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Council leaders across Hertfordshire are encouraging people to celebrate Halloween safely, helping to save lives by preventing the spread of the coronavirus.

This year, many Halloween traditions such as trick or treating carry a risk and the county’s message is clear: this Halloween, stick to a safer way of having fun.

Top 5 low risk activities:

Two Hitchin after school clubs recently received grant funding totalling £1,900 at a virtual meeting of North Hertfordshire District Council’s (NHDC) Hitchin Area Committee on 29 September*.

Hitchin Fun Club, an afterschool and holiday club based at Highbury Infant School, received a grant of £900. The club provides a safe, caring environment for children to play, explore, learn and engage in a variety of activities to further their development.

This Halloween, Wally, the world’s favourite children’s book character – wearing a red-and-white striped shirt and black-rimmed specs – will be travelling the country, appearing in museums, including the North Hertfordshire Museum in Hitchin.

Families will be able to join the search for Wally at the North Hertfordshire Museum as part of the Where’s Wally? Spooky Museum Search, organised by Walker Books and Kids in Museums, to celebrate the release of the new book, Where’s Wally? Spooky Spotlight Search.

We offer a fortnightly collection of garden waste from your brown bin. The year-round service is easy to join and costs £40 for 12 months. We already have more than 16,000 people who use the service. In 2019/20 we collected over 9,000 tonnes of garden waste which was turned into compost or reused on farmland.

This year’s subscription starts on the 1 October so there is still time to sign up for collections, without disrupting your current service if you are an existing subscriber. Why not sign up via Direct Debit and avoid having to re-subscribe each year!