MP: Age UK offers services to reduce loneliness This week is Loneliness Awareness Week. Research by Age UK found that 1.2 million older people across the UK often feel lonely. Before the pandemic, 225,000 older people often went a week without speaking to someone, and an Age UK poll of older people found that...
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John Baron MP highlights Loneliness Awareness Week
More trains and seats follow meeting between John Baron MP, Billericay councillors and Greater Anglia
MP and Councillors maintain watching brief Recently John Baron MP convened a meeting with the Greater Anglia management team and Billericay Councillors to discuss concerns over train frequency and crowding on London-bound services from Billericay at peak times. John said, “Constituents have rightly been raising concerns with me and Councillors about service levels and...
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John Baron MP welcomes funding for accessible toilets
MP: Constituents will be relieved In the first round of the Changing Places Fund, Basildon Borough Council will receive £178,520. Changing Places toilets are larger accessible facilities for people who can not use standard facilities, and are equipped with hoists, curtains and adult-sized changing benches. They can support users, their families and carers. There...
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John Baron MP visits the Department for Work & Pensions in Basildon
MP listened to how the pandemic has affected constituents and the DWP staff John Baron MP recently visited the Department for Work & Pensions in the Basildon Centre at the invitation of the Essex Service Leader, Dave Cope, to discuss a variety of issues including how the pandemic, rise in energy prices and the...
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John Baron MP highlights launch of Essex County Council Arts and Cultural Fund
MP encourages applications to £1,000,000 creative fund The Essex County Council Arts and Cultural Fund was launched earlier this week, which will provide £1,000,000 of funding over five years to support the creative sector in our area. The Fund is now open for applications, and grants of between £2,500 – £30,000 will be offered...
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John Baron MP highlights Essex County Council’s library survey
MP encourages residents to respond to survey Last week Essex County Council launched its Everyone Library Service 2022-2026 plan. The plan commits to keeping all 74 libraries open, with investment in training and the upskilling of existing library staff. There are also commitments to improve literacy, for both children and adults, and to increase...
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John Baron MP welcomes an extra 235 Essex Police Officers
MP: an extra 11,053 Police Officers recruited nationwide Recently released figures show that 235 Police officers have been recruited in Essex since September 2019, bringing the force’s full strength up to 3,551 officers. These efforts form part of the Conservatives’ election pledge to recruit 20,000 new Police officers across the country, of which 11,053...
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John Baron MP pays tribute to Sir David Amess MP
MP: Thoughts are with family, Parliamentary team and friends Responding to the news that Sir David Amess MP has died, John Baron MP said, “My family and I are truly shocked at the news of David’s death. He was a good friend and colleague, an assiduous MP and a devoted family man. Many people...
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John Baron MP congratulates Gateway 97.8 on Award shortlisting
MP wishes station every success at Community Radio Awards Gateway 97.8, Basildon’s Community radio station, has been shortlisted for two categories in this year’s Community Radio Awards for its broadcasting during the pandemic. Working alongside the Radio Hub networking group, Gateway helped to distribute 15,000 radios across the UK to vulnerable people. The station...
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John Baron MP welcomes broadband upgrade
MP: 6,500 homes and business to benefit across Essex Across Essex, an estimated 6,500 homes and businesses are set to be upgraded to fast gigabit broadband as part of the Government’s £5 billion ‘Project Gigabit’ programme. As part of this initiative, millions of people in hard-to-reach areas across rural England will receive access to...
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