The last meeting was held at the new Scout Hut, (Wilton Road car park), Melton Mowbray LE13 0UJ

Over 40 people attended the meeting and listened to presentations on:-

- the East Leics & Rutland GP Consortium and impact on Latham House
- How the community can access £12,500 from Leicestershire County Council
- Feedback on the Green Spaces Exercise
- How Credit Union can help people financially amongst other various local issues.

Presentations can be accessed by clicking the above link. Minutes can be found below.

The next meeting will be a special workshop on Community Forum Budgets on Tue 6th Dec.

The County Council, Melton Borough Council and Voluntary Action Leicestershire are holding an event to support Village Halls and Community Centres in Melton on 28th June, 5.30pm - 9.00pm.

It is free to attend.

To book a place please contact Paul Goodman on 0116 3058015 or click on the link above.

The last meeting was held at the Royal British Legion Club, Thorpe End, Melton Mowbray LE13 1RB on Thursday 17th February 2011.

An informal networking and information session took place from 6.30 until 7.00pm in which people met and talked to local councillors, and viewed exhibitions from Melton Borough Council, Leicestershire County Council, Neighbourhood Watch and Census 2011.

Cllr Peter Roffey was elected as chair of the Forum for the next two years and Cllr Pam Posnett as vice chair.

The main agenda item was an interactive discussion which canvassed opinion and views on local green spaces. Local residents from the Forum area indicated on maps provided the green spaces they value and why they value them. The results will be collated and this will help to inform local policy and planning processes as well as our response to emerging national policies.

To view the papers from the meeting please click the blue link above.

The last meeting was held at the new Scout Hut, (Wilton Road car park), Melton Mowbray LE13 0UJ

Some 33 people attended the meeting and considered presentations on tourism in Melton, the needs of young people in Melton, how anti-social behaviour is being tackled and the Winter maintenance of the road network.

Please click on on the link above for papers for this meeting.

The next meeting will be on 17th February 2011. Please make a note of this date in your diaries.

The last meeting of the Melton Town Community Forum was held at Melton Mowbray Working Men's Club.

Some 55 people attended the meeting and discussed progress on the projects that had arisen through the Forum's participatory budget process. A recommendation was accepted by the Forum to fund the following projects:

Kayaks for young people and walkway. This project is about providing a footpath which will give safe access to the Scout centre. Melton Borough Council have recently given £20,000 towards creating a new Centre which will allow young people opportunities through kayaking and canoeing. £5,000 is allocated to this project.
Melton Learning Hub. MLH is becoming a Company Limited by Guarantee and the allocation of this funding will allow it to create a website and on-line prospectus to promote its service to young people in the Melton area and around. £8,000 is allocated to this project.
Melton Victorian Christmas Fayre. This project is to enable the Fayre to be secured as an event with a sustainable future. £3,000 is allocated to this project.
St John's Ambulance. This project to to buy resuscitation dummies that the St John's Ambulance brigade can use to train first aid skills in schools and local charities. The funding request is lower than originally asked for due to a donation from Melton Lions. £2,380 is allocated to this project.
River regeneration project. The funding will pay for the convertion of a water-based vehicle to dredge the river of a build up of weeds and debris, especially in the area close to the Scouts centre. £1,620 is allocated to this project.

After the discussion on the Forum budget had ended, the meeting went on to discuss a number of issues of importance and concern. Rowena Langtry, from Leicestershire and Rutland NHS, answered a number of questions over concern for the future arrangements of Urgent care locally. Urgent care is medical treatment that you need quickly, but your condition is not serious or life-threatening. It is things like bad falls, tummy pains, a child with a worsening fever or cuts, bruises and sprains that need immediate attention

NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland will be launching a public consultation on urgent care later in the year, after the General Election, asking people their opinions on three options:
• keeping everything as it currently is, including the minor injury units;
• just having three urgent care centres; or
• having three urgent care centres plus Saturday morning access to GP services in all localities
A number of local people expressed concern over the third option and the distance that Melton people would need to travel to access the Urgent care centres. They also had concerns over the future of the Melton hospital.
The Community Forum will provide a link to the public consultation when it is live later in the year. In the mean time, members of the public can access information by using the following websites:
http://www.lcr.nhs.uk/Gettinginvolved-Consultations-2010.cms
http://www.leicestershirelink.org.uk/

To view papers for this meeting please click the link.

The last meeting of the Melton Town Community Forum was held held at the Royal British Legion club, Melton Mowbray.

More than sixty members of the community attended a workshop and shared their ideas about how they think a Forum budget of £20,000 can best be used within the following priorities;

Improving access to services
Supporting and developing young people
Regenerating Melton Mowbray town centre

There were a number of lively and interesting discussions around the various tables and there were 17 intial project ideas.

After the intial vote, all residents used "voting handsets" to choose the final preferences from a short-list of nine. The four most supported preferences were Kayaks for young people and a safe walkway, Melton Learning Hub, Victorian Christmas Fayre and St John's Ambulance CPR dummies.

Most people seemed to have enjoyed a friendly and inter-active Community Forum with one particpant commenting that he "enjoyed meeting other people, and having a laugh, and hearing about good, new ideas".

To view the voting results please click on the blue links below.

If you would like more detailed information on the process, please click here.

For further information please contact Richard Downing on 0116 3055823 (or email richard.downing@leics.gov.uk) or Paul Goodman on 0116 3058015 (or email paul.goodman@leics.gov.uk).

The last meeting of Melton Town Community Forum was held on Wednesday 18th March 2009 at Dalby Road Community and Childrens Centre.

The issues discussed included help for local people and businesses in surviving the economic downturn. These include Clockwise Credit Union, the Citizens Advice Bureau and the support for families from the local Childrens Centres. Forum members also heard of a potential new opportunity in the shape of the town becoming a National Champion for Rural and Regional Food. Community Safety continues to be a high priority and will be the main agenda item for the next Forum meeting in the Autumn.

The date and venue of that meeting is not yet decided but will be posted on the website as soon as possible.

This meeting started at 7pm at Sysonby Street Children’s Centre, Sysonby Street, Melton Mowbray, LE13 0LP, Tel: (01664) 502 502.

Items discussed included Help on personal finance matters, Melton Learning hub and Influencing the Big Budget in Leicestershire.

The first public meeting of the Melton Town Forum was held on Monday 23rd of June in the Samworth Centre in Melton Mowbray.

27 people attended, including members of the public, four members of Melton Youth Council including the Young Mayor of Melton, County Councillors and Borough Councillors.

Malise Graham, Leader of Melton Borough Council, was nominated to take on the role of Chair for this meeting.

For more information about what happened, take a look at the minutes below.

The next meeting will be in November but we have yet to confirm the details. We will publish them on this website as soon as we have them.