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 Shepshed High School, Forest Road, Shepshed LE12 9DA, starting at 7pm.
The agenda and poster for the meeting will be available in due course.
The last meeting was held at Hathern Club, 44 Dovecote Street, Hathern. 31 people attended the meeting and listened to various presentations including a Community-led plan for Shepshed. The Rural Community Council are still actively seeking volunteers to join the group, which is seeking to engage peoples views on how Shepshed can be improved. For further details please contact Hazel Fish at Leicestershire Rural Community Council (Tel 0116 2689707 or email hfish@ruralcc.org.uk). Other presentations included adult learning services in the area, a PCT consultation on pharmaceutical needs assessment, and how agencies are working together to tackle anti-social behaviour.
The meeting also heard the latest on the progress of the Forum's projects - Shepshed ABC boxing,Hathern Half-pipe, Shepshed Volunteer Centre and 4th Shepshed Scouts roof.
To see all papers from this meeting please click the link above.
The last meeting of Shepshed and Hathern Area Forum was held at Christchurch Methodist Church in Shepshed.
Some 34 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:
Shepshed ABC boxing club;
(to install sound-proofing) £3,600 has been set aside for this subject to the club successfully appealing against a planning decision.
Hathern Half-pipe;
(a key element that young people need for skateboarding) £5,558.18 has been set aside for this, subject to the young people concerned reaching agreement with Hathern Parish Council
Shepshed Volunteer Centre;
(to enable the Volunteer Centre to safeguard its long term future) £5,500 has been set aside to allow the Volunteer Centre and Voluntary Action Charnwood to work together to plan its future services
4th Shepshed Scouts;
(to replace the roof and ensure the continuation of a long-standing base for the Scouts) £5,341.82
The recommendations agreed above will now be put to Charnwood Together for final endorsement before funding can be released.
To see all papers from this meeting please click the link above.