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Pink Orange food kits (to include activity packs) are returning across Norfolk and Suffolk for the school holidays:

If families live in Suffolk and their children receive free school meals… then it’s time to register for their Easter delivery service. 

Should you have any questions or need assistance please  call/text the Pink Orange Team :  07553894233 | email hello@pinkorange.co.uk  

Contact us regarding registrations.

WEBSITE LINK : The Pink Orange is part of Access Community Trust

Becky Norris 

North Lowestoft Men's Shed needs a shed.

We don't care what sort of state it's in. We will happily restore a structurally good building.  A place that's in need of help suits us down to the ground.

Ideally it should be big enough to house a workshop, have some storage space and preferably some outside space, with parking or parking nearby. 

We're north of Lake Lothing, so in the north.

A simple guide..

firstly you need to create a catalogue which is a container that holds information about all the items you want to advertise or sell on Facebook and Instagram.

Before you begin

Create a Facebook Page for your business if you don't have one yet.

Set up Business Manager so you can assign your catalogue to your business. 

Create a catalogue

To create a new catalogue:

Go to Commerce Manager. 
Start creating your catalogue:

Sheds can be anything the members want them to be, but a shed offers a meeting place where like-minded people can meet up, share worries, pleasures and ideas.

Usually, but not exclusively, the members are retired men and possibly feeling a little isolated. They are about having fun, sharing skills and knowledge, about having a renewed sense of purpose and belonging, without the need to feel any pressure.

A Shed is about filling needs, creating a community and maybe about helping others as well

The first rule of Dad Club?  Tell any dads/partners/step-parents about it!

Being a father and supporting a birth parent is very rewarding but also very challenging.

Come and join the team to talk parenting. Share some experiences and what works for you.

John Ellerby – Chair

Joe Thompson – Secretary

Phil Lacey – Treasurer

email: info@northlowestoftmensshed.org 

Meeting weekly on site at Denmark Road (near junction with Trafalgar Street)

North Lowestoft Men's Shed actually started way back in 2019. Inspired by Pakefield Men's Shed, which we visited in Autumn 2019, we set about looking for premises. We met with community officers at East Suffolk Council, with Peter Aldous MP, and with local property owners and estate agents. We looked at many possibilities, managing to track down the owner of a shed who now lived many miles away, we talked with BirdsEye, with Network Rail. And much of that is still happening.

We had decided to go public, as it were, and along came Covid-19.

East Suffolk infection rates have been flat for three weeks (March 27th 2021). The good news is that they are not going up again. The bad news is that they aren't significantly going down, either.

They are at the same levels as the beginning of October 2020, just before Lockdown Two.

Why is this worrying?

Hard times for everyone, so we need every little bit of help.

The Budget on 3 March 2021 announced:

Restart grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses, to be administered by local authorities from April

An extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to the end of September 

A fourth Self Employed Income Support Scheme grant to cover February-April 2021

A new Recovery Loan scheme which will follow the CBILS and Bounce Bank loan schemes

You can find links to East Suffolk Council's 'Restart Grant' information here.