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The Redditch Children's Centres What services do we offer We offer a range of services for children under 5 that include: Antenatal groups Stay and Play groups Speech & language advice Advice & support for families in their homes Breastfeeding support Family Planning Child development information and advice Help with your child’s sleeping & behaviour Citizens Advice Bureau Advice on nutrition and weaning Counselling Services Support and advice for a healthy lifestyle Advice on budgeting and benefits Links with Job Centre Plus Opportunities for volunteers Family fun-days and trips Emotional support to carers Training opportunities (with creche provision) Baby play sessions Special Needs Support To find out more call your nearest Children’s Centre Cherry Trees Children’s Centre Cherry Tree Walk Batchley Redditch B97 6PD Tel: 592675 Holly Trees Children’s Centre Mabey Avenue Riverside Redditch B98 8HW Tel: 61360 Maple Trees Children’s Centre Matchborough Way Matchborough Redditch B98 0GD Tel: 518745 Oak Trees Children’s Centre Wirehill Drive Lodge Park Redditch B98 7JU Tel: 517185 Willow Trees Children’s Centre Loxley Close Church Hill Redditch B98 9JG Tel: 65668 Woodlands Children’s Centre Longdon Close Woodrow Redditch B98 7UZ Tel: 517935 2 Redditch matters Redditch Borough Council
Contents 4 Redditch Round-up. New awards recognise greater access for people with disabilities, Garden Waste pilot takes root 5 Council news. Meet the new Management Team for Redditch and Bromsgrove Councils, It’s thank you and goodbye to Neighbourhood Groups, Communicating with you 6 More Council news. New future for the Countryside Centre. Developing our Community Centres. Next stop the Country Park! 7 Partners in Action. Redditch Partnership responds to Redditch’s red flag 8 Use your vote in May 11 Town Centre goes ‘centre stage’. How a new Town Centre Partnership is putting the town centre `centre stage` with exciting development plans 20 7 12 News from Housing. Tenants get involved and give the Council their views 16 Focus on Winyates. £850,000 bid to help the district being planned, and About Redditch Matters 19 remembering Albert 18 Spring into sport. Teens get active and new Abbey Stadium work gets underway 19 Landscape Matters 20 On your bike. Redditch can be wheely good for cycling – new BMX track to open, and local cycling contacts 22 Community Safety news. Busy with more bus shelters, and how to protect your home 24 Ralph on Bordesley’s monks. Our regular historian Ralph Richardson describes how Bordesley Abbey was the fifth wealthiest of its day 25 Fish and fishing `working` efficiently here 26 Award for sporting stars. Win a month’s free gym and swimming 27 Friends across the miles. Twinning links across the world 28 Boosting business. From Business Booster Grants to a Business Expo in May 29 Foxlydiate Woods walk 30 What’s On this April, May and June. Let us know your view in our readers survey 32 Contacting the Council. Including how to contact your councillor and details for sports and leisure venues 29 This magazine is produced by the Communications Team at Redditch Borough Council. It is printed on paper from sustainable forests and costs 7.5p per copy. To the best of our knowledge, all information was correct at the time of going to print. Our thanks to everyone who has advertised in this edition. However, the inclusion of advertisements or information from any third party should not be taken to imply the endorsement by the publisher of any product or service advertised in Redditch Matters. Summer edition out 30th June 2010 Cover photograph: Redditch gets a new BMX track this spring. Foreword SPRING TIME in Redditch has taken on a slightly different meaning for me this year as I recently heard - and you may have read - that as well as producing springs at Millsborough House in the town, manufacturing company Herbert Terry and Sons was also responsible for introducing the Anglepoise lamp to our lives. It’s amazing to think that these lamps; found on offices desks, in homes and medical surgeries the world over, were invented here. Thanks to local author Anne Bradford for reminding us of this interesting fact recently. Spring is, of course, about celebrating new life and after the past year we have all had, we certainly welcome that. It is actually a year since we reintroduced Redditch Matters and we hope you will enjoy this latest edition. Informal feedback received has been positive, so much so that we have decided to produce the magazine every quarter, along with the seasons, instead of three times a year. This means that we will have separate autumn and winter editions from this year, all supported by advertising to help keep the costs down. We have much to be proud about as your local Council, delivering vital and varied services day in day out, and it is important you are aware of just what is provided for your Council Tax (Borough Council services cost just 56p per day for a Band D bill payer which amounts to only 14 per cent of the annual Council Tax bill charge). In our spring edition we celebrate cycling with the launch of a new BMX track at Arrow Valley Country Park where Redditch Borough Council has been working closely with Redditch Premiers BMX Club and British Cycling. Finally our Focus for this edition is the district of Winyates where I heard first hand about issues affecting local people during one of the Council’s Consultation Roadshows, and where there are plans to secure major funding to improve life for everyone living there. Happy reading! Yours Cllr Carole Gandy, Leader of Redditch Borough Council Redditch Borough Council Redditch matters 3
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