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Above - Lowestoft Branch of the Suffolk Pensioners Pensioners Association (NPC) held a street poll on Tuesday 29th April 2025 with a questionnaire on the availability of Dentistry in the Lowestoft area. Dawn, Ros, Chris, Kevin and George Hall were in attendance at our NPC leaflet stall in the town centre. The findings will be shared with Jess Asato MP for Lowestoft, the NPC and local and regional newspapers, with a report to be discussed at the Lowestoft branch June meeting.
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Above - Richard Chilvers, Chris Brooks & George Hall at Lowestoft, uniting in the UNITE National Campaign around the country on Saturday 30th March 2025 to support the restoration of the Winter Fuel Payment to all Pensioners, called for in UNITE's legal challenge to the Government on this issue and calling for all general Utility Services to become publicly owned.
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Above - Norfolk Branch Group meet at Norwich Unite the Union Office boardroom - Thursday 6th February 2025.
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Anglia Members Christopher Brooks and Ros Hodgkins at the regional NPC Leaflet Stall in the Norwich Arcade commemorating Dignity Day on February 1st 2025. We also collected more signatures on the Age UK petition before they are due to be sent in short;y. If you have not signed it on line at the Age UK website, please do so asap. Pics courtesy Kevin Hilson, also conducting conversations about Winter Deaths/Cold Homes.
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Above - Anglia Region Pensioners Festive lunch - Wherry Hotel - Monday 2nd December 2024
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Suffolk Pensioners Association - Lowestoft Branch Leaflet stall on the Winter Fuel Payments cuts to all pensioners except those on Pension Credit - November 30th 2024 - London Road North Lowestoft.
Above - Suffolk Pensioners Association - Ipswich Branch inaugural meeting - 13.11.24
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Above - NPC Rally & Lobby of Parliament/Westminster - Monday 7th October 2024 - Pics credit Richard Chilvers Waveney TUC
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Above - Suffolk Pensioners Association NPC members affiliated to the Anglia Region marked the occasion of the United Nations International Day of the Elder Person on Tuesday 1st October by running a leaflet stall in Norwich by kind permission of the Royal Arcade. Ironically it was also the day that all energy prices rose by a ten percent increase in the price cap and there were many disenchanted people signing Age UK's petition about the scrapping of the Winter Fuel payment that will affect many senior citizens this winter. October's Old Grey Matter article outlined the issue (to be seen further down the MORE dropdown box.
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Above - Norfolk Branch Meeting at Antingham Village Hall, North Walsham - Thursday 26th September 2024
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Anglia Chairman Chris Brooks was asked to chair a Lowestoft General Election Hustings on June 28th as a member of the Lowestoft Hospital Contact Group - see the information above.
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Above - Anglia & Suffolk Pensioners Lowestoft Branch leaflet stall - Lowestoft - Tuesday 25th June 2024.
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Above - The NPC leaflet stall at the Ipswich Windrush Society's Festival at Murray Road Park celebrating the 76 years anniversary of Windrush.
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Above - Views of the NPC leaflet stall with Ron Douglas, Chris Brooks and Ros Hodgkins attending the Ipswich Mayday Festival at Alexandra Park - Sunday 5th May 2024 - The marchers arrived from the town centre in support of Palestinians besieged and bombarded in Gaza. Photo credit - Ros Hodgkins. See the open invitation to all in the Ipswich area aged 55+to attend the inaugural meeting of a new Ipswich branch of the Suffolk Pensioners Association, affiliated to Anglia Region NPC, and directly to the NPC itself.
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Above - Suffolk Pensioners Association - Lowestoft Branch members run an NPC leaflet stall - Lowestoft - Monday 8th April 2024.
Above - Ron Douglas and Chris Brooks running the raffle stall at the 2024 BDC at Yarnfield - 26.03.24 - £350 raised for NPC.
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Above - Suffolk & Anglia Region NPC members Ros Hodgkins and Chris. Brooks with Unite members Anthony Dooley and Sarah leafletting for Cold Homes Kill Demonstration at the Market Place, Ipswich - Budget Day Wednesday 6th March 2024.
Above - Anglia NPC members Ron Douglas, Kevin Hilson, Ros Hodgkins & Chris. Brooks support Mary Littlefield of Norwich Unite Group with their leafletting stall at Gentlemen's Walk by Lloyds Bank Norwich on Tuesday 5th March 2024 highlighting the growing Fuel Poverty in the country and affordability of energy - Cold Homes Kill - Damp Homes Kill - Mouldy Homes Kill!
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Above - Anglia NPC leaflet stall at Norwich for Dignity Action Day 1st February 2024 - members Kevin, Ros, Chris & Janet from Lowestoft, Letitia from Cromer and Ian from Norwich district in attendance.
Above - Chair Ron Douglas and Secretary Letitia Willins of the Norfolk Branch of Anglia NPC in readiness for the Winter meeting, January 11th 2024 at Antingham Village Hall, near North Walsham. The next two meetings in Summer June 13th & Autumn September 26th will also be held here and all in Norfolk are welcome to attend.
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Above - 20 Anglia NPC members enjoyed the Pre-Christmas Festive Lunch
at the Wherry Hotel, Oulton Broad - 13.12.23
at the Wherry Hotel, Oulton Broad - 13.12.23
Above - Grant-aided energy information event - via Fuel Poverty organisation - held at Lowestoft 60 + Club -
Friday 1st December '23
Friday 1st December '23
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Kevin, Ros, Chris & Letitia leafletting in Norwich Monday 2nd October - the day after the United Nations International Day of the Older Person.
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Above - Social Outing to Cromer by Lowestoft Branch members by BACT Minibus - 18th September.
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Above - Scenes at the Burston Strike School Rally - Sunday 3rd September 2023
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Above - Recruitment leafletting Stall - Suffolk Pensioners Lowestoft Branch - Friday 28th July 2023
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Above - Members of AngliaNPC and EasternNPC at their joint meeting - Bury St. Edmund's - 19th July 2023.
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Images above taken at a photoshoot after the July Executive 2023 at Diss Community Centre.
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Above - Suffolk Pensioners Association Lowestoft Branch outing to Potter Heigham - Monday 10th July 2023.
Pictures above show views at the NPC Annual National Convention at the Imperial Hotel, Blackpool in June 2023, attended by Ian Evans, Letitia Willins, Aisha Jermy, Chris & Janet Brooks of the Anglia Region NPC and Suffolk Pensioners Association, Lowestoft Branch.
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Above - Aisha Jermy, Ros Hodgkins, Les & Audrey Wilson, Betty Oakes & Gillian Butcher, Suffolk Pensioners of the Lowestoft branch with Ian Evans and Ron Douglas (of the Anglia Region wearing sandwich boards) at Lowestoft's public open recruitment meeting at the Lowestoft Central Station Parcels Office Exhibition Space on Friday 16th June 2023 organised by Lowestoft Chair Kevin Hilson who supplied the pictures.
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Mayday Festivals in Ipswich above and Lowestoft below attended by Anglia Region NPC.
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Above - Waveney Trades Union Council event - Supporting the workers.
Enough is Enough - Chris showing the flag at Lowestoft 15.3.23.
Enough is Enough - Chris showing the flag at Lowestoft 15.3.23.
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Above - Members campaigning on Dignity Action in Haymarket Norwich, Thursday 9th February - Our Regional Banner and three NPC Flags in evidence with four Sandwich Boards highlighting the Need for an Older People's Commissioner for England and a Proper Care System with Dignity Action leaflets distributed to the public. Five recruitment leaflets were also given out to prospective members.
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Above - Enough is Enough - Suffolk Assembly Demo and March - Lowestoft - 5th November 2022
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Above - Anglia members at a mini-demo and leafletting stall at Haymarket, Norwich, commemorating the United Nations International Day of the Older Person (1st October) on the following Monday 3rd October 2022. Leaflets were handed out from the stall to passers by and our Sandwich Boards highlighted the need for a National Care Service that works, such as that proposed by the NPC in their 'Cinderella Report', and our call for support for the establishment of a Commissioner for the Older Person in England.
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Above - Ron Douglas, Ian Evans, Sam Sirdar and his Grandson Dylan at the Anglia Region NPC Pop Up Tent Leaflet Stall at the 2022 Burston Strike School Rally on Sunday 4th September 2022
Anglia NPC Chair Chris Brooks showing the Anglia flag at the Lowestoft Strike Support Demo Saturday 19th August 2022, particularly supporting TSSA, as he used to be a member of that union during his three years working for British Railways Board in the mid 1960s. NPC support the need to keep station ticket offices staffed for customers when Government want to close many down. This would hit many people, including pensioners who prefer to deal with a real member of staff rather than a robot or machine! Many pensioners, who are not able to book online tickets from machines as they may not have cards or online knowledge to obtain tickets so would be discriminated against by being excluded from using a senior railcard that they can currently obtain from staffed offices.
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Above - Ian Evans & Chris Brooks at AngliaNPC demo at Norwich following the Regional TUC demonstration 18/6/22
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Aisha & Chris (left in left pic. above) at the People Before Profit NHS support Demonstration at James Paget University Hospital, Gorleston, also supported by Gt Yarmouth & Lowestoft Trade unionists - 26th February 2022
Climate Change Emergency Demo - Lowestoft Feb. 19th 2022
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Chair Chris & Secretary Aisha at the Climate Change Demo.
It is planned there will be further demonstrations to hold the government accountable to the people who realise that as part of nature and the environment, we are all in the same boat and that predicted rises in temperature may be mitigated if we can take action now and not just Blah, Blah, Blah and kick the can down the road for someone else to deal with! With the present rise in temperatures, sea levels are rising due to ice caps & glaciers melting, putting island and coastal communities at greater risk of inundation and erosion, more extreme rainfall and dry weather conditions generally leading to flash flooding, wildfire burning and desertification. Climate change is here and accelerating! CJB
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Members of Lowestoft branch of Suffolk Pensioners Association, affiliated to Anglia Region NPC and to the NPC, walk with over a hundred people in the Global Climate March at Lowestoft on 6th November 2021, as an urgent reminder to the COP26 Climate talks being held in Glasgow that we need to invest in Green energy and divest from Fossil fuel energy as a matter of action NOW to safeguard future generations and to lessen the impact on climate change.
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Chris, with Janet, invited to speak on Anglia NPCs campaigning at the AGM of COPE, Cambridge Older People's Enterprise, at their AGM at St. Luke's church, Victoria Street, Cambridge in August.
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4 NPC members behind Anglia Region NPC banner at the Save our NHS Demo with others from Lowestoft & Yarmouth People Before profit Groups outside James Paget University Hospital, Gorleston on Saturday 3rd July 2021.
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East Suffolk Councillor Louise Gooch, one of four of us using the open mike, in support of the NHS, Nurses' Pay and Social Care Reform.
Lowestoft Town Centre Action on the day of the Peoples Assembly Demonstration in London - 26th June 2021.
Lowestoft Town Centre Action on the day of the Peoples Assembly Demonstration in London - 26th June 2021.
Above - With People Before Profit supporting NHS workers pay claim at JPUH entrance from A47 - 1st April 2021
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Above: 12 noon 11th March 2021 - slow handclap in solidarity with the nurses pay claim.
Go to meetings page to see a transcript of the zoom speech above.
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The need for a new settlement for care services such as ours is a new demand of the East Anglia People Before Profit Action Group whose members will be in evidence with large banners on main roundabouts in the region from February 2021. Visit their Facebook page for more details.
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Suffolk People's Assembly Demo - Lowestoft - Saturday 5th December.
Three members of Anglia Region NPC took part on the issue of NHS & Care Service.
Pictures outside closing & closed shops, disused bus shelter and closed hospital estate sold into private hands.
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Suffolk People's Assembly Protest - 17/10/20.
Publicising NPCs National Care Service Report. Leafletting SPA.
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UN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE OLDER PERSON - THURSDAY 1st OCTOBER 2020 - NORWICH - CAMPAIGNING FOR A PROPER NATIONAL SOCIAL CARE SERVICE ON THE LINES OF THE NPC GOODBYE CINDERELLA REPORT.
To read the full E-Report please go the MORE dropdown box - click 5th box down on NPC NATIONAL STRUCTURE - Beneath the official details are the Important Press Releases - scroll till you see the large 21MB Download File 'Goodbye Cinderella - A New Settlement for Care Services'.
There is an order form for the booklet as published on the inside back cover. Mail Orders with Cheques made out to NPC are accepted for £2.75 per copy or £9.75 for 5 copies (inclusive of P&P) - Send to NPC, Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AB.
To read the full E-Report please go the MORE dropdown box - click 5th box down on NPC NATIONAL STRUCTURE - Beneath the official details are the Important Press Releases - scroll till you see the large 21MB Download File 'Goodbye Cinderella - A New Settlement for Care Services'.
There is an order form for the booklet as published on the inside back cover. Mail Orders with Cheques made out to NPC are accepted for £2.75 per copy or £9.75 for 5 copies (inclusive of P&P) - Send to NPC, Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AB.
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FREE TV LICENCE FOR THE OVER 75s PROTEST - See below and right!
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Anglia Region members and friends (above) protesting at Millennium Plain, Norwich, Thursday 30th July, at the withdrawal of the automatic free TV Licence for the over 75s from August 1st 2020.
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NPC POSTER - 2020 CORONA VIRUS LOCKDOWN
GENERATIONS UNITED & CLAP FOR CARERS - PLEASE DISPLAY! | ||
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Free TV Licence Letter - scheme delayed till August due to National Emergency coping with Corona Virus - March 2020 - Protest outside Lowestoft MP office 28th March called off due to National Emergency and letters written to EDP (above) and MPs in the Anglia Region instead.
Outside in the main shopping street (above) with inquisitive locals and a curious young herring gull (below).
Indoors at the 60+ Club, Lowestoft
Excess Winter Deaths Demo November 27th London below & 28th Lowestoft above.
Anglia chair Chris Brooks at Downing Street supporting London Region demo Nov. 27
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Gathering at Trafalgar Square in the rain for the walk down Whitehall with the demo coffin.
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Anglia NPC Stall at Haymarket, Norwich 28/9/19 Anglia Banner at Global Climate Strike, Lowestoft, 20/9/19
Anglia NPC Stall at Haymarket, Norwich 28/9/19 Anglia Banner at Global Climate Strike, Lowestoft, 20/9/19
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ABOVE: Anglia Chair Chris Brooks centre, with Stephen left and Richard right, all members of Lowestoft Coalition Against the Cuts, protesting outside Lowestoft Rail Station, the most easterly in the country, for www.weownit.co.uk on Wednesday 14th August 2019, the day 2020 fares were announced to be increased by an average of 2.8%.
BELOW: Anglia chair Christopher Brooks, also a CAFOD and Christian Aid supporter, represented the East Anglia Region's NPC at the Climate Change Mass Lobby around Westminster on Wednesday 26th June when around 10,000 constituents from all over the UK lobbied Parliament on the situation, the greatest inter-generational issue of our time. Chris was one of eight who lobbied the Waveney constituency MP Peter Aldous who gave a good hearing to those who met him later in Portcullis House and promised a further meeting back in Lowestoft. Though not able to go to the meeting himself, Chris met and chatted with MP Norman Lamb (Lib Dem. pictured), shook hands with Rory Stewart (Conservative Prime Minister candidate) and spoke briefly to Hilary Benn (Labour) on his way back to Westminster underground station.
BELOW: Anglia chair Christopher Brooks, also a CAFOD and Christian Aid supporter, represented the East Anglia Region's NPC at the Climate Change Mass Lobby around Westminster on Wednesday 26th June when around 10,000 constituents from all over the UK lobbied Parliament on the situation, the greatest inter-generational issue of our time. Chris was one of eight who lobbied the Waveney constituency MP Peter Aldous who gave a good hearing to those who met him later in Portcullis House and promised a further meeting back in Lowestoft. Though not able to go to the meeting himself, Chris met and chatted with MP Norman Lamb (Lib Dem. pictured), shook hands with Rory Stewart (Conservative Prime Minister candidate) and spoke briefly to Hilary Benn (Labour) on his way back to Westminster underground station.
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Anglia Region NPC Free Licence for the Over 75s Protest outside BBC Look East TV and Radio Norfolk Studios at The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich - Friday 21st June 2019.
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At the Pensioners Parliament Blackpool, and afterwards at Salford Quays, Manchester for a Free TV Licence for the over 75s protest June 2019
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SAVE ALL HALLOWS HEALTHCARE TRUST
Care Home, Home Care Services & Hospital - Beccles Demo outside CCG HQ - 27th March 2019
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National Pensioners Convention Board at the Biennial Delegates Conference - Yarnfield, Staffs. March 2019
Anglia NPC (purple flag) at Westminster demonstration & Rally about Free TV Licence for the over 75s. March 2019
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Anglia NPC Coffee morning at Lowestoft 60+ Club - November 2018
EXCESS WINTER DEATHS COMMEMORATION
Winter 2016/17 34,300
Winter 2017/18 50,100
EXCESS WINTER DEATHS COMMEMORATION
Winter 2016/17 34,300
Winter 2017/18 50,100
Save Lowestoft Hospital Campaign - supporting Lowestoft Coalition Against the Cuts - October 2018
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Exhibition of Lowestoft Hospital in Central Library - LOWESTOFT HOSPITAL SITE - PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
United Nations International Day of the Older Person - 1st October 2018 Norwich
Burston September 2018
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Blackpool June 2018
Chris. Leafletting at Lowestoft Spring 2018 with Tony & Lesley - 10th Anniversary of the Free Bus Pass.
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The NPC regrets the scale of excess winter deaths as highlighted by
the Office of National Statistics and campaigns to mitigate it.
EXCESS WINTER DEATHS = NUMBER OF WINTER DEATHS (DECEMBER TO MARCH)
MINUS AVERAGE NON-WINTER DEATHS
(from APRIL TO JULY and AUGUST TO NOVEMBER)
EXCESS WINTER DEATHS for 2016 / 17
34,300
Coffee morning at Lowestoft 60+ Club - November 2017
Anglia Region skeleton crew support the Lowestoft Scrap the Cap Rally October 2017
Burston School Rally 2017
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Wednesday 5th July 2017 near Norwich & Norfolk Hospital.
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Above Anglia skeleton crew members from Lowestoft celebrate the 69th anniversary of the NHS with other Norfolk health campaigners.
Blackpool Pensioners Parliament 2017
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NPC at the Burston School Strike Rally September 2016
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Anglia NPC at UN International Day of the Older Person 1st October 2016
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Views of the Pensioners Rally and March before the 2016 Pensioners Parliament at Blackpool.
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Norwich
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A member of the public signs her support at the Anglia Region information and leafletting stall for Dignity Action 'BETTER CARE NOW' on Saturday 30th January 2016 at Haymarket Norwich. 300 leaflets were handed out in two hours around noon by six Anglia members. The chairman had already circulated Norfolk Local authorities, four CCGs in Norfolk two District General Hospoitals at Norwich and Kings Lynn and 41 residential nursing and care homes in the Norwich area for their pledge of support for the NPCs Dignity Code. Norfolk MPs were being contacted by affiliated members in their particular constituencies for their support.
ATTLEBOROUGH Black Balloon release by Anglia Region members after the winter quarterly meeting 10/12/2015.
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WINTERTON DUNES RALLY - November 2015
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Rally of Anglia members Saturday 7th November 2015 at Winterton Dunes in support of keeping Public Toilets open during daytime over winter. Originally there was a plan by Gt Yarmouth Borough Council to withdraw from funding half of their public toilets and possibly close them, but this one at Winterton has been adopted by the local Dunes Cafe management and Coastwatch unit to be kept opened.
Lowestoft pensioners congratulate the local enterprise of keeping toilets open in this favorite tourist location. Sunday 8th November 2015 Anglia Region pensioners brave the wet and windswept car park at Winterton Dunes cafe Saturday 7th November 2015 before returning home after the rally.
Dignity Day, Lowestoft 2014
Local representatives Councillor June Ford, Mayor of Lowestoft, and (from left) Peter Aldous MP for Waveney Constituency and Peter Collecott Chairman of Waveney District Council with Christopher Brooks Chairman of Anglia Region Pensioners Association at a signing ceremony in support of the NPC Dignity Code, on Saturday 1st February 2014.
Local representatives Councillor June Ford, Mayor of Lowestoft, and (from left) Peter Aldous MP for Waveney Constituency and Peter Collecott Chairman of Waveney District Council with Christopher Brooks Chairman of Anglia Region Pensioners Association at a signing ceremony in support of the NPC Dignity Code, on Saturday 1st February 2014.
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Essex, Clacton Hospital
