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 Valley Community Forum will take place on Wednesday 7th March 2012 at Belton Village Hall, School Lane, Belton, LE12 9TU.
The Agenda is still being finalised but is likely to include the following topics:-
Active Together Programme
Turning Empty Houses into Homes
There will also be an update on the projects that were successful in gaining funding from the recent Community Forum budget process.
Please come along from 6.30pm for the chance to network and information share, prior to the meeting commencing at 7pm.
Please also note:
As indicated within the Terms of Reference each Community Forum Chairman shall be up for election every two years. This year, the Valley Chairman has reached the end of this two year position, and, along with the position of Vice-Chair, both opportunities are therefore open to all for election.
Any resident of the Community Forum area can become a Chair or Vice Chair, and the main responsibilities are:
• Make sure that the Community Forum reflects the interests of the community
• Makes sure that the agendas are of interest and use to the community and partners
• Make sure that recommendations made by the Forum are followed up
• Act as a spokesperson on behalf of the Forum
Support in this role is offered.
Attached guidance on what it means to be a chairman can be found by selecting the blue link below. Should you have any further questions on the role, or would like to put yourself forward, please do not hesitate to contact Derk van der Wardt, 0116 305 7581 by Friday 2nd March, 2012.
Recent Meetings
Valley Community Forum Budgeting Workshop
Leicestershire County Council has made funds available to all 25 Community Forums in the county.
The Valley Community Forum had £12,500 available per year for local communities to invest in local improvements of their choice.
How did local communities get involved?
Ten local groups and organisations requested a share of the £12,500 allocated to the Valley Community Forum area, with projects ranging from outdoor play equipment to the purchase of a tables and chairs for a village hall and delivery of a local music festival. By sending in project proposal forms prior to the workshop, other local residents and organisations were able to view & comment on submitted Project Proposals via the website, and make suggestions on how the projects could be further improved or developed.
The Valley Community Forum Budget Workshop, took place on 16th November, where projects were discussed in detail, and all present were able to vote on their favourite projects.
For further information on the results, please see below.
For more information, please contact 0116 305 7034
On Thursday 22nd September between 4pm and 6pm, the Big Society Roadshow for this Community Forum area, will take place at the Packington Memorial Hall, High Street, Packington, LE65 1WH.
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 your District, to find out more about what is being done to support the development of the Big Society in Leicestershire.
For further information please see the link below http://www.leics.gov.uk/bigsociety
and the attached flyer.