Up and down the country, our local high streets are in crisis and if we do nothing, many of the shops and restaurants we love will close. This predicament is being tackled head-on by Loql, a Berkhamsted based not for profit consortium of technologists and local businesspeople with a plan to help. They are creating […]
A new support team starts knocking on doors across Hertfordshire this week, offering advice and support to people who are required by law to self-isolate for 10-14 days to help contain the spread of coronavirus. Public health professionals will be visiting people across the county who national and local contact tracing teams have been unable […]
‘Think global and act local’ for your community group to be awarded a pot of up to £2000! As part of its climate and ecological emergency work, Dacorum Borough Council have launched the borough’s first ever ‘Green Community Grants’. The new grant scheme is specifically designed to support projects in our community which benefit the […]
Students from Tring and Welwyn can be heard performing on a classical song which peaked at number one on the iTunes Classical Chart (ahead of Ed Sheeran and Andrea Bocelli). They accompanied soprano Louisa Alice-Rose on her song ‘You Are Not Alone’. Hitting the top spot on iTunes Classical Chart was a dream for Louisa, […]
A charity and honesty café in Hertfordshire has received £2,000 from the Amazon fulfilment centre team in Hemel Hempstead. The award-winning Liberty Tea Rooms is run and staffed by volunteers from the local community and offers free services for those in need via a Community Hub. The charity aims to bring liberty to people in the Hemel […]
Walk off the excesses of Christmas, and push away those January blues with this new event from WheelPower, the national charity for Wheelchair Sport. They gave us the following update In January 2021 we are launching the very first ‘WheelPower Winter Walk & Push’ as we all look to start the new year as we […]
A new national pet friendly hostel accreditation scheme, launched by charity StreetVet was announced on Monday, and Dacorum-based charity DENS are very proud that The Elms, their pet-friendly hostel based in Hemel Hempstead, is the very first hostel to be awarded accreditation. The scheme – which will roll out nationwide – aims to ensure that […]
Hertfordshire Constabulary is warning residents to stay vigilant following reports of scam text and email messages which appeared to be from parcel delivery companies. The messages appear to be from couriers like DPD and Royal Mail, stating that they have tried to deliver a parcel and asking you to click a link to reschedule the […]
Since 4 July, Peter Borg-Neal, Founder and Chairman of 28-strong local pub group, Oakman Inns, which owns five pubs in Hertfordshire, and his CEO, Dermot King, have provided comfortable yet Covid-safe environments for their guests. With other pub and restaurant operators across the UK, the Tring-headquartered group is bitterly disappointed that the Government has imposed […]
Our thanks for this story go to Molly Berry who teaches ‘Lipreading and Managing Hearing loss’ classes There are estimated to be about 10 million people in the UK with some sort of hearing problem, including tinnitus (ringing in the ears), and about 4 million of these people are hearing aid users, so you are […]
From Sarah Gain Productions, Hannah Khalil presents Mrs Scrooge – a digital interactive story for children aged 4-9 years old – which features in Fly High Stories’ free Winter theatre project: 12 Tiny Plays for children and their grownups. Children will be guided by a delightful cast of characters on screen, with lots of participation […]
Berkhamsted-based hair salon, Alchemy & I, has been announced as a finalist in eight categories of the Salon Awards, including Best Salon and Best Salon Team. The Salon Awards showcases the professionalism of the hairdressing industry on a local level, and has revealed Alchemy & I to be finalists in the following categories for the Hertfordshire […]