Christmas Waste & Recycling Collections

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Daventry District Council’s offices will be closed from Christmas Day until they reopen on Monday 4 January 2021.  Essential services, such as waste and recycling collections and street cleaning will continue over the festive period, and there will also continue to be arrangements in place in the event of an emergency.

Find out more about waste and recycling collections, office opening times and online services below:

Waste and recycling collections

Collection schedules

Collections will continue to take place as usual over the Christmas and New Year period, except for Christmas Day and New Year’s Day:

  • If your collection is due on Christmas Day (Friday, 25 December) it will instead take place on Sunday, 27 December
  • If your collection is due on New Year’s Day (Friday, 1 January) it will instead take place the following day on Saturday, 2 January

Extra recycling collection

During the week beginning Monday 28 December, all households will get an extra collection of their blue-lidded bin on their usual collection day.

Extra recycling will also be collected if it cannot fit into the blue-lidded bin. Please put these items in clear or white bags and place them next to your bin.

Food waste collections

Food waste bins will continue to be collected on their usual weekly schedule. Please remember you can recycle leftover raw and cooked foods, including veg peelings, egg shells, out-of-date food, plate scrapings, solid fats, meat and fish bones. Please do not put any liquids in the caddy.

Garden waste collections

Those subscribed to the service are advised there will a short break in collections during the week beginning 28 December, to allow crews to focus on the extra seasonal recycling.

General waste collections

Black bins containing general waste will continue to be collected as normal on their three-weekly cycle. Please make sure you recycle as much as possible and make use of the extra blue-lidded recycling bin collection, as black bins with raised lids or bags of rubbish left next to your bin will not be collected.

Real Christmas trees

If you have a real Christmas tree you can put it out for collection in the week beginning Monday 11 January.

It should be placed next to your bins on your normal collection day. Those subscribed to the garden waste service can cut the tree up and place it in their garden waste bins if they prefer.

There are no communal collection points for real Christmas trees, but they can be taken to your local household waste recycling centre: https://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/living/waste-and-recycling/where-is-the-nearest-recycling-centre/

What can I recycle?

Find out more information about what can be put in each bin at: https://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/living/waste-and-recycling/what-can-i-recycle/

Keep on top of collections

You can check your collection day and which bins to put out using any of the following methods:

Check the collection calendar we sent you in August

Check your bin day online: https://selfserve.daventrydc.gov.uk/forms/postcodechecker.aspx

Download the free Daventry District Council app from the Apple or Google Play stores

Report a missed collection

Daventry District Council’s offices and Contact Centre will be closed from Christmas Day, reopening on Monday 4 January. During this period any missed collections can be reported via our online self-serve system: https://selfserve.daventrydc.gov.uk/forms/MissedCollections.aspx

Council opening times

Lodge Road council offices

Daventry District Council’s offices will close at 4.30pm on Christmas Eve (Thursday 24 December), reopening at 9am on Monday, 4 January 2021.

Over Christmas, residents can continue to access a range of information and services online: https://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/online/

Please note that Jobcentre Plus and Northamptonshire County Council’s Children’s and Young People’s Service will each operate different working hours over Christmas.

Please also be aware that due to Covid-19 there are restrictions on who can enter the Lodge Road offices. It is currently only open to people who are: homeless or threatened with homelessness; in need of a food bank referral; accessing Children and Young People’s services; accessing Job Centre Plus; or vulnerable and in need of help with Universal Credit. Please come to the front door and a member of staff will speak to you from a safe distance

Abbey Advice and Resource Centre

The Abbey will operate its normal office hours up to and including Christmas Eve (Tuesday 24 December). It will then operate the following opening hours:

  • Christmas Day through to Monday 28 December (inclusive): Closed
  • Tuesday 29 December: Normal opening hours
  • Wednesday 30 December: Normal opening hours
  • Thursday 31 December: Normal opening hours
  • Friday 1 January: Closed
  • Saturday 2 January: Closed to tenants only. Open for Library click and collect from 10am to 2pm
  • Sunday 3 January: Closed
  • Monday 4 January: Normal opening hours

Daventry District Council.  30th November 2020.

Small Business Grants Available

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Media Release 

23 November 2020 

Businesses urged to apply for new grant fund 

Businesses in Daventry District which have been required to close temporarily due to the lockdown are encouraged to apply for a Local Restrictions Support Grant.

The Government fund can provide grants of up to £3,000 to help small businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors manage during the 28-day lockdown period.

The types of business covered includes non-essential retail, leisure, personal care (such as hairdressers and nail salons), entertainment, sports facilities and hospitality.

To be eligible to apply, businesses must occupy a property on which they pay business rates, and must have been open and trading on 4 November 2020. They must have been required to close for at least four weeks because of the national lockdown, or have adapted their business to offer takeaway or a ‘click and collect’ service.

Three levels of grants are available depending on the rateable value of the business:

  • For properties with a rateable value of £15,000 or under, grants will be £1,334 for the four weeks
  • For properties with a rateable value of more than £15,000 and below £51,000, grants will be £2,000 for the four weeks
  • For properties with a rateable value of £51,000 or over, grants will be £3,000 for the four weeks.

Daventry District Council is distributing the grant in the District and is urging eligible businesses to submit a claim as soon as they can.

Councillor Colin Morgan, Resource Portfolio Holder at Daventry District Council said: “Local businesses are the lifeblood our communities and the local economy, and our staff have been working hard since the beginning of the pandemic to ensure they receive the Government funding support that they are entitled to.

“The fund offers vital support at this incredibly challenging time, and I would urge local businesses who think they might qualify to visit our website and apply online as soon as possible.”

To find out more information and submit an application online, please visit www.daventrydc.gov.uk/LRSG

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For further information please contact:

Ian O’Pray, Media Officer at Daventry District Council, on 01327 302310 or email iopray@daventrydc.gov.uk

 

£3,000 distributed in Yelvertoft

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YELVERTOFT READING ROOM

The Yelvertoft Educational Charity – The owner of the Reading Room, has in accordance with its Trust, managed this year to be able to donate to the Educational groups in the village a total of £3,000.

This is despite the fact that the Reading Room has been closed since March because of Covid-19 restrictions, with very little income from that, but thanks to wise placement of funds over the years in Charitable Investments which has kept us going.

Those who benefitted this year are: The Primary School, The Pre School, Shepherd’s Delight (Church PCC), The Youth Club and All Saints Sunday School.

Thanks here also to the Trustees who work quietly and voluntarily in the background to make sure that the village can continue to benefit from such a worthy establishment.

We will let everyone know when we are able to open the Room again, hopefully not too far away now, and it will have had a coat of paint since you all last saw it.

Geoff Holmes
Treasurer – YEC.

New Reach for Health Centre opens its doors

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Daventry District Council Media Release                        3 November, 2020

A charity which helps transform the lives of people with serious health conditions has opened the doors to its state-of-the-art new centre.

Reach for Health provides physiotherapeutic exercise for those who have experienced a traumatic health event such as a heart attack or stroke, as well as people suffering from a long-term or life-long illness.

The new Reach for Health Centre is more than twice the size of the charity’s former home, allowing it to increase the range of services it offers and help even more people.

It has been built at the Daventry & District Sports Club site at Western Avenue in a £1.48million project funded by Daventry District Council (DDC).

The new centre opened this week with an appointment based system, social distancing and comprehensive Covid-19 measures in place to keep visitors safe.

From Thursday 5 November only members who have been referred by their GP, or other NHS professional, with a defined long-term illness will be able to attend the centre with numbers limited to a maximum of 15 participants at any one time, in line with Government guidance.

These arrangements will allow the Centre to continue to help those in need of rehabilitation during the national lockdown, and have been put in place with the assistance and guidance of Dr Matthew Davies GP of Daventry’s Abbey House Medical Practice.

Rob Juson, Chair of Trustees at Reach for Health, said: “We’re delighted to open the new centre. We first started talking about it in February 2016 so it’s been a long haul, but we got there and it’s been fantastic to welcome our members to the new building this week.

“We have gained so much space. The new building is light, airy, fully-accessible and it flows superbly, meaning we have been able to lay out the equipment in a way that allows members to socially distance. Around 95% of our clients are referred from the NHS, and we are already receiving referrals to help people with Covid-19 resilience, so the completion of the new centre has come at a crucial time for the community.

“While our excitement is tinged with some disappointment due to the second lockdown coming into force this Thursday, we fully understand that this is happening to protect us and the NHS. As we are an exercise-based health rehabilitation centre and not a regular gym, we are pleased to be able to open on a limited basis and we will continue to accept qualifying referrals from healthcare professionals during this period of further restrictions.”

Reach for Health typically receives about 2,400 visits a month from people in need of physical and mental rehabilitation, most of whom have been referred by a GP or hospital consultant.

But its former premises in High March were old and expensive to maintain, and the limited space meant the charity was struggling to cope with an increased demand on its services.

DDC agreed funding for the new centre in February 2019, with work on site getting underway in January this year. The project, carried out by Paragon Space on behalf of DDC, has also seen the car park at the Sports Club reconstructed and resurfaced.

Councillor Alan Hills, Community, Culture and Leisure Portfolio Holder at DDC, added: “This is a project which I have supported for some time, so it’s wonderful to see it come to fruition.

“Reach for Health provide a great service to help improve the lives of people with a range of serious health conditions, and the investment in this new centre will bring enormous benefit to Daventry and the surrounding District for many years to come.

“It has also provided an opportunity to improve the car park at the Sports Club for the benefit of all its users, and that is another really positive outcome for the community.”

People can find out more about Reach for Health at www.reachforhealth.co.uk

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For further information please contact:Ian O’Pray, Media Officer at Daventry District Council, on 01327 302310 or email iopray@daventrydc.gov.uk