizuk.co.uk

or Susie Lucas 01780 740159 / mobile 07872 645961 or email Susie.hall34@gmail.com