Henbury & Southmead Meetings

Joint Neighbourhood Partnership and Committee Meeting

Date: Tuesday 14th September 2010

Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm

Venue: United Reformed Church, Wigton Crescent, Southmead

Contact: Keith Houghton

Tel: 0117 922 2135

Neighbourhood Forum Meetings

Neighbourhood Forum meetings are a key element in how Bristol’s services – the Council, the Police, Health, Fire & Rescue – deliver better responses to the key concerns of residents in local neighbourhoods. They are open to anyone in a ward to attend. They are:

• A key route through which residents in a Neighbourhood influence how their local services deliver the improvements that are important to them in their neighbourhood
• A place where residents can get information and ask for action from service providers to sort out problems and issues
• Neighbourhood Forums incorporate the PACT meetings which have been happening for some time in Bristol
• Forums can take up a broad range of concerns and problems that residents are experiencing, not just crime and community safety issues.

How do they work?

• Every ward will have 4 Neighbourhood Forums a year, with some locally-agreed variations
• Usually they’ll take the form of a meeting in a local, accessible community venue
• Each Forum will be shaped by what works in each Neighbourhood but they will all include:
  • 'You Said, We Did’: a report back of what actions have been taken with the issues raised at previous Neighbourhood
  • Forums Raising new concerns and issues – they can come from meetings, events, surveys and conversations which have taken place in all sorts of community settings as well as from the people attending the actual Forum
  • Agreeing how issues will be taken forward for action
• Forums should ideally be chaired by a resident, supported by representatives from local services. Local Councillors also play a key role in taking issues raised forward.

How do issues raised at Neighbourhood Forums get taken forward?

• Issues for action get agreed
• The more straightforward issues which can be dealt with by one service, such as the police or a department in the Council can get taken up there and then if they need action or be sent on after the meeting
• More complex problems get sent on the Neighbourhood Delivery Team. This is a problem-solving team which brings together all the services which deliver in a neighbourhood.

Meeting dates For Henbury Ward:

• Wednesday 11th August 2010 - Scout Hut, Tranmere Avenue at 6pm
• Wednesday 10th November 2010 - Scout Hut, Tranmere Avenue at 6pm

Meeting dates For Southmead Ward:

• Thursday 19th August 2010 - United Reformed Church, Wigton Crescent, Southmead, 6.30 - 8.30pm
• Thursday 11th November 2010 - United Reformed Church, Wigton Crescent, Southmead, 6.30-8.30pm