partnership board
Like all other Communities First areas Stow Hill has a community Partnership Board whose job is to develop a vision of the changes they would like to see in Stow Hill in five and ten years time and to produce a plan for delivering these changes. They also have the responsibility of managing the changes and of ensuring that the changes meet with the needs of local people. (Meetings of the Partnership Board are held regularly and all are open to members of the community).
Find out more about the Partnership Board and the way it works. view the Diary of meetings online.
How will they find out what local people need?
- Firstly, there is ECHO Stow Hill a community group which is a fully constituted body serving the interests of the community. Individuals and groups with a stake in the community and an interest in benefiting its inhabitants can become members. ECHO Stow Hill and the Partnership Board are working closely together. For more information contact Ann Vaughan at the ECHO Stow Hill office tel: 243303.
- Secondly, Stow Hill Communities First has a full time Development Worker, Helen Cooper. One of her chief roles is to meet with local people and local groups to find out their needs and how they feel their life and work in the area can be made better. You can contact Helen on tel: 243303.
- Thirdly, the Partnership Board will be conducting a survey of residents over the coming months aimed as finding out their views about the community and their needs.
Lastly,
and most important of all there’s YOU. Without your active help it will
be so much more difficult to make the improvements that would make life
happier and easier in the area of Stow Hill. So, don’t wait for us to
come to you instead phone or write to us with any ideas you may have or
assistance you can give.
Meetings of the Partnership Board are held roughly every six weeks mostly at the ECHO Stow Hill office. Meetings of groups dealing with particular areas of concern are also held on a regular basis.
At present there are three of these groups:-
- Health/Wellbeing and Active Community
- Environment and Crime/Community Safety
- Education/Training and Jobs/Business
The aim of each group is to produce a document setting out a vision for the community as residents and users would like to see it and then to develop an action plan for turning this vision into reality.
