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 next meeting of the Lutterworth, Broughton Astley and Rural West Community Forum will take place on Thursday 1st March 2012; the venue is
Sutton Baptist Church,
2 Sutton Lane,
Broughton Astley,
Leicestershire
LE9 6QF
NOTE - THE ADDRESS HAS RECENTLY CHANGED TO THE ABOVE!
The Agenda will include an update on the next round of Community Forum Budgets.
An opportunity for local residents to find out more about what can be done to help improve broadband connectivity in Leicestershire.
Please come from 6.30 pm for the chance to network and find out about the Local Leicestershire Access Forum and share your views. The meeting will commence at 7.00pm.
The final agenda will appear here shortly.
Recent Meetings
COMMUNITY FORUM BUDGET RESULTS:
The results from the Lutterworth, Broughton Astley & Rural West forum are now in. The forum has 6 projects that have been provisionally allocated funds with another project getting part funding. The projects are: -
1 - Arnesby Village hall £1325
2 - Getting Lutterworth Growing £ 593
3 - Theddingworth Play Area £5000
4 - Family Support Project £1307
5 - Small Grants Fund £4000
6 - Hire of Thermal Imaging Camera £ 450
Reserve Project Little Rainbows recieves the balance of £2325
TOTAL £15,000
The next stage is for for the task group to meet and check that the criteria has been met. Once these checks are done an offer letter will be sent out by LCC.
The projects will be delivered between January and the end of June 2012.
There is still a chance for communities to get involved...
There is another round in May - July 2012 where your community group could get the funding required so come along to your next forum meeting planned for February 2012 where more information will be available. Want to know more about the process and funds available in this years round click here!
For the introduction & results presentation see the links below: -
On Monday 26th September, between 4pm and 6pm, there will be the Big Society Roadshow for Harborough, at Voluntary Action South Leicestershire, St Mary’s Place, Market Harborough, LE16 7DR.
This event will support 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.
We hope to encourage community members and community groups to come along to the event in their District, to find out more about what is being done to support the development of the Big Society in Leicestershire.
For further information click the link above.