Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Supporting residents this winterHelp shape our budget£1.50 bus fares for young peopleWin tickets to Shine A LightPrimary school applications openTurning down the HEAT and cutting carbonSupporting residents this winterIf you belong to a voluntary, community or charity organisation, we want you to apply for one of our grants to open a warm and welcoming space this winter. We helped to fund more than 150 spaces supporting Derbyshire residents during the colder months last year. Between them, they provided 17,000 hours of warmth and company for almost 11,000 Derbyshire residents feeling lonely or struggling to heat their homes or feed themselves.Organisations can now apply for up to £1,000 towards the cost of opening up new community venues or to extend their opening hours as the weather gets colder.The money can be used towards things like providing meals or light refreshments, the cost of energy bills or paying running costs to stay open for longer.Help shape our budgetWe want you to help shape our budget for 2024 to 2025 and have your say on a range of questions about where you live and the services you use. Our annual residents’ survey, Your Council Your Voice, has launched this week and will run for six weeks until Sunday 17 December.Please complete the survey, which has 16 main questions, including an opportunity for you to make suggestions.The questions include where you think we should prioritise our spending, how satisfied you are with our services and which ones are most important to you, least important to you, and why.You’ll also be asked for views and ideas as to how we could save money or raise additional revenue.£1.50 bus fares for young peopleDo you know any young people aged 11 to 19 years old? From 1 November we’ve introduced £1.50 single bus fares for young people across Derbyshire and Derby.Young people, aged 11 to 19, will need a b_line card to be able to get the discounted fare. The cards are free and available through either our or the city council’s websites.The b_line card is a cut-price travel discount and library card for those aged 11 to 19. It is for young people in school, college, on a training course or in an apprenticeship.Initially the £1.50 fare is available with bus operators that currently accept b_line cards, and will include travel on direct services into neighbouring local authority areas. Win tickets to Shine A LightWould you like to win tickets to a stunning show of light and sound at one of Derbyshire’s historic venues this December? See the history of Elvaston Castle come to brilliant life in a spectacular experience to remember, created by internationally-renowned Derbyshire-born video projection artists Illuminos.You can watch the projection as many times as you like, and you’ll notice something new each time. The castle shop and Wyatt’s café will be open for hot drinks and there will be hot food vendors and a licensed bar in the castle courtyard. There’ll be Christmas carols between each show, Christmas craft activities for children, a festive grotto, and craft and gift stalls.Tickets are now on sale for the event taking place on 8, 9 and 10 December, priced £10 for adults and £6 per child (aged four to 12 inclusive, free for children aged three and under). Family tickets are priced at £28 (two adults and up to three children). Booking fees apply. Find more information Win! Two adult tickets are up for grabs for the Shine A Light show at Elvaston. The closing date is midnight on Thursday 30 November. Good luck!Primary school applications openYou can now apply to us for your child’s primary, infant or junior school place for September 2024. Applications for children who were born between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020 will close at midnight on Monday 15 January 2024.You can also apply during the same period for junior school places for children born between 1 September 2016 and 31 August 2017 who are currently in Year 2 at an infant school and will transfer on to other schools in September 2024.Applying online is quick and easy and allows you to make changes to your application at any point up to the closing date. You’ll receive an email to confirm your application has been received.Turning down the HEAT and cutting carbon Do you want to build your knowledge and confidence about the costs and potential savings of improving the energy efficiency of your home? Is your home particularly hard to heat?If your answer is ‘yes’, then free support and impartial advice are available to homeowners in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire as part of a new pilot project we are supporting – the HEAT Hub.A Home Energy Advice Team, part of the HEAT Hub, will be giving in-depth help to 360 homes and supporting hundreds more over the next two years. The project will be led by two charities Marches Energy Agency and Nottingham Energy PartnershipWe’re backing projects like these as a key aim in our Climate Change Strategy is to reduce carbon emissions from the housing sector. Funding for the project has come from the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. |