Meetings
Please find below information on your most recent and upcoming Community Forum meetings.
We welcome your suggestions for topics for discussion, but please note we cannot guarantee their inclusion on the agenda. In some cases it may be that we include your topic at a further meeting or deal with it outside of the Forum meeting. We will contact you to feedback any action that has been taken. Please use the form below to let us have your suggestion for discussion topics or question(s) you want to raise during the ‘Question Time’ slot.
Upcoming Meetings
The Spring 2012 Blaby Central Community Forum has the following topics proposed:
• Education funding
• School Sports Partnership Developments
• Community Forum Budgets 2011 – successful allocation of £15,000 to local projects, plus alternative funding identified for three additional projects
• Community Forum Budgets 2012 – how can local residents and groups get involved with the next workshop (scheduled for May)?
If you would like to suggest a topic for consideration please do so by calling 0116 305 8169 or by clicking this link.
Please also note:
As indicated within the Terms of Reference each Community Forum Chairman shall be up for election every two years. This year, the Blaby Central Chairman has reached the end of this two year position, and, along with the position of Vice-Chair, both opportunities are therefore open to all for election.
Any resident of the Community Forum area can become a Chair or Vice Chair, and the main responsibilities are:
• Make sure that the Community Forum reflects the interests of the community
• Makes sure that the agendas are of interest and use to the community and partners
• Make sure that recommendations made by the Forum are followed up
• Act as a spokesperson on behalf of the Forum
Support in this role is offered.
Attached guidance on what it means to be a chairman can be found by selecting the blue link below. Should you have any further questions on the role, or would like to put yourself forward, please do not hesitate to contact Derk van der Wardt, 0116 305 7581 by Wednesday 22nd February, 2012.
Recent Meetings
Blaby Central Community Forum Budgeting Workshop
Leicestershire County Council has made funds available to all 25 Community Forums in the county.
The Blaby Central Community Forum had £15k available per year for local communities to invest in local improvements of their choice.
How did local communities get involved?
Nine local groups and organisations requested a share of the £15,000 allocated to the Blaby Central Community Forum area, with projects ranging from outdoor play equipment to the introduction of a Well Family Clinic and mobile youth service provision. By sending in project proposal forms prior to the workshop, other local residents and organisations were able to view & comment on submitted Project Proposals via the website, and make suggestions on how the projects could be further improved or developed.
The Blaby Central Community Forum Budget Workshop, took place on 24th October, where projects were discussed in detail, and all present were able to vote on their favourite projects.
For further information on the results, please see below.
For more information, please contact 0116 305 7034.
On 15th September, a Big Society Roadshow for your Community Forum area, took place at The Pavilion, Sports Field Lane, Huncote, LE9 3BN.
This event supported the principle of ‘Helping to develop the Big Society in your local Community', providing information on Leicestershire County Council's Community Forum Budgets, the Big Society Grant Fund and other relevant funding information.