Risley News
11/02/2020: A legacy of £40,000 has been left to local charity Treetops Hospice Care to provide end of life nursing care for patients at home.
02/02/2020: Treetops Hospice Care has received a grant of £3,000 from the Allchurches Trust towards funding a spiritual area in their planned future In-Patient Unit.
14/01/2020: Over 1,500 people have visited the Treetops Wellbeing Café since it opened its doors last January. The weekly Café is open to adults with a life-limiting illness, or those who’ve been bereaved, along with their families and friends.
23/11/2019: Hundreds of primary school pupils took part in Erewash School Sport Partnership’s first ever racquet festival.
20/11/2019: More than 500 primary pupils enjoyed activities including parachute games, balancing and yoga at a Mini Movers festival organised by Erewash School Sport Partnership.
17/09/2019: A group of Erewash Sound presenters who dressed as superheroes to take on a fundraising assault course challenge have raised over £300 for a borough based hospice care service.
17/09/2019: Treetops Hospice Care has welcomed its 1000th visitor to its weekly drop in Wellbeing Café which opened its doors in January.
07/09/2019: After nearly 10 years of delivering a truly local radio service to the residents of Erewash, Erewash Sound is delighted that the broadcast regulator, OFCOM has agreed to allow a second transmitter and a second frequency for the radio station to reach homes across Long Eaton and the south of the borough which currently experience poor reception of the 96.8FM service.
10/04/2019: Borough MP Maggie Throup has renewed her efforts to secure backing for a new ‘Junction 25A’ of the M1 to greatly help to reduce congestion throughout Erewash.
08/04/2019: Police officers are appealing for information after a 98-year-old woman was the victim of a burglary in Risley.