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Proposed £18.2 million savings that will protect frontline services, ensure that our vulnerable residents are protected, and use innovation and technology to target services more effectively were scrutinised at Corporate Overview and Scrutiny this Wednesday (20 November) and will now go to Cabinet in December.

Savings proposals focus on protecting frontline services to residents by reducing management costs and making use of new technology and ways of working that more efficiently target help at those who need it.

Cllr Vikki Hartstean, Cabinet Member for Children's Services and Education, has commended Impulse Leisure Centre for their inspiring efforts to ensure Thurrock’s vulnerable children receive a gift this Christmas.

Through their Give a Gift campaign, Impulse Leisure is collecting donations of toys and gifts at their leisure centre sites. These donations will bring festive cheer to vulnerable children across Thurrock and those at Little Havens Children's Hospice.

Find out information and advice that could help with the cost of living at the first Thurrock Cares Roadshow taking place on Monday 25 November.

Thurrock Council, in collaboration with Thurrock CVS and the Stronger Together Thurrock partnership, is hosting the free drop-in event at Aveley Community Hub in Aveley, South Ockendon, from 10am to 1pm.

The owner of a Tilbury vape shop has been ordered to pay more than £1,400 after a vape was sold to an underage customer, as part of an operation by Thurrock Council’s Trading Standards.

On Tuesday 12 November 2024, Basildon Magistrates Court ordered Alaur Rahman, 37, of Thames Road, Grays, who owns Vape-E-Licious in St Chads Road to pay £473 in fines and £1,000 in costs. Mr Rahman pled guilty to the charge of selling an age restricted product to an underage person under the Children and Families Act 2014.

An unused, overlooked space in Blackthorn Park, Stifford Clays, has been transformed into a thriving memorial garden.

Stifford Clays Residents Community Forum approached Thurrock Council about the fenced off and forgotten area in the park with ambitious plans to restore it as a memorial garden in time for Remembrance Sunday. The council agreed the forum could take on the land as a community project.

Thurrock Council has today (Friday 15 November 2024) filed a claim against 23 councils that are members of the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE), after a ‘standstill’ agreement was not reached between Thurrock and the other councils. The council will be moving immediately to secure an order to stay those proceedings to minimise costs for all involved and to allow the council to focus on other recovery options.

There will be potential road disruptions through West Thurrock on Saturday 16 November, starting at 6pm due to the transportation of a large electrical transformer.

The transformer, weighing 155 tonnes and measuring nearly 70m in length, is being transported from the Port of Tilbury to a new National Grid substation in Woking. This is the first of five planned journeys over the next six months.

Due to weight restrictions at Junction 30 of the M25, the transporter will use a route through West Thurrock.

Thurrock residents are invited to get first-hand advice on the help and support available to deal with the cost of living this winter at a series of Thurrock Cares Roadshows.

Thurrock Council, in collaboration with Thurrock CVS and the Stronger Together Thurrock partnership, is hosting the roadshows and will be going out to communities across the borough.

Residents of Thurrock can help to ensure that some of Thurrock's most vulnerable children can celebrate Christmas through the Give a Gift initiative at Impulse Leisure Centre.

Impulse Leisure Centre is accepting donations of toys and gifts at any of their leisure centre sites, which will go to vulnerable children in Thurrock and those at Little Havens Children's Hospice.

Donations are being accepted at the following Impulse Leisure sites:

- Blackshots, Grays, RM16 2JU

Thurrock Council is launching a series of Repairs Action Days for council tenants across the borough offering advice and support.

The action days kick-off on Tuesday 19 November 2024 with a community pop-up event at Koala Park, at the base of Freemantle House, in Tilbury from 10am to 4pm, offering tenants the opportunity to drop-in and speak to teams across the council’s Housing Service.