Information for the festive season

(Date of issue: Monday, 15 December 2008)

Information about Carlisle City Council and other services, over the Christmas and New Year period, is as follows:

Civic Centre

The Civic Centre will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and Friday, 2 January.

The Customer Contact Centre will be open until 3pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. It will open as usual (9am and 5pm – Monday to Thursday, 9am and 4pm on Fridays) on all other working days.

Crematorium

• Open 8.30am - 4.30pm: Wednesday, 24 December; Monday 29 December to Wednesday 31 December.
• Open 1pm - 4.30pm: Thursday, 25 December to Sunday, 28 December and Thursday, 1 January to Sunday, 4 January.

Bereavement Services

• Open 8am - 4.30pm: Wednesday, 24 December; Monday, 29 December to Wednesday, 31 December and Monday, 5 January.
• Closed: Thursday, 25 December to Sunday, 28 December and Thursday, 1 January to Sunday, 4 January.
• The gates to the Cemeteries and Crematorium will open at 8am and close at 5pm. No funeral services will take place between Thursday, 25 and Sunday, 28 December or between Thursday, 1 January 2009 and Sunday, 4 January.
• A Christmas Remembrance Service will be held at the Crematorium Chapel on Saturday, 20 December at 3pm. Donations to the Hospice At Home.

How to have a green Christmas:

• If you have a Greenbox, you can recycle the following items from your kerbside or at a local recycling point: wrapping paper; Christmas cards; glass bottles & jars and drinks & food cans. Please do not put anything in plastic carrier bags.
• You can recycle your real Christmas trees using your Garden Waste bin (place it beside the bin, on the day of your collection, if it is too big to go inside). In the New Year, to help speed up your garden waste collections, please do not place your garden waste bin out for collection unless it is at least half full.
• If you have Greenbags you can recycle the following items from the kerbside or from recycling points: cardboard food and packaging boxes (please place beside your cardboard bag if it will not fit in); hard plastic packaging; plastic bottles, plastic biscuit trays & other plastic trays/food tubs. Please put plastics in one bag and cardboard in the other.

Festive Refuse and Recycling Collections

There will be some changes to the days you need to put out your refuse (wheeled bins and purple sacks) and kerbside recycling over Christmas and New Year:

Usual refuse and recycling date: Festive collection date:

Collections return to normal from Monday, 5 January 2009 onwards. Please refer to your recycling calendar and refuse calendar (for those who have refuse wheeled bins) for collection dates.

Remember to recycle your real Christmas trees using your Garden Waste bin, you can place it beside the bin, on the day of your collection, if it is too big to go inside.

For further information on recycling in Carlisle visit www.carlisle.gov.uk  or telephone 01228 817200.