Christmas at the Council
Information for the festive season
(Date of issue: Tuesday, 7 December 2010)
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 Monday 27 December, Tuesday
28 December and Monday 3 January. Our Customer Contact Centre will
close at 3pm on both Friday 24 December and Friday 31 December.
Information on City Council website
Access to, and information about many of the City Council
services, can also be found throughout the festive period, on the
City Council's website – www.carlisle.gov.uk
Crematorium
Open: 8.30am - 4.30pm: Friday 24 December, Wednesday 29 December
to Friday 31 December.
Open 1pm - 4.30pm: Friday 25 December to Tuesday 28 December and
Saturday 1 January to Monday 3 January.
Bereavement Services
Open: 8am - 4.30pm: Friday 24 December, Wednesday 29 December to
Friday 31 December and Tuesday 4 January.
Closed: Saturday 25 December to Tuesday 28 December and Saturday
1 January to Monday 3 January.
The gates to the Cemeteries and Crematorium will open at 8.30am
and close at 5pm. No funeral services will take place on Saturday
25 and Tuesday 28 December or between Saturday 1 January and Monday
3 January.
A Christmas Remembrance Service will be held at the Crematorium
Chapel on Saturday 18 December 2009 at 3pm. Donations to The
Hospice At Home.
How to have a green Christmas:
- Visit Carlisle City Council’s recycling roadshow on Monday, 20
December. It will be held in the city centre between 11am and 2pm
and there will a special appearance by Santa in his ‘green grotto’.
Local children will be able to meet Santa when they bring along one
item of recycling e.g. a plastic bottle or newspaper, in exchange
for a free eco-gift.
- If you have a Greenbox, you can recycle the following items at
the kerbside or at a local recycling point: wrapping paper;
Christmas cards; clean and empty glass bottles & jars and clean
and empty drinks & food cans and empty aerosol 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 as we cannot recycle mixed bags.
Festive Refuse and Recycling Collections
There will be NO changes to your collection
dates over the Christmas and New Year periods. Collection days will
be as usual.
Remember to recycle your real Christmas trees using your garden
waste bin. You can place it beside the bin on the day of the
collection, if it is too big to go inside.
For further information on recycling in Carlisle, visit
carlisle.gov.uk
or telephone 01228 817200.