Al-Anon Family Groups
A support group for family and friends and colleagues of problem drinkers that offers a dedicated helpline (0800 0086 811) from 10am-10pm each day. The service ensures anonymity for its users. The charity also runs regular meetings for those affected by someone else’s drinking. The nearest support group currently for our community is in Braintree. Further information can be found at www.al-anonuk.org.uk
Garden Waste Collection Service
This service returns in March 2023.
You can deposit GARDEN waste in a skip in the Lower Street Car Park 12.30-16.30 on alternate Sundays throughout the year.
Alternatively you can use the Saffron Walden recycling centre is at Thaxted Road, CB10 2UP.
The Mountfitchet Exchange Library
Festive Season Opening Times:
Monday, Dec 26 – CLOSED
Tuesday, Dec 27 – CLOSED
Wednesday, Dec 28 – 2 to 5.30pm
Thursday, Dec 29 – 2 to 7pm
Friday, Dec 30 – CLOSED
Saturday, Dec 31 – 9am to 5pm
Monday, Dec 2 – CLOSED
Tuesday, Dec 3 – 9am to 1pm
Stansted Business Forum
Website: www.stanstedbusinessforum.co.uk
Stansted Surgery
Our GP surgery is located in the Castle Maltings building in Lower Street.
Telephone: 01279 813 200
Email: stansted.surgery@nhs.net
Website: www.thestanstedsurgery.nhs.uk
The Link
The Link (Stansted Mountfitchet Village Magazine) is an independent publication supported by local churches, businesses and the Parish Council. Stansted’s long running parish magazine The Link won a gold at the Cambridge Community Magazine Awards.Each edition of the Magazine is available online.
The Police
Non-Emergency: Call 101
Emergency: Call 999
Website: www.essex.police.uk
Stansted Day & Community Centre
Community organisation TouchPoint Stansted run a variety of activities and groups from the Day Centre. Every Thursday (11am-5pm) & Friday (10am-2pm) there is the hugely popular TouchPoint cafe. Sit at a ‘chatty’ table with some cake, tea or coffee, or enjoy a hot lunch (12.30pm-2.30pm), and meet up with fellow residents. Refreshments are free, and there’s a ‘pay it forward box’ so you can help others cover the cost of a meal or snack.
TouchPoint also operate a Food Share, where bread, fruit & veg, and pastries that had been destined for landfill can be picked up free of charge to fill your fridge – a nice way to offset the cost of living crisis and do your bit for the planet! Tuesdays Elsenham Bowls Club (CM22 6BY), 9.30-11am; Wednesdays at the Stansted Social Club, 2.15-3.15pm; Thursday at the Day Centre, 9-10am, Fridays at the Day Centre, 1-2pm; and Saturdays at the Day Center, 11am-12pm.
Volunteers are hard at work on Tuesday providing free hot meals and fun activities are being put on for school-age kids, their families, and carers (4-6pm). On Thursdays the Breakfast Club offers up bowls of porridge, cereals, bacon sarnies, and tea & coffee from 8.30-10am.
TouchPoint’s Breakfast Club serves bowls of porridge, cereals, bacon sarnies, and tea & coffee from 8.30-10am on Fridays
From November, TouchPoint will be putting Sunday at the Movies -enjoy a classic movie, free cake and refreshments at Day Centre from 1-4pm.
You can also use the group’s community laptops to get online, and Citizens Advice (Uttlesford) offer a virtual service with TouchPoint volunteers on hand to help.
For further details head to www.thetouchpoint.org
Citizens Advice Uttlesford
Citizens Advice has started in November running drop-in advice sessions on Thursdays from 9.30am to 1pm at the Mountfitchet Exchange Library. The focus here is on helping people with spiralling bills and expenses. You can also talk to an CA adviser on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – again, 9.30am-1pm – via a video link up in the library
Stansted Mountfitchet Neighbourhood Watch
Neighbourhood Watch Schemes aim to encourage individuals and communities to reduce and prevent crime in their areas by working together and liaising with the police in their areas. By setting up or joining a Neighbourhood Watch initiative you can address issues relating to antisocial behaviour, create safer neighbourhoods and build community spirit and cohesion. You can find out more at the ourwatch.org.uk.
There are currently two schemes up and running in Stansted Mountfitchet — one covering the Foresthall Park estate: and another for Walpole Meadows.
Stansted Helpline
The Stansted Helpline was launched by the then Stansted Association of Christian Churches in order to offer practical assistance to those Stansted residents who may have no friends or relatives nearby who are able to help.
Helpline is able to offer, for example; transport, companionship, shopping, collecting prescriptions etc. and are able to provide information, advice and contact numbers for other organisations.
The service can be contacted 9am – 4pm, Monday to Friday by telephoning: 0770 4553 727. This is a mobile telephone held by one of ten volunteers, on a rota basis, who log the requests. A comprehensive list of approximately 45 volunteers, is then consulted to select a suitable volunteer to whom the ‘client’ is put in touch.
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill
Wesbite: www.stanstedmountfitchetwindmill.co.uk
Mountfitchet Castle
Website: www.mountfitchetcastle.com
Stansted Mountfitchet Local History Society
Churches In Stansted
Women’s Institute – In Stansted
Wesbite: www.thewi.org.uk
Birchanger Wood Trust
Website: www.birchangerwoodtrust.org
Foresthall Park Residents Association
Website: www.foresthallparkresidents.wordpress.com
Full List of Clubs and Organisation
A full list of local clubs and organisations can be obtained by clicking here.
The Hundred Parishes
The Hundred Parishes is an initiative to raise awareness and enhance enjoyment and conservation of the rich and diverse heritage within an area of around 450 square miles of north-west Essex, north-east Hertfordshire and south Cambridgeshire.
Dementia Cafe
Support for those living with or caring for someone with dementia, now or in the past. Every Wednesday from 10am-noon, at Fairycroft House, Audley Rd, Saffron Walden, CB11 3HD. Call 07900123917; 01799 510525 or email saffronwaldendementiacafe@gmail.com