The Silk Road

Design con­sul­tants. Own web­site cur­rent­ly under con­struc­tion. Please call 01206 561436 for details. 

The empha­sis at Banana Moon is to see every­thing from a par­ents point of view. We appre­ci­ate we are being entrust­ed with the care of your most pre­cious pos­ses­sions, there­fore we have cre­at­ed a car­ing, lov­ing and secure envi­ron­ment for chil­dren from 0 – 5 years of age.

Qual­i­ty of care and learn­ing will be to the high­est stan­dards at every stage of your child’s devel­op­ment. To rein­force this 100% of our staff are qual­i­fied or work­ing towards qualification.

Our pur­pose built nurs­ery is light and airy with an in-house kitchen pro­duc­ing fresh­ly cooked nutri­tious food every­day. We do not serve con­ve­nience or any fried food. Out­doors we have a secure play­ground and an excit­ing nat­ur­al adven­ture area.

Turn­er’s is about look­ing and feel­ing good, but it’s also about a warm wel­come from knowl­edge­able staff who care about cus­tomer service.

Chi­na Chef is locat­ed in Crouch Street, Colch­ester boast­ing an exten­sive à la carte chi­nese menu. A firm favourite for fam­i­lies, busi­ness­es and spe­cial occasions

Bea­con House Min­istries is a Chris­t­ian char­i­ty that was estab­lished to help home­less peo­ple. Bea­con House offers a wide range of sup­port services

We serve baked pota­toes stuffed with a vari­ety of ingre­di­ents catered to suit any market. 

Healthy Food, Healthy Juices — VIS­IT NOW

Y.E.S pro­vides a con­fi­den­tial, non-judge­men­tal and infor­mal ser­vice for young peo­ple between the ages of 11 and 25 with­in Colch­ester and Ten­dring, who are fac­ing dif­fi­cul­ties in their lives.

Y.E.S can pro­vide a range of sup­port for dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions. If you are expe­ri­enc­ing any of the fol­low­ing sit­u­a­tions, Y.E.S can pro­vide support.

• Home­less­ness & Hous­ing Advice
• Fam­i­ly Issues
• Feel­ing low, depressed or suicidal
• Debts or Check­ing you are claim­ing all the ben­e­fits you are enti­tled to
• Teenage Preg­nan­cies
• Young Fam­i­ly Support
• CV, Train­ing or Work Advice

Y.E.S can pro­vide help and sup­port with many prob­lems that you may be expe­ri­enc­ing – and if we can’t help you our­selves then we will find some­one who can, and will sup­port you in get­ting that help.

Since its foun­da­tion on 3 June 1765, Lloyds Bank has been serv­ing the house­holds, busi­ness­es and com­mu­ni­ties of Britain. And, in 2015 we’re cel­e­brat­ing 250 years of help­ing the peo­ple of Britain with the things that mat­ter most to them.

Leeds Build­ing Soci­ety con­tin­ues to do what it was set up to do in 1875 – to help peo­ple save mon­ey and to buy their own home. And this is still our core pur­pose, oper­at­ing as a mutu­al, but devel­op­ing and inno­vat­ing our prod­uct range and ser­vice offer to help our mem­bers get on with their lives, what­ev­er the chal­lenges mod­ern life throws at you.

HSBC is one of the world’s largest bank­ing and finan­cial ser­vices organ­i­sa­tions. We serve more than 39 mil­lion cus­tomers through four glob­al busi­ness­es: Retail Bank­ing and Wealth Man­age­ment, Com­mer­cial Bank­ing, Glob­al Bank­ing and Mar­kets, and Glob­al Pri­vate Bank­ing. Our net­work cov­ers 66 coun­tries and ter­ri­to­ries in Europe, Asia, the Mid­dle East and Africa, North Amer­i­ca and Latin America.

In 1968 Nation­al Provin­cial Bank (est.1833) and West­min­ster Bank (est.1836), merged as Nation­al West­min­ster Bank. Togeth­er these banks could trace their his­to­ry back down the cen­turies through a lin­eage of pres­ti­gious con­stituents, dat­ing back to the 1650s.

The announce­ment com­plete­ly sur­prised the City and the pub­lic, but to both banks the advan­tages were appar­ent — the merg­er enhanced bal­ance sheet strength, cre­at­ed oppor­tu­ni­ties to stream­line the branch net­works and enabled greater invest­ment in new tech­nol­o­gy. The statu­to­ry process of inte­gra­tion was com­plet­ed in 1969 and Nation­al West­min­ster Bank com­menced trad­ing on 1 Jan­u­ary 1970, with the three-arrow­heads sym­bol as its logo.