In this week’s episode:
- The cost of living is forcing many people into debt. We hear from the Winchester branch of Christians against poverty about how there is help at hand
- News in brief
- People are urged to get their Covid booster as the Autumn vaccination programme comes to an end.
- A 100 acre solar farm is turned on in Winchester.
- Another well known shop closes its doors. Paperchase has gone into administration.
- Work has begun on a new pavilion at the King George V recreation ground at Bar End costing 3.3 million pounds.
- Shawford station’s disused Victorian waiting room has been brought back to life as a café and community space.
- The Children of Winchester festival returns on Saturday with an event for all the family.
- The Abbey Gardens is to be lit up with displays of magical lights from 11th February to 5th March.
- Volunteers at St Peter’s Pastoral Centre in Jewry Street are appealing for donations of shoes and trainers to help refugees and asylum seekers who come along to their Wednesday welcome meeting
- Shout Outs
- Singing for the Brain group in Otterbourne which helps those affected by dementia
- First year nutrition and dietetic students who have been helping out on the wards at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital
- Kings Worthy Community shed for building three hedgehog homes for North Winchester hedgehog rescue
- Two Hampshire firefighters who are close to the finish line in the row across the Atlantic to raise money for Solent Mind and the firefighters charity
- Sport: we visit a Badminton session at the Winchester Lido organised by charity Sport in Mind to improve mental wellbeing, physical health and combat social isolation.
