Agenda and minutes

Venue: St Laurence School, Ashley Road, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DZ

Contact: Kevin Fielding 

Items
No. Item

47.

PART ONE: Youth Workshop

Minutes:

The workshop was attended by young people from St Laurence School and from the BoA Youth Club. Pizza and drinks had been provided to enticed them to stay on after school!

 

Councillor Jim Lynch, Chairman of the Bradford on Avon Local Youth Network, introduced Councillor Alex Kay, Mayor of Bradford on Avon. On behalf of the Town Council and its youth provider, Community Family Care (CFC), Alex welcomed all, particularly the young people present who had come to input their ideas to help shape up the new youth service for the Bradford on Avon area.

Sasha Hart from CFC introduced her team and gave a presentation by way of an introduction to the company and to the contract that they had been commissioned to deliver

https://prezi.com/view/61mwwKWK1VciquDg43JK/

Using flipchart, post-it notes and marker pens, the young people were asked to summarise the local youth issues that needed to be addressed, and also to come up with ideas for the name and shape of the new service.

 

Comments from CFC

The session provided a good start to the process of defining the new youth service. The group 14 young people attended and engaged in the exercises, writing down their ideas and presenting them to the room using the microphones provided. Pictures of what they created and their ideas can be found below. We are really pleased with the feedback from the meeting however we are aware this doesn’t give us a detailed and representative cross-section of the thoughts of all young people across Bradford on Avon. We have therefore also conducted an online survey through which nearly 800 young people have been engaged. Both of these pieces of work will be brought together and used to inform planning and practice decisions going forward – especially in setting up a young person led forum.

 

Next Steps

Councillor Lynch thanked all for their enthusiastic participation in the workshop. The outcomes would be fed into the launch of the new service which was planned for October half term week at the BoA Youth Club. Thereafter, the Area Board is keen to work with the Town Council and interested parish councils to bring the service out to the villages so that it becomes a community-area-wide initiative. There is great potential to pool funding from the Town Council, parish councils, Wiltshire Council and the Colonel Llewellen Palmer Trust, a local educational charity with an annual grants scheme, to join up services and funding for the benefit of young people locally.

 

 

PRESS RELEASE: Youth Strategy comes to life

 

The Town Council’s Youth Strategy, authored by Leader of the Council Dom Newton and adopted by the Council in December 2017, is moving into delivery with the appointment of Community Family Care, part of Community Foster Care, to provide youth services in the town.

Following a highly competitive tender process, with impressive presentations from the Community Family Care team and a national children’s charity, Councillors agreed that the new provider would provide a highly innovative, responsive and localised service for  ...  view the full minutes text for item 47.

48.

PART TWO – Area Board - Summary of Issues Discussed and Decisions

49.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Cllr Sarah Gibson – Wiltshire Council – who had to leave early

 

50.

Declarations of Interest

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

 

Minutes:

Cllr Jim Lynch - Food of Love Festival grant application

51.

Minutes

To approve and sign as a correct record the Minutes of the Area Board meeting held on 11 July 2018

 

 

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

·         The Minutes of the Area Board meetings held on the 11 July 2018 were signed as the correct record

 

52.

Chairman's Announcements

·         Local Government Boundary Commission – consultation on new division boundaries

·         Localised Labour Market Intelligence

·         Animal Licensing

·         Annual Election Canvass

·         Bath Clean Air Zone consultation

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The following Chairman’s announcements contained in the agenda pack were noted:

 

·         Local Government Boundary Commission  consultation on new division boundaries

 

·         Localised Labour Market Intelligence

 

·         Animal Licensing

 

·         Annual Election Canvass

 

·         Bath Clean Air Zone consultation

53.

Partner Updates

·         Deputy Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner - Jerry Herbert,

·         Wiltshire Police - Inspector James Williams

·         Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue - Andy Green

·         NHS Wiltshire

·         HealthWatch Wiltshire

·         Parish Councils

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Deputy Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner – Jerry Herbert introduced himself and gave a brief overview of his role supporting Angus Macpherson.

 

The following partner updates contained in the agenda pack were noted:

 

·         Wiltshire Police

 

·         Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue

 

·         NHS Wiltshire

 

·         HealthWatch Wiltshire

 

54.

Community Grant Scheme - applications for funding

·         Councillor Jim Lynch requesting £ 2,000 towards the “Food of Love” food/drink/music/community festival in March 2019

 

·         Councillor Sarah Gibson requesting £ 800 towards the repair and re-opening of the St Aldhelm’s Play Area in Bradford on Avon

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The Area Board considered two applications for grant funding:

Decision

Cllr Jim Lynch awarded £2,000 towards the “Food of Love” food/drink/music/community festival in March 2019

Note: Cllr Jim Lynch did not vote on this application

 

 

Decision

 

Cllr Sarah Gibson £800 towards the repair and re-opening of the St Aldhelm’s Play Area in Bradford on Avon

 

55.

Working Group Updates

·         Community Area Transport Group – Cllr Sarah Gibson

 

·         Health and Wellbeing Group – Cllr Johnny Kidney

 

·         Local Youth Network - Cllr Jim Lynch

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Community Area Transport Group – Sarah Gibson

 

·         The notes of the meeting held on 3 September 2018 were agreed

 

Health and Wellbeing Group – Johnny Kidney

 

·         The notes of the meeting held on 10 September 2018 were agreed

 

 

Local Youth Network – Jim Lynch

 

·         A big thanks to everybody involved in the youth themed meeting today, now need to build some strong links with Community Family Care to move the youth agenda forward

 

56.

Date of Next Meeting

Wednesday 28 November 2018 at St Margaret’s Hall, Bradford on Avon

Minutes:

·         Wednesday 28 November 2018 at St Margaret’s Hall, Bradford on

           Avon