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Welcome A very warm welcome to the November 2015 edition of the Southend & Westcliff Local Business Guide. The Christmas countdown has now begun and our article on page 4 gives you some ideas of where you can take your little ones to visit Santa this year. We also have our regular ‘What’s on in Southend & Westcliff’ on pages 22 and 23 where we feature a festive craft and gift fair, Skating-onSea, a Christmas concert, Adventure Wonderland, a Winter Extravaganza in Southend Town Centre and a Christmas 4D light show. In our regular community feature on the Acres Way Kennels, based in Castle Point (pages 10-11), we are pleased that Hank the Spaniel that we featured in our last issue has been successfully re-homed. The 2 other dogs we featured last month are still looking for their Forever Homes so we have featured them again. We also feature a special appeal to raise money and find a home for Preston the Mastiff who recently had to have a leg removed. In our Community section this month we bring you details of Christmas volunteering opportunities in Southend (page 16). In the 1950s, one of Southend’s most popular attractions was Never Never land and our article on pages 25 and 26 shares a brief history of the magical place. We also have our regular column from our financial expert Martin Lamb from Joseph R Lamb Financial Advisers (centre pages). If you have any interesting stories about Southend or Westcliff 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 £50 it is a really cost effective way of promoting and generating business from your local community.

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Where’s Santa In Essex? Visit Colchester Zoo this Christmas and be transported into a sparkling winter wonderland! You’ll get the chance to meet Santa’s real, live reindeer, enjoy the staff pantomime, indulge in tasty festive treats from the Elves’ Kitchen, make Christmas crafts at the Elve’s Workshop and of course, journey through our magical Christmas grotto to meet Santa himself!. For the full programme of events visit www.colchester-zoo.co.uk Colne Valley Railway, Castle Hedingham. Why not join Santa on a special train as it steams along. The “Santa Special” will run on Saturday 12th, Sunday 13th, Saturday 19th, Sunday 20th and Tuesday 22nd of December. Santa will bring a present for every child. Prices are £10 per adult, £9 per child 3-15 and £3.50 for under 3s (includes present but no seat.) Call 01787-461174 to make a booking or book online. For full details visit www.colnevalleyrailway.co.uk At Alton’s Garden Centre, Arterial Road, Wickford, you will be taken on a journey through a magical grotto where Father Christmas is waiting to see you. He will present each child with a lovely gift plus a seedling Christmas Tree that you can plant in your garden and watch it grow for years to come. Advance tickets can be bought online at www.alton-gardencentre.co.uk. Full details including dates and times are also on the website. Visit Santa in his grotto at the shore end of Southend Pier, tell him what you would like for Christmas and receive a special gift from him. You can also enter their colouring competition. The ticket also includes a train ride to the end of the Pier and back for the child and one adult, (any additional adults will pay the Pier admission price.) Tickets are £8. Booking is essential visit www.visitsouthend.co.uk. 4

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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

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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 We are pleased that Hank the 8 year old Spaniel that we featured in our last issue has been successfully re-homed. Unfortunately Little Mo the terrier and Abbie the Staff are still yet to find loving homes.

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Special Appeal Preston the Mastiff Acres Way Kennels is currently running a special appeal to raise funds for a very special dog that they currently have in their care. Preston is a 3 year old Mastiff who unfortunately broke one of his legs. He had numerous oprations but sadly had to have the leg removed. This has cost the kennels over £1000 so a special appeal has been launched to raise money to recover the cost of the operation and to help further in Preston’s rehabilitation. Acres Way are also looking to find Preston a loving home. He loves lots of attention and cuddles and is looking for a relaxed home with lots of people but preferably no other dogs. Donations towards Preston’s operation and continuing care can be via cheque, cash or card at the kennels, or by PayPal at contact@acresway.co.uk. How else can you help? It takes thousands of pounds every week to keep the kennels running, without counting in unexpected veterinary fees such as Preston’s operation. Acres Way have set up a “Wish List” at www.amazon.co.uk of things they need to help continue caring for the dogs. If you feel you can donate, please take a look at their wish list and you can help by buying food, treats and bedding for the amazing rescue dogs ready for the christmas period.

How to contact Acres Way Acres Way Kennels, Great Burches Road Thundersley, Essex SS7 3NE They are open 10am-3pm 7 days a week. Visitors are welcome at any time during these hours - no appointment is necessary.

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f you do own your own Limited Company and have been paying yourself through dividends the chances are that you are going to be much worse off once next year’s Dividend Tax changes come into effect. At the moment you will pay Corporation Tax on your profits, currently at 20% of your profit. Any profit left after the Corporation tax charge can be paid as a dividend and as you own all or part of the company this tax charge is currently treated as if it is paying your basic rate tax on the dividend, so if your dividend, added to any salary( plus a nominal grossing up of 10%) falls under the Higher Rate tax threshold there is no extra personal tax to pay. If your total gross dividend and exceeds the Higher rate there is a 22.5% tax charge due personally, and if your earnings exceed £150,000 then 27.5 % is due. This is very effective and is a true dividend due to business owners to help offset the stresses and strains of running a business. Unfortunately this is about to change. With effect from April 6th 2016 there is effectively no credit for the Corporation Tax paid, instead only the first £5,000 of dividends are treated specially and are tax free. Any dividend over this up to the Higher rate is now taxed at 7.5%, and over the Higher rate at 32.5% and additional rate at 38.1%! This will result in much higher personal tax bills for the majority of business owners and action is needed to now minimise its impact for next year. You should of course discuss this with your accountant as soon as possible as leaving it until April will simply be too late. What can you do about it? Well first of all you should consider drawing more dividends now if the business has the cash to support the payment. We have seen that many well run firms have actually been building cash following the crisis of 2008, but that it is languishing in a bank account earning next to nothing and once accumulated business owners are fearful of drawing due to the personal tax charge. This is going to go up significantly so it may well be worth drawing it now! An alternative would be to fund pensions for shareholding employees. The new pension flexibilities mean that if you are over 55 you can fund your pension from the business and still access the pension if you needed the money. If you are under 55 you need to be sure that you will not need it until you are 55, but in both cases the tax benefits are significant. A Company can pay up to £40,000 per 14

person in pension contributions in the current year plus the balance of any used allowance from the previous three tax years. The pension contribution is deducted from your profit when you file your accounts so will not attract any corporation tax. It will attract no National Insurance charge and no personal tax charge. It is the only legitimate way of drawing money from your business without incurring any tax on the payment and if over 55 and you needed the money the tax saving means you will be better off if you paid yourself ‘through’ the pension than if you took a dividend! Any investment returns from the pension are tax free in the majority of cases, you can access all or part of the fund from 55, 25% of the fund is tax free and if held to retirement you will almost certainly be a lower rate tax payer when you draw the taxable part of the fund than when you were contributing. The pension fund can also be passed on without any capital tax on death and there is no need to ever buy an annuity, you can hold the fund until you die and pass it on very tax efficiently. Under these new rules Pensions are not really pensions at all any more, they are simply very tax efficient investments accounts that can only be accessed after 55. Now consider that if you are still working, in middle age, and you are saving for the rainy day, why would you not put as much as you can into pensions? You can access it if needed after the age of 55, you get tax relief at your marginal rates on contributions up to £40,000 pa if you have enough earnings, and the growth is free from tax, the fund is exempt from IHT and 25 % of the future value can be paid to you tax free! BUT! You must act now as the Chancellor has seen that many would use pensions to avoid the higher Divided tax and from next April the ability to fund pensions from your own business will be severely limited. Here at Joseph Lamb we will be only too happy to work with you and your accountant to effect a plan to beat the taxman before April. Call us or email us now to arrange a free initial consultation. 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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Southend Association of Voluntary Services Christmas Volunteering Opportunities f you are looking to do some volutary work in the local area this Christmas, the Southend Association of Voluntary Services has a whole host of opportunities available. Here are just a few of their current opportunities.

December. A great chance to help those in need but you need to be able to stay for a reasonable number of hours, enjoy being busy and cope with cooking for large numbers! Enthusiasm, a positive attitude and calmness under pressure are ideal attributes.

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The Rudolph Run takes place on Sunday 13th December on Southend Promenade. By volunteering to help, you’ll be raising money for a charity supporting the most vulnerable and neglected children and young people in the UK. Bubbly and enthusiastic volunteers are needed to help marshal the course on this five mile run directing and cheering the runners. A fun day out and a great gift to disadvantaged youngsters..

During the coldest months, the churches winter night shelters offer food, friendship and shelter from the harshest of weather to local homeless people. They need lots of help to make this possible so, give the gift of time this Christmas and help supervise the guests overnight. If you are not afraid of an interesting and maybe challenging night, please get in touch.

Give the gift of Christmas Christmas is a time to be around family and friends, but hundreds of international students could spend the festivities alone. Why not host a student in your home for a few days so they can experience the ‘real’ Britain. All you need do is make the student feel part of your family. So, if you’d like to enjoy an unusual and rewarding activity, meet new people and travel the world on your sofa, please get in touch.

For more information of these volunteering opportunties and many others in the local area, contact the Southend Assoctiation of Voluntary Services at: SAVS Centre, 29-31 Alexandra Street, Southend-onSea, Essex, SS1 1BW or call 01702 356000. Email: info@savs-southend.co.uk. Further details are also available at www.savs-southend.org

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Adventure Wonderland

Every day until Thursday 24th December Starts: 10.00am Ends: 4.00pm The Pier, Western Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 1EE Adventure Wonderland will be back for the 2015 Festive Season and this year it’s bigger and better than ever! Your Adventure Wonderland Experience now includes all the great rides and attractions in the new Indoor Centre. Children can adventure through the tunnel to reach Father Christmas’ Grotto where they will meet his Elves and all his friends like Frosty the Dancing Snowman and PJ the Giant Polar Bear. There’s still lots more exciting features to be announced so all of the above is just the tip of the iceberg! For more information visit: www.adventureisland.co.uk

Winter Extravaganza Saturday 5th December 2015 Starts: 11.00am Ends: 4.30pm Southend Town Centre, Southend-on-Sea

A Full Day of Magic and Sparkle in Southend’s Town Centre! Follow the Yellow Brick Road along Southend High Street to find Dorothy’s house and get up close to Santa’s Reindeer outside of the Royals Shopping Centre. From 4.00pm, Radio Essex will be bringing hundreds of voices together in a mass Christmas caroling carol-oke outside My Local (opposite Bargain Buys) so join in with some Christmas classics! For more information visit: www.onsouthend.com/events.

Christmas 4D Light Show Saturday 5th - Saturday 12th December 2015 Starts: 4.00pm Ends: 8.00pm Cliffs Pavilion Theatre, Station Road, Southend-on-Sea, SS0 7RA

Premièring at the Winter Extravaganza (above), the amazing 4D Light Show will be a multimedia visual experience complete with snow machines and animations projected onto Southend High Street. The Christmas 4D Light Show will be on a 5 minute loop every evening until the 12th December. You can find the light show projected onto the My Local building in the middle of Southend High Street – formerly Morrisons, opposite Bargain Buys and the 99p Store. For more information visit: www.onsouthend.com/events.

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In the 1950s, in the Shrubbery beside the pier, there was a magical exciting place called Never Never Land. It was full of castles and giants and fairylights and a wonderful model railway with stations and mountains and bridges. For most of the year, the area known as “The Shrubbery” was a peaceful park with a stream, waterfalls and seats for people to sit and relax but every summer season things would change and the rest and relaxation would be replaced by shrieks of fun and laughter as a little bit of magic would turn the park in to a whole new attraction. Never Never Land opened in 1935 and soon became popular. By the 1950s people queued along the seafront for hours to get in. The

magical world was owned and operated by Southend Council and would open for just a short part of the summer season. The park was transformed in just a few short weeks to include model cartoon characters, goblins, smoke breathing dragons, fairies with magical castles, thousands of multicoloured lights and a model railways running throughout the park. One of the trains pulled three carriages a First Class, a Second Class and No Class! But, as tastes changed and more ‘exciting’ attractions became available the crowds disappeared and in 1972 the gardens closed. Most of the exhibits were ripped out and the gardens returned to ordinary use with just a few almost indestructible miniature ruins left in the bushes. In 1976, a rival attraction picked up on the same theme and just down the road Peter Pan’s Playground opened complete with a boating lake and fairground attractions. Second Chance The site at The Shrubbery remained as an open public space for 15 years until in 1987. With visitor numbers to Southend rising the council looked at re-opening the site as a world of enchantment and so Never Never Land was

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This model castle was at the entrance and it had lights in the windows and a little rowing boat crossing the lake at the bottom.

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