Meetings
Please find below information on your most recent and upcoming Area Forum.
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 Forum will be held at Sileby Redlands Community Primary School, King Street, Sileby, LE12 7LZ starting at 7.00pm.
The agenda and poster for the meeting will be available in due course.
The last meeting was be held at Burton on the Wolds Village Hall. About 30 people attended the meeting and the main focus of the meeting was an update on the development of the projects supported by the Forum's budget.
The papers for this meeting can be accessed by clicking the link above.
The last meeting of the Quorn, Barrow, Sileby and the Wolds Area Forum was held at Rawlins Community College.
Sixty one people attended the meeting and discussed progress on the projects bought forward through the participatory budget process. A recommendation was accepted by the Forum to fund the following projects:
Sileby transport for young people; £2,500 allocated to Voluntary Action Charnwood to earmark for the training of volunteer drivers in Sileby and for subsidising trips by local young people’s groups from Sileby.
Baldwin Trust; £1,500 as a contribution towards the cost of making modifications at a new berth (Pillings Marina) for disabled access to the narrow boat.
Noticeboards; £3,000 to be allocated (£1,000 to Sileby Parish Plan Group, £1,000 to Barrow and £1,000 to Wymeswold) to increase the impact created by environmental improvements and improve community information.
Barrow Church Community Centre: £2,000 allocated towards the development of a suitably equipped kitchen for healthy living education.
Safe Cycle parking; Up to £1,000 to provide cycle stands in four villages.
Seagrave cemetery of remembrance; £750 towards costs of a new garden and seating.
Wymeswold Trim Trail; £1,000 towards the trim Trail providing health recreational opportunities for the whole community and villages around.
The recommendations agreed above will now be put to Charnwood Together for final endorsement before funding can be released.
The papers for this meeting can be accessed by clicking the link above.