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free survey and estiMate of the schools aided by the project
Tel: 01793 741234 Younite Outreach Project, a October 2016 ten day trip to India,
visit our website @ pgalbraith24.wordpress.com Swindon based travel charity that covering areas such as Delhi,
organises volunteer trips to Kenya, Haridwar and Rishikesh.
will be running its first trip to It will include treks, white water
India later this year. rafting, visits to famous temples
With its core aim ‘enabling and land marks as well as meeting
life changing opportunities’, communities in the slums and
Younite put together ‘meaningful’ mountains.
travel opportunities that If you would like to find out
’ involve volunteering in schools, more about the aid trip to
meeting communities as well
India, YOP will be holding an
as experiencing the culture and information evening at Excalibur
adventurous side of each country. Communications, Arclite House,
To date, the Younite Outreach Peatmoor, Swindon on Wednesday
Project has provided trips to Kenya 17 February, 6pm.
for over 200 volunteers to aid For more information about
the causes in the region and has what YOP gets up to, including the
recently begun work replicating fundraising events they hold for
this success in India. projects they support, email fiona.
They are currently recruiting a [email protected] or go to
new group of travellers for their www.yoproject.org.uk
Council responds to Thamesdown
Drive extension business plan critics
Basepoint
has it Councillor Dale Heenan has hit back will find a way to pay for the design
covered! at criticism of how the council is and legal costs, which have been
managing the business case being estimated at £600,000. The Swindon
put to Government for the Thames- and Wiltshire Local Enterprise
down Drive Extension. Partnership has also included the
This comes after Shaw Residents extension on its list of projects for
Association chairman Kevin Fisher which it will bid.
wrote in the January Link that “Some people will never be
the plan uses rehashed outdated satisfied, and public sniping might
arguments, contains negative data make individuals feel better but it
...you can bring and flaws including an incomplete really doesn’t help the cause.
your dog to work options analysis report and no “The Department of Transport
with you at our project plan with suggested has a five-stage approach to road
business centres? timelines. projects, and the first is a Strategic
Cllr Heenan, Swindon Council’s
Outline Business Case. I am aware
Cabinet Member for Sustainability it is a complicated process which
and Transport, said: “I’ve been is difficult to understand, but the
involved with the Thamesdown council has followed the correct
Drive extension work for less than format and has included more
18 months, yet more work has detail than any previous bid. The
happened in this time than at any economic, financial, commercial
point in the last 18 years. and management business cases
With 31 Centres throughout the
Midlands, Wales and South of “I’ve met with the roads minister, all still need to be developed, but
England, locate your nearest centre along with South Swindon MP the council needs assurances that
at basepoint.co.uk to find out how we Robert Buckland and council leader money will be available for the road,
can help you support your business. David Renard, to make the case which is why we need to clear the
for the road and written to the very first hurdle.
01793 602555 Contact us today Minister seeking a memorandum “During 2016, I hope we will have
[email protected] of understanding where if the clarity from the Government on
Government agrees to fund the £50- the funding issue, because without
basepoint.co.uk
basepoint.co.uk @basepoint_swnd 60 million needed then the council money, there is no project.”
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