Issue - meetings

To receive any verbal updates, in addition the following written updates are attached to the agenda:

·         Police

·         NHS

·         Fire

The Board will also receive an update from the Police Authority on their budget proposals over the next few years.

Speaker: Chris Hoare, Wiltshire Police Authority

Updates were received as follows:

Ludgershall Parish Council thanked the Board for the £500 of funding which had previously been awarded to them.

Tidworth Town Council had begun the year with a good start by making changes to their committee system and had opened their council office to enable people to drop in.

Enford Parish Council - Stan Bagwell, thanked the Board for the funding which had been provided for the footpath project on the A345 through the Local Transport Scheme via the Community Area Transport Group.

Garrison – Colonel Tabor provided the following update:

·       A significant number of soldiers were still deployed in Afghanistan, near on 1,000.

·       Bulford and Tidworth would deploy considerably more of their numbers towards the end of the year.

·       Tedworth House would cease to be used by the MOD by 12^th February and would be transformed into a rrecovery Centre for sick, injured and wounded soldiers.

·       ‘Help the Heroes’ would allocate £17 million of funds towards the Recovery Centre at Tedworth House. The first of the soldiers to make use of the facility would be in there by 11^th June 2011.

·       A new wing would be built at Tedworth House. This had been sympathetically designed to be in keeping with the existing building.

·        Tedworth House would provide a home for soldiers, who were not finding life outside of the Army as easily as they had thought, by providing all sorts of advice and assistance to soldiers who were leaving the Army for a change of direction.

·       Another Garrison clear up was planned for March. The date once confirmed would be circulated in hope that other groups or organisations would join in and help with a cleanup of the area.

·       On the 4^th and 5^th of June there would be a long distance cycle event around Tidworth and Tedworth Park.

·       On the 9^th July there would be a polo event called the Rundle Cup. People could bring their cars into Tedworth Park, it would cost nothing for the people to enter, but there would be a charge for the car entrance.

·       On the 28^th September the Early, Early Christmas Fair  would be held in a marquee at the rear of Tedworth House.

TCAP – Tony Pickernell, Coordinator

·       Out of the 9 thematic groups, 8 were up and running, having been reinvigorated, where necessary.

·       TCAP website was also now up and running, TCAP hoped to have full control over the site soon. The site address is:

 www.tidworthcommunityarea.info/NEW

TCAP would seek the permission of Town and Parish Councils to include links to their sites from the TCAP website. It was also hoped that there would be nine links to the thematic groups which would allow users of the site to view minutes from the individual thematic group meetings.

·       Arranged through TCAP 100 children and staff from Zouch Primary School in Tidworth Visited Tedworth House and St Marys Church, where a talk on the history of both the house and church was  ...  view the full minutes text for item 11