Working from home can sometimes feel like a challenge. Charity digital offer some tips and tricks to help you stay motivated and get you through the day.
Debt and money
The Citizens Advice website gives information to make the right choices, including help to deal with debt problems, how to avoid losing your home and how to get your finances back into shape.
For advice Citizens Advice Craven and Harrogate districts are help to help.
The Priority Services Help Register for help from energy suppliers.
The Register is a free service provided by suppliers and network operators. Being on the Register enables people to have extra support from their energy supplier such as advance notice of planned power cuts, priority support in an emergency, meter reading services and identification of callers, for example.
Working from Home- Any Support needed?
Working from home can sometimes feel like a challenge. Charity digital offer some tips and tricks to help you stay motivated and get you through the day.
Working from home: digital life hacks
Support in our area
Where To Turn for more local support
Hundreds of local support services and activities are listed in our searchable HADCA Where To Turn Community Information Directory for Harrogate district
Activities Pack.
Open Country Spring Nature Activities Pack
There’s so much to explore and discover in nature over these next few months and this Spring Nature Activities Pack will help you to get involved in wildlife in your own homes, gardens and local parks.
Community Cycling
Beginners’ cycling group ‘Liferiders’ – Community Cycling and Wellbeing
For the past 4 years, Liferiders has been organising weekly bike rides with a difference. Aimed at novices and beginners, Liferiders offers a supportive, friendly and FREE way to enjoy the social, mental and physical benefits from riding bikes together in the countryside. Liferiders aims to make cycling accessible and inclusive, with members ranging in age from 17 to 65+.
Covid Lockdown guidelines have meant that the regular Wednesday and Sunday group rides have not been able to happen, enabling the trustees to invest time in successfully upgrading Liferiders to Charitable Incorporated Organisation (foundation) status (Reg No. 1193499).
The charity has acquired 5 loan bikes for use by anyone who doesn’t have access to a bike. Liferiders also offers an introductory 1-2-1 support service, helping potential members to check that their bike is roadworthy, answering questions, and easing any concerns about coming along for their first ride.
During the rides there’s always plenty of support on hand to help with punctures and mechanicals that sometimes occur. Notwithstanding the Pandemic, there is often a cafe / pub stop en route for refreshments
The pace of the rides is slow, steady and leisurely, with an emphasis on enjoying the conversation, making new friends and connecting with nature. There is a mental health first aider on most rides, if anyone is going through a difficult time and would like to talk about it.
Liferiders is entirely funded by donations and grants. To find out more check out the website or email suziesijack@hotmail.com
Small grants available for elderly.
Friends of the Elderly small grants
Small grants (normally up to £400) to older people who are:
- Resident in England and Wales
- Of/over state pension age
- Who are living on low incomes and with little savings
- Who do not fit the criteria for other funders
Grants for older people can only be accessed via a third-party Referral Agent who knows the person in a professional or community capacity and submits the application on their behalf.
Village Vandalism
You will all know lots of hard work and effort has gone into improving the Jubilee Recreation Field for the benefit of village children recently so it is with a heavy heart I write to inform you that the area has been vandalised.Someone has removed a large number of the canes that were inserted to support the newly planted hedge plants and trees. I personally am hugely disappointed by this wanton vandalism as I am fully aware of the effort that has been required to improve this village asset. Please can you all help by keeping an eye out for such behaviour and report it either to a Parish Councillor or the police. This disrespectful behaviour is not to be tolerated and if it reoccurs the police will be involved.
National Institute for Health Research – Patient and Public committee recruitment
The National Institute for Health Research is inviting patients, carers, services users and members of the public interested in health and social care to join a number of its national and regional research committees. The committees include public members, senior academics and NHS clinicians and practitioners, who together assess research proposals and make recommendations for funding.
The committees include public members, senior academics and NHS clinicians and practitioners, who together assess research proposals and make recommendations for funding. Further information can be found, here.
