News and events

A huge thank you to everyone that has donated uniforms this year, we are on track to surpass last year!!

However we cannot accept any more donations.

Many thanks

Prescot Town Council

Staff and Councillors were overwhelmed by the huge take up of the community skip offer on Saturday morning. This pilot project was targeted in the southern area of the town with elected members delivered flyers through  just over 1,800 letter boxes in the week leading up to Saturdays event. St Paul’s Church provided the Town Council Council with the use of its car park as safe location to position the skips away from the roadside.

The skips arrived at 8:30 am with Elected members of the Town Council and the Town Clerk on site to mange the event and help residents to sort their waste into recyclable and non recyclable items. Within minutes of the skips being dropped the first residents were arriving to use the service and a steady stream continued thereafter, this meant that it was only just over an hour before the six skips were completely full.

In addition to the six skips on site the Town Council also had a support team out collecting larger items that would be impossible for people to fit in car. In a very busy morning and early afternoon this team managed to collect enough items to fill another three skips from 15 address.

All in all the event was a great success with nine 8 tonne skips having been filled with unwanted items, the majority of which were sorted for recycling.

Huge thanks to those elected members who gave up their time to enable this project, along with Rev Taylor for the use of car park and Kirkby Skips for providing such a great service on the day.

At a time when other organisations were still pulling together lists, Prescot Town Council were proud to be one of the first organisations out of the blocks supporting vulnerable and isolated residents through it’s Self Isolation Support Scheme a programme which launched on the first day of Lockdown. Initially enabled through a combination of donations, its own funds, grant funding and fantastic volunteer support the scheme was able help 56 residents in its first two weeks of operation. With the Town Hall closed to visitors a safe way of working was developed that enabled staff and elected members to make up packages for delivery, these were then collected ‘at a distance’ from the Town Hall and delivered to those in need.

As the impacts of Lockdown continued to mount a virtual meeting was quickly held where it was agreed to extend the scheme beyond Prescot to include Whiston with elected members of both Town Council’s volunteering to support by delivering packages. As demand increased the Town Council were are able to link in with The Big Help Project who were able to pass referrals on and more crucially provide the food that was required. Our dedicated team of staff and elected members have continued to provide a service to our residents up until the end of last week, when it became clear that with many people returning to work the demand for the service had reduced considerably and the additional resource provided by the Town Council staff and Elected Members was no longer needed.

We are very proud to say that since the 25th March we have been able support over 300 residents, 11 dogs and 4 cats. Well done to all those involved it’s actions like this that our Town a great place to live in.

In an effort to ensure all possible precautions have been taken to keep our building users safe Prescot Town Hall was given an extensive deep clean last Friday.

The process known as Fogging involves the ultra fine spraying of anti viral chemicals onto all surfaces including walls and ceilings to ensure that even the hardest to reach areas are fully disinfected and COVID free.

The service was provided by local business The Foggerman please click the link below to find out more.

Coronavirus Disinfecting

The Mayor of Prescot needs your help in organising his Charity Dog Show.

There will be 5 categories with Best Fancy Dress and Best Trick but we need your suggestions for 3 more categories.

Tell us your ideas by e-mail on enquiries@prescot-tc.gov.uk or telephone 0151 426 3933 or via our social media channels.

https://twitter.com/TownPrescot

https://www.facebook.com/Prescot-Town-Council-1792711174311104/

The Mayor of Prescot, Cllr Mark Burke would like to invite you to take part in the ShakespeareS Mile Challenge. This is something for all ages and abilities and adheres to the current social distancing requirements.

Entry packs can be collected from Prescot Town Hall Monday to Friday between the hours of 9.30am – 4.30pm.

Payment of £5 per participant can be paid in cash upon collection of pack or can be paid via bank transfer prior to collection (contact us for bank details if needed), all profits raised will help local charities and worthy organisations via the Mayors Charity.

Further details can be found on the flyers below. We have already had lot’s of support for the ShakespeareS Mile and photographs of those who have completed the mile can be found below.

The Mayor of Prescot, Cllr Mark Burke, was recently invited to the open day of ‘Urban Kingz,’ the brand new Mixed Martial Arts Academy located on Kemble Street in Prescot and created by head coach Mick ‘Stano’ Stanton. The Academy will cater for both adults and children with classes specifically for ages 3-6, 6-10, 11-15 and 16+. There will also be women only classes. In fact all ages and abilities are welcome with all coaches fully qualified, DBS checked, First aiders and insured. They also have both male and female personal trainers available for private coaching. Mark said ‘this is a brilliant addition to the fitness facilities in Prescot. What a fantastic concept for everyone of all ages to benefit from and its clear that this open day has been a magnificent success. We cry out for things for our kids and this Academy will provide fitness, discipline and motivation for them. Mick’s passion and enthusiasm for this is unmistakable and shines through and the classes will offer our community the opportunity to learn a wide range of arts from wrestling, kickboxing, jujitsu/judo and boxing. I wish them every success.’

Mick said ‘I look forward to welcoming many new faces into our wonderful, state of the art, facility. The gym has been revamped and refurbished and we have taken a previously unused building and land and regenerated it to be an inclusive training and fitness facility to serve the local area. It has taken almost a year to get to this stage and I would like to thank all of those who have helped to bring this dream to reality. My team are here ready and waiting to help you. Urban Kingz MMA will also be proud to represent Prescot at various competitions within the UK and Europe in the near future. We believe we will have Champions come through our ranks to make Prescot proud.’

Sadly due to social distancing rules the Mayor was unable to take up Micks offer of some light sparring and grappling. However he has offered a return bout in the future when he can show Mick his signature ‘Mayors Move.’

Check out Urban Kingz MMA on facebook for more details on class times etc.

https://www.facebook.com/urbankingzmma/

The Friends of Eaton Street Park have organised a Summer Holiday Programme. Government guidelines currently prevent the group from organising a mass gathering in the park so they have had to think ‘outside the box. Here’s what the group have planned:-

“We provide lunch and activities for 150-500 children each session and this initiative is INDEPENDENT of any other organisations though hopefully we may receive some support this time from the Big Help Project.

From Thursday 23rd July 2020 and then every Tuesday & Thursday during the summer holidays you can collect lunch and an activity pack from Prescot Town Hall (drive through on car park or front door for pedestrians) or Bryer Road Community Centre in Prescot (pedestrian only at front gate). You can collect from 10.30am until 1pm (or when we run out of supplies).

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