Have you got a great idea that can benefit your community?

Have you got a great idea that can benefit your community?

£5,000 up for grabs!

Are you a small voluntary or community group, not-for-profit organisation or Tenants and Residents Association with an average income of £20,000 or less over the last three years?

Apply for a Grassroot Grant of up to £5,000 for a range of community projects - this could be an event on your estate, computers to help people learn IT or look for jobs or doing up your community hall or gardens.

Grassroots Grants is available until 2011, with four closing dates a year. The next closing date is Friday, 9 January 2009.

Find out more here: http://www.hcvs.org.uk/en/pages/funding-grants/grassroots.aspx

Flytipping? Broken lamppost? Graffiti? - Let Hackney Council know in 3 seconds

This great little website enables you to let Hackney Council know about any local problem from fly-tipping to broken paving stones in seconds! Go to FixMyStreet.co.uk, put in a nearby postcode, click on the map to show where the problem is, then describe it. If you want to, you can upload a photo. Couldn't be easier! Who came up with this idea? I want to hug them!!

Tesco - New Tesco coming to Stoke Newington

A protest website has been set up at http://www.n16tesco.org.uk/.

Useful numbers

For all enquiries about Shakespeare Neighbourhood Residents’ Association

please e-mail info@shakespeareneighbourhood.org.uk

or phone 07739 968 825 between the hours of 10:00am and 6:00pm Monday to Saturday - but not on bank holidays!!!

Police

In an emergency, call 999 - do not call the Safer Neighbourhoods contact numbers.

For non-emergencies, call the Safer Neighbourhoods police teams

020 8721 2923
07879 603106
Clissold.snt@met.police.uk

020 8721 2922
07879 603037
StokeNewingtonCentral.snt@met.police.uk

Rubbish tips
Missed collections - call 020 8356 6688 before noon, and the rubbish will be collected that afternoon.

Hackney Wasteline collects your unwanted domestic goods - a TV, a washing machine, furniture – for free.
Call 020 8356 6688 and book your collection.

Hackney collects commercial waste too - call 020 8533 7583.
You book and pay, they collect.

Flytipping is illegal and carries fines of up to £20,000 and a prison sentence.
Report flytipping 020 8356 4810