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Welcome Welcome to the January 2015 edition of the Castle Point Local Business Guide. As we head into 2015, our article on page 6 gives you some great ideas of how to keep your New Year’s Resolutions. We also have our regular ‘What’s on in Castle Point’ on page 16 where we feature a live interactive performance - “Let It Snow” at Marsh Farm, a cat homing show & a Roundhouse open afternoon at Hadleigh Country Park. In our regular community feature on the Acres Way Kennels, based in Castle Point (pages 10-11), we are pleased to say that 1 of the dogs featured last time has been rehomed successfully and another is currently on a farm with a foster family. We have 3 new dogs that are all looking for new loving homes. We have an article about the history of Hadleigh Farm (page 30) and our regular column from our financial expert Martin Lamb from Joseph R Lamb Financial Advisers (centre pages). If you have any interesting stories about Castle Point or if you are a local team, association or charity that would like to be featured in any future editions of the Local Business Guide then please drop us a line at: info@thelocalbusinessguide.co.uk If you would like to advertise in any of our Guides please contact Ricky on 01375 402546 and with prices starting from as little as £45 it is a really cost effective way of promoting and generating business from your local community. Remember to visit www.businesscard-directory.co.uk to source information and contact details for lots of local businesses. We wish all our readers and advertisers a very Happy New Year!

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New Year’s Resolutions If you struggle every year to keep your New Year’s resolutions, here are some ways to make it easier. If you’re planning to give up alcohol why not do it for charity? Give up alcohol and raise money by pledging to stay “dry” for the month of January with Cancer Research’s Dryathlon. Raise funds, clear your head, feel fitter and save money, all whilst helping to save lives. To register visit www.cancerresearchuk.org If 2015 is the year you are finally going to give up smoking, there is lots of help and advice available from the NHS. Studies show that you’re four times more likely to quit with the help of your Local NHS Stop Smoking Service. For the Southend Stop Smoking Service call 01702 212000. For full details of the help provided by the NHS visit www.nhs.uk/smokefree

There’s more help available from the NHS if you are determined to lose weight in 2015. To find all kinds of support visit www.nhs.uk/livewell/loseweight. The site includes articles, videos and tools from the NHS on more than 100 topics. There is a downloadable 12 week weight loss plan packed full of diet, healthy eating and physical activity advice, including weekly challenges.

New Year’s resolutions need not be health based! Why not commit to giving some of your time to charity by volunteering at a local organisation. There are plenty of opportunities in the local area and the Southend Association of Voluntary Services provides a service matching indivuals to volunteering opportunities. For more details visit www.savs-southend.org or call 01702 356000.

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What’s On In Castle Point “Let It Snow” weekend Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th January 2015 Starts: 10.00am Ends: 5.00pm Marsh Farm Animal Adventure Park, Marsh Farm Road, South Woodham Ferrers, CM3 5WP A live interactive performance including ‘Frozen’ sing-a-longs, story telling, face painting* and photo opportunities with the ‘Snow Sisters’ and ‘Snowman’. Stay all day and enjoy the fun of the farm at no extra cost; meet the animals, play on the bouncy pillows, inflatables and indoor soft play, ride the tractor and trailer, dance with Shaun the Sheep and so much more. Door price £11.50 Online price £9.99 Under 2s FREE Annual Pass Holders FREE.

Cat Homing Show Sunday 11th January 2015 Starts: 11.00am Ends: 1.30pm Smallgains Hall, Creek Rd, Canvey Island, Essex SS8 8QP Hosted by the Cats Protection League. Come along and view the cats of all ages and colours. They have many cats needing new safe and forever homes. Home checks apply. There will also be a stall with products for your cat available to buy. Tea and coffee served. For further information visit www.catsrayleigh.org.uk

Roundhouse Open Afternoons Sunday 25th January and Sunday 15th February 2015 Drop in between 1pm and 3pm Hadleigh Country Park, Meet at Chapel Road Car Park, SS7 2PP Come and explore the replica Iron Age roundhouse, warm yourself by the fire and learn how your ancestors lived 2000 years ago. Free admission. For more information visit www.hadleighcountrypark.co.uk

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MRC have announced the final rules following the momentous budget changes announced earlier in the year. These new rules will become effective from April 6th next year, so if you are planning on retiring soon you really need to be aware of them. They give new flexibilities not seen before, that counter many of the anti-pension arguments and in one fell swoop will have made saving for retirement via traditional pension policies rather than Buy to Let or ‘exotic’ schemes, truly interesting again. In fact I wonder whether the Government’s concern over the proliferation of ‘exotic’ (often offshore property) schemes and house price rises caused in part by Buy to Let investors alienating ‘real’ buyers and creating an economic bubble, was not a primary reason behind their thinking in trying to get conventional pension planning back on savers financial radars? The two main causes of concern for savers in pensions have been the low level of income available from annuities due to low interest rates and the idea that pension funds ‘die’ with you. Neither of these have been strictly true for a while, but by the Government making pensions more flexible more and more people are now thinking positively about saving for retirement again. With auto enrolment in the workplace now happening, we all need to have confidence that our pension funds will deliver a real benefit for us and our families. I believe this has been achieved with the new rules, which in a very concise summary are; Tax Free cash remains at 25% of your pension fund from age 55. No requirement for anyone to buy an annuity or conventional income product. Your pension can remain invested until needed, even after obtaining your Tax Free cash. There will be no limits on the amount you take from your pension. If you wish to enjoy it over the early years of retirement that will be your choice. If you would rather invest it to make a sustainable income, or even any combination of income and lump sum withdrawals then again, the choice is yours. If an annuity hasn’t been purchased by the time you die, you can transfer your entire remaining fund tax free to your spouse. Or you can leave the fund to your children subject to a tax charge which is currently

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adleigh Farm was originally part of William Booth’s “Darkest England” scheme. This involved people from what he referred to as the, “submerged tenth” being helped and in some cases rescued by Salvationists. His vision was that the poor would be given board and lodgings in a City Colony in exchange for a day’s work. They could then move to a Farm Colony where they would be trained to work the land and run their own smallholdings. Then finally they could progress to Overseas Colonies, running smallholdings abroad. The trial City Colony was set up in Whitechapel in 1889 and two years later Booth put down a deposit on land in Hadleigh for his Farm Colony. Starting with 800 acres (3.2 km2) of land, later expanding to 3,200 acres (13 km2), the farm was home to 200 colonists by the end of its first year. Existing farm buildings were renovated and new dormitories, a bathhouse, laundry, reading room, hospital and religious meeting house were built. As well as farming and market gardening, colonists were taught brickmaking, pottery and construction skills. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 the British government agreed to look after a number of Basque refugee children. Some of these children ended up under the Salvation Army’s care in East London and at Hadleigh. In 1939 the farm also provided accommodation for nearly 70 Jewish refugees fleeing

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