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Dave SadlerThe Ockash Trust is a registered charity set up to help young people from Ockbrook and Borrowash. To apply, you must be under the age of 21, and be from either of the two villages. The Trust awards grants of money for health, education and in some cases recreational purposes. If you know a young person who benefit - why not put them in touch with the Ockash Trust? Money could help towards buying sports equipment or clothing, a piece of equipment or change of environment for someone suffering from a health condition, musical instruments or equipment, dance and drama facilities or educational trips abroad.
A petition from residents of two Borrowash streets has led to plans to resurfacing. 240 names were recorded on a document which was handed to Ockbrook & Borrowash Parish Council expressing concerns over the condition of pavements in Balmoral Road and Kimberley Road. Representatives from Derbyshire County Council then visited the village to carry out an inspection and this led to officers recommending that the streets should be monitored on a regular basis and that any existing hazardous areas should be made safe.
A prominent village bobby is to carry out patrols more efficiently after being presented with a special cycle. Ockbrook & Borrowash Parish Council decided to step in to buy the bike for 6ft 2in, 18 and a half stone PC Martin Walker. A bike was also purchased for local PCSO Claire March after an investment of £450.
A Borrowash pre-school may be forced to close due to competition and falling birth rates. The Ashbrook Avenue school which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2009, has around 12 children, but has capacity for 24 aged two to five. Voluntary staff are facing increased competition from private nurseries and schools.
£25m is being invested to prevent a local river from bursting its banks. The Environment Agency hopes to prevent flooding on a 17 mile stretch of water along the Lower River Derwent including an area to the south of Draycott, Borrowash and Breaston.
Borrowbrook Home Link - a local charity which helps pensioners to continue living in their own homes - is looking for new sources of funding. The charity has been operating in Ockbrook and Borrowash on a five year budget which lasts until March 2009. A recent annual general meeting heard that more money was needed at a time of changing priorities for national funding streams, with reference given to the money being given to the London 2012 Olympics and the increasing difficulties being experienced in justifying applications to the Big Lottery Fund. Borrowbrook runs a monthly luncheon club used by up to 90 members who look forward to a roast dinner.
Sixteen people have already joined Ockbrook & Borrowash First Responders Group after a call for volunteers. Organised by the Church Wilne Rotary Club and trained by the East Midlands Ambulance Service, volunteers are equipped with and trained on the use of essential medical equipment to be able to respond early to localised calls for help before paramedics arrive. To set up the new group, the Rotary Club will raise funds for the kit required.
Park Medical Practice in Borrowash has a new telephone number. The surgery, on Derby Road can no longer be contacted on the old 665511 number, and changed to 08444 773 495 as of November 28th - a number used by all surgeries operated by the Practice. The change follows the implementation of a new Patient Records computer system which has been installed during October.