Blood Donor Session
1st September
ST ANDREW METHODIST CHURCH
CROMER ROAD,
SHERINGHAM. NR26 8SA
13:00 to 15:30 and 16:30 to 19:00
www.blood.co.uk
Make a difference; Become a School Governor
Sheringham Schools are appealing for volunteers from the local community
to join their Governing Bodies providing you with an excellent opportunity to make a
difference in your community. National Charity, School Governors' One-Stop Shop is
currently working with the schools to help fill their vacancies.
School Governors form the largest volunteering force in the country and anyone over 18 can
apply. It is important to stress that Community Governors do not need to be parents or
have any particular skills to add value to a school governing body. The most important
requirement is that you want to make a positive difference to the education of local
children.
As a collective group, governors have responsibility for matters such as planning the
school's long term future, allocating budgets and appointing senior staff. Therefore the
School Governor role not only benefits the education of potentially thousands of children,
but also provides the volunteer with opportunities for self development and training.
The school governor role is the most important role in education - Governors are critical
to the effective running of local schools. So if you have 6-8 hours a month to spare and
would like to help Sheringham Schools continue to deliver the highest possible standards
of education, the School Governors' One-Stop Shop would like to hear from you.
If you are interested in this challenging and ultimately rewarding role and would like to
find out more about the vacancies in Sheringham Schools, please contact School Governors'
One-Stop Shop on 020 7354 9805 or email info@sgoss.org.uk |
Dear Editor
The Government's stated commitment to a major expansion of renewable energy is welcome.
Lets hope this time it is for real. Achieving 15% of total UK energy supply from
renewables by 2020 - and 30% of electricity - would be a green revolution of the sort that
the Green Party has been advocating for decades.
However, there is an equally large challenge which must be tackled at the same time, to
avoid the progress in renewables being undermined. The UK needs to greatly improve
efficiency to reduce demand across all sectors. This will ensure that the switch to
renewables can deliver significant carbon reductions. Otherwise, gains in expanding
renewables could be lost to increasing demand and reliance on fossil fuels will remain
high.
The Government has a poor track record on energy efficiency and has failed to understand
that growth in demand is incompatible with a move to a green economy.
There is much the Government could do, but refuses to do. Scrapping the airport expansion
programme and switching transport investment from road building to public transport would
signal a real commitment to a more sustainable future. A policy of investing to save
energy in all public buildings could dramatically cut energy consumption in the public
sector - and reduce the wastage that taxpayers currently pay for. Requiring energy
saving in the commercial sector could prevent offices and empty car parks blazing away all
night - one of the most visible examples of energy wastage that contributes to the UK
night skies being some of the worst polluted by wasted light in Europe.
And while Germany has shown the success of feed-in tariffs that allow local renewable
energy to be sold to electricity companies at a fair price, the UK Government dithers
about implementing such a programme. Germany now has 200 times as much installed solar
power as the UK.
As fuel and energy prices continue to soar, and the manmade climate change threat looms
ever larger, the need to switch away from fossil fuels becomes ever more clear. The UK
could pay a very high price for the Government's contradictory and slow response to these
challenges.
Yours
Cllr. James Abbott, Eastern Region Green Party Energy Spokesperson, Waterfall Cottages,
Rivenhall, Essex, CM8 3PR |
