Welcome to THE SUMMER NEWSLETTER - JULY 24
SUMMER NEWSLETTER - JULY 2024
Welcome to the summer edition of the ERRA newsletter and to any new residents.
SUMMER NEWSLETTER - JULY 2024
Welcome to the summer edition of the ERRA newsletter and to any new residents.
ERRA Garden Club
The following is a message from Ronnie who’s the lead person of this club:
‘May I ask a question? What would encourage you to join us? If you have a garden why not tap into free advice, plant share, gain confidence and be inspired? We have a very informal monthly gathering with a plant share table and open gardens’ socials during summer months. It’s a great opportunity to get support and advice on all things gardening. Forthcoming events include:
July: in July we enjoyed a visit to Jenny’s splendid landscaped garden
August: guest speaker Juyna Lewis will talk about vegetables and flowers on an allotment/garden.
September: come along to our ‘bring and share supper’. Those who wish to can display their produce for the harvest celebration. We meet on the first Wednesday of the month in the Blake Room at the United Reformed Church (Ipswich Road access road) at 7:30pm’. For further information and enquiries, please contact Ronnie at [email protected] or 07809 100647.
The following is a message from Ronnie who’s the lead person of this club:
‘May I ask a question? What would encourage you to join us? If you have a garden why not tap into free advice, plant share, gain confidence and be inspired? We have a very informal monthly gathering with a plant share table and open gardens’ socials during summer months. It’s a great opportunity to get support and advice on all things gardening. Forthcoming events include:
July: in July we enjoyed a visit to Jenny’s splendid landscaped garden
August: guest speaker Juyna Lewis will talk about vegetables and flowers on an allotment/garden.
September: come along to our ‘bring and share supper’. Those who wish to can display their produce for the harvest celebration. We meet on the first Wednesday of the month in the Blake Room at the United Reformed Church (Ipswich Road access road) at 7:30pm’. For further information and enquiries, please contact Ronnie at [email protected] or 07809 100647.
Welcoming new residents
A number of new families are taking up residence on Eaton Rise at the moment and we’d like to welcome them to this friendly estate. To let them know what is going on here and about our clubs and events, we have a new residents welcome letter which anyone with new neighbours might like to drop round. To this effect, please contact Janet for a copy.
Neighbourhood Watch
There have been no particular issues to report over the previous quarter apart from graffiti-related incidents. The recent panel meeting at the URC was focused primarily on issues relating to Lakenham. Les has identified a few existing schemes for new NW signage or overlays with our estate being one of them. A contractor will be putting them up over the coming months. The new Facebook page (Neighbourhood Watch – Norwich) is increasing in membership although for Eaton Rise our NW WhatsApp group remains a popular way of sharing any concerns. Les has received a few phone calls regarding discounts on house insurance for being a registered member of a Neighbourhood Watch group and some comparison sites are asking this question. If anyone has received an insurance discount, perhaps they could let Les know by contacting him at norwichnw@gmail.com We plan to update the ERRA website relating to NW.
A number of new families are taking up residence on Eaton Rise at the moment and we’d like to welcome them to this friendly estate. To let them know what is going on here and about our clubs and events, we have a new residents welcome letter which anyone with new neighbours might like to drop round. To this effect, please contact Janet for a copy.
Neighbourhood Watch
There have been no particular issues to report over the previous quarter apart from graffiti-related incidents. The recent panel meeting at the URC was focused primarily on issues relating to Lakenham. Les has identified a few existing schemes for new NW signage or overlays with our estate being one of them. A contractor will be putting them up over the coming months. The new Facebook page (Neighbourhood Watch – Norwich) is increasing in membership although for Eaton Rise our NW WhatsApp group remains a popular way of sharing any concerns. Les has received a few phone calls regarding discounts on house insurance for being a registered member of a Neighbourhood Watch group and some comparison sites are asking this question. If anyone has received an insurance discount, perhaps they could let Les know by contacting him at norwichnw@gmail.com We plan to update the ERRA website relating to NW.
Eaton Rise Treasure Hunt
How well do you know Eaton Rise? Many of us walk or run round the estate and think that we know it well but have you ever observed a ‘glass ship’ or a ‘shocking way to end your day’? There are many ‘treasures’ to be seen and we’re planning to organise a hunt for them with clues designed to challenge all the family. The event will take place on Sunday 8th September. Further details will be sent out nearer the time: we’ll look forward to seeing you out and about then.
How well do you know Eaton Rise? Many of us walk or run round the estate and think that we know it well but have you ever observed a ‘glass ship’ or a ‘shocking way to end your day’? There are many ‘treasures’ to be seen and we’re planning to organise a hunt for them with clues designed to challenge all the family. The event will take place on Sunday 8th September. Further details will be sent out nearer the time: we’ll look forward to seeing you out and about then.
ERRA Subs collecting
As many of you will know, Paula Young very sadly died in May. Paula had been very active in the Eaton Rise community over many years and her good humour and helpfulness will be greatly missed by us all. Amongst other activities, she organised teams of volunteers to deliver our quarterly newsletter and to collect the ERRA £2 annual subscription from each household. For the moment Janet will take over both these tasks, but would be grateful if another resident could step up to organise the subs collecting. This includes distributing the forms to the 12 collectors and following up on their progress – not an onerous task but an important one as these subs represent our main source of income. We also need more collectors for parts of Welsford Road. If anyone can help with either of these requests, please contact Janet (contact details above).
As many of you will know, Paula Young very sadly died in May. Paula had been very active in the Eaton Rise community over many years and her good humour and helpfulness will be greatly missed by us all. Amongst other activities, she organised teams of volunteers to deliver our quarterly newsletter and to collect the ERRA £2 annual subscription from each household. For the moment Janet will take over both these tasks, but would be grateful if another resident could step up to organise the subs collecting. This includes distributing the forms to the 12 collectors and following up on their progress – not an onerous task but an important one as these subs represent our main source of income. We also need more collectors for parts of Welsford Road. If anyone can help with either of these requests, please contact Janet (contact details above).
Guided walk on Marston Marshes
At the end of June, 25 residents enjoyed a guided walk around Marston Marsh given by Norwich Fringe Project Officer, Matt Davies. He explained how, over the past 20+ years, his team has been working on the marsh to improve the access paths, drainage, providing pools for fish fry and improving the wild flower diversity with the help of cattle belonging to a local farmer.
At the end of June, 25 residents enjoyed a guided walk around Marston Marsh given by Norwich Fringe Project Officer, Matt Davies. He explained how, over the past 20+ years, his team has been working on the marsh to improve the access paths, drainage, providing pools for fish fry and improving the wild flower diversity with the help of cattle belonging to a local farmer.
Net Zero Eaton
Back in May ERRA (represented by Paul Donnachie and Janet Bearman) and EVRA (Eaton Village Residents’ Association) joined six other Norfolk communities for the launch of the Norfolk Net Zero Communities project. This initiative, on behalf of the Norfolk Climate Change Partnership (NCCP), aims to engage and work with residents to understand their views on improving the energy efficiency of their homes, switching to cleaner heating and power sources and adopting greener travel options. There are many challenges in making these changes and the project will seek to identify and find ways to reduce these barriers and make this work for people.
Firstly, we need to find out more about the views, ideas and activities that are taking place in each community. Hubbub, an environmental charity, is working with the NCCP to look at this by learning about the community from those living there. As ERRA has already started looking at ways of saving carbon outputs and costs for home heating and energy (eg at the meeting with John Moore last year and our website section), we thought it made sense to continue with this. So as a start to the Net Zero Communities project, Paul has been researching websites that provide information about carbon outputs and costs for various retrofitting options to homes. There are a number of carbon calculators about, and of the five that Paul looked at in detail he thought that the government one: https://www.gov.uk/improve-energy-efficiency was the most useful. This gives indicative costs and savings, level of disruption/instalment time and links to potential grants and qualified installers.
If you’re interested in improving your home energy efficiency, would you be willing to ‘test drive’ this website and let us know your opinion of it and any results you get? Perhaps you have found other similar online tools that have proved useful? Either way, please could you contact Paul at [email protected] who will co-ordinate responses. If there’s enough interest we could start an ‘Energy Saving Group’ or similar!
Back in May ERRA (represented by Paul Donnachie and Janet Bearman) and EVRA (Eaton Village Residents’ Association) joined six other Norfolk communities for the launch of the Norfolk Net Zero Communities project. This initiative, on behalf of the Norfolk Climate Change Partnership (NCCP), aims to engage and work with residents to understand their views on improving the energy efficiency of their homes, switching to cleaner heating and power sources and adopting greener travel options. There are many challenges in making these changes and the project will seek to identify and find ways to reduce these barriers and make this work for people.
Firstly, we need to find out more about the views, ideas and activities that are taking place in each community. Hubbub, an environmental charity, is working with the NCCP to look at this by learning about the community from those living there. As ERRA has already started looking at ways of saving carbon outputs and costs for home heating and energy (eg at the meeting with John Moore last year and our website section), we thought it made sense to continue with this. So as a start to the Net Zero Communities project, Paul has been researching websites that provide information about carbon outputs and costs for various retrofitting options to homes. There are a number of carbon calculators about, and of the five that Paul looked at in detail he thought that the government one: https://www.gov.uk/improve-energy-efficiency was the most useful. This gives indicative costs and savings, level of disruption/instalment time and links to potential grants and qualified installers.
If you’re interested in improving your home energy efficiency, would you be willing to ‘test drive’ this website and let us know your opinion of it and any results you get? Perhaps you have found other similar online tools that have proved useful? Either way, please could you contact Paul at [email protected] who will co-ordinate responses. If there’s enough interest we could start an ‘Energy Saving Group’ or similar!
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