The Swanley & Dartford Chronicle July 2008
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Young Volunteer
of the Year
The voluntary work of a number of young people
from the Sevenoaks District was recognised recently at the second ever Young Volunteer of the
Year award ceremony.
The winner and two runners up were presented...
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Young Volunteer
of the Year
The voluntary work of a number of young people
from the Sevenoaks District was recognised recently at the second ever Young Volunteer of the
Year award ceremony.
The winner and two runners up were presented
with their prizes at Sevenoaks District Council
Offices by the Chairman of the Council, Cllr Felicity Broomby.
The winner of the award was 16 year-old Sarah
Sturrock of Sevenoaks who was nominated for her
award by her mother.
Sarah received £100 in High Street vouchers for
herself, and a £200 cheque went to VSU Youth in
Action, to help them continue to support young
volunteers
Two runners up each received £50 in High
Street vouchers, with an £100 cheque going to the
organisation that nominated them.
The runners up were Edward Bankes, aged 16,
from Sevenoaks and Eleanor Selleck aged 18 from
Kemsing.
Eleanor Selleck was nominated by 2nd Kemsing
Guides where she has been volunteering for four
years, with her dedication helping the unit to
flourish.
She is also a volunteer at her local church
youth group.
Cllr Elaine Bracken, the Council’s Cabinet
Member with responsibility for young people’s issues, says: “Every single young person who attended the ceremony deserves enormous credit
for their dedication to helping others in their own
time, and for giving other people opportunities
they may not otherwise experience.
”
Residents of the District were invited to nominate young people for the award throughout
February and March using nomination forms
available from Sevenoaks District Council, town
and parish councils, libraries, community and
voluntary youth groups and schools and online
via the Council website.
The scheme was organised and funded by
Sevenoaks District Council to further recognise
and celebrate young people’s voluntary contributions and achievements.
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Councillors v Officers
Sevenoaks District Council councillors and staff
had a wicket time, and stumped up money for a
good cause recently when they donned their
whites for their second ever charity cricket
match.
A Leader’s Select XI and a Chief Executive’s
Select XI did battle at the Vine Cricket Ground
with all the proceeds from the event going to
Sevenoaks Area Youth Trust the charity chosen
by the captain of the winning team.
The 20-over match proved to be a very close
run thing, with the Leader’s team batting first
and setting a total of 130 runs.
The game went
right down to the final ball of the game with the
Chief Executive’s team needing three runs to
win.
The task proved too much though and their
total of 128 was not quite enough, leaving the
councillors to claim victory for the second time.
Cllr Peter Fleming, “I always felt confident
that my team could retain our unbeaten record
even if it did go right down to the wire! It was a
great evening and the most important thing was
that we raised a bit of money for charity, and
everyone seemed to have a fantastic time.
”
Robin Hales, Chief Executive and captain of
the runners-up says: “I have to say that I, along
with everyone else who took part, thoroughly
enjoyed the game, with the exception of the result of course! The weather couldn’t have been
better and some money went to a good cause.
”
Sevenoaks Council targetted
Azalea Drive, the steps from
Station Approach to Azalea
Drive, Northview and Swanley post office from 10.
30am to
remove graffiti.
The council records incidents of graffiti
from the public and its partners, such as town
and parish councils.
These are prioritised, with racist and offensive graffiti made a high priority, then
passed to the Probation Service’s fully trained
and supervised graffiti removal team, which
visits Sevenoaks District two days a month.
The team includes people who are carrying
out Community Punishment Orders.
The graffiti is removed using the ‘Grimebuster 200’, a high-powered graffiti-removal
machine, which was bought jointly by
Sevenoaks District Council in partnership
with Tonbridge & Malling and Tunbridge
Wells Borough Councils.
Cleaning the graffiti is just one part of the
work to reduce the problem.
The Sevenoaks
District Community Safety Partnership
maintains a database of local graffiti tags, and
has recently registered with a national graffiti
database to enable images of tags and other
related information to be shared and offenders identified and prosecuted.
The Community Safety Partnership has
officially launched its new three year strategy
to control graffiti.
COUNCIL ATTACK GRAFFITI
Libarary Picture by Kent Photonews-Sidcup
Resident sought to keep
council standards high
Sevenoaks District Council is looking to appoint
an independent member of the public to its
Standards Committee to help ensure its
councillors work to the high ethical standards
expected of them by the public.
The Standards Committee aims to promote and
maintain high standards of conduct of elected and
other District Council members as well as town
and parish councillors.
It consists of six District
Councillors, three Parish Councillors and four
independent representatives.
The successful person would be expected to
attend three meetings a year, in addition to
monthly hearings, at the Council’s Sevenoaks
offices.
Travel expenses are paid.
Meetings take
place during the week beginning at 7pm, whilst
hearings will take place during normal office
hours.
Ideally applicants should be interested in public
sector issues and be able to reflect the views and
expectations of local people regarding the
behaviour of Councillors.
Anyone who has been a councillor or worked for
a council for the last five years or who is a close
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