Crawley CCG Opening Doors to Services

A message from Agnieszka Tworkowska

Crawley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) together with West Sussex County Council (WSCC)

The West Sussex Minorities Health and Social Care Group invite you to find out what is available in your community to support your health and wellbeing.

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The event includes fun activities such as African drum circles, head and hand massages and our very own ‘smoothie bike’.

Saturday 22 October 2016
10.00am – 2.00pm.

The Civic Hall,
The Boulevard, Crawley, RH10 1UZ

For further info visit
website www.westsussex.gov.uk/…/openingdoors
or call phone 01243 777100

Message originally forwarded by
Agnieszka Tworkowska
Engagement Officer
phone 01293 600300 ext. 3965
email agnieszka.tworkowska@nhs.net

Crawley & Horsham and Mid Sussex CCGs
Lower Ground Floor Crawley Hospital
West Green Drive
Crawley, RH11 7DH

Crawley Clinical Commissioning Group – Newsletter

Crawley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
Newsletter – Summer 2016 – Newsletter

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Crawley Hospital,
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Crawley
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Worth Park – Worth Park Events

A message from Edwina Livesey

Worth Park Gardens – Worth Park Wanders – 13th October 2016

Dear Resident,

Our final Worth Park Wander this year – Terrific Trees – will be on Thursday October 13th at 10.30am and will be something of a special celebration.

Meet at Ridleys Court, enjoy a walk round the park, discover some our beautiful park trees then join us back at the visitor centre for cakes and coffee.

We will be handing out certificates to some of our newly qualified guided walks leaders, and celebrating our successes in running this highly popular series of guided themed heritage walks.

This will be followed by an informal meeting for anyone interested in running a project in Worth Park next year

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The dates for our final events at Worth Park in 2016 are below:

Thursday October 20th
and every fortnight afterwards
Worth Park Costume Project
2-4pm Ridleys Court
Wednesday 26th October Pens and Needles
Have a go at drawing with artist Andy Bull then explore your rebellious side with some guerrilla knitting, courtesy of Crawley Art Shake and our poet in residence Patricia M Osborne. Sam is also hoping for volunteers to help him plant spring bulbs in the woodland.
Saturday October 29th Fungi Foray
Join fungi expert Nick Aplin for another excellent and informative tour of the park.
Wednesday December 21st Christmas at Worth Park
Enjoy the flavour of a Victorian Christmas at Worth Park with carols, crafts, greenery, mulled wine, mince pies and lots more – more details to follow.

We look forward to seeing you!

Edwina Livesey

For further information please contact Edwina

phone 01293 438027
phone 07826 917846
email edwina.livesey@crawley.gov.uk
Participation Officer – Worth Park
Crawley Borough Council
Town Hall, The Boulevard
Crawley, RH10 1UZ


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Crawley News – Airport Parking

Pair parked in residential area got a taxi to Gatwick
28th September 2016 – Crawley News


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A Crawley cab firm has promised to investigate after a disabled Pound Hill woman was left “outraged” when she witnessed a taxi driver pick up a couple who had parked their car near her home before going on holiday.

On September 15 Laura Hunt was trying to get into her garage on Haywards when she saw a couple park their car opposite her home and a Metro Cars driver pull up beside them, mutter something before turning round and then loading the holidaymakers’ luggage into his car and driving off. Mrs Hunt, who suffers from fibromyalgia, believes the driver shouldn’t have picked the couple up once it became clear what they were doing.

She said: “I couldn’t believe people were actually so rude as to use our road as a free car park.” Mrs Hunt added that the following Thursday she was lying ill in bed when her husband came up and told her that he had seen a taxi pull up behind the white car that had been parked there.

She said: “He watched the same couple get out of the same people-carrier-style car and get their luggage and get into their own car. “I have been unable to get in and out of my drive safely quite a few times over the last few weeks from the amount of cars that seem to keep parking up and down the street.

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“I do feel outraged that a local company would [treat] their own local customers [this way]. We have enough issues with parking around Crawley as it is without the Gatwick car parks spilling out on to our roads.”

Responding to the concerns, a Metro Cars spokesman told the Crawley News that sometimes holidaymakers make arrangements with local residents to park outside their homes.

He said: ‘At times we do get lots of jobs from people parking up their cars. Sometimes there is an arrangement in place to park their car.”

When asked if the taxi firm would be investigating this particular incident and reiterating to drivers not to encourage holidaymakers to park in residential streets, he added: “Of course. We will look into any incident and investigate.”

Speaking to the Crawley News last month about a similar issue in Pound Hill, Councillor Kevan McCarthy said parking is an issue across the town, but feels that his ward in particular suffers from holidaymakers leaving their cars there before heading to Gatwick.

He said: “It is perhaps the single biggest issue and concerns a lot of people in the town. Airport parking would seem to be a contributing factor to this problem. In Pound Hill we notice it when a car parks up on our road and stays there for weeks, and then a taxi pulls up and the car drives off.

“People understandably want to park For free because it is quite expensive to park at Gatwick Airport, so parking in a nearby neighbourhood and getting a taxi is sometimes much cheaper.

“But people who are not from the area aren’t as considerate when they do park, they are often against the clock so don’t always park well. It means bin lorries can’t get up certain roads, and people lose their parking space.”