05/10/2024
Meetings
Next AFPO Meeting
8th October 2024
Club de Tenis, Calpe
10:00 for 10:30
The guest speaker will be Christina Brady of Blacktower Investments.
If you have any questions to ask her please forward them to Carole, the President, and she will forward them to Christina. Christina will be able to advise the members what effects the coming UK budget may have on our pensions, etc.
Carole may be contacted on 639 637 520 or calcalpe@gmail.com.
Last Meetings
AGM: Tuesday 18th June 2024
This meeting took place in the Club de Tenis, Calpe
The speaker was Carole Saunders, AFPO President
The full minutes of this meeting can be read in our members’ area.
General Meeting: Tuesday 13th February, 2024
This meeting took place in the Diamante Beach hotel.
The guest speaker was Pamela Twissell-Cross MBE, the Welfare co-ordinator for the Royal British Legion
The full minutes of this meeting can be read in our members’ area.
General Meeting: 3rd October 2023
Also in the Diamante Beach hotel.
The speakers were from CaixaBank, explaining their Proteccíon Senior facility.
There was considerable discussion of the new laws concerning animals and inheritance taxes.
The full minutes of this meeting can be read in our members’ area.
UK Embassy
May 2024 update
The British Embassy has said that the old green certificate, though still a valid residency document in Spain, may not guarantee exemption from the EU's Entry Exit system
On our key information page, we set out the guidance given last month by the Embassy.
This remains valid. The old green cerificate is protected by law inside Spain. But the EU's Entry Exit system, which will come into force later this year, requires travellers to provide biometric information which can only be found on the new plastic TIE card.
So if you are planning to travel in and out of Spain, switching to the new card is stronlgly recommended. It will save you having to re-register your details every time you travel.
Calpe elections (2023)
New Council (to 2027)
The new Calpe Council has now voted. For the next 4 years (in principle) Calpe will be run by a coalition of 3 parties, and Ana Sala, the current mayor, will continue in post.
The party with the most individual votes, the Partido Poplular, who wanted to force Ana Sala out, have instead been forced into opposition.
Up-to-the-minute news, togther with detailed analysis of the results of the elections (held on the 28th of May) can be found in our members’ area.
From the members’ area
In this section, we provide extracts from the announcements, news items and updates which our former President, Keith Wildman, publishes every day. To read the complete posts, you need to join the Association.
Announcements
Service cuts on Line 9 of the TRAM between Altea, Calp and Teulada until December
(Notice posted: Thursday, 26th September 2024)
The Ministry of the Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, through Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), has started a series of emergency works on Line 9 of the TRAM d’Alacant, in the section affected by the forest fire that occurred in January in the Mascarat area. These actions are part of the renovation and modernization works […]
Read more about this in the members’ area.
AFPO General Meeting – 8th October
(Notice posted: Thursday, 19th September 2024)
The next AFPO meeting will be at the Tennis Club on the 8th of October at 10.00 for 10.30 The guest speaker will be Christina Brady of Blacktower Investments. If you have any questions to ask her please forward them to Carole, the President, and she will forward them to Christina. Christina will be able […]
Read more about this in the members’ area.
Line closure again
(Notice posted: Saturday, 7th September 2024)
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) will offer from Monday, September 9th, a substitute bus service between the stations of Altea and Calpe of Line 9 of the Benidorm-Dénia TRAM, as a result of the works in execution of the new viaducts of Algar and Mascarat. From the start of the service, the alternative bus […]
Read more about this in the members’ area.
News items
Vaccinations
Saturday, 5th October 2024
The vaccination against flu and covid begins on the 14th The campaign will be carried out in a staggered manner from 14 October and will begin with the four priority groups The first will be residents of centres for the elderly and functional diversity October 14 is the date chosen for the start of the […]
Read more about this in the members’ area.
Tourist promotions
Saturday, 5th October 2024
Calpe attended this week the IV TurEspaña Convention held in Tenerife, which was held under the slogan Everything changes again: emerging technologies for a new tourism model. And that is what Calpe wants: to change its model and tourist offer. So in Tenerife, an ideal forum because it brought together the entire national tourism sector, […]
Read more about this in the members’ area.
Thousands of people were left unattended this summer in Calpe “due to health cuts”
Saturday, 5th October 2024
The three parties of the local government present a motion to demand that the Generalitat build a second health centre, ceding a plot of 15,000 square metres “This year in the auxiliary clinic of La Fossa there was only one doctor and one nurse for a population that in the summer period reaches 175,000 people” […]
Read more about this in the members’ area.
Calpe promotes inclusive tourism and training campaigns to promote accessibility in the municipality
Saturday, 5th October 2024
The Council, through the Department of Tourism Planning, plans to carry out advertising campaigns to promote itself as an inclusive tourist destination as well as talks and training courses to raise awareness among local tourism companies and citizens of the importance of the town being an accessible tourist destination and adapted to people with all […]
Read more about this in the members’ area.
Calpe forecast
Saturday, 5th October 2024