Sling your hook campaign launched by Neighbourhood Watch to tackle scams

We are excited to tell you more about our SLING YOUR HOOK campaign running throughout July to help tackle scams WHY ‘SLING YOUR HOOK’? The campaign taps into the psychology that scammers use to hook people in, helping you stay one step ahead and protect yourself and your loved ones against the increasing variety of scams happening every day. We’ve identified the following five behaviours scammers commonly use: They imply they’re doing you a favour (reciprocity) They indicate everyone else is doing this (social proof) They say your only chance is to act now (urgency) They act like they’re similar to you, so you like them and want to please them (connection) They ask you to do one little thing which makes you do more (commitment). We also know that often victims of scams report that in hindsight they felt something wasn’t quite right at the time.  This campaign aims to raise awareness of the tactics scammers use and encourages people to ‘stop and think’ if something doesn’t FEEL, SEEM, LOOK or SOUND right.  This allows them time to trust your gut instinct and help prevent becoming a scam victim. “Everyone likes to feel special. But watch out! If a stranger is going out of their way for you, something fishy may be going on instead. Scammers like to offer one-off deals and favours. Don’t be afraid to tell them no.” John Hayward-Cripps, CEO of Neighbourhood Watch Network How can you support this campaign? LEARN: Visit our scams website pages to learn more about common scams, preventing scams, reporting scams, supporting victims and a scams campaign toolkit SHARE: Follow us on our Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / LinkedIn channels and share our posts        JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Join us for an online talk (details below) ONLINE TALKS We are delivering a series of scams awareness online talks in partnership with the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU), the National Trading Standards Scams Team (NTSST) and Avast. Anyone can attend, but we are now running waiting lists only for all the webinars apart from one! Last week we ran an online talk on ‘Exploring the psychology behind scams and how scammers are so effective at their crimes’. It was so popular we have decided to re-run it on 27th July, 5pm.  Click here to book your place. Please note – this event will not be recorded. Keep safe, NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH NETWORK, Central Support Team Follow us.. ourwatch.org.uk / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / LinkedIn Neighbourhood Watch Network is a charity registered in England & Wales, CIO no: 1173349

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Please find attached the highway events diary for July. The diary shows all known events and their associated highway restrictions.

As the easing of Covid restrictions has been delayed until July 19th, several event organisers have reconsidered their plans for 2021, instead focusing on 2022.  This includes the Tour of Cambridgeshire and the Race for Life.

Please note

• Expected attendance figures are now colour coded. Larger events are easily identifiable (RED – 5000+, ORANGE 500 – 4999 and below 499 no colour).
• Expected attendance figures show the maximum attendance on any one day of the event.
• Events link directly to their entry on the one.network web page, where more details can be found relating to associated traffic management.

As usual the diary can be searched and filtered via the arrows in the title bar.                           

Upcoming Highlights

Newmarket Races and concert nights are going ahead throughout July and August. 

• Town and Gown – Saturday 16^th October
• Cambridge Half Marathon – Sunday 17^th October  (moved from its usual March date)

Additional Resources

Potential event organisers are urged to review the current government guidelines. As well as following any recommendations from relevant governing bodies/associations, to ensure Covid – 19 risks are identified and mitigated within risk assessments. * Details of all highway events can be found on https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/travel-roads-and-parking/roads-and-pathways/highway-events/

Update and information from South Cambs District Council

I’m sure that, like me, you are disappointed about the delay to the relaxation of rules until 19 July (more below), but with the increase of the Delta variant, we need to keep up our guard against the spread of the virus. It may have felt over the last month or two that regularly taking Lateral Flow Tests wasn’t an urgent priority, but with cases on the rise again right across the country, the best way for everyone to protect family, friends, colleagues and other members of the community is to regularly (twice a week) take a Lateral Flow Test. Every asymptomatic positive case picked up by the Lateral Flow Tests means another person with Covid-19 who doesn’t spread the virus to others. You can order tests online to be delivered to your home – so it is easy to organise.

End of lockdown delayed to 19 July

The Prime Minister confirmed earlier this week that lockdown restrictions, with some exceptions, will be extended by four weeks, to 19 July. The 30-guest cap for weddings will be lifted, with the maximum number of attendees to be based on the venue capacity (allowing for social distancing). The Prime Minister said it was “time to ease off the accelerator” in order “to save many thousands of lives”. He described 19 July as a “terminus date”.

Vaccination update

The Prime Minister provided an update on the vaccination programme and confirmed that vaccination greatly reduces transmission with two doses providing a high degree of protection against serious illness and death. The Government’s target of offering vaccines to all adults by the end of July has been brought forward to the new 19 July date.

• As of this week, anyone over the age of 21 can book a vaccination appointment – with this to be widened to over 18s from tomorrow (Friday 18 June)
• Those people above the age of 40 who used the national booking system can reduce the period between their first and second jabs from 12 weeks to 8 weeks. They should first cancel the 12 week appointment, after which they will see the available 8 week appointments to make a new booking.

Translations of easy-read Covid-19 vaccination leaflets

Public Health England (PHE) has published translated versions of easy-read leaflets on the Covid-19 vaccinations. The leaflets, which include information on what to expect after your vaccine and information for women who are pregnant or are breastfeeding their baby, are now available in 21 languages including English, Arabic, Urdu and Polish. COVID-19 vaccination: easy-read leaflets.

Safe and Well visits

Colleagues supporting the South Cambs Community Safety Partnership are promoting the opportunity for vulnerable residents to have free Safe and Well visits. You can find out more in a recent update from the Fire Service. The Safe and Well team visit residents’ homes to assess six key elements:

• Fire safety in the home – including cooking, general safety and escape plans.
• Falls prevention – including simple remedial action such as replacing lightbulbs or taping down loose carpet.
• Alcohol use – alcohol related hospital admissions are steadily increasing.
• Stay well and warm – can residents afford to heat their home? Do they have access to a hot meal? Do they access the all the services available to them?
• Crime reduction – providing advice on making their home more secure in addition to advice to make them less vulnerable to scams or fraud.
• Smoking – if people need a helping hand to quit, our Safe and Well partners can offer the help and advice people need.
• Hoarding – if people need advice in relation to the health and safety of individuals with hoarding concerns.

Find out if someone is eligible for a free Safe and Well visit by completing a short questionnaire or contact the automated message line on 0800 917 9994 and leave a message including the person’s name, address and daytime phone number to receive a call back.

What do adults with learning disabilities need?

Cambridgeshire County Council has launched a survey to find out what adults with a learning disability in Cambridgeshire think is important to help them to live happier, healthier lives. This will help the County Council to know what to focus on when planning services and supporting people with a learning disability in the future. Have your say before 30 June 2021. Or if you’d like to share this information in your community, please feel free to share these Facebook or Twitter posts.

We will send a further community update when there is useful information to share. Thank you again for all your support.

WIN A FUN-FILLED TREEHOUSE ADVENTURE STAYCATION
To mark the end of a very successful Neighbourhood Watch Week, and to celebrate the release of The Croods 2: A New Age, we are delighted to launch a prize draw on our Facebook page to give you the opportunity to win a fun-filled treehouse adventure.

The Croods 2: A New Age, which is in cinemas on 16th July 2021, celebrates community, neighbourliness, inclusivity, and working together – values that are close to the heart of all Neighbourhood Watch supporters. The opportunity presented by this partnership enables us to reach more young families and to build on the awareness of Neighbourhood Watch as positive and approachable. The Croods and the Bettermans are two very different families who are thrown together and have to learn to live with one another when an evil tribe of monkeys threaten their homes. The Croods and the Bettermans realise that home is not a place, its people, and together they create history’s first neighbourhood!

Neighbourhood Watch’s partnership with this film provides the opportunity to promote the importance of neighbourliness and community spirit to new audiences and across diverse communities. We know many young people and their families share the values that we stand for and this partnership gives them an introduction to Neighbourhood Watch and hopefully they will become supporters for life.

The Croods faced their biggest threat when they left their cave – another family – while we are offering an opportunity to leave your cave behind and experience a very different treehouse adventure with your family! To be in with a chance to win this amazing prize, be sure to visit our Facebook page and enter the prize draw. Terms and conditions can be found here.

HOW TO SUPPORT THIS CAMPAIGN
We rely on the wonderful Neighbourhood Watch volunteers to promote Neighbourhood Watch as the first step for all people to connect with their neighbours for mutual support. We hope that you will share this campaign within your community and use it to reach more young families across your area. We have amazing prizes to be won over the course of the partnership.

To support this campaign, you can:
• ENTER: Visit facebook.com/ourwatch to enter the prize draw
• SHARE: Follow us on social media and share our posts on the prize draw
o Facebook: facebook.com/ourwatch
o Twitter: twitter.cm/N_watch
o Instagram: neighburhood.watch.insta
• INFORM: Share this activity pack with your community. This could be via email, WhatsApp or in your local newsletter
• WATCH: Go and see the film when it comes out on 16th July. See the trailer here

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH AND THE CROODS 2: A NEW AGE SPECIAL EDITION LOGO
The Neighbourhood Watch brand and iconic yellow roundel is undeniably widely recognised across the UK. To celebrate the film’s release, we have created a unique and playful adaptation of our logo to be used on all supporting material. We will be using the fresh and fun logo on all our social media channels, on relevant pages on our website and materials created for this partnership. Feel free to use the logo on your materials up until the end of the partnership.

Want to be part of Universal Pictures’ universe? To hear more The Croods 2: A New Age news and find out about other upcoming film releases, exclusive competitions and giveaways, click here.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH WEEK 2021: LISTEN. TALK. DO!
Thank you to all those that supported Neighbourhood Watch Week. Please find links to resources and activities below which you may find useful:

New Neighbourhood Watch resources
• Every Mind Matters neighbourly postcard
• ‘How to run a listening campaign’ guide
• ‘How to organise a litter pick’ guide
• ‘How to organise a street party’ guide
• ‘How to conduct an Environmental Visual Audit’ guide

Podcast
• Listen to John Hayward-Cripps talk about community safety in the 21st Century

Webinar (click to book onto an upcoming scam webinar)
• 6th July, 5pm: Exploring the psychology behind scams and how scammers are so effective at their crimes
• 14th July, 5pm: Insights into how a fraud case is investigated and how not to be the next victim
• 23rd July, 5pm: Scams awareness training from the Friends Against Scams initiative
• 30th July, 5pm: Don’t get hooked by scammers! What you need to know about flubot and phishing scams

Kind regards

Central Support Team, Neighbourhood Watch Network
www.ourwatch.org.uk
Neighbourhoood Watch Network is a charity registered in England & Wales, CIO no: 1173349

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EHIC from 1 January 2021

Under the UK’s EU Withdrawal Agreement, certain people are eligible for a new UK EHIC.

You can use this service to apply for a new UK EHIC if you are in any of these groups:Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein who are ordinarily resident in the UK on or before 31 December 2020.People living in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein with a registered S1, E121, E106 or E109 formStudents studying in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein who are not nationals of these countries

Other people who can apply

If you are a national of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein and successfully apply for a UK EHIC, you may be able to add parents, grandparents, or grandchildren if they meet certain nationality and residency conditions.

You should do that by completing your application and emailing us with the information we require:Adding a parent or grandparentAdding a grandchild

There are other people who may be eligible for a UK EHIC but cannot use this service to apply:EU national studentsAnyone working in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein with a UK-issued A1 documentChen and Ibrahim/Teixeira carers

There are no planned closures in relation to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme for w/c 3 May

Project Catslyst is a new Care Network project, covering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough with the aim of helping improve the confidence and resilience of people and communities emerging from lockdown.

We can support the wonderful work our local communities have been doing in recent months by encouraging any small group formed through lockdown or as a result of reemerging, to help sustain activities and support the wellbeing of local people.
If you have a small community led group that was established prelockdown, but find you are struggling to re-emerge back out into this changed world, we can support through guidance, support with governance, finding venues or helping with promotion.

For both new and existing groups, we have a small pot of funding that may be assist with initial costs such as PPE, insurance or publicity.

For more information contact
projectcatalyst@care-network.org.uk
Tel:0330094575

We hope everyone is having a pleasant week and are feeling more positive as we journey through the roadmap to recovery and businesses begin to re-open. You should have received our email on Wednesday with updates on grant funding and we will update you on further Covid support over the coming weeks.

Today we wanted to focus on some of the broader updates and support that is available to you – from our own free-to-attend webinars to support your business, where you can find guidance on Covid safety measures, and news of opportunities that could help your business.

Safely re-opening

Working safely guidance

South Cambridgeshire District council has detailed guidance and advice on our website to support businesses as they safely re-open.

The council has also provided a video presentation answering some of the questions raised from step two of the roadmap to recovery. You can watch the video here.

Extra support for local businesses adapting to Covid-secure measures

South Cambridgeshire’s Environmental Health team will be working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) from next week to give businesses extra support to put Covid-secure measures in place.

From Monday (26 April) HSE officers will call or visit South Cambridgeshire’s retail, hospitality, leisure, close contact services and science park businesses, checking Covid-secure measures are in place and providing advice.

Supporting local businesses: please respond to our survey

Last summer the Reopening the High Streets Safely team sent out surveys to business owners. These surveys were very useful in helping us plan a response to the pandemic. Now we have an updated version which will help us to compare how attitudes have changed and identify how best to support local businesses and residents as we continue to reopen the High Street. Visit our South Cambridgeshire COVID-19 surveys web page

There is also a separate survey for residents to complete.

Events

South Cambridgeshire District Council is offering a series of webinars that provide a chance for local businesses to engage with Council services and develop skills to help you run your business successfully.

Mental health

Mental ill-health increasingly affects people and is among the leading cause of sickness absence in the workplace. Added to the stress of keeping your business going during the pandemic, there are many reasons people need support: financial insecurity; not seeing family, friends, colleagues or customers. Whatever the size of your business, everyone needs help sometimes. Our guest speakers Nick Elston and Zoe Thompson are hosting a series of free to attend webinars to help business leaders cope through difficult times. Click on the links below to register:

• Building resilience: Wednesday 5 May, 1pm
• Managing diversification and change: Thursday 27 May, 1pm
• Coping with financial stress: Tuesday 15 June, 12:30pm

How to tender for Council contracts

Local authorities outsource a number of goods and services, be that building services, catering or IT. How do they decide which supplier to contract, and how can local businesses, especially smaller ones, win bids for these contracts? We are running a series of webinars throughout the year offering businesses a chance to learn how to successfully tender for Council contracts. The next event is on 14 July at 2pm and you can register here.

Other business support and advice

Covid-19 business support initiatives available through Anglia Ruskin University

Innovation vouchers – up to £5,000 (match funding) on a 50:50 basis

The innovation voucher initiative gives businesses and enterprises access to academics and experts. It could be advice (consultancy)on how to develop your innovative idea, learning more about diversifying your business offer through R&D activitiesor how you should make the most of intellectual property.

KEEP+

KEEP+ (Knowledge Exchange Embed Partnership) is an EU programme connecting businesses to academic experts with the aim of aiding companies to develop their products and services, possibly reduce costs and hopefully increase profitability. Grow small to medium enterprises (SME) by collaborating with graduates and academics through one of the flexible KEEP+ programmes.

Grants are also available under KEEP+

Stand Alone Capital Grants– Receive 50% funding towards the cost of equipment purchases vital to the development of your new product or service. This grant is capped at £12,499 with a total spend not exceeding £24,999 excluding VAT.

Grants for Consultancy Support– Receive 50% funding towards the cost of fast track assistance to contribute to the development of your project. This grant is capped at £12,499 with a total spend not exceeding £24,999 excluding VAT.

More information can be found on Anglia Ruskin University website or you can email Nicole Kritzinger.

New online platform launches to support employers, learners and workers

Growth Works with Skills is an innovative demand-led skills service connecting learners and employers with opportunities that will enable growth. A new digital talent platform has been launched to help employers, learners and workers connect across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Employers can post their job and apprenticeship vacancies (free) and access a detailed database of workers and learners across the region. Learners and workers can create an online account to help them find opportunities based on their experience and skills.

To help you restart your business have you considered becoming a member of Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce?

The Chamber offers a range of support to help businesses succeed and have expertise in several areas through their sector specific groups and local Chamber committees.

Some areas where the Chamber of Commerce can provide support and advice with:

• experts advising on staff returning to the workplace and other Covid measures.
• an in-house International Trade Team helping businesses to continue trading internationally and access grants to support with Customs Declaration training.
• opportunities to grow your business, raise your profile in the local community, network with other Cambridgeshire businesses, or raise your skill level.

Sustainable and active travel

Smart Journeys is a not-for-profit enterprise within Cambridgeshire County Council providing knowledgeable advice, practical support, and innovative tools for employers, residential developers, and schools to implement and promote sustainable and active travel. Smart Journeys supply in-depth travel plans and coordinator services, car park management strategies, travel to work surveys and more. They also have an employer network, where workplaces can get dedicated support, online resources, and a host of other benefits and discounts to encourage sustainable mobility.

Do you operate a food business and want to support sustainability?

Cambridge Sustainable Foods would like to help businesses to become more environmentally friendly and ethical. A part of their mission is to make Cambridge a sustainable food city and they are asking local businesses to find out more and sign up to their pledge and award scheme Sustainable Food Pledge.

Brexit

New rules are here The UK has left the EU, and the Brexit transition period has ended. There are new rules for businesses doing business with the EU from 1 January, and you need to take action now. All information and updated guidance can be found at www.gov.uk/transition.

Apply for a grant to help small and medium-sized businesses new to importing or exporting

You can now apply for the SME Brexit Support Fund. Smaller businesses can get up to £2,000 to pay for practical support, including training or professional advice to adjust to new customs, rules of origin and VAT rules when trading with the EU. Webinars HMRC are delivering a series of webinars to advise businesses how to adjust to the new rules and keep trade moving. Exporting: what you need to do to keep your goods moving: Friday 30 April, 13:45 – 14:45. This webinar will give you an overview of the actions you need to take now when exporting goods from Great Britain to the EU and moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Key processes include zero-rated VAT, customs declarations, using an intermediary as well as licences, certificates, and authorisations. Please register to take part if you’re planning to export to the EU.

Contact the Business Support team

The Business Support and Development team is here to help guide you to the right resources you need. This service is completely free of charge, so whether you need guidance on who to speak to at the Council, or business advice from finding premises to understanding what help and support is available, we continue to welcome your enquiries at openforbusiness@scambs.gov.uk. As we continue working to get much needed financial help out to businesses, we will continue to provide you with a separate Covid grant funding newsletter to update you on current grant schemes and processes. We will also provide details of any other Covid related business support available to you. If you have general queries in relation to grants please email businessgrants@scambs.gov.uk where a dedicated team is on hand to help you.Made with Microsoft Sway

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