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Merry Christmas to all...

Welcome to the December/January 2021 edition of Bexley Life Magazine the bi-monthly lifestyle magazine for Bexley Borough and the surrounding areas.

With the effects of Covid-19 still badly affecting us in many differing ways, we must all face the Festive Period as best we can, make the most of it and look forward to a better 2021.

We should all be rightly proud of the manner in which the local area in general is coping and the way that local people are still helping each other through these ongoing strange times. Bexley Life is still reflecting these changes and the effects they are having on local businesses and residents.

FURNITURE FOR Bexley CHRISTMAS SAVEDELI 30Y % Inside you will find stories and articles for the season, VER many of the type you’d expect to see and others representing the differences in the current climate.

So, we would like to welcome you to this edition of Bexley Life and wish a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year to you and your loved ones.

If you have any news, reviews, product launches or absolutely anything else of interest across the local market, please email it through to me at info@bljournals.plus.com for future consideration in our forthcoming issues.

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Help spread some Christmas cheer and ‘light up Bexley’ To add some cheer to Christmas the Mayor is challenging Bexley residents, businesses and groups to light up their houses for the festive season.

The Mayor of Bexley, Cllr James Hunt commented: “Let's add some sparkle to Christmas this year, and go full on National Lampoon! Lights, inflatables - whatever does it for you.”

To take part in the Mayor’s competition you will need to register online and include your full address including postcode, email address and telephone contact number so we can make sure we can come around and judge your lights. You can also upload a picture to the form.

If you have social media, you can post your picture with the hashtag #LightUpBexley on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

And the best bit, over the weekend of 18, 19, 20 December the Mayor will tour the Borough and pick the best. From shop windows and flat balconies, to terraced houses and stables - let’s get some cheer going this Christmas.

There will be great prizes for the competition winners which are: FIRST PRIZE: £250 Marks & Spencer’s Voucher, donated

by Ewemove Sales & Lettings SECOND PRIZE: £200 Family photography session, donated by Nigel Barrett Photography THIRD PRIZE: £50 Amazon voucher, donated by the Mayor The Mayor would love it if you used the decoration to raise money for hisLappeal for local charities. Buckets and collection pots are available from the Mayor’s Office.

Everyone who takes part will get a Certificate of Thanks from the Mayor. www.bexley.gov.uk

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Community Champions needed to help reduce risk of local lockdown Community minded people are being invited to sign-up as Community Champions to help reduce the risk of a local outbreak of COVID-19.

The Community Champions will help reach out to less well networked communities and individuals to ensure they receive and understand the information they need to keep safe and well.

To become a Champion, you do not need specific experience or to give up a lot of your time. The only thing that is essential is a willingness to support people in your local community.

The Council and its partners will work with the Community Champions to help keep people safe, reassured and supported. They will be asked to share important public health messages and information on support available for the vulnerable. They can also help by giving feedback to ensure these communications are effective and reach as many people as possible.

If you are interested in helping with this vital work, please sign-up online or send an email, via the website.

Councillor Teresa O’Neill OBE, chairman of the Bexley Health & Wellbeing Board, which is overseeing the project, said. “The contribution that community and faith groups, volunteers and mutual aid groups have made over recent months has been invaluable. Now we face a different challenge: reducing the risk of another lockdown of the kind we have seen in other parts of the country and the world.

“Please get in touch if you can help us keep people safe over the weeks and months ahead - especially those who are most at risk.

The pandemic has not affected everyone equally and we need help to make sure we reach people who are vulnerable and isolated.”

The Council will stay connected with people who volunteer to become Community Champions by phone, email and using closed social media groups.

If you would like to know more about our Community Champions network, please email via the website or write to:Communities Engagement Team, Civic Offices, Bexleyheath DA6 7AT. www.bexley.gov.uk

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ROTARY CLUB OF ERITH – GOODWILL WEEK 2020 More than most of us have experienced it and all of us have fond memories...

For over 60 years, The Rotary Club of Erith has brought joy to the local community at Christmas, by touring the streets with Santa and his sleigh and raising thousands of pounds for charity at the same time. Perhaps this year, we all need him more than ever!

Whilst there will have to be big changes this year, planning is underway to continue the tradition.

With Santa’s elves in lockdown, preparations are much more difficult than normal but they are determined to get the job done in time for the big day! So, it is very much a case of keep your eyes on their website and facebook page for further details. www.rotary-ribi.org

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From the end of last month, the public have been able to use computers in Sidcup Library and Thamesmead Library for essential access to public services.

All sessions must be booked in advance by calling 020 8303 7777 and customers will need their library card number and PIN code to book a session.

Customers will also be asked to confirm that their computer usage will comply with the current legal requirement. This includes access to online government services e.g. benefit claim forms, access to online council services, access to voluntary sector support, such as Citizens Advice, or to complete a job application.

Slots for computer access availability are as follows: Sidcup Library - Thursday 9.30am - 5pm and Saturday 9.30am - 4.30pm Thamesmead Library - Wednesday 9.30am - 5pm and Saturday 9.30am - 4.30pm To ensure social distancing is maintained, staff will be unable to help with use of the computers.

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The Mystery of the Noisy Neighbour a Christmas adventure Monday 7th to Thursday 31th December Gather your whole family together to enjoy this new, wonderful interactive nativity from New Hope Church - it is full of fun, laughter and genuine Christmas cheer.

As you discover just who the noisy neighbour is you will get to choose which characters to interview and what questions to ask. Each adventure will be unique and will bring that much needed festive fun in 2020.

Solve the mystery and meet Father Christmas ?

Help Maximilian, the detective mouse, by collecting clues and coins. Once you've solved the mystery you will receive a message from Father Christmas himself!

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For the first 100 people who live in Bexley New Hope Church will be providing an even further festive experience for you and your family, including a FREE personalised message from Father Christmas. Once you have signed up select the option to say you live in Bexley and follow the instructions.

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Despite having a school year like no other, 145 Bexley Children’s University students were able to graduate from this year’s programme, joining in either a Covid-safe in-school graduation or special virtual ceremony last month.

Children’s University is a national charitable federation and encourages children to try new experiences and acquire new skills through extra-curricular activities. Children taking part in the University programme receive a ‘passport’ and get a stamp for every hour of activity they complete at a validated ‘Learning Destination’. These are places where children can 'travel' with their passport.

With things being very different this year because of the pandemic, new ways had to be found for pupils to earn stamps for their Children’s University passports.

Pupils attended virtual and Covid-safe Learning Destinations and took on Bexley CU Challenges throughout lockdown and the summer holiday via Google Classrooms and social media. Challenges included creating an online dance party using their computer coding skills, cooking up treats in a Masterchef-style challenge, plus creating fitness videos and poems to help reflect on their feelings and emotions over the past few months.

By completing the challenges, pupils taking part earned an extra 289 hours of extra-curricular learning. Added to the hours earned by attending school clubs and Learning Destinations, this resulted in 11,465 hours of extra-curricular learning during this past year. Added to last year’s total, this has resulted in 27,310 hours of extra-curricular learning for Children’s University pupils since the scheme started in October 2018.

The in-school and virtual graduations saw the graduates being presented with their certificates and gifts and CU organisers shared messages of congratulations and poems from celebrities such as David Walliams and Adam Hill, as well as Bexley’s Children’s University Officer, Louise Chalkley.

Cabinet Member for Education, Cllr John Fuller said: It has been a busy year for the pupils taking part in Children’s University and it had been great to see that even a lockdown could not stop these fantastic pupils from learning! We are looking forward to another fantastic year and are already planning celebrations for all the graduates of 2021.

“The CU will also be embarking on a research project with the Education Endowment Foundation looking at the impact that Children’s Universities have on pupils’ attainment and wellbeing. I’m delighted that Bexley has been chosen to take part.”

To find out more about the Children’s Universitiy in Bexley, or if you are interested in becoming a part of Children’s University, either as a school, a family or a Learning Destination, or in the research project, email Bexley.CU@bexley.gov.uk www.bexley.gov.uk

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Free support in Bexley to help you improve your health Throughout these challenging times, there is a huge amount of free support available in Bexley to help anyone who wants to improve their health and reduce their risk of serious illness.

Alive ‘n’ Kicking Families living in Bexley or registered with a Bexley GP can join a free 8-week Alive ‘n’ Kicking programme for children aged 4 to 11 who need help to lose weight. The service is delivered virtually and you’ll get lots of useful tips.

Slimming World Residents who are aged 16 or over, registered with a Bexley GP and who have a BMI of 30+ can receive 12 weeks free membership to any Slimming World group in the borough. Just call 01773 307387.

Councillor Alex Sawyer, Bexley’s Cabinet Member for Communities said: “Covid-19 has given many of us a wake-up call to get our health back on track. We want to ensure that anyone in Bexley who wants to improve their health gets all the support they need.

Most of us know that we must wash our hands, wear a face mask and socially distance from others to protect the NHS and keep our community safe and healthy but we can also protect ourselves by improving our general health.”

Get Active Bexley is supporting the Get Active, London Sport and Sport England campaign to get us all more active by using the free One You Couch to 5K app. The Couch to 5K running app is easy to use and free to download from Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store.

Fit Fans football programme Fit Fans in Bexley is a free 12-week programme for football fans who want to lose weight and improve their health. For more information or to sign up to a programme, check your eligibility via the Fit Fans website or email Charlton Athletic team at fitfans@cact.org.uk

Better Health You can also find lots of free tools and apps supporting people to eat better, drink less alcohol and get active at www.nhs.uk/better-health. This includes a new app for the free 12-week NHS Weight Loss Plan, helping people make healthier food choices and learn skills to prevent weight gain. www.bexley.gov.uk

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by James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre.

‘JAMES sets down the note and leaves. MR GRIMSHAW picks it up and swaps it for another envelope - carefully copying the address on the front.’

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the same props, costumes or pieces of set. My Mr Grimshaw (Serin Ibrahim) cannot pick up the letter set down by James (Akshay Khanna) so how do we do the switch?

Making theatre under COVID means working within all of those constraints, but the best shows made now - like the best magic - will be those where the audience doesn’t notice how things are done, where props seem to pass from hand to hand, where characters have thrilling interactions, where actors are constantly on the move. Not the concert performances where each actor stands in a fixed position and doesn’t move in a static retelling of a story, but the shows where careful choreography and sleight of hand make apparently impossible things achievable.

Of course that’s not all that I’m putting into this show. It is far more than an exercise in defeating the limitations of social distancing. The adaptation is already a joyous, snow-filled, hilarious retelling of Joan Aiken’s perennial family favourite, and with our regular pantomime villain Anthony Spargo as Miss Slighcarp it promises to be an unforgettable show. We have also commissioned all new music for the show, and with the exceptional young musical director David Haller at the helm the music does so much more than carry the songs. It underscores scenes, drives the excitement of the action, even serves to add extra jokes to the show.

This is set to be a very strange Christmas season for theatre and for theatregoers, with audiences also having to spread out and socially distance. Still, for me that’s all the more reason to get out and see a live show this season, to follow the rules but to share an experience with other people - and I can’t wait to share this entirely safe and totally festive production of The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase with our intrepid audiences. www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk

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Ideal presents and a great discount from Renard Press Launched in June this year by Will Dady, a local Bexley resident, the new independent book publisher, Renard Press, is delighted to have its first five titles in print - all inexpensive editions with high production values.

Bars Fight and Phillis Wheatley were released in celebration of Black History Month – the first known work by an African American author and the first published volume of poetry by an African American author respectively, these two books have caused a stir, since they are landmarks in literature and yet not well known – and this is the only standalone edition of Bars Fight.

This was followed by Virginia Woolf’s iconic A Room of One’s Own, resplendent in gold foil, with notes and extra material on the author’s life and works; next came Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest – a short story originally intended to be the opening of Dracula – and Leo Tolstoy’s A Letter to a Hindu, with an introduction by Mahatma Gandhi.

Renard is pleased to offer Bexley Life readers a 35% discount on all orders placed via our website this year. www.renardpress.com

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Cabinet approves next step in budget planning

The Cabinet approved the latest Medium Term Financial Strategy setting out the next steps in planning the Council’s budget for 2021/22 at its recent meeting.

Cabinet Members received an updated plan to balance next year’s budget based on the latest information available to the Council. Further changes may be needed in the new year because of the uncertainty caused by the pandemic and once the government has provided the Council’s funding allocation, which is due this month.

“All Councils have the financial challenge to balance their books, just as you will manage your household income and expenditure,” said Councillor Teresa O’Neill OBE, Leader of the Council. “There continues to be uncertainty on the funding of local government and the government reviews we were expecting this year have been delayed for a further year. The Council however must set a balanced budget for the next financial year. We have to plan based on what we know now, including the potential impact of the COVID pandemic, which creates more uncertainty.”

The Cabinet considered a report on the consultation on six savings proposals that will affect residents, that took place over the summer. It noted the detailed comments that had been received from the nearly 4,000 people who took part in the consultation.

It was agreed that the service delivery model for children centres needs be developed further and an extra consultation will take place on this early next year. A decision on the other options will be made by Cabinet this month.

It also agreed to ask the government for a capitalisation order, which will give the Council the option to spread some of the unprecedented financial impact and risk of the pandemic over future years.

A recording of the meeting and the agenda papers are available online.

The next report on the Council’s financial forecasts and plans will be discussed at the Cabinet’s meeting on 15 December.

This will include more details on new savings proposals following an in-depth review of services, establishment costs and staffing levels. www.bexley.gov.uk

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