Cops - Safer neighbourhoods team

Sgt 72 Daye Goddard leads the Saxmundham and Framlingham Safer Neighbourhood team with and is supported by Mary Thompson PCSO 3043 who is responsible for Rendham
If you have any problems please contact the team on
 01473 613500 or email saxfram.snt@suffolk.pnn.police.uk

Safer Neighbourhood teams are based on council boundaries, have regular meetings where problems identified by the local community will be prioritised for action. They also have their own websites to keep people informed about progress, and where people can highlight things they're like dealt with.
Find out more on www.safersuffolk.org.uk

Remember you can use 999 in an emergency as well as 112.
More information also available on Police and Neighbourhood Watch

Fire Service

If you have a thatched property:

• Insulate the chimney flue to prevent heat transfer onto the thatch material from the chimney.
• Have the chimney swept regularly by a qualified chimney sweep.
• Only burn seasoned wood.
• Have the chimney inspected by a qualified chimney engineer.
• If you have a spark arrestor fitted have it cleaned regularly every three months or so.
• Develop a fire plan for your home and ensure that the whole family understand this.
• Install smoke alarms throughout your home and in the loft space.
• Install a fire blanket in the kitchen.
• Check the electrical system throughout your home.
• Be very careful when using blowtorches or heat guns near the thatched roof.
• Restrict the use of bonfires or fireworks near to your property.
• Consider installing heat sensors within the thatch around the chimney.
• Install an outside tap with enough hose to reach the roof around the house.
• In you are carrying out renovation work or re-roofing, consider forming a fireproof barrier between roof timbers and the thatch roof.

Rendham Directory

Complied and produced by Rendham Parish Council and lists details of organisations and services in and around Rendham. This is circulated to all villagers in paper format but can be viewed here.
Click here to view Rendham Directory

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More details of Voluntary Organisations

Click here for information on other Voluntary Organisations

Transport

Several options of transport available locally

Public Transport - Local Bus Service click here for time table Bus Times

SuffolkCarShare.com can help you find someone to share your journey with. Log onto www.suffolkcarshare.com/

Coastal Accessible Transport Service CATS runs door to door Dial-A Ride service for wheelchair
users and people with mobility problems related to sight, hearing and fraility.
Please ring 01728 830516

Community Car Scheme - offers a car service run by volunteers for visits to doctors or hospital etc. Mileage payable
Please ring 01728 831215

Another scheme is the Ipswich hospital car sharing scheme for journeys to the hospital
To find out more information click here www.hospitalrides.co.uk

Town Travels - a Taxi service for the price of a bus fare. Priovides transport from villages to local transport connections between 8am and 6pm. Organised by SCC and WRVS.
To book telephone between 9.30am and 13.30pm Mondays to Fridays
Please ring 01473 211210

Gardening Services
Mow and Grow - Suffolk Coastal
Offer a heavily discounted rate of £10 per garden to
vulnerable and elderly people, those in receipt of certain benefits and community groups: with a competitive rate to individuals and businesses
If you wish to contact them 01728 831230 or email suffolkcoastal@mowandgrow.org.uk

A new website which focuses solely on promoting local voluntary and community groups serving the IP17 post code - and that includes us here in Rendham

www.saxcom.org.uk

Another group which has recently been established to look a the facilities available in Saxmundham and surrounding villages is

www.saxcommunity.co.uk

Look out for what they are going to achieve in the next couple of years - have your say whether you are young or old.