For your information Parking to pest control, housing to hate crime turn to pages 18 & 19 Useful information New year and back to nature News from Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park IT’S a great pleasure to be asked to kick off the New Year. Firstly, I’d like to offer you all the very best for 2014 from the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. The New Year for most of us is marked with wild revelry, reflecting on the year that has passed and setting (often unachievable) goals or resolutions for the coming year. It can be cold, we stay indoors hiding from the weather, willing the cold weather away. If you’re reluctant to head out and enjoy our parks and open spaces in the wintry weather why not bring nature indoors – pin up posters of wild animals and plants you like, use floral, leaf and other nature-based arrangements to bring the outdoors inside. This could include wreaths, centrepieces, vases or baskets of flowers, bowls of fruit, live plants and such other things. Find paper napkins, plates and other items with nature theme decorations on them, such as leaves, flowers and animals. Use items such as stuffed animals, fur fabric, leaf shaped lights, etc to add to the nature theme. Pebbles, twigs, leaves and other natural items can be used to decorate tables, sideboards, windowsills, etc. Apologies if you feel this is all very kitsch, but I am meandering my way to a point here. Looking forward to seeing flowers, birds and bees again, and thinking of new beginnings and possibly of how we could help others is very positive. Many of us will be caring for our feathered friends, keeping bird tables and feeders stocked, emptying old nests from boxes and putting up new boxes. Many birds, such as tits and wrens, use nest boxes as safe places to sleep through the autumn and winter. If we get a warm day look out for queen bumblebees, greater spotted woodpeckers, robins and wrens. Foxes begin to pair up making their distinctive screams and screeches that often find us thinking are they the sounds of someone coming to harm. Winter is a great time of year to do all sorts of jobs to give nature a home in your outside space – whether it’s a large garden or a small windowbox: build or buy a hedgehog shelter, also known as a ‘hogitat’; dig a pond or tidy up your existing one. But if this sounds like a lot of hard work, don’t worry – doing nothing can also help: holding off pruning your hedges is a great way of helping wildlife without actually having to do anything. Leaving them until around February means the berries will be able to be eaten throughout the winter. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is managed on behalf of the council by a small, local charity, run entirely by volunteers and supported by two full-time staff members. All charities need help and we, the Friends, are no exception. So, if you’re thinking of a New Year resolution and thinking that could involve helping others, you could choose us. Lots of help is needed throughout the year to bring to life our projects, or you could help run an event. We meet eleven times a year, usually on the first Thursday of the month. We meet at the Soanes Centre in the Cemetery Park. Our next meeting is on January 9 at 7pm. Find out more at www.fothcp.org Make new friends in 2014 Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a small charity, run entirely by volunteers and two full-time staff members. All charities need help and the Friends are no exception. Chemist rota Pharmacists in Tower Hamlets with extended opening hours. E1 ABC Drug Stores, 12-14 Montague Street: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-2.30pm. Beck & Sherman, 197 Whitechapel Road: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5.30pm, bank holidays 11am-1pm. Sainsbury’s, The Albion Brewery: Mon-Fri 8.30am- 10pm, Sat 7.30am-10pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Chapel, 139 Cannon Street: Mon-Fri 9am-8pm, Sat 9am-6pm. E2 Fairdale, 360 Bethnal Green Road: Mon, Tues, Weds, Fri 9am-6.30pm, Thurs 9am-1pm, Sat 9am-6pm, bank holidays 11am-2pm. Florida, 307 Bethnal Green Road: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-6pm, bank holidays 11am-2pm. E3 Bell, 534 Roman Road: Mon- Sat 7am-11pm, Sun 10am-2pm. Forward, 648 Mile End Road: Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am- 6pm, Sun and bank holidays 10am-6pm. Green Light, St Andrew’s Health Centre, 2 Hannaford Walk: 8am-8pm, seven days a week, including bank holidays. Lincoln, 60 St Paul’s Way: Mon, Tues, Weds 8am-8pm, Thurs, Fri, 8am-8pm, Sat 9am- 5pm. Tesco, Hancock Road: Mon 8am-10.30pm, Tues-Fri 6.30am-10.30pm, Sat 6.30am- 10pm, Sun 11am-4pm. E14 Boots, Unit 15, Jubilee Place: Mon-Fri 7am-midnight, Sat www.fothcp.org 9am-6pm, Sun 12pm-6pm. Britannia (Perimart), Asda Precinct, East Ferry Road: Mon- Sat 9am-8pm, Sun 11am-4pm, bank holidays 11am-6pm. Doctors Please ring your doctor’s surgery for an appointment, but if it’s the weekend or late at night, call 7377 7151 (only for people in Tower Hamlets who are registered with a doctor). To find a doctor, dentist or help to quit smoking call the health hotline on 7364 5016, Mon-Fri 8am-8pm and Sat 8am-4pm. Advice Family Information Service (FIS) The Family Information Service provides information for people from birth to age 19 (or 25 for those with additional needs) including helping parents and carers find high quality childcare, advice on tax credits and childcare vouchers. Open Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm. Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, Poplar, E14. fis@towerhamlets.gov.uk 7364 6495 Tower Hamlets Home Birth Support Group Last Thurs of each month, 8pm. 31 Ridgdale Street, E3. 8981 1159 Parents Advice Centre (PAC) Offers impartial advice around special educational needs (SEN). 30 Greatorex Street, E1. Drop-in sessions every Tues, 9.30am- 3.30pm & Fri, 9:30am-1pm. 7364 6489 LinkAge Plus Toynbee Hall is one of five network centres that coordinates services and activities provided. Mon-Fri from 9am-5pm, dropin session for advice on benefits, pensions, employment and housing. Appointments necessary. Mon 9am-5pm, Bangladeshi group. Toynbee Hall, Commercial Street, E1 7392 2914 www.toynbeehall.org.uk Welfare advice All the organisations listed below can help you with welfare benefits, housing and general debt problems. Account 3 1-9 Birkbeck Street, E2. 7739 7720 www.account3.org.uk Bangladesh Youth Movement 21-23 Henriques St, E1. 7488 1831/2 Bromley by Bow Centre St Leonard’s Street, E3. 8709 9737 www.bbbc.org.uk Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) 32 Greatorex Street, E1. 7247 1050 www.adviceguide.org.uk Island Advice Centre Island House, Roserton Street, Isle of Dogs, E14. 7987 9379 www.island-advice.org.uk Legal Advice Centre University House, 104 Roman Road, E2. 8980 4205 www.legaladvicecentre.org.uk Limehouse Project Cheadle Hall, Cheadle House, Copenhagen Place, E14. 7538 0075 www.limehouseproject.org.uk Praxis (New Residents Service) Pott Street, E2. 7729 7985 www.praxis.org.uk Tower Hamlets Law Centre (specialist advice by appointment and evening legal advice sessions). 214 Whitechapel Road, E1. 7247 8998 www.thlc.co.uk Debt advice Toynbee Hall Advice Service 28 Commercial Street, E1. 7392 2953 advice@toynbeehall.org.uk www.toynbeehall.org.uk Fair Money Advice 530 Commercial Road, E1. 7702 8032 www.fairfinance.org.uk Island Advice Centre Island House, Roserton Street Isle of Dogs, E14. 7987 9379 www.island-advice.org.uk National Debt line 0808 808 4000 www.nationaldebtline.co.uk Step Change Debt Charity 0800 138 111 www.stepchange.org Photo order form Copies of pictures published in East End Life taken by council photographers are available to readers. 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