Henbury & Southmead Neighbourhood Partnership

2012-2013 Neighbourhood Partnership Wellbeing Fund

Henbury and Brentry will have a further allocation of

The first round of Wellbeing Grants can be applied for NOW. The deadline for applications is Monday 16th April 2012.Wellbeing Fund for 2012/2013 of £8,500 and £1,500 to work together with Southmead to support young people’s activities over the Summer.

If you are a group based in Henbury/Brentry or working in the ward to benefit its residents you can apply. Decisions on successful applications will be taken at the Neighbourhood Partnership meeting on 29th May 2012.

If you want to

find out more about applying for Wellbeing funding and to get an application pack please see contact below.

More Good News as Henbury/Brentry secures Community First Fund from 2012- 2015

A new Small Grants fund has been secured for Henbury/Brentry to support local groups and initiatives. It’s called Community First. Groups can apply for between £250 - £2500 in any one year. Henbury and Brentry have

£33,910 between now and March 2015 in total to support local priorities. The key difference in this fund to many others is that all applicants have to provide funds to match the money they are asking for – either in volunteer time (priced at £11.09 an hour), donations in kind (eg. Free use of a room or equipment) other funds or a combination of all three. All applicants should contribute to the priorities which were identified at the

Henbury and Brentry Community Conference in 2011.

To find out more about how to apply contact Keith Houghton (contact details above) or follow developments on the Community First page at: http://henburybrentrycommunity.org.uk/wordpress/?p=342 .

Grant applications can be made from this point on.

Road crossing improvements in the pipeline

The Neighbourhood Partnership has a small budget every year to agree Traffic and Transport improvements in its area. The NP ha

s agreed the following priorities for improvements:

· Better road crossings at the junction of Charlton Road/Pen Park Road – funding is now available to deliver this work.

· Improvements to the junction of Swanmoor Crescent/Charlton Lane and Brentry Lane to make it safer near Brentry School.

· A road crossing on Knole Lane, near the junction with St.Joseph's Road, Brentry.

The solutions to the last two will come out of feasibility studies which the Council’s Traffic Management will conduct to advise the Partnership on the most effective works to install at the best price.

Community Transport in Henbury/Brentry: latest news

In the last newsletter we reported on work to develop a Community Transport service for Henbury/Brentry, funded by an Aldi Section 106 payment of £12,952.

As this newsletter goes to press several test runs are taking place to explore how the service might work. The final details will be worked out over the next two months by a small group of residents, Ward Councillors, Lawrence Weston Community Transport and the City Council. The Councillors in the Neighbourhood Partnership will then be asked to approve the service at the end of May 2012.

To register your interest as a potential user of the service contact Adrian on 0117 9504431 or let Sam Parker (see details below) know.

Youth Links: Local People influencing future youth services

Young people, adult residents in Southmead, Henbury and Brentry and their councillors have been working through the Neighbourhood Partnership to influence how Youth Links will deliver our future youth and play services.

The Youth Forums and adult residents have drawn up a local list of what they want and this was agreed at the Neighbourhood Partnership on 24th January. Rose Richards, the Service Manager for Youth & Play Services came to this meeting. The Partnership asked for and received her agreement to set up a special meeting so local people could comment on the draft Specification so that their needs are built in to what goes out to future bidders.

Henbury and Brentry people have shown how much they care about their young people and the services they receive and that they can influence what happens through the Neighbourhood Partnership.

Hot off the press: this meeting will take place in the last two weeks of April. Please contact Keith Houghton (0117 922 2135) to find out about future events and meetings to influence Youth Links commissioning locally.

Contacts:

Keith Houghton, Area Co-ordinator, Telephone: 0117 9222135, Or e-mail to: keith.houghton@bristol.gov.uk

Sam Parker, BCC Neighbourhood Development Officer,Telephone: 0117 9223029, e-mail: sam.parker@bristol.gov.uk

http://bristolpartnership.org/neighbourhood-partnerships/henbury-a-southmead