You can apply now to the Neighbourhood Partnership small grant fund for  funding for your small group.  Through the Neighbourhood Partnership there is £10,000 funding available for each ward of Bishopsworth, Hartcliffe and Whitchurch Park. In this area we are choosing to spend that money on small grants to the community. Individuals or groups can apply for up to £1,000 to make improvements to their area.

If you are interested in applying for a grant please read the attached information and complete the application form, including all necessary details.  

Paper copies of the application form are available from HWCP @symes community resource centre, Symes District Centre, Peterson Avenue, Hartcliffe, BS13 0BE. Tel Reception (0117) 903 8044.  

Completed forms must be received by Reception by 5pm on 31 December 2009. Any late applications will not be considered.

Applications are assessed by a local panel of councillors and residents (at least one of each from each ward). No-one connected to any application can be involved in the decision-making to avoid conflicts of interest.

 

 

Partners and Communities Together (PACT) gives you the opportunity to influence what happens in your neighbourhood and is Avon and Somerset Police's local policing pledge to you. It is a mechanism whereby neighbourhood issues, identified through local meetings, are taken to a partnership panel, where courses of action are agreed. The meeting dates for the local area are:

Bishopsworth:

Tuesday 8^th December, 7-9pm at Computershare,The Pavillions

Hartcliffe:

Wednesday 9^th December, 7-9pm at Hartcliffe Methodist Church

Whitchurch Park:

Thursday 10^th December, 7-9pm, Wansdyke Primary School

SPOOKY PARADE STEWARDS WANTED

Positions available:

Play workshop assistants – Kings Head Park Mon 26^th , Big P Weds 28^th, Withywood Park Thurs 29^th 11.30am – 5.30pm or whatever time you can give!

Bonfire builders – Saturday 31^st Oct from 3pm – 5pm

Bonfire stewards - Saturday 31^st Oct from 5pm – 11pm

Parade Stewards – Saturday 31^st Oct from 5pm – 7.30pm

All volunteers are entitled to free play awareness training and expenses. We’ll provide hi-vis, first aid, H&S and all legal requirements. For further details contact CSV: out2play.csve@gmail.com

Your opportunity to comment Bristol and North Somerset Councils have developed a scheme to improve transport links between Hartcliffe roundabout and the Long Ashton Bypass. The scheme includes a new single-carriageway road, rapid transit and segregated cycle/pedestrian route. The South Bristol Link is one of several major transport schemes that we are progressing that will improve access for South Bristol.
We welcome your views and invite you to come along to public exhibitions where you can speak to us and help us with your detailed understanding of the local area.


Public exhibitions are being held at:

Geoff Cargill Hall, The Withywood Centre Queen’s Road
Monday 2 November
1pm to 8pm

Jubilee Pavilion, Long Ashton Community Centre, Keedwell Hill
Tuesday 3 November
1pm to 8pm

Ashton Vale Youth Club, Silbury Road
Wednesday 4 November
1pm to 8pm

Also online at:
www.westofengland.org/southbristollink

FREE training course for members of family support groups supporting parents in Hartcliffe & Withywood! Would you like to learn how to develop and manage your group so you can keep running in the longer term?

Grow Your Group is a free, 8 week course with informative and practical sessions on Setting up, Group Dynamics, Community Involvement, Finance & Fundraising , Childcare & Safety, Business Management and Next Steps. Delivered by Single Parent Action Network and funded by Capacity Builders, the course runs every Friday (term-time only) 9.45am-2.30pm @ Hartcliffe Children’s Centre, starts 2nd October - 11th December.  Free lunch and childcare provided plus free course manual for each group who completes the course! For more info & to request a booking form, please contact Lynn Campbell @ SPAN on 0117 9514 231 or email lynnc@spanuk.org.uk.

Come on everyone, let's help the Hartcliffe Children's Centre to win favourite community building award!

You've got till September 11 to vote - just visit www.thisisbristol.co.uk/ribaawards and click on the voting column to the right.

There was a piece about the award in the Bristol Evening Post - see below.


Tell us what is your favourite community building
Saturday, August 29, 2009,
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Tell-favourite-community-building/article-1294884-detail/article.html
They are spaces where mums meet, children play and groups come together and now Evening Post readers can vote on their favourite community building.

As part of the Royal Institute of British Architects South West's annual Town & Country Design awards, four buildings that make a real difference to those who rely on them have been shortlisted for the Community Award.
St Nicholas of Tolentino church in Lawrence Hill and Hartcliffe children's centre are the Bristol buildings bidding for the prize with Market House in Martock, and Minehead Enterprise Park, the Somerset contenders.

Jon Watkins, head of RIBA South West, said: "Recognising good design for purpose is a principle of RIBA's aim to advance architecture by demonstrating benefit to society and this award asks readers to choose what makes good architecture fit for purpose in their neck of the woods."

To vote on your favourite building visit www.thisisbristol.co.uk/ribaawards. The deadline for voting is September 11.

The winning project, as voted by our readers, will be presented with the award at a ceremony at FutureInn Cabot Circus on September 30, hosted by chief executive of the UK Green Building Council Paul King and the Lord Mayor of Bristol.