A Big Local Area
On Tuesday the 3rd of March JTP feedback on the community consultation they had undertaken on Feburay the 28yth and 29th
It was a very powerful presentation and the two halves can be seen below
Click here Part 1 and then you may have to press the play button
then to see part two Part 2, and you may have to press the play button. You can stop it and start via the play button
Following on from last Saturday’s massive rubbish haul at the Concrete barges following Storm Dennis, our next event is at Grays Beach on Sunday morning.
Come along and earn you free bacon roll and coffee!
As always old weather appropriate clothes, sturdy footwear and lots of enthusiasm are all you need to bring.
Meeting at Thurrock Yacht Club at 10:30 we will supply “all the plastic rubbish you can pick” and any equipment that you will need!
Future Events:
Sunday 1st March – meeting at Grays Yacht Club RM17 6JF at 10:30 to 12:00 followed by free refreshments in the café. Grays Beachcombers is a monthly Thames21 River Action Group family friendly event suitable for accompanied children 6 years and older.
Thursday 5th March – meeting at Purfleet Railway Station RM19 1PP at 10:30 to 12:30. We will be picking primarily plastic bottles on the other side of the seawall and bringing them back to the road for collection. This event will include climbing fixed ladders over the 2m high seawall so comfortable walking shoes/boots are essential. This is an adult only Thames21 River Action Group event. – New Event
Friday 13th March – meeting at old St Clements Church RM20 4AL at 10:00 to 14:00. We will be picking along to the QE2 Bridge with Coca Cola employees. This event will include up to 4 miles walking so comfortable walking shoes/boots are essential. This is an adult only Thames21 River Action Group event. – New Event
Saturday 14th March – meeting in John Street RM17 6ED at 09:00 to 12:00. This is the regular Orchard Forum back alley clean-up. All welcome especially local residents.
Wednesday 25th March – meeting at old St Clements Church RM20 4AL at 10:30 to 13:30. We will be picking along the Graffiti Wall. This event will include up to 4 miles walking so comfortable walking shoes/boots are recommended. This is an adult only Thames21 River Action Group event and forms part of the Great British Spring Clean.
Wednesday 1st April – meeting at St. Margaret’s Avenue SS17 0SH to pick Mucking Creek at 10:30 to 13:30. This is an adult only Thames21 River Action Group event and forms part of the Great British Spring Clean.
Sunday 5th April – meeting at Grays Yacht Club RM17 6JF at 10:30 to 12:00 followed by free refreshments in the café. Grays Beachcombers is a monthly Thames21 River Action Group family friendly event suitable for accompanied children 6 ye
Following on from a great pick around the small carpark at the 
Rainham RSPB centre, I’m pleased to advise our next event is at the Graffiti Wall in West Thurrock on 25th January, details below.If you have not taken a look at the graffiti wall paintings before, why not come along and have a look at them.
Saturday 25th January – meeting at old St Clements Church RM20 4AL at 10:30 to 13:30. We will be picking along the Graffiti Wall. This is a family friendly event suitable for accompanied children 8 years and older. This event will include up to 3 miles walking so comfortable walking shoes/boots are recommended. This is a river based Badged Thames21 event.
Sunday 2nd February – meeting at Grays Yacht Club RM17 6JF at 10:30 to 12:00 followed by free refreshments in the café. This is the Grays Beachcombers regular monthly pick. This is a family friendly event suitable for accompanied children 6 years and older and is a river based Badged Thames21 event
Saturday 8th February – meeting in Salisbury Road RM17 6DQ at 09:00 to 12:00. This is the regular Orchard Forum back alley clean-up. All welcome especially local residents.
Saturday 8th February – meeting at RSPB Rainham Marshes Centre in Purfleet RM19 1SZ at 10:15 to 12:30. This is an RSPB organised and run event. Please make sure you register your interest with the RSPB before attending. 01708 899851 or rainham.marshes@rspb.org.uk This event will especially suit young (and us older) Eco Warriors! Parents don’t forget to bring the binoculars.
Wednesday 12th February – meeting at the Wharf Hotel, Wharf Road South, RM17 5YX at 10:30 to 13:00. We will be picking rubbish from along the foreshore. This adult only event will include up to 2 miles walking so comfortable walking shoes/boots are recommended.
Saturday 22nd February – meeting at the Riverside Carpark at the Concrete Barges Rainham, RM13 9YQ at 10:30 to 13:30. We will be picking rubbish from along the foreshore and the reed beds. This is a family friendly event suitable for accompanied children 8 years and older. This is a river based Badged Thames21 event.
Sunday 1st March – meeting at Grays Yacht Club RM17 6JF at 10:30 to 12:00 followed by free refreshments in the café. This is the Grays Beachcombers regular monthly pick. This is a family friendly event suitable for accompanied children 6 years and older and is a river based Badged Thames21 event.
We were invited to attend two great events over the weekend here in Thurrock
Firstly an event on Friday night at the Civic hall from the Thurrock Nepalese Gurkha Community (TNGC) to join their Dashain-Tihar Celebration Party, together with Thurrock Mayor Terry Piccolo and TLS Ceo Neil Woodbridge & Board Director Sundeep Saini,
…and to top the weekend off, an invitation from the Thurrock Nepalese Women’s Community to their Charity Evening at Chadwell Village Hall.
At both events, we enjoyed fantastic food, great company and excellent entertainment.
I would like to thank these organisations for their wonderful hospitality and kindness.
धन्यवाद
Dhan’yavāda
Thank you
A very quick post to let you all know that to mark World Mental Health Awareness Day on Thursday 10th October Reach Out for Mental Health are hosting a pop-up living room in the heart of Grays town centre, in the mall.
Living Rooms are a relaxed and informal place for ANYONE to come and have a sit 
down, a chat, a sing song, play some games or just to sit quietly with a group of people.
The idea comes from Camerados- please check out the link for all the information you need on this fabulous concept. https://www.camerados.org/
Reach Out for Mental Health would love to see your friendly and familiar faces there, tell your colleagues, customers, friends- tell everyone! Don’t eat at your desk on Thursday, come down and see us.
Hope to see you all there.
Kirsty Eaton of Reach Out for Mental Health
Souping up your business plans
Thurrock Soup aims to help inspire social enterprise and business ideas from Thurrock residents and offer advice and support in starting a new business and in identifying funding.
These regular events offer local people an opportunity to pitch their ideas and win some start-up money if chosen as the best idea on the night.
To take part, participants are invited to treat themselves to a bowl of tasty soup and a roll for £5, all of which goes into a pot. The £5 also gives people the chance to vote for their preferred idea.
Previous Soup winners have received £100 to £200 to use towards setting up their business. In all, over £800 has been raised so far and ot all has been used to help new businesses start up!
One of these successes is “Smallzdeep”, a young musician who used his start-up fund to set-up a music studio here in Grays where he works with young people, sometimes from difficult backgrounds to help them to express themselves through music.
This is often helped by working with known artists and rising artists such as D’One. On Thursday 26 April there will be a special version of the Soup event – YOUTHINK! – aimed at young people aged 16 to 25 who have an inspirational idea.
This event will be held at Waves Restaurant, South Essex College in New Road Grays and will start at 5.30pm – everyone welcome!
Do you have a great idea? Would you like to start a business?
For more information and to book a place at an event visit:www.thurrocksoup7.eventbrite.co.uk or business@thurrock.gov.uk