Permanent home for zero waste shop
MAIDENHEAD: Zero waste pop-up shop Filling Good has moved out of the Nicholsons Centre and onto the high street – with a new makeover to reflect the character of the store.
The new location is on the site of the former Raffles Hairdressers, opposite Sports Direct. It reopened at the new premises on Tuesday.
The shop, which started life operating out of Craft Coop, moved to the former Argos unit in the Nicholsons Centre in November temporarily.
It has now successfully moved to its permanent home.
“We have had such positive feedback, people are so interested in what we’re doing, saying they think it’s such a good idea,” said one of the shop’s founders, Sophie Ibison.
“We have had so many people coming in, we had a really successful run up to Christmas though it was a bit quiet after Christmas.”
Filling Good now has more volunteers and an increased range of stock, including a frozen fruit and veg range and a new peanut butter machine allowing
customers to make their own peanut butter.
The new space has also been decorated with new furniture made by volunteers out of reclaimed wood.
“It’s a nicer atmosphere – the old Argos centre was very big and we were lucky to have it, but [the new location]
very much has our own personal stamp on it,” said Sophie.
“I think it’s going to be a very good spot, now the development of the town centre is coming along.”
The new Filling Good is located at 22 High St, Maidenhead.
DANIEL STACE, 38, of St Patrick's Close, Cox Green, was fined £80, told to pay £45 compensation and £74 costs for resisting a constable in the execution of his duty in Maidenhead on January 17.
KURT LANCASTER, 21, of Hamilton Road, Wargrave, was fined £440, told to pay £2.60 compensation and £180 costs for travelling on a railway without paying a fare in Tilehurst on September 30.
REGAN SENIOR, 21, of St Georges Lane, Ascot, was fined £220, told to pay £10.20 compensation and £214 costs for travelling on a railway without paying a fare in Reading on September 6.
EMMA KINGHORN, 40, of Athlone Square, Windsor, was given a one-year conditional discharge and told to pay £107 costs for assault by beating in Windsor on October 31.
MOWASAR HASHEMI, 23, of Bracken Bank, Ascot, was given a one-year community order, told to pay £340 costs and fined £120 for drugdriving in Reading on August 30, 2019.
MARTIN MCDERMOTT, 61, of Northumbria Road, Maidenhead, was banned from driving for 36 months, given a one-year community order and told to pay £390 costs for failing to provide a specimen for analysis in Maidenhead on December 13, 2019.
ADAM IQBAL ROUF, 21, of Ray Lea Close, Maidenhead, was fined £168 and told to pay £119 costs for cannabis possession in Reading on June 17 and in Maidenhead on September 15.
WARGRAVE: Theresa May and Wokingham borough councillors are helping almost 60 ‘disappointed’ families who did not receive their first choice secondary school, writes Jade Kidd.
At the start of the month, 58 families in the borough who had opted for The Piggott School as their first choice received the news that their children had not secured a place.
Discussing the situation, Cllr Stephen Conway (Lib Dem, Twyford) explained that instead youngsters are being offered schools such as Waingels School in Woodley and Emmbrook
School in Wokingham.
He said that as the school is an academy, it is in control of its own admissions process and the council has ‘no direct influence’ over the admissions at the school.
But he added the distance from the proposed schools in comparison to The Piggott School is a ‘concern’ for parents.
He said The Piggott School has been a popular choice for a long time with some parents missing out on it as their first choice every year, but this year the scale has been ‘very large’.
A meeting was held to discuss the issue on Friday, March 5, with council leader John Halsall and MP Theresa May among those who discussed the problem.
Following the meeting a letter was sent to all of the parents affected,
explaining the situation and assuring them ‘this isn’t the end of the process’.
Cllr Conway said: “Almost certainly more places will emerge that will mean that the numbers deprived the opportunity to go to this really good school are much smaller than they appear to be now.”
He added: “The process is not over, there’s lots going on to try and help the parents and children involved, and we’re doing everything we can.”
Mrs May said: “I am aware of the considerable anxiety that has been caused among parents in Twyford whose children have not been offered a place. I have already discussed this with councillors and officers at Wokingham Borough and following their letter to parents, I will be raising the issue further.”
Cllr UllaKarin Clark, executive member for children’s services, said: “Our school admissions team continue to work with schools, families and other partners to deal with the challenges in availability for September 2021. We will provide updates to families who have requested wait list places as promptly as possible.”
The Piggott School has been contacted for comment.
I fear the Advertiser may be the victim of a hoax. You publish a letter (March 11, 2021) apparently by Dr D R Cooper which can only be from a prankster.
The letter describes the recent UK-EU Free Trade agreement as a ‘crass betrayal’ of Northern Ireland by Boris Johnson which ‘puts at risk the integrity of the UK’.
Surely this cannot be the same Dr Cooper who branded those of us who warned of this outcome in 2016 as scaremongers from Project Fear?
I suggest you check very carefully the origin of any further letters from the same source.
GRAEME SMITH Courthouse Road
Maidenhead