Reminder of Free Property marking at Burnt Ash Library

Saturday 13th April
Free Property marking at Burnt Ash Library
10.30am to 12.30pm
Bring along your valuables: Phones, Laptops, Bikes Etc.
Advice on security and crime prevention also available

Troop Aid Doorstep Collection - A Warning from Trading Standards

We have received an enquiry regarding the charitable collections being made for Troop Aid.
The bags are apparently marked to say that the Company collecting on their behalf is D & P Textiles Ltd, however on verifying that information via the charity’s website there is a warning not to provide items for that Company to collect as they do not act for them.

Troop Aid did have a relationship with D & P Textile Ltd (who have since liquidated), but after a breakdown of their relation the Company was no longer permitted to collect for them.  There remains some confusion as the charity themselves are reporting use of the bags to their local Trading Standards and Police, but collectors for the charity have been confronted in another part of the UK, and it appears that the charity themselves may still distributing bags bearing D & P Textile Ltd’s information.

Trading Standards would therefore advise you to act cautiously if you choose to donate to this charity.  Clearly D & P Textile Ltd of Aldridge, Walsall are no longer trading, however it remains unclear whether the charity are allowing old bags to be used, or whether the collections are fraudulent.

Anyone wishing to make a donation through house collections should do the following:

* Check – Legitimate charity collection bags will clearly state what organisation(s) funds are being raised for and feature a registered charity number. Check these details with the Charity Commission.

* Look for the tick – As with any fundraising appeal, you can look for the FRSB tick logo indicating that the charity is signed up to fundraising regulation and to industry standards.

* Call – A legitimate collection should include a working landline telephone number for you to call. Call this or your local council to query the collection.

* Report - After making these checks, if you think that a collection is not legitimate, report it to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or visit www.actionfraud.org.uk.

Should you have concerns about the house collection bag left on your door step please feel free to send it in to Trading Standards (our address is below), or email us at the following address –Trading.Standards@bromley.gov.uk with the information on the bag, or even a photograph/scan of the bag itself, and we will do our best to confirm the details before the collection is to be made.

Kind Regards

Samantha Phillips
Trading Standards Officer

Upcoming events for April

Tuesday 9th April
The Plaistow and Sundridge Safer Neighbourhood Team will hold the next drop-in surgery at Cafe Clementine, Burnt Ash Lane from 11.00am to 1.00pm


Monday 8th April to Saturday 28th April.
Tony Isbitt Photography is offering "Kids for a quid!"
Babies to Teens portrait sittings for just £1. As a taster he will give you a 7x5 print as well.
Book it now on 8460 5710 and mention you saw it Facebook (and on the LERA web page).
See the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TonyIsbittPhotography

Saturday 13th April
Free Property marking at Burnt Ash Library
10.30am to 12.30pm
Bring along your valuables: Phones, Laptops, Bikes Etc.
Advice on security and crime prevention also available

Thursday 25th April at 7.30pm
The Plaistow and Sundridge Safer Neighbourhood Panel will hold their Annual General Meeting at
Burnt Ash Primary School, Rangefield Road Bromley.
All visitors welcome.

Sunday 28th April
All Saints Concert Band will perform a concert in aid of The Friends of St. Andrew's
in St Andrew's Church at 3.00pm. Tickets £5.00 (children free if accompanied by an adult)
Tickets from Anne Dulley on 020 8325 7656

Classic Film Club St Andrews Church, Burnt Ash Lane 18th April

Vertigo (1958)

     Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak directed by Alfred Hitchcock

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Thursday 18th April 2013

 Doors open at 6.45pm film show at 7.00pm

Cost £2 minimum donation per person is suggested to include refreshments at the interval.

For more information ring:-
Brian at James Harper 020 8464 0080
Rev'd Angela King      020 8313 3434
Rev'd Liz Davis           020 6460 4672

Why not come and enjoy a local evening out?

Burnt Ash Drama Association (BADA)

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BADA's next play is Charles Dickens' "Hard Times", adapted for the stage by Stephen Jeffries and directed by 
David Evans. 

It will be performed in Saint Andrew's Church. The production will start at 7.30pm on the evenings of 4th, 5th and 6th April.

It is BADA's entry to the Bromley Theatre Guild Full Length Play Festival 2013.



BADA's box office phone number is 07961 023174.
Tickets are £8 to include a programme and tea or coffee.

For more details of BADA and their membership scheme you can view their website at :- http://www.burntashdrama.org.uk/

Burnt Ash Library Coffee Morning 18th April

You are sure of a warm welcome

at

Burnt Ash Library's Coffee Morning

Cabbages and Kings

Join Chris for an armchair walk 
from Charing Cross to Covent Garden.
Meet market traders, actors and 
developers on the way.

Thursday 18th April 2013

11.00 am - 12.15 pm

Admission Free.
Refreshments available. 

All welcome - why not bring 
a friend or two?

Borough Commander's Newsletter April 2013

During the last month we have held two major days of visible coordinated activity to cut crime and disrupt those who cause harm to our communities. Borough officers have been joined by specialist colleagues to carry out arrests, search warrants, licensing enforcement, ANPR operations, high visibility patrols and a range of other activity in the widest ranging operations of the year to date.

Officers from every part of the Metropolitan Police have been mobilised during these operations - Dog Support Unit; Mounted Branch; Territorial Support Group; Firearms Command; Trident and Gang Crime Command; Air Support Unit; Royal Parks Command; Traffic Unit; Special Constabulary; Police Cadets; Safer Transport Command - and have been out and about on the streets tackling the crimes that affect your neighbourhood.

These operations – Operation Big Wing and Operation Hawk - are about showing residents that we have listened to their concerns and we are committed to taking robust preventative and disruptive action to stop this criminal activity and make our communities safer. It’s also about warning those intent on breaking the law and engaging in criminal activity that we will be doing everything we can to stop them, and wherever possible we will be putting them before the courts.

We hope this activity will be one way of showing some of what we do every day to make Bromley safer for our communities. These operations both reinforce what we do on a daily basis in targeting criminals head on and provide further public reassurance to residents across the borough through visible, high-impact policing.

30 people were arrested across Bromley in Operation Big Wing at the end of February, with 9 uninsured vehicles also being removed from the boroughs roads. The arrests were for theft, motor vehicle crime, robbery, domestic violence, assault, harassment, drugs, handling stolen goods, absconding from prison, immigration offences, weapon offences, criminal damage, driving whilst disqualified and breach of ASBO. The operation was so successful that Bromley's Custody Suite was full at one stage in the day. Drugs, stolen goods and a stolen motor vehicle have been recovered during the raids and officers arrested a man on suspicion of absconding from prison after he was found hiding in a loft at a house in Beckenham.

Officers also raided a cannabis factory and seized 80 plants. Op Hawk nets 26 arrests across borough

A major Police offensive against street level drug dealing and cannabis farms led to the arrest of 26 people across Bromley on 27th March. Sixteen raids took place throughout the day as hundreds of Safer Neighbourhoods officers, supported by specialist colleagues, set to work to execute drugs warrants in direct response to community intelligence. Cannabis factories were found at addresses in Augustine Road in St Pauls Cray (350 cannabis plants & £5,000 cash), Sherbourne Road in St Mary Cray (100 cannabis plants), Blythe Hill in Orpington (70 cannabis plants), Rushdene Walk in Biggin Hill (25 cannabis plants and a quantity of Class A drugs).

A further cannabis factory was found at an address in Tudor Court in Dartford, linked to the Augustine Road address raided earlier in the day (110 cannabis plants) Drugs were also recovered at addresses in Cattistock Road in Mottingham and at Blandford Road in Clock House. A stun gun was recovered from an address in Brewery Road in Bromley Common. The street value of the drugs recovered totalled nearly £560,000.

Police also took enforcement action against two brothels operating on the borough, in partnership with the UK Border Agency. 6 Uninsured vehicles were removed from the borough's streets during the operation.