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New Skills Programme LETS People Get Into To Work A Luton employment and skills programme that has helped get 125 people into work over the last four years will be opening its first town centre office next month (April). The Luton Employability Training Skills (LETS) Hub project started in March 2015 and since then has supported more than 800 individual clients who are not in employment, training or education with a minimum of 12 weeks of one-to-one support. “Opening our first office in King Street will mean we have managed to achieve our long term vision,” said founder and director Mostaque Koyes. “At the start we wanted to create a high profile, attractive, town centre based, information and delivery hub which support individuals on their journey to achieve their skills and employment aspirations. “The ambition is to develop a model that will have long-term partner commitment with a shared common purpose and is based on a viable, financial operating model.” A number of major LETS Fair events, where employers met with hundreds of job seekers at Venue Central, in Chapel Street, proved there was a huge, unmet demand in the town. The new office will mean the service can be offered five days a week. Mostaque added: “Luton has high levels of family poverty, and a high percentage of families that will be affected by benefit cap measures. Chronic
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unemployment still exists in certain wards but now there is an even better opportunity to build on existing partnerships, working collaboratively to add value to the range of services available through the development of a Central LETS Hub Provision.”
What the LETS Hub can do: • Assist local people of all ages who are unemployed or economically inactive to increase and/or improve their employability chances • Provide quality, intensive support and mentoring to individuals who are faced with long term barriers to employment • Provide training courses, soft skills programmes and signpost to other qualification providers • Offer brokerage between local employers and clients e.g. work experience placements, job opportunities and voluntary work experience • Provide progression pathways to further education or employment including apprenticeships for younger people. To find out more email Mostaque Koyes: mostaque@ciluton.co.uk
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“Healthcare in Luton will only work if people get to have their say” – urges Healthwatch Luton Chief Executive, Lucy Nicholson. Healthwatch Luton is encouraging others to speak out as part of What Would You do? campaign led by independent health and social care champions in Luton, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes (and across the UK). What would you do? aims to encourage people in Luton to share their views about how extra money from the Government should be spent on local NHS services. The Government is investing £20 billion a year in the NHS as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. Local organisations are now being asked to explore how services could work better for people. Share your views Now is the time to share your ideas and experiences to help make local services better for everyone in Swindon. Give your feedback in this online survey: www.healthwatch.co.uk/what-would-you-do-general We are particularly keen to hear your views on how services could be improved for older people and
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Lucy Nicholson, Chief Executive of Healthwatch Luton says: ‘It is really important people in Luton and across Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes and the UK have their say on the NHS Long Term Plan. This is your chance to get your voice heard, influence priorities and say how the plan should be delivered to improve NHS Services in Luton and beyond. The survey is quick and easy to complete, and the more views the better. Sharing your opinions and experiences is so important and can really make a difference.’ Talk to us Healthwatch Luton will also be out and about across the town, so please come and chat to us if you see us. We are able to give hard copies to organisations or community groups who have access to those more hard to reach or can come and discuss with organisations. Survey closes around end of April 2019 For more information about the What would you do? campaign, including more views from local people on what they would like to improve, visit our website: www.healthwatchluton.co.uk Call us on 01582 817060 Join the conversation at #WhatWouldYouDo
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WHAT IF?
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WHAT IF?
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our imagination. Just think about the consequences. But the history of Britain over the centuries is riddled with “What ifs?”, and had the outcomes of so many battles, conflicts, skirmishes, arguments, and even simple domestic events been different then, as in the above Hitlerian cases, our lives today could well be utterly different in so many ways. We might even be a different Another two “what ifs” from WW2 :- “What if Hitler people altogether. had been a much better military strategist – and hadn’t We can go back 2000 years and ask “What if the refused advice from his generals and others during the Romans had not invaded in AD 63 and stayed until the War?” Had the German army immediately followed early 5th century?” An answer is that we would have rethe retreating British forces across the Channel after mained a primitive Celtic society, I suppose. And there’s Dunkirk, could we have done much about it? There another question along these lines which asks “what did are many opinions which say that England would have the Romans do for us?” to which the answer is “a hell been easily overrun and that Captain Mainwaring and of a lot”. We can then ask “What if the Saxons and the his Dad’s Army pals wouldn’t have lasted for long. Vikings hadn’t followed the Romans, first as invaders And “What if Hitler had had a bit more faith in his invincible “Turpitz” battleship during the Arctic convoys and then as colonisers?” One of the answers to that question is that we might not now be speaking English to Murmansk?” Had he let this monster loose it could but some some other language more closely allied to have seen the end of those convoys to Russia rather Latin. The mind boggles! than allowing it to linger and doing nothing for ages in But one of the real biggies when it comes to “what protected fjords before our bombers finally finished it ifs” is “What if the Saxon King Harold had won the off in Tromso fjord in 1944. Battle of Hastings in 1066 (as he nearly did)?” It would It’s easy to see that if Hitler had played his cards differently in these (and other) instances, the result of the War have meant that the Norman dynasty would not have - and how we now live - could have been almost beyond had the enormous effect it did have upon England – it There’s a blinding example which is still left unanswered. It is “What if David Cameron had never set up the Referendum resulting in the current fiasco over Brexit?” Presumably this infuriating consequence will (somehow) be resolved in the near future. But then what?
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completely revolutionised the whole country and culture - and we could well have remained more closely tied to the former Anglo-Scandinavian pattern of rule. And, horror upon horror, the Norman King Henry 1st would not have laid the foundations of present day Dunstable. What a terrible thought! Then another “what if ” which has had tremendous outpourings both in this country and also on the Continent is “What if Henry Tudor had not beaten King Richard 3rd at the Battle of Bosworth field in 1485 to become Henry 7th and thereby start the Tudor dynasty which lasted until 1603?” The ramifications of this “what if ” are legion and have effects which can still be felt today. Not so much with regard to Henry 7th but certainly with regard to his son, Henry 8th. For example “What if his first wife, Catherine of Aragon been able to produce a son and heir?” Just think what that could have meant. Perhaps there wouldn’t have been five other wives. Perhaps there wouldn’t have been the need (as Henry saw it) for the Reformation. And this would have meant that we remained a catholic country; that there would be no Church of England (and that we would have been spared the centuries of religious barbarism when both Catholics and Protestants committed unspeakable atrocities against each other). It depends upon your religious standpoint, of course, as to which side you favour and whether you consider the savagery conducted by one faction upon the other to have been justified. Still with Henry 8th, “What if he had decided to carry on with his plan to make Dunstable Priory the Cathedral of Bedfordshire?” I wonder what difference that would have made to the town? But, don’t you think, the city of Dunstable somehow has a nice ring about it?!! Then during Elizabeth 1st’s reign and the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588, “What if the ill suited Spanish commander, the Duke of Medina Sedonia, listened to his knowledgeable Admiral regarding naval tactics?” The outcome could have been very different. The Duke had been given inviolable instructions from King Philip 2nd as to how to proceed, and in following these instructions to the letter he was intransigent even though there were unforeseen opportunities which arose where the Spanish could have held definite advantage over the English. But like Hitler three and a half centuries later, he didn’t take the advice of his very experienced second-in-command but stuck rigidly to his instructions and missed chance after chance. And then he got his ships trapped – and largely defeated - at the Battle of Gravelines outside
Calais. From here he had to limp back home with only half his original fleet and with Philip’s plans completely astray. But it had been a very close thing indeed and the English fleet could easily have been defeated more than once. And had they been, and had the Duke of Medina been able to link up with planned massive forces in Flanders, England could have been invaded and overrun. It would have meant that the catholic King Philip would have taken control of this country. How do you fancy that? And still regarding the never ending Catholic-Protestant bitterness which plagued the 16th and 17th centuries in particular, we come to the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Queen Elizabeth 1st had died in 1603 to be succeeded by King James 6th of Scotland and 1st of England. James was the son of the extremely devout catholic, Mary Queen of Scots, and this made English catholics feel that they would have a much easier ride under James. But James had not seen his mother since the age of one and had been raised as a strict Scottish Presbyterian which made him fiercely anti-catholic. So the catholics didn’t get what they’d hoped for. Consequently, a bunch of fanatical catholics under the leadership of Robert Catesby plotted to blow up the King and all the MPs at the state Opening of Parliament on November 5th. Their plan was that, following the chaos of having neither a government nor a monarch, the Spanish King Philip (him again!) would step into the breach, take over the reins, and return England to Rome. And they nearly succeeded; but just in the nick of time the explosives expert in their group, Guy Fawkes, was apprehended as he was about to light the fuse. So, the plot was foiled and we might ask “What if the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded?” Had it done so, it would have meant “third time lucky” in the attempt to return England to Catholicism: the first being during the barbaric reign of Mary 1st, the second being following the Spanish Armada, and the third being the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot. And had the latter succeeded, it could have meant that England became part of catholic western and southern Europe once again and that it was separated from northern Lutheran and Protestant Europe to which it is more closely allied today. But would a return to Rome make any difference regarding our being more kindly judged by our EU “friends” as to whether we are in, or out, of the European Union, I wonder? Without a doubt, quite a few more “what ifs” will follow. Issue 32 • April / May 2019
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Living With Dementia Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading dementia charity, working tirelessly to challenge perceptions, fund research and improve and provide care and support.
As Dementia Action Week takes place between 20th – 26th May, the charity helps sort the facts from the fiction. Alzheimer's disease and dementia are the same thing
FALSE Dementia is the name for a group of symptoms that commonly include problems with memory, thinking, problem solving, language and perception. Dementia can be caused by different diseases that affect the brain. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common. Some other less common types of dementia include vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and fronto-temporal dementia (FTD). Each type may typically cause a different pattern of symptoms and respond differently to treatments, as different parts of the brain are affected. In the UK today, there are over 850,000 people living with a form of dementia – of this over 1,800 are living in Luton and over 5,000 in central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough. Every three minutes someone will develop symptoms - making it one of the biggest health challenges of our time.
Only elderly people get dementia than men are currently living with
FALSE Age is the biggest risk factor for dementia, but at least 42,000 people in the UK under the age of 65 are living with the condition. This is called young-onset dementia. Certain types of dementia like fronto-temporal, more typically set in before the age of 65. Some very rare genetic mutations can lead to dementia in the thirties, or even childhood.
Women are more likely to get Alzheimer’s
TRUE Women with dementia outnumber men with the condition almost two to one, and brain cells die a lot faster in women than in men. It is not fully know why this is the case, but one of the main theories rests with the female hormone, oestrogen. Oestrogen has a protective effect on blood pressure and brain cognition. During the menopause women stop producing as much oestrogen, which could explain why more women
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dementia.
You will get dementia if one of your parents had it
FALSE Most dementias are not passed down through the family, and more than 99% of Alzheimer’s disease cases are not hereditary. Genetic links are more common in rarer types of dementia, like fronto-temporal dementia (FTD), which make up a tiny fraction of all cases. About 3% of people develop Alzheimer’s disease before they are 60. This is most likely due to a faulty gene which is passed through the family. To date, Alzheimer’s Society has funded over £2 million of research into the genetic causes of dementia to help develop new therapies.
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PROBABLY There is strong evidence that smoking can increase your risk, and according to the World
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Health Organisation, 14% of Alzheimer’s disease cases worldwide are potentially attributed to smoking. The two most common forms of dementia, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia have both been linked to problems with the vascular system. It is known that smoking increases the risk of vascular problems, like strokes or small bleeds in the brain, which are risk factors for dementia. It’s difficult to know the extent that tobacco increases your risk of developing dementia.
A Mediterranean diet lowers your risk
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What is good for your heart is good for your head and what you eat could lower your risk of developing dementia. Mediterranean diets are traditionally high in fruits, vegetables, legumes and cereals, with moderate consumption of oily fish and dairy, and low in meat, sugar and saturated fat. Most fat in this type of diet comes from olive oil, and alcohol is consumed in moderation with meals. Inflammation in the brain is associated with Alzheimer's disease, and there are signs that following this diet could reduce such chemical inflammation. Recent research has also suggested that the low levels of cholesterol in this diet may be linked with better memory.
There is no cure for dementia
TRUE Dementia is the UK’s biggest killer. Of the top ten causes of death, dementia is the only one that we can’t cure, prevent or even slow down. It is only through more research that we can understand what causes dementia, develop effective treatments, improve care and one day find a cure. More than a quarter of a billion pounds has been pledged in partnership towards the UK’s first ever Dementia Research Institute (DRI) – £190m from Medical Research Council, £50m from Alzheimer’s Society and £50m Alzheimer’s Research UK. The DRI is a unique collaboration bringing together the brains of six universities across the country with hundreds of world-leading researchers working tirelessly to beat dementia.
There is nothing I can do to help someone with dementia
FALSE
a city, town or village where people with dementia are understood, respected, supported, and confident they can contribute to community life for as long as possible. Individually people can become a Dementia Friend, gaining a better understanding of what it's like to live with dementia and then turn that understanding into action. There are already 2.8 million Dementia Friends in England and Wales - of this over 17,700 are living in Luton and Bedfordshire. Volunteering for Alzheimer’s Society can be very rewarding and there are various opportunities in Luton and Dunstable.
KEY CONTACTS: Working to become a dementia friendly organisation or community, contact Fiona Wynde, Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friendly Communities Officer, on 07484 924563 or email Fiona.Wynde@alzheimers.org.uk To become a Dementia Friend visit www.dementiafriends.org.uk Join Dementia Research, a nationwide service that allows people to register their interest in participating in dementia research and be matched to suitable studies, www.joindementiaresearch.nihr.ac.uk Alzheimer’s Society Luton office, call 01582 470910 or email bedfordshireandluton@alzheimers.org.uk
Everyone has a part to play in helping to make the UK a dementiafriendly place to live. There are over 400 dementia friendly communities across England & Wales – including Luton where businesses are committed to taking actions that help support their customers and employees affected by dementia. A dementia friendly community is
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Spring Has Sprung At Luton Hoo
Spring has sprung and the 2019 season at the Luton Hoo Estate Walled Garden is about to begin this month. Forthcoming Season at the Luton Hoo Estate Walled Garden A study day on "The Impact of WW1 on a Bedfordshire Estate: Luton Hoo" will take place on Wednesday 10th April 2019 in the Lecture Room, Luton Hoo Estate Office. LU1 4LF "The years leading up to the outbreak of the Great War saw national, social and economic changes which gradually began to impact upon our country estates. When war broke out in 1914 they were to play a vital role in providing manpower and skills for the armed forces and food for the nation, but this contribution came at a cost". Enquiries to info@lhwg.org.uk Spring Open Day - Wednesday 17th April From 10:30-13:00 with free activities for children - £5 entry for adults and £4 children (over 4) includes historic garden tour. Come and spot our fairy doors in our Woodland Walk and there is an opportunity to take part in our new Bluebell Walks. Guided Bluebell Walks through the Estate Enjoy visiting the carpet s of scented
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bluebells (of course we can't guarantee they will be in bloom!) around the ancient private woodland which is not otherwise open to the public. Cost £5 for this three mile walk taking about two hours to complete interspersed with historic information. Available on April 17th & 24th and May 8th. 10:30 or 14:00. Please book in advance 01582 721443 or office@lutonhooestate.co.uk Open Wednesdays begin on May 2nd and continue until the end of September. Historic garden tours are included £5 entry fee which goes towards the revival fund. . Come and visit our newly managed cafe called "The Wood Yard" which is accessed through the woodland walk. How to find us - There is no entrance to the Walled Garden from the Luton Hoo Hotel. On the A1081, between Luton & Harpenden. Take West Hyde Road/Newmill End turning. LU1 4LF www.lutonhooestate.co.uk
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