Thriving Neighbourhoods Board
The people of Bristol are fiercely proud of their communities – and rightly so. But many people would like to be able to to make the place they live even more vibrant, supportive, safe, clean and green. We would like to make sure that everyone feels that they can influence what goes on in their area and knows how to get involved in their Neighbourhood Partnership if they want to.
We would also like to ensure that people can get involved in shaping the way services are delivered in their area; from bins to buse
In order to strengthen our communities we will put in place processes that make it much easier for people to influence decisions in their area. Therefore we will concentrate on:
- Effective Neighbourhood Partnerships
- Social Cohesion and Equalities
- Civic pride and involvement
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Download our action plan to see what we’re doing.
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The Thriving neighbourhoods Board takes the lead on two important indicators:
NI 5 - measure how people feel about being able to influence decisions in their area
NI 7 - measures how voluntary sector organisaitons feel they are supported by the Partnership
Because these are "perception" measures - that is to say they measure how people feel - they are very difficult to make specific plans that will deliver an improvement. One thing we can do is ensure that everyone is aware of how they can get involved, and hope that by becoming involved, they will feel they are able to influence decisions. The other thing is to make sure that partnership organisations then react to that influence - otherwise you will rightly say there is no point in trying to influence the decisions in the first place.
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