Borough Wide News
07/03/2024: Erewash Voluntary Action is organising a Connecting Erewash Week from 22nd – 28th April 2024 as part of the Connect Erewash initiative to combat loneliness and isolation in the borough.
07/03/2024: New research from Midlands Connect suggests Derby and Derbyshire remain on track for an EV boom and could see just under 66,000 electric cars on its streets by the end of the decade, with a significant increase in public EV charge points needed to keep up with demand. The new projections were announced at the recent Midlands Connect EV Conference.
06/03/2024: A spokesperson for the East Midlands Chamber has said that an increased VAT threshold to help small businesses and measures to get people back into work are among the positive takeaways from an otherwise “very safe” budget.
06/03/2024: An 11 year old boy from Erewash has amazed the stars of ITV programme This Morning as he showed off his invention of a revolutionary T-shirt – which has gone into production thanks to a borough council grant won by his dad’s business.
06/03/2024: A borough council salute to the brave men and women of the Royal Navy’s Flying Tigers helicopter squadron is poised to see landlocked Erewash grant them the Freedom of the Borough.
06/03/2024: Draycott writer, Alan Dawson, has created a free drama workshop to which he hopes he can encourage local men to attend. The workshop is focused upon a short play he is developing, Midlife: Guilty as Charged, which explores aspects of men’s mental health/ wellbeing - the writer stresses that no experience in the performing arts is necessary. Workshops #1 and #2 are men only activities whilst a workshop / performance #3 is mixed.
06/03/2024: The Derby branch of Parkinson's UK meets at Broadway Baptist Church, Broadway, Derby DE22 1BP with free parking available on church grounds. Here, we provide details of regular events and activities in church and surrounding area.
05/03/2024: Erewash residents are being urged to make sure they are registered to vote – so that they can elect the first-ever mayor for BOTH Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
05/03/2024: People are being urged to be on their guard after reports that older and vulnerable residents across Derbyshire have received unsolicited calls claiming to be from community alarm companies.
05/03/2024: Derby College Group has welcomed the Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire, Mrs Elizabeth Fothergill CBE to its Broomfield Hall site to plant a tree to commemorate the coronation of King Charles III.