Do you have Parkinson’s, Heart concerns, Stroke, MS, Joint replacement, diabetes, recovering from injury, or any other long term health condition?

Why not join Walking Football  Sessions at Abbeydale Sports and Community Centre, GL4 4BL?

For further details please use the link below.

Walking Football with underlying conditions

Driving Safely for Longer is Back for next  event please email the Forum at <odfglos@gmail.com> for a link to the webinar on 17^th July at 10:00. 

Are you an older driver finding our fast moving, high volume, summer traffic a bit of a challenge? Would you like advice on how to keep driving safely for longer?

Are you a family member or friend concerned about an older driver? If so the Older Drivers Forum provides a popular free ZOOM webinar that could be helpful.”

Wiltshire Police have been alerted to a small number of calls where scammers have been impersonating Crimestoppers’ call handlers and asking for people’s personal information, including their bank details. Crimestoppers, which is a charity, has been warned about a group of scammers who have ‘hijacked’ their 0800 555 111 number. The scammers are calling people, saying they are “Crimestoppers at the Home Office” and directing them to the Crimestoppers website to clarify their number. They are then asking for personal details.   Crimestoppers has never, and will never, make cold calls to members of the public asking for any personal details, so if anyone does receive a call from someone asking for personal information and claiming to be from Crimestoppers, please report it to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040.   Roger Critchell, Director of Operations for Crimestoppers, said: “We are currently talking to our phone service provider to attempt to resolve the situation over our number being hijacked and hope this can be rectified as quickly as possible.   “I would emphasise that it is business as normal for the charity and people can still contact us on 0800 555 111 to pass on anonymous information about crime, but we wanted to make sure people were aware that we will never, ever contact them asking for personal details, so please do not hand any over if you are contacted by someone claiming to be Crimestoppers.”

Below is a message from the Fire Service

Over the past two years we have seen significant number of fire related incidents in households where hoarding or poor housekeeping has been a contributory factor. Sadly, over the Christmas period we experienced the latest incident that resulted in a fatality in the home. We are working with several partner agencies to try and identify those people at risk in our communities, but one area that has been highlighted as a problem is not having a significant number of “eyes and ears” on the ground in the community. This is where we are seeking your help. 

If you are aware of households where housekeeping may be a problem we are asking you to engage with them and where possible to discuss a visit from one of our safety advisors to discuss fire safety and to fit free smoke alarms if appropriate. A short tick sheet guide on what to look for in relation to fire safety has been attached to this message, but please use your own judgment if you feel someone is vulnerable even if they do not tick many of the boxes. 

Where you feel someone is vulnerable and would benefit from our help there are several ways you can let us know;

 •             The favoured option is to ask them to self-refer using  our website – http://www.glosfire.gov.uk/your_safety.html

•             They can also make contact on 0800 180 41 40 if they do not have internet access

•             If this is not possible, you can refer them using the same methods. To do this you must ensure that you have their explicit  permission to do so and that they understand they will be contacted by us. When referring please be sure to explain your role and that you are referring on behalf of someone else.  

It is important that we respect everyone’s right to privacy so we must deal with people sensitively and emphasise that this is not a judgmental approach. Our aspiration is to make everyone safer and to reduce risk and harm whilst respecting people’s right to live how they wish.

For the Short Tick sheet please see:

Fire _safety_self_assessment