Blog
Welcome to the Heritage Foundation blog. Here you'll find the latest blogs from our staff, community groups and more. If you'd like to contribute a blog, please do get in touch via our response@letchworth.com email address.
Blog
Letchworth united - community support throughout COVID-19
Ciara Ginty (Communications & Marketing Business Partner for Charitable Services) visits some of the amazing volunteer run groups for a first-hand look at how our community is supporting each other.
Creating the Community Response Team
Alastair Stewart, Head of Grants, Partnerships & Community Services, talks about how the Foundation responded to the COVID-19 emergency to bring together different groups to work together for the community.
Dealing with money issues - how & where to get help
Managing money issues may have felt overwhelming even before the COVID-19 emergency. Now that we are all living through a pandemic, many of us face changes in our finances. Catherine Bennett from Citizens Advice explains how they can help.
Environmentally-friendly gardening: 5 top tips
Gardening can boost mental wellbeing by reducing anxiety, stress and other types of day-to-day issues that many of us face. The benefits of gardening on our mental wellbeing has been well documented and studied. Claire Pudney explains more.
Our top tips to maintain good health and wellbeing
During this period of self-isolation, many of will experience ups and downs with our health and wellbeing. Find out what our Active Letchworth Partnership Lead Claire Kremer says.
Supporting our tenants through COVID-19
It’s just over a month since we rolled out a raft of measures to support our small retail businesses who were impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Find out what our Executive Director of Property, Mark Coles has to say.
Car parks reopen – latest update on our open spaces
Following the government’s announcement, we have decided to reopen car parks for local people to use - our Estates Manager Paul McKenna keeps us up to date.
Reflections on a crisis
Moments of inspiration, firefighting and looking to the future - our CEO, Graham Fisher, blogs about events over the past two weeks.
Using our Grants Programme to support the community during COVID-19
The COVID-19 Catalyst Grant Programme offers grants from £200 to £8,000 to help groups and charities in Letchworth during the pandemic.
Update on using open spaces
Our Estates Manager, Paul McKenna, updates us on how the government’s latest rules impact on Letchworth’s town centre, open spaces and everyday activity.
Update for our commercial tenants following the outbreak of coronavirus
Mark Coles, Executive Director Property, updates our commercial tenants following the outbreak of coronavirus.
What's On in Letchworth - 12 to 19 March 2020
Your guide to some events over the coming week in the Garden City complied by Discover Letchworth, also available in The Comet.