Agenda item

To note the written updates attached to the agenda and to receive any verbal updates from representatives present.

 

a)    Salisbury City Council (SCC)

b)    Laverstock and Ford Parish Council

c)     Fire

d)    Salisbury BID

e)    Community Engagement Manager

f)      Health & Wellbeing Group

g)    Child Wellbeing Group

 

 

Note: Speakers are reminded that they each have a 3 minutes slot, unless they have previously discussed alternative arrangements with the Chairman.

The Board received the following partner and community updates:

 

Salisbury City Council (SCC) - Reg Williams; City Clerk:

 

·       On Friday 11 November there would be a Remembrance Day parade organised by the British Legion, from 11am at the Guildhall square – all welcome. The main service would be held on Sunday 13 November, starting with a parade from the Guildhall square, leading on to New Canal.

 

·       The Christmas Lights switch on would take place on Thursday 17 Nov, with guest appearance by Joey Essex.

 

·       The Christmas market would start one week later.

 

·       A Salisbury flood plan had now been adopted, with £18,000 of funds secured.

 

·       £76,000 had been secured to start the clear up process with an enhanced street cleaning scheme.

 

·       The Salisbury Bunker project was now underway and on time, with the aim of completing this after Christmas.

 

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service – Louis Minchella

 

Louis announced that this was his last meeting for the Salisbury area, as he was moving areas. His colleague Tom Brolan would take over in Salisbury the following week.

 

A written report was circulated at the meeting.

 

Officers had been working with primary schools on projects linked to the Great fire of London on the curriculum for KS1 & KS2 children. If other schools or groups would like the education advisers to visit, then go to the website to make contact so that a visit could be arranged.

 

Medical practices across Salisbury were pushing the agenda of home safety and the Safe & Well scheme. The team in Salisbury were making visits to assess people’s homes. If anyone was interested in having a visit could complete a leaflet.

 

The response figures for the last period show there had been 351 calls for first appliance and 148 for the on call appliance.

 

There had been a successful recruitment evening in September, with several possible new candidates coming forward.

 

The number of calls to false alarms up to the end of October 2016, was 5570 call outs, with 2000 actual visits.

 

Salisbury Business Improvement District (BID) - Steve Godwin:

 

The BID was entirely funded by businesses, and worked within the city ring road, to support all of the businesses. There were two BID Rangers which covered the City in a small vehicle, by going around to places the statutory services could not get to.

 

The BID, Salisbury City Council and the Area Board each gave £10k towards the project to purchase and install new waste bins around the city, which had now made such a difference.

 

Pubwatch had met earlier that day, members of this were all very proud of the Purple Flag award, which meant that Salisbury had been declared a safe vibrant city from 5pm to 5am. This year the assessors would be coming down on 3 December 2016, to survey the city and meet with partners.

 

The BID was planning on sending Christmas cards to 70,000 homes this year in a bid to promote Salisbury as a place to visit. The areas targeted would include Basingstoke, Winchester, Warminster, Trowbridge and Southampton. The idea was to draw people in form surrounding areas, to come and spend money in our pubs, restaurants and retail areas.

 

The planned Christmas market was a good opportunity to spend some money.

 

Community Engagement Manager – Karen Linaker:

 

A list of all that had been happening over past few month in the Community Area and by the Board was shown, and Karen updated on a few of those listed below:

 

•        27^th Sept, Children & Families Voluntary Sector Forum

•        27^th Sept, City Hall: Older People’s Event

•        28^th Sept, City Hall: budget consultation

•        28^th Sept, Men’s Sheds project networking

•        29^th Sept, Bee Friendly City initiative

•        4^th Oct, Registered the city as a DAA

•        6^th Oct : Health & Wellbeing Group

•        7^th Oct: Cathedral 2020 meeting

•        8^th Oct, Sustainable Salisbury event

•        11^th Oct, Keeping Salisbury Safe event

•        12^th Oct, Child Wellbeing Group

•        15^th Oct, Five Rivers Open Day

•        2^nd Nov, Age UK – facilitating older people’s voice

•        10^th Nov, Wiltshire Assembly

•        14^th Nov, Multi-cultural Salisbury networking forum

•        18^th Nov, Domestic Abuse Networking event

•        26^th Nov, Wiltshire Neighbourhood Watch Launch

•        29^th Nov, Autism Conference

•        1^st Dec, Our Community Matters event

•        Refugees

•        LGBT voices

 

13 members of Salisbury Shopmobility on scooters, powerchairs and a shopper walker took part in the Salisbury Festival of Walking with their Walk on Wheels across the Town path to Middle Street Meadow.  The walk was lead by Pam Rouquette from Walking for Health.  Jan Fitzjohn, the chair of the Water Meadows trust gave an interesting and informative talk on the management of the water meadows.

 

Swan advocacy had circulated a leaflet on domestic abuse networking event. Hope that the people that attend this event will meet people in domestic abuse situations can then plan how best to network services to help people.

 

29^th Nov – another issue the H&WB group are being encouraged to look at is Autism – their needs need to be raised.

 

1^st Dec – WC and partners meet every 2 years for a Joint Stategic Needs Assessment – our chance to look at the issues and talk about what do local people really think – what can the AB do to help provide local action.

 

30 volunteers were now set up to help with the refugees based in Salisbury and a further 47 had stepped forward to assist.

 

Health & Wellbeing Group - Cllr Walsh:

 

The Board had decided to form a group made up of all the organisations which provided help to people. On 1 Dec, the community was invited to give input about what they want. The Group needed further organisations to join.

 

Child Wellbeing Group – Cllr Mary Douglas:

 

The Group was mandated to focus on communication to each other and with the services available. The Group had now met twice. Three main areas for work had been established and agreed, these were:

 

·       To identify gaps in provision.

·       To focus on 0 – 5 year olds

·       To improve communication both with those who might want to use existing provision and also among those providing services.

 

The Group would focus on one geographical area, which had been decided as the Friary.