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The Dorchester centre is part of Dorset’s wider ‘Think Big’ initiative to help reduce have liked it as we filmed that sequence
waiting lists and bring diagnostic services closer to the community. This is one of three or four times. PIC 037 & 041
the first schemes of its kind to get up and running in the make such good use of
an existing public. The centre will be fully staffed by local healthcare teams, but It must have all been very exciting for the
they would very much like to recruit a team of volunteers to support and guide locals too as one young lad kept
patients visiting the centre as it’s a new, unfamiliar facility. Anyone who would like swimming across the camera range at
to volunteer is asked to contact Volunteer Centre Dorset or call 01305 269214. strategic times!
They would particularly like to hear from anyone who has previously volunteered We loved our day's filming with the
in a hospital or vaccination centre, or has event marshalling experience. glamour and excitement of it all. I don't
think I will run to employing my own
Change of Portfolios (Cabinet reshuffle)

Cllr Peter Wharf will move from Portfolio Holder for Corporate Development and personal trainer as Robson
Change to Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health. (Cllr Wharf will did. Fitness coach John had
continue in his role as Deputy Leader). Cllr Jill Haynes will move from Portfolio been his regular companion
Holder for Customer and Community Services to Portfolio Holder for Corporate as he trimmed a stone and a
Development and Change. Cllr Laura Miller will move from Adult Social Care and half off his figure over the
Health to Portfolio Holder for Customer and Community Services previous three months though
he did look impressively fit

and good in his swimming
Residents Survey costume.
This independent survey is being conducted by Information by Design (Ibyd) on In the last piece of the day we found ourselves sitting with our legs dangling in the
behalf of Dorset Council. Ibyd are an independent market research company, pool imagining what lay ahead for him in his great swimming adventure. True to
are members of the Market Research Society (MRS) and abide by the MRS Code form, he asked me where I got my flashy light blue speedos (the old variety). I had
of Conduct. The survey is conducted online (promoted through e-newsletters and to tell him these would soon be coming back in fashion especially when I
through social media) and by paper questionnaires being distributed door-to- introduce my "back to the future" woollen 40s style cossie. Now there would be a
door in selected areas of Dorset. If you have any questions, please telephone sight to savour!
Information by Design on 01482 467467
Bob Holman

Improving poorly insulated rented homes

Dorset Council has been awarded
£98,000 of Government funding, after
applying to a national competition, to
improve the most poorly insulated rented
homes in Dorset. In the last five years
over 700 properties in Dorset have been
rented with an Energy Performance
Certificate (EPC) that is in the lowest two
bands (F and G).

The council Housing Standards Team
entered the competition with a plan to
provide help for landlords to improve

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