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CONTENT From the Editor Read our Magazines https://issuu.com/ambervalleymediaonlineCheck out our Facebook Group Printed by Image2Print Ltd and distributed to 5,000 homes in Huthwaite & Sutton. Disclaimer: No responsibility is accepted by Voice Magazines Limited for claims, errors or omissions made in advertisements appearing in this issue. All advertisers are accepted in good faith and we are not responsible for views expressed by contributor or other sources. Reproduction of the contents of this magazine is not permitted without the prior consent of the publisher.Voice Magazines Limited, 40 High Street, South Normanton, Derbyshire. DE55 2BP. Registered in England & Wales No: 10550557 VOICE LTD Upcoming Submission Deadline for Advertisers & Contributors: October ‘22 Edition - 9th September • November ‘22 Edition - 7th October POSTOPENOFFICE LEISURE CENTRE To advertise email: info@voicemagazines.co.uk or call us on 01773 549 035 Professional Services pg9 Kids & Families pg16 Food & Retail pg22 Health & Beauty pg30 Home pg34 Garden pg46 Dear Readers, I’m not the biggest fan of August, truth be told, so I’m quite glad to see the back of it in one way. Expensive holidays, lots of the team on hols, can never get a strong netball squad together! And it signifies the beginning of the end of summer. Throw in a few personal sadness issues this month and it’s taken over from Jan as the rubbish month this year! However, such is life, nothing is all bad and I went camping for the first time in probably 20 years. I mean, I say camping, I had a glamping wigwam bell tent thingy with an electric power point and a memory foam mattress but it still counts! Tell you what though, I could cope with most of it but the toilets…..I mean……do they do that stuff to their toilets at home or just turn into an animal when they are camping/going to festivals? I don’t want to cast aspersions here, each to their own but what is the maximum number of people you need in a group to turn feral, lol??! Anyway, a good time was had by all, have a read about it on pg 16-17. I also had a fandabbydosy time at the Commonwealth games for 1 full day of Netball games. Absolutely exhausting (and no, I wasn’t even playing!!) but I didn’t get to the 2012 Olympics so I’ve resolved, ever since then, to make sure I attend these sporting events. It’s great for the cities involved and I only wished that I’d managed to get tickets for some other sports as well – lt was so well organised and managed. So, I don’t want to be the first to say it, but as we’re promoting and giving away tickets to Matlock Illuminations this month – we are clearly on the downhill run to the man in the red suit month. I’m not sure what this year’s festivities will bring, bearing in mind the misery and the pinch we’re all experiencing amid this cost-of-living crisis, which is imminent but hopefully this month we’ll have an active Government in place. Whatever your ‘team’ you can’t be happy with it at the minute – so we all live in hope that they exact the power to work in our best interests, which we choose to bestow upon them….if not, is it revolution time yet?! Asking for a friend? Thank you so much for the lovely feedback on last month’s front covers and articles. It’s always lovely to get such wonderful feedback – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – it’s really easy to phone up irate and complain about something, but as a society we don’t bother to do nice things very often, seemingly. However, a few readers have taken the time to write to us and also call us this month and it’s been really lovely – so thank you, you are appreciated. It’s nice to be nice! This month we have the Macmillan Coffee Morning on our front covers with another funky new design style and Laura has written another cracking article. I had no idea about the history and what a wonderful legacy he set up – truly visionary & incredibly altruistic. He was clearly ahead of his time.
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Time for a quick history lesson… In 1911 a young man by the name of Douglas Macmillan watched his father die of cancer; the pain and suffering he saw inspired him to found the “Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer”.
These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author.
Somewhat fittingly, Douglas used £10 that his father had given him to set up the society. That £10, equivalent to roughly £1200 today, was the start of the Macmillan story. In the early days, they hand delivered food and coal to people in need, as well as arranging holidays and trips for people with cancer (and their families).
Macmillan had envisioned “homes for cancer patients”, and although he sadly died of cancer himself in 1969, Macmillan played a key role in the creation of the hospice care system in the 70s and 80s.
It seems like the Macmillan Coffee Morning has been around forever, doesn’t it? But would it surprise you to know that the first one was held in 1990, and on a very small scale? It did me.
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Since that inauspicious start, the annual coffee morning has raised a staggering £290million for Macmillan - £11million last year alone, but what does that money fund? How will the price of your coffee and cake on 30th September help people in the UK?
Finally, when we think of Macmillan, most of us will picture the nurses. These specialists have experience and qualifications in cancer care and are able to help individuals through diagnosis, treatment, aftercare and with ongoing support. Within this group of extraordinary individuals are palliative care nurses who help manage the symptoms of advanced cancer. They are experts in managing symptoms such as pain, sickness or breathlessness and can also help and support family members.
With an estimated 50% of us expected to experience cancer at some point in our lives, perhaps that destigmatisation has been Douglas Macmillan’s most important legacy.
Fast forwarding to today, Macmillan offers a wide range of support to individuals, employers and health care Financialprofessionals.grantsare available to help with the extra costs living with cancer can bring, as well as advice on claiming benefits and what to do if paying bills is difficult. And, of course, simply knowing that there are people on the other end of a telephone ready to help can bring great relief to someone newly diagnosed. Email and online chat services are also offered for those of us who prefer the written word.
Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing. To find out more visit www.landgassociates.co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351 341
The first home visits, offering practical support to those in need, began in the 1930s, and by the 1970s, Macmillan nurses were established, enabling people to stay in their own homes whilst undergoing Douglastreatment.
After 111 years, the charity’s ethos has never deviated from Douglas Macmillan’s original statement – “we stand for Betterness”, and has sought to overturn the stigma and dread surrounding a diagnosis of cancer.
This year’s Macmillan Coffee Morning is scheduled for Friday, 30th September – will you be taking part?
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Hopkins Solicitors on 20th of July 2022, saw a landmark judgment in favour of their music teacher client, Mrs Lesley Brazel, by the UK Supreme Court. This decision today follows her case being heard before an employment tribunal (in 2017), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (in 2018) and most recently the Court of Appeal (in 2019).
Our client Lesley Brazel, the part time music teacher said, “After an eight year legal process I am pleased to have finally secured a basic employment right in accordance with the law and as stated in my employment contract. I would like to thank the Incorporated Society of Musicians, ARAG Insurance, and the legal teams at Hopkins Solicitors and 3PB Barristers, for their outstanding professional, legal and financial assistance throughout. I am an alumna of the Harpur Trust and I have worked for them as a visiting music teacher at Bedford Girls’ School and it’s legacy schools for 20 years, pursuing a career which I am passionate about. Emotionally it has not been an easy journey. I am indebted to my family and friends for giving me the self-confidence to see this through and for their continued encouragement and support throughout this time.”
Example: The Supreme Court judgment ensures leave must be paid at the rate of an ordinary week’s wages (or if pay varies every week, then an average of all the weeks worked in a year). Annual leave calculations are based on weeks, as a person can work a full week or part of one. The law says that someone working a full year is entitled to at least 5.6 weeks of annual leave (28 days for anyone working full-time hours in a week and this can include the eight bank holidays). The judgment means that an employee working all year, but say, for just two days a week is entitled to 11.2 days a year (2 x 5.6 weeks, so 2.24 weeks or 11.2 days).
Thanks to the judgement, it will no longer be possible for employers to argue staff who don’t work all year are only entitled to pro-rata holiday based on the hours they work. Today’s decision is also good news for anyone working irregular hours or on zero-hours contracts. From now on, all workers will be due the same legal minimum of 5.6 weeks (28 days for full-time employees), even if there are months during the year when they don’t work.
“This judgment gives clarity on the method of calculating holiday pay for people in Mrs Brazel’s position working on permanent ‘zero-hours’ contracts and who are not required to work every week of the leave year. The judgment will be of particular interest to termtime workers at schools, colleges and universities, as well as many other types of workers whose working patterns do not fit the traditional ‘full-time’ model.”
Partner Carl Wright at Hopkins Solicitors commented: “We are obviously delighted with both the outcome of the appeal and to have been able to clarify the law for the benefit of all of those workers who, like Mrs Brazel, work on term time only contracts. As a consequence of this decision, term time only workers will be entitled to the same minimum annual holiday as those that are contracted to work all year round”. You can find a copy of the full judgement on the Supreme Court website.
Part-time music teacher wins landmark case in the Supreme Court on holiday pay calculations for ‘part-year’ workers
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The UK’s highest court confirmed the rights of part-year and zero hours contract workers to the full 5.6 weeks’ statutory paid holiday provided for under the Working Time Regulations 1998. They rejected the argument from the school that the entitlement of such workers, should be reduced on a pro-rata basis.
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Michelle & Family, Danielle & her son, Lisa & Family and Neil and his Family all arrived on the Thursday afternoon/ early evening and made the most of it. They pitched up their tents and headed straight for THE BIG GIN (that’s the main stage, not the bottle!). They all emersed themselves in the music of The Kooks for the evening and soaked up the Sarahatmosphere.&herhusband arrived next, for Friday lunchtime for a bit of afternoon chill with Gabrielle before Emily & Liam arrived in the evening, just in time for the Manic Street Preachers and the Stereophonics
This invite was put on hold whilst the world mourned their social lives but then we got the call, YNot 2022 was ON, the cheers were heard throughout the Midlands from our office! As the line up grew so did our excitement. Bell tents were purchased by the Directors (Emily, not the camping type) and festival tents by the masses.
Back in the day, 1 year BC (Before Covid), YNot invited Voice Magazines to come and join them as VIP guests at their famous Peak District festival at Pikehall. Always happy to oblige, the Voice Team set about promoting the festival and preparing for a weekend of music and fun.
There were stages aplenty with a myriad of talent for all tastes but between the 17 of us we visited all the stages and were truly entertained for the whole weekend. The days flew by with band after band never failing to get us up dancing and singing, swaying, and laughing. Even Mr Blobby made an appearance with the show stopping “Raised by Owls” performing in the Giant Squid. What a weekend. What an atmosphere. What a festival. Only Lisa’s husband and daughter stayed til the Monday morning as the rest of us are clearly lightweights! However, the whole extended Voice Team recommend attending the 2023 YNot festival – if it is even a patch on the comeback of 2022 – it should not be missed!!
Saturday Morning, not entirely bright eyed and bushy tailed!, saw the Voice Team on tour, when we all fully embraced the 80’s films themed fancy dress for Saturday by donning our Care Bear t’s and tutus for the day! Who doesn’t love the ‘Care Bear Countdown’?! Most of us (mentioning no names of those not attending Emily & Liam!) made the morning workout with the wonderful Mr Motivator (what an honor), which was truly fabulous and he set us up for the day, ready for a day of music and dancing, rounded off with the Levellers and the Courteeners.
Mansfield Aztecs Junior Hockey Club is for all abilities aged 5-16 years old! We provide junior hockey sessions at Kingsway Park on Sunday mornings as well as various tournaments, NoDe events and badgers games!
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In February 2020 he was invited to trial for the U15’s East Midlands Performance Centre Squad. Unfortunately, 15 minutes into the trial Covid struck and England Hockey put a freeze on all hockey. He was re-invited in September 2020, successfully completed the trials and became an U17 East Midlands PC squad member. 2 years later he’s flourished and to his delight represented the U17 East Midlands squad at the Performance Centre Challenge Cup 2022.
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In March 2019 (aged 14) he was asked to play for the first team at Mansfield, he claimed his spot and literally nobody has been able to catch him down that right wing!
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The Summer can often be seen as a quiet time for hockey but this summer has seen the fruits of years of hard work as young players from MAJHC have been representing the club at the regional level.
Ben started playing hockey when he was about 10 years old, he picked up a stick like it was part of him and loved it immediately. He started with Mansfield Junior Hockey Club (now MAJHC) on the very first day of its creation and hasn’t looked Hockeyback.very quickly became central to his sporting life, aged 13 he began playing for Mansfield Hockey Club and joined Notts County Hockey in the Academy Centre Squad. The new experience and players just spurred him on to wanting more hockey, to strive to be better and learn more.
Young players shine on the regional stage
All of the players have been a part of our MAJHC system from the early days of its creation, learning from their coaches at training and gaining valuable experience through playing intournaments in Nottinghamshire and TheDerbyshire.trialswere held over 6 weeks of training at the Nottingham Hockey Centre. Here their hockey skills were improved and assessed by coaches who selected their squad for the final Alltournament.ofour players were successful in making the final squad and participated in the 3-day tournament held in July 2022. The tournament was an opportunity for some of our players to experience their first full-sized game and play against skilled and experienced opposition. Our players had an amazing experience at the hands of excellent team managers/coaches, which has left them with a thirst for learning more about their sport and a drive to better themselves as they grow into adult hockey. A few of our players, Jack, Ava and Emily Lee were on the young side to be participating in this event but actually thrived and demonstrated that although they were 2 years younger than most other players, they could match their skill and drive to succeed. These 3 will be of age to enter the county set up come September and I don’t think there will be anything stopping them as they shine.
Player in profile: Ben Lee Ben is a shining example both for MAJHC and how skill, determination and hardwork can reap its rewards!
The U13’s UK Lions Tournament: 6 players were put forward from MAJHC to the UK Lions East Midlands hockey trials. For the boys there was Jack Tait (GK) and Harrison Shooter. For the girls we had Ava Walker (GK), Emily Chesterton, Megan Laws and Emily Lee.
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START: FELLEY LANE NORTH, UNDERWOOD, NOTTS NG16 5GT A short but sweet walk for you and your dog! With good paths and great views this walk should take around 2 hours to complete. There is a range of terrain, which can be muddy and uneven, so make sure you wear appropriate footwear and as always, follow the countryside code!
1. The walk begins on Felley Mill Lane North, which can be accessed from the A608 (Mansfield Road) near Underwood and Junction 27 of the M1. At the bottom of the road there is limited parking but there are more opportunities to park further up the road.
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BaileyBailey This walk originally appeared in the magazines 9 years ago! We were all a little younger then, not least the eponymous Rafa but worry not he will return to these pages soon. In the meantime, his able deputy Baily Boo is here again. This is a walk has become a favourite of ours and it’s one we have done dozens of times, with a few variations as we discovered new paths. But this is the classic, in its original form, for you to explore and enjoy as much as we do.
2. Begin by walking through a green gate located at the bottom of Felley Mill Lane North and carryon down the bridleway.
6. Walk along this road, with the large hedgerow on your left, you will pass some buildings on your left and open fields on your right.
10. Keep to the main path as it bends to the right, away from the woods. Carry on down the hill as it enters a wooded area and brings you back to the open area in point 3. Retrace your steps back up towards Felley Mill Lane North. Underwood AbbeyWood Felly Brinsley PrioryFelley
3. After a short while you come to a more open area and the Path either branches off to the left or right. Follow the path on the left. Carry on along this path, up a small hill and through a small wooded area.
7. Cross a horse stile by a metal gate and carry on along the track with the wood on your right. After a short while the path enters the wood and goes downhill. At the bottom of the hill you will come to a T–junction. Turn right.
This walk is for illustrative purposes only. Voice Magazines Ltd takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.
5. Soon after passing the farms, you will arrive at a bridge over the M1. Carry on along the track until you come to a turn on the right, which is shortly after an old gate and has a large hedge row on the corner. Take this turn.
4. Keep to the path, through a white gate. It may be worth putting your dog on the lead here as you walk past the farm buildings on your right as there are hens and ducks, which some dogs like to chase.
8. Continue along the path as it enters a tunnel under the M1. Shortly after the tunnel there the path will branch left or right. keep to the right.
9. Emerge from woods through a gate and continue along the track with the woods on your left and open fields on your right.
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Mental health was equated with weakness, with being locked up in the lunatic asylum, with being a failure. No one talked about their feelings and if they did make it so far as actually speaking to a GP, they would be either dismissed as a malingerer or prescribed tranquilizers and other mood altering medications.
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beloved “stiff upper lip” and “carry on regardless” British mantras, in reflection, were actually the very worst approach for everyone’s mental health!
Look back to the World Wars of the first half of the 20th century; soldiers were routinely returned to the front line in WW1 despite (to modern eyes) clearly suffering from PTSD, or shellshockfailure to comply would equal desertion, for which the penalty was death.
Hundreds of thousands of young men, from both wars, were expected to return and slip straight back into civilian life. Many of them struggled, families suffered as a father who was unable to deal with the horrors of war, but couldn’t talk about his experiences, became remote, closed off - or worse, violent. The
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If the events of the past couple of years have highlighted anything, it is that our mental (good) health is as important as our physical wellbeing. Isolation, fear, and loneliness have contributed to an avalanche of mental health issues for both young and old alike. As I’m sitting here typing this article, I can already hear the internal mumblings of some of our readers… ”we never bothered about mental health in our day, we just got on with it”; “youth of today”; “snowflakes”; “pull your socks up”…etc., etc. I can hear them because these are the kind of things my dad would have said!
Simply coping is not healthy long term, learning to talk about our issues openly and honestly - whilst not being typically British - is the very best thing we can do, both for our own health and those of the people we love. If you spot someone behaving out of character, seeming down, or struggling with life, ASK THEM IF THEY ARE OK…and don’t take “yes I’m fine” as a response to mean that they are indeed “fine”. The younger generations are better at discussing feelings and needs, having grown up with social media (more about that and mental health in another edition) and are more likely to ask for help…but even they struggle to admit to mental health issues, suicide is the biggest cause of death for young men. Let’s all make a promise to help each other to become more open when it comes to talking about our mental health.
But did “we just get on with it” in the past? To a certain extent I think, yes, people did just battle on through depression and other mental health issues - but they did so because of the stigma of admitting to a) not being able to cope - men especially b) the fear that they would be carted off “by the men in white coats”
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Perennials, the likes of anemone, euphorbias, sea holly, primulas and verbena can all be divided now to create new plants for next year. All need to be lifted carefully trying to avoid root damage. Some, like hostas can be pulled apart into clumps, others have obvious small individual plantlets which can be planted individually. Hellebores can be cut with a knife to five or six shoots per clump; large perennials may need two back to back forks to prise them apart, crocosmia produce chains of corms which can be planted as chains or individuals. Mix garden compost into the soil when planting and remember to keep watering them well to give them a good chance. Daffodil bulbs can go in now, tulips in October or November. Don’t be tempted to plant at less than the recommended depth, they’re less likely to flower. Get wallflowers in now for next year, they’ll flower earlier and prolong their flowering season. Calendar Although the garden will still be full of growing, September is also the time to look to next year. If you’re looking for plants which will continue to give a show up to the first frosts, roses, dahlias and Japanese anemones are your best bet. Top Tip:
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As summer moves along it is clear how important to wildlife are the thousands of private gardens across the Peak District. Taken individually and as a whole they can make an enormous difference to nature and bring benefit particularly to local birdlife. An example is with the numerous birds visiting garden bird-tables and feeders and others nesting in gardens and especially in artificial nestboxes. This provision makes a hugely valuable contribution to nature conservation, not just in towns and cities, but all across the Peak District. This vital support helps birds whilst breeding but then also through the lean times of winter – and hence bird survival to breed the following spring. In winter, nest-boxes also double-up as roosting sites that are safe, warm, and secure during a cold night. However, the benefit of all this effort is not one way because in a ‘garden’ we also gain from contact with nature and the sheer joy of watching local wildlife such as birds close at hand. In others words, there is something selfish about wildlife garden as well – and indeed, why not? A garden is generally a small space where we hold dominion over our patch to shape it and to create something of pleasure and joy for us humans and for nature too. Moreover, this pleasure gained is significantly connected to our intimate association with wildlife that a carefully thought-out and designed garden will bring. So the garden often mimics nature but scaled down and more controlled, and through this it generates opportunities for us and wildlife to share a space. The beneficial effects of this approach become all the more obvious as numbers of blue tits, great tits, and coal tits for example, are fledging and dispersing. Suddenly the bird-feeders are overrun with baby birds all vying for vital food. This leads to another matter which is the benefit of still feeding, albeit with a mix of seeds, nuts, grain, and fat-balls, throughout the summer. This is hugely important for adult birds already worn out by rearing maybe twelve fledglings from a single brood. Any help in finding suitable food will be a great bonus. But there is a further benefit which is that the young birds in particular, grow up knowing where your feeders are and will return when the autumn harvest has gone and winter cold snaps in. This is the two-way gain as the birds come to reliable supplies of food and you have the birds already hard-wired to come to your garden feeders. By late summer, the adults and youngsters will have formed into flocks often ranging around over quite a wide area. Then, as the pickings become slimmer following the post-summer and early autumnal glut, they will start to return to your garden. This is where the early training and prior knowledge reap the greatest rewards. Also, in winter, birds often roost communally and are able through their behaviour to communicate to each other where good supplies of food are to be found. Hopefully, your birds will bring others with them!
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