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8 FEBRUARY 2024 GLENFIELD GAZETTE BLABY DISTRICT COUNCIL Have your say in our Residents’ Survey As a District Council we provide a number of essential services such as waste and recycling, environmental health, sports and leisure, parks and open spaces and action on climate change. To make sure we continue to commit resources to best meet our residents’ priorities we want to know what local people think about the services we provide. That’s why, once again, we are reaching out to people across the District and asking for responses in our Residents’ Survey. VISIT: https:// eu.surveymonkey.com/r/BDC-Residents-2024 The questionnaire takes place every two years to help us understand what people think about Council services, how they are provided and how money is spent. It offers an important opportunity to gauge public satisfaction and gain feedback which can help us identify where we can make improvements. An integral part of our vision to be driven by what matters to our residents and so it’s essential for us to understand their priorities. This allows us to focus resources and work with the community and partners in doing our best to deliver those priorities. As we do every year we are also asking for views on any change in Council Tax. Currently the average household’s contribution to Blaby District Council is just £3.53 per week from the total amount of Council Tax paid. The bulk of the rest goes to Leicestershire County Council (74%) with allocations also to Leicestershire Police, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service and the local Parish Council. For 2024/24 the Council is proposing to increase its proportion of the Council Tax requirement by 2.99%, that’s about 11p a week and just over £5 a year for the average household. We are keen to hear what residents think about this increase. The closing date for the survey is Sunday 25 February at 9pm. Results will be reviewed and used by the Council when making decisions on future services. Views on Council Tax will be taken into account when the Council makes its final decision on the 2024/25 budget shortly after the consultation closes. St Peter’s Church News Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day THERE ARE NORMALLY two dates in February which I need to keep marked in my diary: 14th February, Valentine’s Day, for obvious reasons, and Ash Wednesday – the beginning of Lent. This year I have a bit of an issue: they are one and the same. This is very rare: although it’s happening three times in just over a decade (this year, back in 2018 and then in 2029) that’s it for the century and it hadn’t happened since 1945. It’s an issue for me because Ash Wednesday comes with certain professional responsibilities – it’s one of the days, like Christmas and Easter, when I am not allowed to take any holiday. While Valentine’s Day has personal implications! And they’re not, on the surface, very similar: Valentine’s Day is all about red roses, chocolates, gifts and extravagant gestures; Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting – giving up chocolate for many – of restraint, of reflection and humility. Where is the overlap? Is there any? The life of St Valentine (because of course this day of celebration of romantic love has its roots in the feast day of a third century Roman priest) doesn’t seem to offer many clues – he was killed for refusing to give up worshipping Jesus when ordered to by the emperor. I guess there is something: sacrifice. When we celebrate our loves on Valentine’s Day, we know that one of the greatest ways to show love is by our self-sacrifice, big or small: eating the food that the other loves, watching their choice in movies, moving across the country so they’re close to their sick mother. Love necessarily involves sacrifice because love involves putting someone else first, or it isn’t really love. Similarly, Lent is about sacrifice: not just the giving up of favourite luxuries like alcohol or chocolate, but the choice to put Jesus first – as Valentine indeed did. After all, Jesus chose to put us first in his life and death – showing his love by sacrificing himself for our sake. So I guess it does in the end make sense to hold these two special days together. Richard Trethewey Rector of St Peter’s, Glenfield and All Saints, Newtown Linford. Tel: 0116 287 1604 I got strip-searched at the airport. Why those customs officers had to take their clothes off I’ve no idea.
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