Café help for ex-addicts Paper & Cup cafés, run by local charity, the Spitalfields Crypt Trust, train and provide employment opportunities for people who have gone through an addiction recovery programme. www.paperandcup.co.uk Site for waste The Watts Grove site was previously used as a depot for the council’s waste and street cleaning operations. News News in brief Add some style IF you want to revive your spring wardrobe get along to a clothes swap event called swishing on Saturday, April 11. Swishing enables you to take up to ten items of clean clothing, shoes or accessories to swap for tokens to spend on other donated items. It takes place from 1-4pm at the Brownfield Cabin, St Leonard’s Road, Poplar. Visit http://tinyurl.com/ opj3tg2 to book a place. Share your story EASTSIDE Community Heritage wants to hear from people with stories about the recently closed Joiners Arms. The history group wants to record people’s memories of the Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, pub. To share your story email abigail@ ech.org.uk Russell Brand joins the crowds after taking part in the People’s Question Time debate at York Hall last October Photo by Kois Miah ✶ Full Size Snooker Tables ✶ ✶ American Pool Tables ✶ ✶ Open 24 Hours a Day ✶ 1st Hour Free ✶ Join today and receive a FREE SNOOKER OR POOL CUE worth £39.99 Upton Park Snooker & American Pool 358-362 Green Street, Upton Park London E13 9AP Nearest Tube: Upton Park on the District Line We are situated above Iceland on Green Street Tel: 020 8471 3638 www.uptonparksnooker.co.uk Mile End American Pool & Snooker 229 Mile End Road, Stepney Green London E1 4AA Nearest Tube: Stepney Green on the District Line (150 metres) Tel: 020 7265 8506 www.mileendsnooker.co.uk TO OBTAIN THIS OFFER, A FULL TWO YEARS’ MEMBERSHIP OF EITHER CLUB MUST BE TAKEN OUT. FULL TERMS AND CONDITIONS WILL APPLY. OFFER FOR A LIMITED PERIOD ONLY COMEDIAN, author and selfconfessed former drug addict, Russell Brand, has opened his first coffee shop using inspiration from a Tower Hamlets charity. Paper & Cup, which has shops in Bethnal Green and Poplar, is run by Spitalfields Crypt Trust, and trains former addicts to become baristas. Mr Brand’s new enterprise Trew Era, based in Hoxton, also aims to provide employment for recovering drug addicts. It is based on the New Era council estate where the activist campaigned with residents to save them from eviction. Former Paper & Cup employee Gary started work at Trew Era on the day it opened, March 26. “It’s exciting – I’ll be working here three days a week. I’m a trained barista and I know about the coffee side of it because I was trained at Paper & Cup,” he said. “Everything I know about working in a coffee shop I learnt at Paper & Cup. I had never worked in a shop before but working there I learnt about customer service and that gave me a lot of confidence.” Graham Marshall, chief executive officer of Spitalfields Crypt Trust said: “We’re delighted that another café will be opening to employ more people in recovery. The two biggest triggers of addiction are the loss of a job or a failed relationship and they can happen to anyone. “Hopefully more cafés like this will start to employ people in recovery and help us de-stigmatise addiction.” The big ciggies cover-up starts BY STEFAN SWIFT RETAILERS in Tower Hamlets are reminded that all displays of tobacco products must be covered up from this Monday, April 6. New legal requirements mean that all businesses must hide from public view any tobacco products they sell. There are also specific rules for how you display the prices of tobacco products. Large retailers have had to cover tobacco displays since 2012 and now the law is coming into force for small and medium-sized businesses. The new law applies to all businesses selling tobacco products to the public, not just shops but also licensed premises such as pubs and clubs. It will also be illegal to display adverts of tobacco products. It now means it is against the law to show, as well as to sell, tobacco products to any customer under the age of 18 years. Retailers are reminded to always ask for ID before displaying products to a customer. The law will allow temporary displays of tobacco products in some circumstances such as when someone over 18 requests to buy or see tobacco products or when staff show products when re-stocking. Noncompliance with the new legislation is a criminal offence. Any person, including shop managers and shop assistants, found guilty of these offences is liable. The council is calling on retailers to ensure all staff are trained in the changes – the council’s underage sales and responsible trader scheme can provide tools to help businesses avoid underage sales. For more information visit www.businesscompanion.info Alternatively call Tower Hamlets Consumer and business regulations service on 7364 5008 or email tradingstandards @towerhamlets.gov.uk Your chance to become a big screen star LIMELIGHT Film Awards, the submissions to 5pm on annual short film competition, April 30. with 12 film categories and The aim of the awards is to a £10,000 production prize, promote, celebrate and recognise has extended the deadline for film makers, offer them educational opportunities and support. For further information visit the website at www.lime lightawards.com 6 – 12 APRIL 2015 N E W S F R OM TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL AND YOUR COMMUNITY 7
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