The City Council has allocated Neighbourhood Officers for each area of the City and publishes a bulletin of information likely to be of interest to residents. Here is the recent Neighbourhood Bulletin with links to various events and activities.
In this month’s bulletin…
· Norfolk Says No Week: Free domestic abuse briefing sessions
· Items for free: A fridge and a pool table
· Dementia cafe
· Norwich Reading Project for 5 – 7 year olds in Lakenham
· Project Low Income – an opportunity for parents of children aged 0 – 5
· Funding: innovative horticulture
· Funding: Norwich City Council’s annual grants
· Funding: Norfolk Warm and Well Fund
· Norwich City Council budget consultation
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Norfolk Says No Week: Free domestic abuse briefing sessions
As one of its partner contributions to the 2014 Norfolk says No campaign, Norwich City council is hosting a series of one hour briefing sessions on domestic abuse and online / electronic abuse throughout campaign week at City Hall in Norwich.
The briefing sessions are just one hour in duration and aim to raise awareness of the issues and provide information on support services available. The sessions are free to attend, but booking is essential.
Please select one of the sessions from the list below and email Jo Sapsford at joannasapsford@norwich.gov.uk to request a place. These sessions are very popular and are booked fast so please do so ASAP.
To ensure that all organisations / representatives get the opportunity to attend, attendance will be selected and confirmed via email by close of business on Wednesday 19 November at the latest.
Monday 24 November, 4 – 5pm
Tuesday 25 November, 1 – 2pm
Tuesday 25 November, 4 – 5pm
Wednesday 26 November, 4 – 5pm
Thursday 27 November, 1 – 2pm
In addition, on Thursday 27 November from 4 – 5pm there will be a briefing session about online / electronic abuse.
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Items for free: A fridge and a pool table
The Jubilee Centre has an old pool table and a working fridge-freezer going free to a good home. The pool table comes without any cues or balls, and has a separate base to make transporting easier. If any community groups are interested, please reply to this bulletin and I will pass your details on. The sooner they can be collected, the better.
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Dementia café
The Alzheimer’s Society are running two dementia cafes in the South of Norwich:
Norwich City Centre Dementia Café
Meets on the third Friday of the month, 10 am to 12 pm at
Chapel Field Methodist Church, Chapel Field Road, Norwich NR2 1SD
South Norwich Dementia Café
Meets on the first Wednesday of the month, 2 pm to 4 pm at
Harford Hill Day Centre, Ipswich Road Community Hub, 120 Ipswich Road, Norwich NR4 6QS
For more details, please contact Claire Stiles on Claire.stiles@alzheimers.org.uk.
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Norwich Reading Project for 5 – 7 year olds in Lakenham
Does your child find reading hard? Is your child aged 5 – 7? Norwich Reading Project are a new charity running reading session at The Base on Cecil Road, Norwich. Sessions are every Saturday morning during term time – 10am – 11:30am. For more information, contact them on 07887 61696407887 616964.
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Project Low Income – an opportunity for parents of children aged 0 – 5
The National Children’s Bureau are looking for parents / carers of a child aged between 0 and 5 who are currently living on a low income to talk about your views and experiences of health care and housing services in the area, and also a little about early years services.
They are looking to speak to them for 1hour 30 minutes with £25 incentive for their time and opinion between November 10th and December 12th.
Venue: Anywhere of the respondent chosen.eg. Local Library or any other public places
If you have any further questions, or are interested in taking part, contact Field Scope International on 01707 56604001707 566040 or email recruitment.fsi@fieldscopeint.com
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Funding: Innovative horticulture
Operating as an annual bursary programme, the English Garden Future Fund is rewarding projects that will inspire gardeners and promote horticulture in the UK. Each year for at least the next five years, the English Garden Magazine will award one recipient up to £5,000 to help fund or part-fund an innovative project, initiative, event, product, idea, research or development. The sponsor is particularly interested in projects where the award will be able to make a marked, notable difference and show obvious improvement, gains or some sort of completion within eight months of receiving the award. The closing date for applications is 28th November. For more details, visit www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/news-events/the-english-garden-future-fund
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Funding: Norwich City Council’s annual grants
A range of annual commissioning grants are available from Norwich City Council for the voluntary sector. For more information, go to http://www.norwich.gov.uk/YourCouncil/KeyDocuments/CouncilPoliciesAndStrategies/commissioning/Pages/Grants.aspx. The deadline is 26th Jan 2015.
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Funding: Norfolk Warm and Well Fund
The Norfolk Warm & Well Fund is now open for applications. It has been set up to support voluntary groups and charities that work to assist vulnerable people in their local community who face particular hardship over the winter months.
Grants of up to £2,500 are available for projects that help those in the community facing very real challenges as the weather gets colder; including the frail elderly, people with chronic medical conditions and the homeless. Families and children living in disadvantaged households are also included amongst those the Warm & Well Fund aims to support.
Projects can, for example, include activities that help to reduce isolation for older and disabled people, provide a hot meal or warm clothing, or help vulnerable people to access local services and information that may prevent a crisis situation arising.
Grants are not available to individuals. Constituted voluntary / community groups and charities can apply. Organisations such as churches and Parish Councils may also apply for projects that benefit the wider community and are outside statutory obligations.
For more information, go to www.norfolkfoundation.com/funds/warm-well-fund/
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Norwich City Council budget consultation
The Council is looking at what priorities it should have for the future and is preparing its budget for 2015-16 and continues to face a number of challenges and choices.
The Council would like to hear your views on the ways in which you contact us to access services and in particular what services you would like to access by electronic methods in the future and on proposals to introduce further 20mph zones.
To participate in the consultation please use the link below. The deadline is January 2015.
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As always, if you have any information you would like circulated – projects, events, news, then please just email it over to me and I will include it in the next bulletin.
Please feel free to circulate this email to anyone you think may be interested, and if they would like to be added to the distribution list – just let me know.
Max Griffiths
Community Engagement Officer
South Neighbourhood Team
Norwich City Council
City Hall
Norwich, NR2 1NH
Tel: 0344 980 3333
email: maxgriffiths@norwich.gov.uk
Norwich City Council
Gold Award Winner of ‘Council of the Year’ at the 2014 iESE Improvement and Efficiency Awards.
Winner of ‘Most Improved Council’ at the Local Government Chronicle Awards 2014.
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