Since early August, SDN has promoted under our “Consultation” tab on this website “Shropshire Council Parking Strategy”. With time running out for you to have your say, SDN feels the need to highlight a few points.

• Some car parks will stay open for longer and would make applying for tickets and permits easier.
• Are you happy about the proposed increases in charges to both on-street and town  centre car parks?
• Whist hourly rates in the main commuter car parks at Frankwell and Abbey Foregate are slightly reduced, it means those currently parking for 10 hours for as little as £1,80 could face daily rates upwards of £20!

What impact will this have on you? Are the increases acceptable for you and your family? Do you think people will decide not to park in the town but use neighbouring residential areas? If so would this impact on you? (People already park in residential areas and is already a problem)

Do you think the proposals will mean people will stop shopping and visiting Shrewsbury? If so what impact will that have on businesses and your ability to shop locally? SDN can pose many questions.

We would encourage you to take part in Shropshire Council’s Parking Strategy before the deadline of Tuesday 17th October 2017

Click here to find out more https://shropshire-disability.net/shropshire-council-proposed-parking-strategy/ or visit the “Get Involved section of Shropshire Council website to comment on any of the four sections of the proposals http://new.shropshire.gov.uk/get-involved/

I.T. Free is a totally free weekly drop-in computer help clinic provided by the Omega – Care for Life charity. It takes place each Thursday between 10 am and 12 noon at  London House on Town Walls SY1 1TX 

Bring along your troublesome laptop, tablet, phone or camera (or even desktop box, if you can) and the ‘techies’ will be at your disposal. PC Mike (the no-nonsense one), Alan (the patient and enthusiastic one), Ian W (the king of jargon), Brandon (the empathetic and understanding one) and Jamie (the Apple guru) will sort out all your computer related problems. It is far better and constructive that you bring your equipment with you, rather than us try and resolve your problem by talking.

Most important at I.T. Free, we will show you how to solve your own problems rather than just do it for you as that will be more beneficial to you. We will not grab your mouse nor push you away from your keyboard, we will try to get you to fix your own problem.

Are you new to Shrewsbury? May be you have just started at University Centre, Shrewsbury or at Shrewsbury College and have a tight budget, if so IT FREE would be pleased to help you. It is as it says FREE. So whether a student, a silver surfer or any other age group IT FREE will be happy to help.

For more information on these sessions click here: IT Free Advert A4 (December 2016) with Nextdoor Welcome

For an Information leaflet click here: ITFree Tri-fold Leaflet (February 2017) with Nextdoor Welcome

At our March meeting we launched “Give Your Last Old £1 Coin to SDN” by giving out small containers for people to collect the old £1 coins to help our charity. This innovative idea to raise funding really is important and now with just one month left to use those old £1 coins as they cease legal tender on 15th October 2017, it is time we ask for your support again.

While the new 12 sided coins have now been in circulation in large numbers since March this year, it is time for us to start checking our money boxes, our pockets and anywhere else you may keep money.

We have had one or two containers returned but we know there are at least 12 more containers that we gave out still to be returned. We have a meeting on Thursday 21st September at Sundorne Sports Village. Details at this link https://shropshire-disability.net/sdn-agm-meeting-2/ so this is a good time for you to return your container and/or pick up a new one.

People can also request a container by emailing admin@shropshire-disability.net or calling 07780 852 229  Those who want to help will be helping our small local charity who carry out a large amount of work throughout the county of Shropshire. SDN is run in its entirety by volunteers, we have to fund raise to operate and this is a way you can help with our ongoing work. Ongoing costs include financing this website, paying for venues to hold meetings, public liability insurance including insuring all events, stationery, newsletter, publicity, equipment etc

Thank you to all who are supporting us.