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Welcome Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the Castle Point Local Business Guide. This summer, why not visit some of the lovely gardens that we have on our doorstep. Our feature on Gardens in Essex on page 6 will give you some good ideas of where to go. We also have our regular ‘What’s on in Castle Point’ on page 16 where we feature a Charity Fun Day, an Extreme Stunt Show, a Craft Exhibition and a Glitterball Market Event. In our regular local community feature on the Acres Way Kennels, based in Castle Point, (pages 10 & 11), we are sorry to say that the dogs featured in last month’s Guide are still waiting to be re-homed. We have 4 new lovely dogs that need your help!
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We have an article on the history of the Catholic Church on Canvey Island (page 30) and our regular column from our financial expert Martin Lamb from Joseph R Lamb Financial Advisers (see centre pages).
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Gardens In Essex There are some lovely gardens in Essex so why not take advantage of the lovely weather and pay them a visit. Audley End House and Gardens in Saffron Walden is one of England’s grandest stately homes. Audley End House was built to entertain royalty and includes a Victorian Service Wing complete with kitchen, laundries and a dairy. With beautiful grounds to explore, including an impressive formal garden and the working Organic Kitchen Garden, there’s so much to see and do. For opening times and prices visit www.english-heritage.org.uk or call 01799 522842. Beeleigh Abbey Gardens near Maldon is a delightful series of gardens in three acres with plenty to explore and a river view, between Maldon and Woodham Mortimer. There are refreshments and a chance to buy plants, but the Abbey itself is now a private residence. Abbey Turning, nr Maldon, CM9 6LL. For opening times visit www.english-heritage.org.uk or call 07779 223321 Bridge End Garden in Saffron Walden is a series of seven interlinked gardens laid out by the Gibson family in the nineteenth century. These grade II-star listed gardens are now under the control of Saffron Walden Town Council, and remain open to the public each day free of charge. Careful restoration has replicated gardening techniques and designs typical of the Victorian era and has brought the garden back to its full splendour. Bridge End, Saffron Walden, CB10 1HR. Hyde Hall is a 360 acre estate near Chelmsford. This inspirational garden has a great diversity of plants and planting styles where you can watch the changing seasons and get closer to nature. It’s a garden to be enjoyed by people of all ages Facilities include a licensed restaurant, plant centre, shop, information centre and library.For more details visit www.rhs.org.uk/hydehall 6
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Working for the Community
Can you help Re-Home a Dog from Acres Way Kennels? Adopting a Dog
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f you think you can offer a dog a good home, the first thing you need to do is to go down to the kennels, select a suitable dog you like, take it for a walk and see how you get on. Some people and dogs just don’t get along, so before reserving a dog, the Acres Way staff would need to see if you suit each other. If you have children, or another dog, they recommend that you bring them with you, to make sure that everyone will get on. Once you have visited the dogs, and hopefully found one that matches your lifestyle and expectations, a member of staff will arrange a convenient time for a home check. These are usually carried out within 2
or 3 days of your visit and take about half an hour. Once the home check is complete, you’ll be able to collect your dog. You will need to bring with you some identification showing your current address, and the £130 adoption fee. Their staff will be on hand if you have any questions, and will be able to guide you through the adoption process. All the staff and dogs at Acres Way look forward to seeing you Re-Homing Update Dizzy and Roxy who we featured last month are unfortunately still at Acres Way. Blaze the Husky who we also featured last month has been taken into a Husky rescue centre to help him better his chances of getting a home and get the specific care that the breed requires.
This month’s featured dogs Amy - Lurcher / Staff Cross
Female / Age 5
Good with other dogs: Yes Good with children: Unknown Additional Information: Very friendly and affectionate. Well socialised.
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Honey - Rottweiler Female / Age 1
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How to contact them Acres Way Kennels, Great Burches Road Thundersley, Essex SS7 3NE They are open 10am-3pm 7 days a week.
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MG-Building
Family Run Business ~ Over 20 years Experience Fully Insured ~ All Work Guaranteed We aim to provide our customers with the highest quality workmanship along with a personal trouble free service, specialising in:
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What’s On In Castle Point Charity Fun Day Sunday 3rd August 2014 Starts: 11.00am Southend Rugby Club, Warners Bridge Park, Sumpters Way Temple Farm Industrial Estate, Southend-On-Sea, SS2 5RR A wide range of events and stalls including inflatables, face painting, bbq, Pimms bar, Southend Rugby Team Vs Southend Football Club tug of war and displays of different types. To raise funds for The Alzheimer’s Society.
Extreme Stunt Show Friday 8th August 2014 Gates Open: 6.30pm Show Starts: 7.30pm Waterside Farm Sports Centre, Canvey Island, Essex, SS8 9RA Whether you’re a fan of monster trucks, motorbikes, BMX or just general mayhem, the Extreme Stunt Show Live Arena is the place to be! For more information and tickets visit www.extremeeventseurope.com
Craft Exhibition Friday 15th and Saturday 16th August 2014 Starts: 10.00am Ends: 3.30pm St James the Less Church, High Street, Hadleigh, SS7 2PA St James The Less Church Wives’ Group presents their “Hidden Talents” Craft Exhibition. There will also be stalls and refreshments available. For more information visit www.hadleighchurch.org.uk
Glitterball Market Event Saturday 30th August 2014 Starts: 1.00pm Ends: 4.00pm The Corner Club, High Street, Canvey Island Monthly stall based event to raise money for charity. This month’s chosen charity is Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Money Guidance
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hat do we actually do at Joseph Lamb’s....? It is very easy for us to forget but what we think ‘Financial Advice’ is not always not what you may think it is! The Financial Advice industry has grown out of what used to be the life assurance and insurance broking industry, but is now a very different animal indeed. Whilst everyone in it moans about the level of regulation and complying with regulation, there is no doubt at all that higher and higher levels of regulation have led to higher and higher levels of professionalism. At Lamb’s we recognised the impact this regulation would have on us right from the earliest days, so we stopped doing ‘general insurance’ as long ago as 1987, and subsequently have simplified our business model to focus on our core specialist activities. These are now very different from the past, our business has developed into an Investment and much as I hate the phrase ‘Wealth Management’ business. We run our own investment portfolios under our Discretionary Premier Investment Monitoring Service (D-PIMS) which can apply to all aspects of your personal wealth as it can operate for your investment ISAs, pensions, unit trust portfolios and even via Life Assurance Bonds where their special tax treatment may be advantageous for some clients. We are now in the very proud position of being entrusted with looking after about £250,000,000 of investments on behalf of clients and are the most longstanding and largest firm in our sector in the area. The D-PIMS service operates at 6 levels of ‘risk’ from ‘low’ through to ‘very high’ so we can find a suitable level for just about everybody, and has been operating for nearly 10 years. The performance of the portfolios can be seen on our website where you will see that we have consistently outperformed our peers and competition, often with much lower ‘volatility’, the values don’t jump around as much as our competitors. D-PIMS keeps you up to date with your investments, we can provide on-line valuations, formal 6 monthly reports and market commentaries via e mail from our investment team as and when we make changes to our portfolios. We think that this makes our clients feel much more ‘engaged’ with their money than any other service previously experienced and we find clients become much more interested in and aware of the world’s investment markets.
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In running the portfolios we look forward over the coming months and try to position our investments in line with what we feel are the most likely outcomes of economic and political events. We reduce risk in our portfolios if we foresee potential risk events, and this is what helps control the volatility of the service. We are always looking for areas that may provide better returns, and have an excellent track record of introducing or increasing investments in sectors just ahead of their performance increasing, a good example of this is bringing Commercial Property funds into the portfolios a full year ahead of our competitors, at the start of what appears to be a strong run for the sector. As well as running your investments for you we can provide full advice around the financial planning issues relating to your retirement, accessing your pensions, funding pensions, (which the ‘New Rules’ have made infinitely more attractive),saving, protecting your family and your business, cash flow planning, Trustee Investment services, and from our experience in running our own business, we can often help out with business planning and corporate decision making. Our adviser team has hundreds of years experience across all market and economic cycles, why not contact one of them to pick their brains and get some financial planning ideas? The first consultation is always free and we are confident that we can add value and improve your current situation - our existing clients certainly think so as can be seen from the testimonials on our website. So, why not find out what we do - free of charge and contact us with any financial planning query you may have. We will do all we can to help, free of charge until we commence chargeable work for you.
Martin Lamb, Dip.PFS Certs CII (MP & ER) We will notify you before we begin any chargeable work and provide an estimate fo costs. Some aspects of business and corporate advice are not regulated by The Financial Conduct Authority.This article does not constitute investment advice, readers should seek an assessment of their needs and requirements before making any decisions based on the content of this article
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History of Castle Point
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Leigh.
In September 1930, Islanders wrote to the Bishop asking for a local church. A site was generously donated in Long Road by Mr A.M. Clark. The late Mr E.E. Lawrence
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