Winterbourne, Hambrook and Frenchay Safer Stronger Community Group

Your local Safer Stronger Community Group needs you!

South Gloucestershire's 20 Safer Stronger Community Groups are all about working together to improve your local community. The groups also enable you to have your say about the services that your community receives.

These groups have been set up as part of the Neighbourhood Policing Model and South Gloucestershire Council's Community Engagement initiative.  Their members include people who live and work in the area and representatives from the local police, Avon Fire & Rescue, Primary Care Trust, South Gloucestershire Council, the Town & Parish Council and other local organisations. The aim is to:

• work together to ensure that local communities are safe and pleasant places to live, work and play
• give local people a greater voice and influence over local decisions and the priorities of the service providers
• fund and support a number of initiatives that help the local community, such as shop-radio schemes, CCTV, Community Speedwatch, young people's and older people's projects, and community engagement projects.

The next meeting of Winterbourne, Hambrook and Frenchay Safer Stronger Community Group is on the Tuesday 23rd March 2010 at 7pm in All Saints Church Hall, Church Road, Winterbourne Down,   BS36 1BX.

The next Safer Stronger Initiative Grant Fund round will open in April 2010.

Priorities identified at meeting held on 10th September 2009

ASB - Dragon Road 

Proposed Actions: Police to investigate.                                 

Traffic/parking around Hambrook School 

Proposed Actions: Police to have presence during peak times. South Gloucestershire Safer Stronger Community Officer to liaise with Camera Safety Partnership.       

ASB - Empty house on Down Road 

Proposed Actions: Police to liaise with builder to ensure property is secure.  Police to increase patrols. 

Information on previous priorities and outcomes can be viewed in the Minutes for each meeting.    

'If you would like to attend our meetings and require a interpreter to be present, please contact Sarah Milne 01454 864634 sarah.milne@southglos.gov.uk to make arrangements. We can also supply our Community Group minutes and publications in other community languages. '