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FUTURE OF GODSHILL POST OFFICE AND STORE

The situation at Godshill shop and post office is that at present it is run by Island Community Ventures Ltd, a trading arm of the charity Community Action Isle of Wight.

Due to the difficult trading environment that many rural village shops and post offices have, which have seen many shut both up and down the country and on the Island, the shop tends to lose money each year. This tends to be in the region of an average annual loss of £15,000.

In the past the Godshill shop has only survived because Island Community Ventures Ltd has supported operational losses from profits made from other charitable trading ventures and because Community Action Isle of Wight has actively tried to support the maintenance of such rural community services.

However, in the difficult environment in which we all find ourselves, with a squeeze both on all trading and much charitable work, it can no longer cover such losses.

To protect both the Godshill Post Office service and other outreach services that are also provided, in particularly in Totland, a potential way forward has been suggested which sees the risk of losses shared between Godshill Parish, Totland Parish and Island Community Ventures Ltd.

The proposal would be that the two parish councils and Island Community Ventures Ltd share the potential loss by Godshill Parish and Totland Parish agreeing to provide an annual grant to Island Community Ventures Ltd up to a maximum of £5,000 per parish council.

If the shop breaks even then no grant funding would be required. Island Community Ventures is not providing the service to try and make a profit, just to break even and support the community service. If the trading loss was lower then a proportionate amount would be paid as a grant. For example if a loss of £10,000 was incurred then each parish would be asked for £3,333 for that year and Island Community Ventures would contribute £3,333.

If the losses were higher than £15,000 the amount requested from the parish councils would still be no higher than £5,000 each. Island Community Ventures would cover this higher loss.

Without this support Island Community Ventures would have to give notice on the shop and our post office contract and the post office would therefore close in June.

Without this kind of hybrid approach it is difficult to see how the post office service can continue in many rural areas as a small shop and post office simply don’t generate sufficient footfall and have sufficient profit margins on the items/services they sell to make it add up.

Based on the current known information, moving the post office to a different location in Godshill would result in a minimum of £18,000 in set up costs and would very likely result in Post Office Ltd reducing the level of remuneration it pays, making any future provision even less financially viable.

The position at Rookley is also difficult due to the potential development of the site and therefore its future is also uncertain.

GODSHILL PARISH COUNCIL WISHES TO CONSULT RESIDENTS AS A MATTER OF URGENCY ON THE ABOVE PROPOSAL WHICH INVOLVES AN ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION OF £5,000 TOWARDS THE RUNNING COSTS OF THE POST OFFICE/STORE. IT IS PROPOSED TO FUND THE CONTRIBUTION FROM EXISTING RESERVES AND THERE WOULD THEREFORE BE NO IMPACT ON THE COUNCIL’S PRECEPT

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The COVID-19 helpline is for anyone who feels vulnerable, needs help because of lockdown or self-isolation, or who is alone with no local network of friends, family or neighbours and needs support.

The helpline can help with:

🔹 Collection of medication from pharmacies, help to access pharmacy delivery services and health care needs.
🔹 Access to online shopping services or small essential shopping requests.
🔹 Suggesting other organisations who can help with issues arising from isolation including welfare, finance, mental health, childcare issues, crisis advice and support or other caring responsibilities.
🔹 Suggesting where to get help with dog walking.

The helpline is a partnership between Isle of Wight Council and voluntary networks on the Island.

Christmas opening times for the helpline:

🟢 Thursday 24 December (Christmas Eve) – 9am to 4.30pm
🔴 Friday 25 December (Christmas Day) – Closed
🔴 Saturday 26 December (Boxing Day) – Closed
🔴 Sunday 27 December – Closed
🔴 Bank Holiday Monday 28 December – Closed
🟢 Tuesday 29 December – 9am to 5pm
🟢 Wednesday 30 December – 9am to 5pm
🟢 Thursday 31 December – 9am to 5pm
🔴 Friday 1 January New Year’s Day – Closed
🟢 Saturday 2 January – 9am to 1pm
🔴 Sunday 3 January – Closed

If you call when the helpline is closed, the WightCare out of hours service will advise you how to get the support you need.

☎️ Call 01983 823600

Do you, or someone you know, need support? 👇

Wightcare provides a Community Alarm and Telecare service to enable Island residents to live independently in their own homes.

They offer bespoke technical solutions to meet individual’s needs, whether it be a lifeline alarm or more advanced technology, working with the individual and/or their families to ensure the right equipment is deployed to support them.

Wightcare installs, monitors and responds 24/7, putting the individual at the heart of all they do.

Their new Telecheck service, offers a professional daily call to provide reassurance or just a friendly catch up.

For more information 👇
☎️ Call 01983 821105
💻 Email [email protected]
🌐 Visit https://www.iow.gov.uk/council/OtherServices/Wightcare-Services/About-U8

Changes to COVID-19 guidance have come into force today Sunday 20 December. These will affect us all over the festive season.

📌Portsmouth, Havant and Gosport along with London and other parts of the South East have moved into stricter Tier 4 restrictions. People in these areas must not leave or be outside their home except for specific purposes. They cannot form a Christmas bubble.

📌Tier 4 restrictions mean that Islanders should not travel to Portsmouth, Havant and Gosport or any other Tier 4 area unless travelling for essential reasons, such as work, education, caring for vulnerable people and to attend medical/hospital appointments.

📌Across Tiers 1 to 3, Christmas bubbles can now meet on Christmas Day only. The five day Christmas bubble period has been cancelled.

For more information from UK government 👉https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

For local information 👉 https://keeptheislandsafe.org/christmas-2020

This festive season please keep it small, keep it short, keep it local and remember and ventilate.

The announcement that the Island will remain in Tier 1 is great news for our community. It shows how well we have worked together to reduce our infection rate to one of the lowest in the country.

From Saturday, Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant and much of the South East will be in Tier 3. Please remember that we should all avoid travelling into Tier 3 areas, unless for exempt reasons like work or health care.

If you were planning a trip to Portsmouth for Christmas shopping, this should now be avoided. We have fantastic local businesses who have worked hard to keep everything they do COVID-safe, please shop local this festive season.

Following the guidelines now will help to keep the Island safe into 2021. We are working with colleagues from our partner agencies and asking everyone to play their part by sticking to the rules.

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Thank you for playing your part to keep the Island safe.

We’ve launched a new initiative to help families and individuals who are facing hardship because of COVID-19 this winter.

Our ‘connect4communities’ programme is appealing to community, voluntary and charity partners to apply for grants to support families with children in need over the winter.

The grants scheme builds on the first phase of support, announced last week, that provides food vouchers for families in need via schools.

See link in comments for details of how community, voluntary and charity partners can apply.

Further support for families and individuals is available through the Help Through Crisis team at Citizens Advice Isle of Wight who can help you access support. Link in comments.

This programme has been funded by £456,845 Winter Grant Scheme, awarded to the council by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

If you’re self-isolating, you do not have a local network of friends, family or neighbours or you feel vulnerable, and need help with the following 👇
🏥 Accessing pharmacy delivery services and health care needs
🛒 Access to online shopping services
🐕‍🦺 Signposting for assistance with dog walking
💛 Signposting to partner agencies for support with issues arising from isolation including welfare, finance, mental health, childcare issues, crisis advice and support or other caring responsibilities

📲Call our COVID-19 helpline on 01983 823 600 for support 👇
Monday – Friday, 9am - 5pm
Saturday, 9am - 1pm

See link in comments for further information and support for vulnerable residents.

Parish Council Meeting - Monday 7th December at 7:30pm

Everyone is most welcome to attend. The agenda for the meeting will be available during the week before the meeting. The meeting is to be conducted online using Zoom, anyone wishing to attend should contact the Parish Clerk by e-mail ([email protected]) or phone (07528 339937) by 4pm on Friday 4th December.

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Godshill Parish Council Everyone is most welcome to attend. The agenda for the meeting will be available during the week before the meeting. The meeting is to be conducted online using Zoom, anyone wishing to attend should contact the Parish Clerk by e-mail ([email protected]) or phone (07528 339937) by 4pm on Friday...

Use the NHS COVID19 app to check your COVID-19 symptoms with ease, allowing you to take action to help protect the ones you love.

📱 Download now from:

▶️ Google Play Store: https://bit.ly/2V7mYIl

▶️ Apple App Store: https://apple.co/2KFhGlD

For more information, how it works and how to download it, head here 👉 https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/nhs-covid-19/

There have been quite a few reports of scams reaching Island residents this week.

Be wary of emails and texts from delivery companies including Royal Mail there have been reports of a scam email saying that delivery of a parcel was unsuccessful and asking you to click on a link to reschedule. Remember NEVER click on links in messages and always check the sender email address to see if it is legitimate.

Action Fraud is warning people selling items online to be on the lookout for criminals sending fake PayPal emails. Criminals have been targeting people selling items online, by sending them emails purporting to be from PayPal. The emails trick victims into believing they have received payment for the items they’re selling. Typically, after receiving these emails, victims will ship the item to the criminal. This leaves them at a further disadvantage having not received any payment for the item and also no longer having it.

A message purporting to be Apple is being received in text and email form. It says that you cant access your account and Apple services and that you need to verify your account. Do not click on the links in the message and always check the sender email address to see if it legitimate.

Reports of phone calls purporting to be Sky technical. If in doubt check with your provider.

Scams aren’t going away – they are constantly evolving and we have to work hard to keep ourselves safe.

We will remember them...

Following the announcement by the Prime Minister last night (Saturday) that the country will go into an autumn lockdown from Thursday, 5 November, please remember that the council’s coronavirus helpline is still available if you need help and support.

It’ll be open again from tomorrow (Monday), so please call us if you need support.
📞 01983 823600
or email 📧 [email protected]

In light of the government announcement we are now waiting to see the detailed guidance. The council will carry on working closely with partner agencies across the Island to ensure that we .

We’ll provide further details over the coming days.

Godshill Parish Council Zoom Meeting - Monday 2nd November 7:30pm - Everyone is most welcome to attend. Anyone wishing to attend should contact the Parish Clerk by e-mail ([email protected]) or phone (07528 339937) by 4pm on Friday 30th October. Agenda - https://godshill.org.uk/Contents/ContentItems/40hnmx7yz87fvzp6v5y59n634z

Godshill Parish Council Everyone is most welcome to attend. The agenda for the meeting will be available during the week before the meeting. The meeting is to be conducted online using Zoom, anyone wishing to attend should contact the Parish Clerk by e-mail ([email protected]) or phone (07528 339937) by 4pm on Friday...

These roads are closed today to through traffic from 9:30-3:45 whilst resurfacing takes place on Church Hollow - Church Hill between School Road and Hollow Lane, High Street between Hollow Lane and School Crescent.

A couple of common scams appear to be doing the rounds again so please watch out for –

An email from the DVLA stating that your vehicle is no longer taxed – it will ask you to click on a link and asks you to have your credit/debit card available.

An email from TV Licensing number stating that your direct debit could not be processed, it hen asks you to click on a link to give your details to ensure the payment goes through.

These are SCAMS do not respond, do not click on links and before you delete you could forward the email to [email protected]

Is your business COVID-secure?

Starting this month, Isle of Wight Council and Health and Safety Executive inspectors will be carrying out unannounced spot checks to ensure Island businesses are managing the risk of .

During the checks we will provide advice and guidance to manage risk and protect workers, customers and visitors. However where some businesses are not managing the risks, we will take immediate action.

See links in comments for more information 👇



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An online form will soon be available for eligible Island residents to apply for a government payment of £500 if they have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate. Find out more: https://www.iow.gov.uk/news/Look-out-for-new-support-payment-form

GodshillPC updated their phone number.

The next Parish Council Meeting is a Zoom meeting on Mon 5 October at 7:30pm. If you wish to attend you should contact the Parish Clerk by phone (07528 339937) by 4pm and give him your name and email address. You will then receive the joining instructions. https://https://godshill.org.uk/Contents/ContentItems/4az78xkavjqmsx7axv963vpzda

Godshill Parish Council Everyone is most welcome to attend. The agenda for the meeting will be available during the week before the meeting. The meeting is to be conducted online using Zoom, anyone wishing to attend should contact the Parish Clerk by phone (07528 339937) by 4pm on Friday 2nd October.

🦠Be prepared for self-isolation.

Self-isolation is when you must stay at home because you have or might have COVID-19 (coronavirus).

It is different from lockdown because you can't leave your home except to go out to your garden.

What to do if you have to self-isolate:

✅If you cannot go out to work and cannot work from home, you can get an isolation note to send to your employer to prove you can't work. You do not need to contact your GP.
Do this online 👉https://111.nhs.uk/isolation-note/

✅Keep up regular exercise at home or garden.

✅Walking your dog.
You cannot leave your home to walk your dog. You will need to ask others to assist you.

✅Make plans for food shopping and medicines.
If you require help buying groceries, other shopping or picking up medication ask friends or relatives to help. Consider local suppliers for home delivery.

✅Don't forget the Isle of Wight Coronavirus helpline.
If you're self isolating and don't have a local network of friends, family or neighbours to support you, please call:
☎️ 01983 823600
9am - 5pm Monday to Friday, 9am - 1pm Saturday.

Coronavirus testing on the Isle of Wight.

Isle of Wight Council have been in touch with the government and told them to act swiftly to help prevent the spread of on the Isle of Wight following reports of people travelling on and off the Island for a COVID-19 test.

If you need to get a test for because you have symptoms, call 119 or go online at nhs.uk/coronavirus.

☎️Please remember - 119 not 111
❌Please don't travel to the mainland for a test. Please only accept a test at the Isle of Wight test centre. You can also request a postal test.

Our director of public health is Simon Bryant said;
"Appointments for tests are made available on a daily basis; the evening before for the following morning and the morning before for later in the day.
Do not think that because there is no availability when you call or go online that means no availability at all for the foreseeable future. So please keep trying to get the test you need."

Remember, please only book a test if you have any of the symptoms of coronavirus.
🌡 High temperature
🗣 A new, persistent cough
👃 A loss of taste and smell

We have a couple of unusual scams for you this week –

An Island resident had a phone call from a woman trying to sell "a disc that goes in the loft to protect you from COVID" A man called round the following day and then told her that the disc costs £9500! She asked him to leave, which he did.

Someone else told us they'd had a text saying that they have been selected for Jury service and to click on the link to proceed - luckily they spotted that this is a scam.

Any unusual call or text out of the blue is likely to be a scam. Do not engage and for further advice on current scams and staying safe go to www.iwasp.org.uk

COVID-19 - Please be aware that the risk level in Godshill has now gone up to MEDIUM. Please take extra care and stay safe. If you need any help, the Parish Council Support Team is still operating. Simply call Alison on 840179.

The draft minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on Monday 7 September are now available on the website - https://godshill.org.uk/Contents/ContentItems/4820rdkxy491ks9f6vdppfbtce

Godshill Parish Council Everyone is most welcome to attend. The agenda for the meeting will be available during the week before the meeting. The meeting is to be conducted online using Zoom, anyone wishing to attend should contact the Parish Clerk by phone (07528 339937) by 4pm on Friday 4th September.

Our Covid-19 support helpline is still available for vulnerable and isolated residents. The weekend opening hours are changing this week.

From Saturday 5 September, the opening hours will be:

🔸Saturday: 9 am to 1 pm.
🔸Sunday: closed.
🔸Monday to Friday: 9 am to 5 pm.

☎️ 01983 823 600
📲 [email protected]

Thank you for taking part in the 2019/20 waste survey.

The survey found that recycling green bins/gull sacks had 71.71% of the right things in them - mixed glass, metal and plastics. 🙌

Other items found in the bins were:

19.7% paper or card - this can be recycled in your black box insert.
2.69% food - put in your food caddy.
4.76% general waste
1.14% textiles - many of these can go out next to your green bin or sack on recycling day.

♻️Please think before you throw! Check out the link in comments to find out what can and can't be recycled. 👇

♻️Remember you can order extra recycling caddies, bins and boxes for free online.

♻️Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

⭐️⭐️SPEEDWATCH-VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES ⭐️⭐️

We are pleased to announce that we have just relaunched our first Community Speedwatch group in Newport. Community Speedwatch enables members of the community to become police support volunteers and take action against speeding on the roads of concern within their area.

Volunteers use equipment that can monitor the speed of passing traffic and then record the details, later adding them to a database. Vehicle checks are then undertaken by the police and letters are then sent to the registered keepers advising them of their speed and reminding them of why it is a community concern.

If you are concerned about speeding vehicles in your area and would like to set up a scheme, or would like to volunteer for an existing scheme, please visit our website:
https://www.hampshire.police.uk/police-forces/hampshire-constabulary/areas/careers/careers/police-support-volunteers/community-speedwatch/ for more information.

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Please don't leave litter in our parks.

✅ If bins are full, take your recycling and waste home with you.
✅ Having a BBQ? Don't leave it smouldering. Extinguish it. Dispose of it safely.
✅ Having a picnic? Make a rubbish bag part of your picnic kit.
✅ Place all disposable personal PPE in a bin. Please consider buying reusable/washable face coverings to reduce littering and waste.



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Do you work at a business or community organisation on the Island? If you want to speak direct to the app team and ask about using the NHS Test and Trace App - and how to get your QR code for visitors to check in - there is an online briefing session happening - sign up now!

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/iowbriefing

Trading Standards are receiving reports of yet another council tax scam email and would like to remind residents that the council will NEVER contact you in this way.

The email advises that you are entitled to a council tax reduction and all you need to do is click to claim it. This is a SCAM and if you follow the process you will be giving your banking details to scammers who may use this to take money from your account.

NEVER click on links in emails like this – you don’t know who you are giving your details to and what they will do with them.

📢From tomorrow, Saturday 8 August, it will be law to wear face coverings in a number of different places.

😷You are expected to wear a face covering immediately before entering any of the following settings and must keep it on until you leave.

✅Public transport
✅Indoor transport hubs (airports, rail and tram stations and terminals, maritime ports and terminals, bus and coach stations and terminals)
✅Shops and supermarkets (places which are open to the public and that wholly or mainly offer goods or services for retail sale or hire)
✅Indoor shopping centres
✅Banks, building societies, and post offices (including credit unions, short-term loan providers, savings clubs and money service businesses)
✅Funeral directors
✅Premises providing professional, legal or financial services
✅Cinemas, theatres, bingo halls, concert halls
✅Museums, galleries, aquariums, indoor zoos or visitor farms, or other indoor tourist, heritage or cultural sites.
✅Nail, beauty, hair salons and barbers - other than where necessary to remove for treatments
✅Massage parlours
✅Public areas in hotels and hostels
✅Place of worship
✅Libraries and public reading rooms
✅Community centres, social clubs
✅Tattoo and piercing parlours
✅Indoor entertainment venues (amusement arcades, funfairs, adventure activities e.g. laser quest, go-karting, escape rooms, heritage sites etc)
✅Storage and distribution facilities
✅Veterinary services.
✅Auction houses

Protect yourself and others by wearing a face covering.

Well done and thank you Isle of Wight. 🙌

We’re delighted that the Island has risen to 36th out of 345 other UK areas for household waste that is recycled and composted.
This is up from 111th in the UK in 2012/13.

The stats show that in 2018/19 the Island recycled 55.7% compared to 46.21% in 2012/13.

The Isle of Wight Council, in partnership with Amey, carried out a recycling and waste composition study by reviewing the contents of waste from houses in selected roads during summer and winter in 2019/20. This was pre-coronavirus.

The study also found ways we could continue to improve by:

♻️Recycling more - 60% of material in the average general waste bin on the Island could have been recycled, reused or composted, including paper/card, plastics, metals and glass.

♻️Separating food waste from general waste. The equivalent of 1 in 4 of the contents of general waste sacks was food wasted and could have been composted. This could be turned into compost to generate electricity, helping the environment and reducing landfill.

♻️If we put everything that could be recycled in recycling bins/green sacks and paper/card boxes/blue sacks, and use the weekly food waste collection, we would have a recycling rate of well over 70%..and we'd be top in the country.

Thank you Isle of Wight. We've done well - now lets do great!



Think before you throw! Find out what can be recycled on our website. Link in comments 👇

An important coronavirus update for Isle of Wight businesses/organisations/settings. Please share widely.

🧾Action cards have been published by UK government to give businesses and organisations key steps to help quickly identify and contain any potential outbreak.

🦠Action cards provide details of how and who should be contacted if an organisation suspects they have a coronavirus outbreak.

📋They provide specific advice on the issues each type of organisation may face. They offer clear, bespoke guidance on preventative measures.

⬇️Please download the correct action card from our website. See link in comments.

Please note:

❗️Action cards have been developed to be used across the country. It is vital you update your organisation's action card with the right contact details for the Isle of Wight.

👀To do this, look under Step 3 on the action card. You'll find the words:
"Check now and write the number of your local PHE HPT here.........."

🖊In this space write '0344 225 3861 and select option 2'.

The image on this post is an example action card for an entertainment and holiday resort.



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Potholes in Dolcoppice Lane - our IoW Councillor, Rodney Downer, has reported these to Island Roads and they are now on a 28-day ticket to be repaired.

From today, Friday 24 July it is mandatory to wear a face covering:

😷in shops, supermarkets and indoor shopping centres
😷on public transport and at stations and airports
😷in banks and post offices

You must also wear them when buying takeaway food and drink, although they can be removed in a seating area.

Please keep shopping locally and safely, our Island businesses need your support.

For more information see link in comments below 👇

We’ve had a number of reports in recent weeks relating to dangerous driving and speeding on the Isle of Wight.

You have told us about your experiences, and we are grateful to you for taking the time to do that. We encourage you to please keep feeding this information into us.

Over this weekend (4th & 5th July), our RP/ARV team on the Island were joined by Roads Policing Officers from the mainland to carry out some work to address this.

The majority of incidents reported to us relate to Military Road and the surrounding West Wight area, where we know high performance cars and motorbikes like to race up and down the road.

Our weekend operation resulted in 52 tickets being issued to motorists in this area for a number of different offences including speeding, driving with exhaust defects, and driving with number plate defects.

In addition to this, two people were arrested on suspicion of drug driving offences, and officers also conducted a few S23 drug searches of vehicles, as well as dealing with a serious collision on Cowes Road in Newport.

This weekend we also engaged with the various biking groups that were out and about so we could educate riders.

It is important that we listen to the concerns of our communities and take action, and education is a key part of this.

We remind all Islanders to please take care on the roads and look after one another.

Trading Standards are reminding residents to be wary of some common scams that seem to perpetually do the rounds –

☎️ The automated phone message from Amazon Prime to say that your account has been debited £79 and press 1 to get a refund – This is a SCAM

💻 An email from TV Licensing stating that there has been a problem collecting your direct debit – you will be told to complete a new form with your bank details – This is a SCAM

☎️An automated call purporting to be from your internet service provider to say that your internet service is about to be cut off and you need to make a payment – This is a SCAM

No legitimate company will ever contact you in this way – These are scams – hang up the phone and delete the emails – stay safe!

🗣 If someone you care about may be at risk of falling victim to a scam please ensure that they hear these messages.

The next meeting of the Parish Council is on Monday 6th July 2020. Due to Coronavirus and Social Distancing the meeting will be conducted online using Zoom. Anyone wishing to attend should contact the Parish Clerk on telephone 853232 by Friday 3rd July. Agenda -https://godshillparish.co.uk/pdfs/noticejuly.pdf