Community Grants

Did you know your Local Area board has a budget to support community projects and they are really under applied for? You can apply for up to £1000 with no match funding and up to £5000 (more could be considered) with a minimum of 50% mach funding. Look here for more information: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council/areaboards/areaboardscommunitygrantsscheme.htm

How effective is your Local Area Board?

Hi all

You have an opportunity to feed back on how well you think your local Area Board works, I've just filled it in, it's taken me about 15 minutes but I had rather a lot to say. Please do take the time to feed back on this if you have been going along to your LAB, these are absolutely key forums for decisions to be made about were you live and/ or work and my experience so far has been a bit worrying as to their effectiveness. I believe the boards across the County are all quite different so please do share your own experience.

NB: I thought I might go along to Corsham's Area Board on Thursday, would anyone like to join me?

Dear Community Area Network member,

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Many thanks to all those who have completed the Area Boards Survey; we now have 1,000 responses from all round the county. This will give us really detailed information about how Wiltshire residents think this Wiltshire Council initiative is working and how it is helping the local decision-making process.

If you have not yet completed the on-line survey, there is still time to do so. Click on the link here and let us know what you think of Area Board meetings in your local area. Please do have a look at the survey even if you have never attended an Area Board meeting as we are still keen to hear from you.

The final results will soon be available I will make sure you receive a copy as soon as the analysis is complete.

Many thanks,

Andrew Jack

ANDREW JACK
Community Partnership Development Officer
Communities, Libraries, Heritage & Arts
Wiltshire Council
01225 713109

07769 917270

Trowbridge Area Board

Hi all, just to let you know that the next Trowbridge Area Board is to be held at the Wiltshire Council Offices in Bradley Road, on Thursday March 17 at 7pm. There are a couple of items on the agenda I though might be particularly interesting and provide some opportunities.

There is to be a presentation n Section 106 in the Trowbridge Area. Section 106 is where money needs to be invested as part of a development to meet the needs of residents, these can be for schools, recreation facilities, art for example)

There will also be a presentation on the Child Poverty Reduction Strategy which may be of interest to anyone working with hard to reach families.

There will also be a section looking at the Community Area Plan which the Area Partnership have been developing. There is a section on Arts and Culture within this. The main focus is to look at what the theme groups have identified as the needs of the Trowbridge area, what the partnership have said is happening in response to these needs and those at the meeting will be asked to help identify the indicators needed to monitor success.

I do go on about it but local area boards are a really useful forum to engage with so do go along to your local one if you can and if you think there is anything on the agenda or discussed at the meetings that may be of interest to the wider network please do let me know and I'll add it to our blog.

I have put a link to the Local Area Board section on Wiltshire Council's Website on our website LAB link