October 4, 2010
by Catherine Russell
Project Update
The second Community Taskforce was spent coming up with ideas in which the community could tackle the priority issues identified in Taskforce No. 1 – Anti-Social Behaviour & Community Parenting. After generating dozens of potential ideas these were narrowed down to a top two:
- Inter-generational Projects – Looking at a number of small projects such as beading, or gardening to encourage different generations in the Heath to mix more.
- Youth ownership of a BMX track - Offering the community ownership of projects in return for their involvement, for example the building of a local BMX track.
The group tasked us to go away and research these ideas – speaking to as many people as possible who could offer advice or potentially get involved in some way with the projects… If we have missed you and you would be interested in getting involved in some way with either of these ideas then please get in touch, we would love to hear from you!
We’re now looking forward to sharing our findings with the Community Taskforce on Tuesday 5th October at the ‘Big Folly’ site of the Little Folly Children’s Centre between 5 and 7 pm. Please do come along if you’re interested – the more the merrier!
Aside from Taskforce activities we have been busy working with service providers, mapping out people’s ‘journeys’ as they access services and thinking about how things could be done differently. We have also been spending days with families in Bemerton Heath – looking at services from their point of view to better understand the situations people are facing.
