The Melton West Community Forum was held at Gaddesby Village Hall, 20 Ashby Road, Gaddesby LE7 4WF.

At the meeting there was a presentation for the Community Forum Budgets and Melton West resident were encouraged to apply for funding.
The results from green spaces consultation was also presented on the night and both these presentations are now available.

The minutes from the meeting will be posted here shortly

The next community Forum is the workshop and here are the key dates for project submissions:-
- Budget Workshop: 21 Nov 2011, 6-9pm
- Deadline for Project Ideas: 2 Nov 2011
For more information about the funding click here

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 Grimston Village Hall and attended by 40 people.

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.

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. People present were concerned that those not able to be used the opportunity presented by the consultation online, available until 15th April 2011.

Cllr Joe Orson, chair of the Forum, was pleased that people from across the whole area had attended the meeting and taken part in the Green Spaces exercise. In a very useful questions and answers session, local residents asked questions about a whole range of issues, and officers are now charged with taking these away and getting responses.

Please on the link above to access the papers.

The last meeting of Melton West Community Forum was held at Somerby Memorial Hall starting at 7.00pm.

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

The next meeting of the Forum will be at Grimston Village Hall on 23rd March 2011, 7pm. Please make a note in your diaries!

The last Melton West Community Forum was held at Captain's Close Primary School in Asfordby.

Some 38 people attended the meeting and discussed progress on projects brought up through the Forum's participatory budget process. A recommendation was accepted by the Forum to fund the following projects:

Old Dalby Cricket Club (to fund a good quality cricket pitch mower and train ground staff) £8,000
Rotary Life Education project (to deliver life education skills to children in rural schools through a mobile project) £2,500
Gaddesby Play facilities (to fund a play area for Under Fives in the village) £3,000
The remaining £6,500 will be allocated to other projects that were proposed at the workshop meeting in September 2009.

Richard Downing and Paul Goodman from Leicestershire County Council will be meeting with those project proposers to try to progress their ideas.

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

The last meeting of the Melton West and parishes Community Forum was held at Ashby Folville Village Hall on Thursday 3rd September 2009.

Members of the community attended and shared their ideas about how they thought the Forum budget of £20,000 would best be used to improve the local area within the following priorities;
Improving access to services
Supporting and Developing young people
Supporting the local economy

There were a number of lively and interesting discussions around the workshop tables and by the end of the meeting everyone present used "voting handsets" to choose their preferred three options from a short-list of nine that were gathered on the evening. The three most favoured ideas were all around opportunities for supporting and developing young people; through the Old Dalby Cricket Club project, the Rotary Life Education project and the Gaddesby Playground project.

All agreed that they had enjoyed meeting other people from other villages in the West area and had been pleased and surprised at the number of good ideas put forward.

A task group of officers will now look into what needs to happen to put into action the favoured project ideas put forward and report back to the next meeting of the Community Forum in the New Year for endorsement.

To view all the project ideas and how the voting went please click on the link below.

For further information please contact Richard Downing on 0116 3055823 (or email rpdowning@leics.gov.uk) or Paul Goodman on 0116 3058015 (or email pgoodman@leics.gov.uk)

The last meeting of the Melton West Community Forum took place on Thursday 26th March 2009 at Nether Broughton Village Hall.

Issues discussed included tackling heavy goods traffic and partnership working to improve community safety in the area. The meeting also heard of a new mobile youth project serving Melton area villages and received information about advice services to help residents in the current economic downturn.

To view the papers for the meeting please click on the link above.

Started at 7pm at Kirby Bellars Village Hall, Melton Mowbray, Leicstershire, LE14 2EA

Please come along to the next meeting on Thursday 5th June at 6.00pm at Kirby Bellars Village Hall, Main Street, Kirby Bellars, LE14 2EA