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Reduce Nuisance Calls: A Helpful Guide
Many people receive unwanted phone calls, including sales calls, scam attempts, or automated messages. These calls can interrupt your day, cause stress, and make you feel unsure about answering the phone.
The good news is that free services can help you block or reduce these calls. With a few simple steps, you can make your phone feel safer and more peaceful.
What You Can Do
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Register with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) FREE
Stops most unwanted sales calls. 0345 070 0707
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Ask your phone provider to turn on call-blocking
Most landline providers offer free tools to help block nuisance calls
3.
Use call-screening
Some phones let you hear who’s calling before you pick up
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Stay cautious
If you don’t recognise the number, it’s okay not to answer.
Legitimate callers will leave a message
Helpful Numbers for Your Phone Provider
BT Customers BT Call Protect helps block unwanted calls 0800 800 150
Sky Customers Sky Talk Shield lets you approve/block callers 0333 7591 018
Virgin Media Customers Virgin offers call-blocking/scam-prevention tools 0345 454 1111
TalkTalk Customers TalkTalk provides free nuisance-call blocking 0345 172 0088
Plusnet Customers Plusnet offers call-blocking and scam reporting 0800 432 0200
Remember
You deserve to feel safe and confident when using your phone. Support is available and it’s free. If you require any assistance with the above, then please let Rachel know.
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Ten years ago, in 2015, Janene Butters, the football club CEO, chatted to Kim Grantham and asked for ideas of how the club could become more involved in the community.
Kim, always a great ideas person and a mega-efficient organiser as well, had a germ of an idea: a coffee morning with add-ons at the club which would offer companionship to local residents who no longer had Darby & Joan or the Evergreens to visit and who therefore lacked a meeting place that was warm, comfortable and sociable. The Saints Community Project was born.
Who would ever have thought that ten years later we would be celebrating this important anniversary with a “Summer Holiday” themed day with musical entertainment, with cake, with a wonderful cold buffet and with the Mayor and Mayoress joining us – well, it happened on 25 June 2025. The Mayor took the opportunity to give special thanks from the whole town and he presented her with an engraved glass plaque as per the attached photograph.
In those ten years, the project has grown from fewer than 10 regulars to around 130. Some come and some go, but most come and just keep coming. In addition to getting together and as well as enjoying musical entertainment, the attendees are also able to benefit from advice via South Northants Volunteer Bureau and Community Contact, via the police and via the various departments of the local council; we have also had banks visit to offer advice. Recently we have been given some reconditioned laptops so internet access can be assured for anyone who does not usually have this facility at home.
And we not only offer all of that “in house, Saints Community Project also goes “on tour”. Every year there are outings: this year it is Stoke Bruerne and a trip on a canal boat as well as an excursion to the pantomime at Milton Keynes.
Saints Community Project offers an invaluable resource to the community; it continues to grow from strength; it is run entirely by volunteers and we are immensely grateful to each and every one. Who ever would have thought that Kim would grow such an immense community project from that initial germ of a coffee morning. Thanks Kim.
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Are you living with a long term physical health condition? Would you like to improve your health and wellbeing? If so, Spring Social Prescribing will help you to engage with groups, activities and services to help you manage your condition and meet others in similar situations. Why not give Spring a call, or self-refer through their website?
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If you think you have been the victim of a scam or you suspect you are going through one, there are people who can help.
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Action Fraud – 0300 123 2040 – www.actionfraud.police.uk
Crimestoppers – 0800 555 111 – www.crimestoppers-uk.org
Cumbria Non-Emergency Line – 101 –