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Sefton’s walk-through COVID test sites will be open over Christmas & New Year

17 December 2021
Martin Driver
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Categories: Front Page, Health, Latest News

Sefton’s four local walk-in COVID-19 test centres for people with COVID symptoms, where you can turn up and get a PCR test, will be open from 10am to 2pm on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

They are open from 8am to 6pm every other day.

Locations

The four local test centres are located at:

  • Bootle Town Hall, L20 7AA
  • Crosby Library Car Park, Haigh Road, L22 OLQ
  • Netherton Activity Centre, Glovers Lane, L30 3TL
  • Southport Town Hall, PR8 1DA

Without symptoms

Test sites for people with no symptoms, which also offer assisted testing and collection of home test kits are located at:

  • Bootle Town Hall
  • The Strand
  • Dunes, Southport

will be open normal hours apart from

  • Christmas Eve
  • Tuesday 28th December
  • Friday 31st December
  • Bank Holiday Monday 3rd January

when they will be open from 10am to 4pm.

They will be closed on

  • Christmas Day
  • Boxing Day
  • Bank Holiday Monday 27th January
  • New Year’s Day
  • Sunday 2nd January

Main Symptoms?

The main symptoms we all need to look out for are a:

  • high temperature;
  • persistent cough;
  • loss of taste or smell.

No symptoms?

Those of us without COVID-19 symptoms should be taking regular rapid lateral flow tests, particularly if we are meeting up with people from other households or attending indoor events in crowded spaces.

To get your free home test kits you can:

Bootle-based Christmas business spread festive sparkle with magical tree

16 December 2021
Martin Driver
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Categories: Front Page, Latest News, Uncategorized
Decorators for Christmas tree taking pride of place in Bootle Town Hall's foyer
Decorators for Christmas tree taking pride of place in Bootle Town Hall’s foyer

Bootle-based business, Decorators for Christmas, has spread festive sparkle and cheer to Sefton Council’s Bootle Town Hall with the loan of a professionally decorated Christmas tree.

The tree, which is taking pride of place in the foyer of Bootle Town Hall, has been loaned by the business as a special thank you to Council staff for their continued support throughout the pandemic.

Decorators for Christmas said: “We love Christmas and our passion for the festive season is reflected in our beautiful decorations which we design, manufacture and install. It’s been an absolute pleasure to share one of our stunning Christmas trees with the Council this year as a small thank you for everything they have done to support Sefton businesses over the past 18 months or so.”

The Council’s InvestSefton and Business Rates teams would normally have been delivering business growth and inward investment support while administering and collecting business rates. Instead the focus during the pandemic has been on supporting businesses financially, ensuring they could access important grant payments and other means of support as the health crisis continued.

Colleagues from different departments such as Tourism, Corporate Resources, Housing, Planning, Sefton@Work, Early Years and Adult Care have supported this vital stream of work to ensure that grants were issued to all eligible businesses.

Similarly, officers have helped businesses with practical support, issuing them with PPE, providing vital infrastructure for Covid-19 testing and Environmental Health colleagues have supported the re-opening of the retail, hospitality and personal care sectors.

To find out how InvestSefton can help your business contact 0151 934 3452 or email investsefton@sefton.gov.uk or visit www.investsefton.com

Only hours left to support Southport ‘Fiestaval’

16 December 2021
Ollie Cowan
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Categories: Borough Of Culture, Essential Sefton, Front Page, Health, Latest News

There are just two days left for people to lend their support to create a brand new Latin American festival in Southport next year.

One of Sefton Council’s SeftonCrowd supported initiatives, the Viva Foundation’s ‘Fiestaval’ is currently crowdfunding pledges to help them reach their target of ÂŁ2,863 to make the festival a reality.

This proposed free community festival will combine Latin American music, dance, entertainment and other cultural activities to highlight the multi-cultural nature of Latin America and its communities within the Liverpool City region.

Sefton Council have pledged ÂŁ500 towards the festival and generous community backers have also contributed more than ÂŁ1,800, meaning organisers are over 60% of the way towards their target.

Less than 48 hours remain however, with the Fiestaval Project needing to reach their ÂŁ2,863 target by midnight on Friday, December 17th.

Cllr Trish Hardy, Sefton Council’s cabinet member for communities and housing, said: “Sefton Council is providing ÂŁ500 support to help next year’s Fiestaval in Southport reach its target as part of its Sefton Crowd initiative to give local people with ideas about how to improve their area the opportunity to gain funding.

“Backed by Sefton Council’s £50,000 Community Transition Fund the aim of Sefton Crowd to back ideas such as Fiestaval that will put local people at the heart of the efforts to create more vibrant, resilient and connected communities.

“So far the Council has supported 16 grassroots-led projects that pick up on people’s civic and community pride through Sefton Crowd.

“People can find out more about the initiative and how to apply, when new funding rounds are opened in 2022, at www.spacehive.com/movement/seftoncrowd.”

To find out more about Fiestaval, visit https://www.spacehive.com/southport-latinfest

Santa Claus spotted getting his booster jab in Sefton

16 December 2021
Martin Driver
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Categories: Front Page, Health, Latest News

Santa Claus with festive helpers at the Netherton Health Centre COVID-19 vaccination site.Once again, Santa Claus has stopped off in Sefton during his busy  pre-Christmas schedule.  This time he was getting his booster jab to make sure he’s fully protected.

As the final countdown to Christmas begins, staff at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Sefton were surprised by the arrival of a very jolly patient in a red suit, looking to get a jab.

‘Santa Claus’ visited Netherton Health Centre, where he had pre-booked an appointment to get his COVID-19 booster vaccination, under the alias Ron Clayton.

Snowed under

Arriving, unusually, by van rather than by sleigh, Santa explained that his reindeer were busy getting ready for their Christmas duties, but that even though he was ‘snowed under’ with festive preparations he knew it was very important to make time to get vaccinated as soon as he was eligible.

Santa said: “I’ve got a busy few days ahead, flying around to deliver presents to children all over Sefton and beyond! I wanted my long journey to be made as safe as possible for myself and everyone I visit, by getting my booster jab for extra protection.

“Mrs Claus and all of my elves have also had their booster jabs, to keep themselves and everyone else safe this Christmas. Some of the elves are over 100 years old, so obviously they had their vaccinations quite early on, but it’s never too late to come forward for your jab if you’ve not got round to it yet!”

After getting his vaccine, Santa declared that all the staff at Netherton Health Centre were definitely on his ‘nice’ list, before he waved goodbye to the team and set off back to the North Pole.

St. Nick himself

Jenny Macoy, site manager at the COVID-19 vaccination centre at Netherton Health Centre, said: “We were so glad to see St. Nick himself coming in to get his jab, even though he must have a busy schedule at the moment! Protecting yourself and others should definitely be top of everyone’s Christmas list this year.”

“The booster vaccine is important because helps improve the protection you have from your first two doses of the vaccine and helps give you longer-term protection against getting seriously ill from COVID-19. Get yours booked in to stay safe this festive season.”

You can watch Santa’s visit here. 

The NHS is now offering all adults the opportunity to book their booster jab by the end of the year. Those now eligible to book are people who had their second COVID-19 vaccine at least three months ago, and are:

  • Aged 18 and over
  • Aged 16 and over with a health condition that puts them at high risk from COVID-19
  • Frontline health or social care workers

Eligible

If, like Santa, you are eligible for your booster jab, you can call 119 or visit the NHS website to book an appointment, or find a walk-in vaccination site that is offering booster jabs, here: www.nhs.uk/covid-booster

Booster jabs are also available from local vaccination sites in Sefton, which are taking bookings by telephone for anyone eligible. Contact the local vaccination sites to get booked in:

Seaforth Village Surgery, 20 Seaforth Rd, L21 3TA: call 07979 938 229

Netherton Health Centre, Magdalen Square, L30 5SP: call 0151 247 6413

Southport Centre for Health and Wellbeing, 44-46 Hoghton Street, PR9 0PQ: call 01704 395830 (phone lines open Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)

Find out more about local vaccination sites in Sefton by visiting: www.southseftonccg.nhs.uk or www.southportandformbyccg.nhs.uk.

Last year, Santa visited one of Sefton’s testing centres for a rapid test to make sure he wasn’t passing on COVID without realising.

Sefton’s Clean Air Crew take on air pollution in the playground

16 December 2021
Bridie Finnan
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Categories: Front Page, Latest News

Primary schools in Sefton are taking part in an exciting research programme to understand the levels of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and other pollutants in our atmosphere.

NO2 is produced by most vehicle exhaust pipes and is measured with monitoring tubes in different locations.

A total of 11 schools will be monitoring at key points in their school to see what the air quality is like within their grounds. Schools include Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary (pictured), where the tubes will be monitored by the schools Eco Council.Schoolchildren

Each school on the AirWatch programme has linked up with a member of Sefton’s Environmental Protection team and the Southport Eco Centre and will be hosting diffusion tubes to monitor levels of NO2. They will receive monthly reports as well as educational content and activities to do in class across a wide range of topics.

AirWatch programme schools will also have access to termly campaign toolkits to help pupils influence positive behaviour on the school run to reduce any air quality issues around their school grounds and any measures the school take to reduce the levels of pollution will be able to be monitored in real time by the students.

Schools will be asked to return the tube every month in a pre-paid envelope and replace it with a new tube so that the team can track changes over a long period.

The AirWatch programme will run from January 2022 to December 2022.

 

Darren Lloyd, Teacher at the Eco Centre said:

“This is fantastic opportunity for young people in Sefton to take part in an exciting project with real world results. The Clean Air Crew project has been a fantastic success with most schools in the authority now signed up – we have established engagement, now we want to foster ownership.

“Good air quality is extremely important to the health of people and the planet and this project will help us to identify those areas where improvements need to be made.

“I am thrilled that local schools will be helping us to gather this data, ultimately this is their planet to inherit and we want them to be learn about this crucial issue as soon as possible.”

 

If schools are not already signed up to www.cleanaircrew.co.uk, Sefton schools can register for free & access a wealth of curriculum resources supporting sustainable education for both classroom & home learning.

There is still time for other schools to register to take part in the AirWatch programme, they can sign up at the website before January 21st to register.

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