Do you shop on Amazon? If yes, read on....
When users shop on AmazonSmile, the retailer's foundation contributes 0.5% of eligible purchases to the charity of your choice. For frequent Amazon users, this additional perk is a great way to give back to charities effortlessly.
There is no cost to the charity or to you, the customer, and 100% of the donation generated from eligible purchases goes to the consumer's charity of choice.
Why not consider using Amazon Smile and select the Aberlemno and District Hall Fund as your charity of choice. You can use the link above to take you there.
Remember to go to smile.amazon.co.uk each time you shop on Amazon for all of this to work, although you will usually be promoted each time to log in to your normal Amazon account.
We thank everyone for continuing to support the Aberlemno Village Hall in these challenging times.
Resources that can help with fatigue, sleep and anxiety:
The central theme of the National Wellbeing Hub is: You look after us so we’ll look after you
The wide-ranging content is aimed at encouraging everyone in health and social care services, wherever they work, and unpaid carers, to look after themselves and seek help seek when they need it.
It contains information on (evidence-based) resources to enable self-care and the most comprehensive information on services available (e.g. helplines, peer support) at national, regional and local levels.
A number of key resources (free for health and social care workers) are available on the National Wellbeing Hub, including apps and online programmes:
- Sleepio (click to access the evidence based sleep improvement programme)
- Daylight (click to access ways of improving general wellbeing)
- Silvercloud (click to access a structured programme based on CBT focusing on supporting your wellbeing, including managing your mental health, resilience, stress and sleep. Use code NHS2020)
For more info, follow @PRoMISScot @scotgovhealth on Twitter.
URGENT UPDATE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED UNSOLICITED PACKETS OF SEED IN THE POST
The following message has recently been circulated by NFU Scotland:
Significant numbers of Scottish households have been receiving unsolicited packets of seeds in the post from China/Singapore as part of a likely scam. Following contact with Scottish Government, it urges those receiving seeds to take the following actions.
If the packet of seeds has not been opened, please leave it sealed.
DO NOT PLANT OR COMPOST THESE SEEDS - It is possible that these seeds could be a harmful invasive species or harbour a disease both of which if released could pose a threat to agriculture and the environment.
Do not handle the seeds - These seeds may have been treated with a chemical pesticide. Please wash your hands if you have handled them without gloves.
Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA) is collecting these unsolicited packets of seeds for analysis. It is asking for your co-operation to send these seeds to SASA.
Email your details and a postal address to info@sasa.gov.scot
You will be sent a pre-paid self-addressed envelope and zip-lock bag. When you receive the envelope and zip-lock bag please insert the packet of seeds into the zip-lock bag and seal. Then place the zip-lock bag and contents into the envelope and post it back to SASA.
If you receive further unsolicited packages, please report them again using info@sasa.gov.scot
If you are self-isolating and need any help or support with shopping, picking up medication or just want someone to chat to, please do contact us or call 07551 779347 and we will do whatever we can to help. Below are several other organisations that you can also contact:
Scottish Rural Network - COVID-19 Rural Information Hub
Charities Aid Foundation – Coronovirus Emergency Fund
Angus Council - services, welfare, advice
Age Scotland
Angus Foodbank is open as normal, with normal procedures for collections. A delivery can be arranged and will be delivered by a member of voluntary Angus where someone is showing symptoms of Covid-19. If anyone would like to make a donation then this can be done via Tescos, Lidls etc, dropped off at the food bank during opening hours, or if out with opening hours can be left behind the wheelie bins as this is checked every morning.
If you are
interested in getting involved in some of the activities that take place in
Aberlemno through the Village Hall Committee, please do get in touch with
us. We are a friendly group of people and would welcome you along to get
involved as much or as little as would suit.
We hope to soon be able to provide details of our Christmas Craft Fair which we plan to have on Saturday 28th November.
If you want to know
more, please call Jacqui on 07551 779347.
