Alan Barker

The next Newport Parish Council meeting is at Newport Primary School (The Hall entrance) at 7pm on Tuesday 13th December 2022 – all village residents are welcome. Access to the meeting room is through the main gate on the Village Hall side of the school and to the rear of the building.    

Public Forum – The Public Forum will commence at 7.00pm. The period designated for public participation shall not exceed 15 minutes. Each member of the public may only speak once and for no longer than 3 minutes

Please see the link below

Newport Parish Council presents the Christmas Lights switch on.

Saturday 26th November from 6.30pm onwards.

On the corner of Canal Side East and Main Road, Newport

All residents are invited to enjoy some festive fun including Carol Singing by Newport Primary School.

The next Newport Parish Council meeting is at Newport Primary School (The Hall entrance) at 7pm on Tuesday 8th November 2022 – all village residents are welcome. Access to the meeting room is through the main gate on the Village Hall side of the school and to the rear of the building.    

Public Forum – The Public Forum will commence at 7.00pm. The period designated for public participation shall not exceed 15 minutes. Each member of the public may only speak once and for no longer than 3 minutes

East Riding of Yorkshire Council have set up a dedicated one-stop website which is now available at:

Cost of living – help for households (eastriding.gov.uk)

Please see the leaflet via the link below

Information about support, advice and help together with sign-posting is currently arranged under seven headings to enable residents to find relevant information as easily as possible. These are:

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Urgent help when in need – services that provide financial advice, emergency payments and mental health support.

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Help with household bills – benefits, Household Support Fund, food banks, help with energy costs. Broadband deals, and budgeting advice for homeowners and low income households.

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Support for families with children – free school meals, school clothing grant, help with childcare costs, and maternity grants for families with children.

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Older people – pension advice, additional winter benefits, free TV licence information, and financial guidance for older people.

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Support for tenants and low income households – benefits and financial support for tenants and low income households such as Universal Credit, Housing benefit, Council Tax payment support and the council’s Emergency Assistance Scheme.

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Disability services and adult care – disabled facilities grant, Blue Badge application, government benefits and adult social care information.

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Debt and money – budgeting advice and financial guidance from the council, the government, community services, and charities.

This information spans current available provision from the government, partners and our own services. New additional provisions and routes of access are being added as soon as they become available to our residents.

Residents without access to the internet and in need of help can contact the council on: (01482) 393939.

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East Riding of Yorkshire Council has today agreed an initial number of cost-of-living support measures as part of the Help for Households campaign.

Utilising the council’s cost-of-living reserve, the recommendations agreed at cabinet include:

• £200,000 to install cavity wall and roof insulation for up to 1,000 homes.
• £100,000 to support the voluntary and community sector, help ensure its sustainability, develop new initiatives for social cohesion, health and wellbeing activities.
• £200,000 financial support for the East Riding Food Poverty Alliance (ERFPA) and local foodbanks.

The council has launched a Help for Households campaign to support residents in the East Riding needing financial help or struggling to manage.

A one-stop page on the council’s website has been created so residents can easily see what support they could be entitled to from the council, the Government as well as partners including the voluntary and community sector. For more information visit: eryc.link/costofliving.

Residents without access to the internet and in need of help can call: (01482) 393939.

Councillor Jonathan Owen, leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, issued the following statement at the cabinet this morning: “These three agreed measures demonstrate the council’s strong focus on community empowerment, supporting our excellent local voluntary and community teams, and helping our residents to cope with the pressures they are currently facing with the cost-of-living crisis.

“The investment we are making to help up to 1,000 homes be warm over winter with new cavity wall and roof insulation will go a long way to tackling fuel poverty and will help improve the health of those who need to keep warm, including those people who are disabled and those who feel the cold.

“Our foodbanks do an incredible job and have worked tirelessly through COVID and into this current year to keep providing low cost and free food for those most in need.

“This is the first of many planned updates about how we can help cushion our residents of the worst of the impacts from the cost-of-living inflationary pressures.”

Contact Information

Sam Holtby
Public Relations Officer
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
07791259055
samuel.holtby@eastriding.gov.uk

The next Newport Parish Council meeting is at Newport Primary School (The Hall entrance) at 7pm on Tuesday 11th October 2022 – all village residents are welcome. Access to the meeting room is through the main gate on the Village Hall side of the school and to the rear of the building.    

Public Forum – The Public Forum will commence at 7.00pm. The period designated for public participation shall not exceed 15 minutes. Each member of the public may only speak once and for no longer than 3 minutes.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Trading Standards Services as received reports of Nottingham Knockers cold calling in East Riding villages.

You may know this group as ‘duster sellers’. They are normally young males carrying large bags full of cleaning products which they offer for sale door-to-door.  This approach is believed to have started in the Nottingham area,  hence the term ‘Nottingham Knockers’. Unfortunately, as well as selling everyday items at inflated prices, they may also be looking for suitable targets with a view to either obtaining personal details to sell on, or committing crime.

These callers typically claim to be ex-offenders trying to make a new start in life by working on a probation or rehabilitation scheme, and may show a false ID card, or a false Pedlar’s Certificate (genuine certificates are issued by the Police).  Government rehabilitation schemes do not involve door-to-door sales.

Local residents have reported that some of these callers have been abusive.  It is also believed that others may try to charm their way in, making repeat visits to the same household.  

The best course of action for local residents is:

• DON’T DEAL WITH COLD CALLERS 
• Do not make up-front payments to any cold callers.
• Do not deal with Nottingham Knockers.
• NEVER allow Nottingham Knockers into your home.
• If you are aware of Nottingham Knockers visiting your neighbourhood, please report any such activity to the Police immediately, using the non-emergency number, 101.  Give as much information as you can such as times dates, descriptions and vehicle registration numbers. By doing this you may help prevent crime.
• Report any suspicions about other types of door-to-door selling to Citizens Advice consumer helpline 0808 223 1133, giving as much information as you can, such as business names and addresses.