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Area Board Themes

To consider the attached report containing the proposals for Area Board themes for 2013/14.

 

To note the attached update from Tony Nye, Youth Development Coordinator.

Minutes:

At the last meeting of the Area Board a workshop had been held to identify projects that were both important and achievable and which would lead to collaborative solutions across the area. From the 10 potential projects which emerged, people were then able to vote for their top 3.

 

From the outcome of this, the Area Board proposed to take 2 main projects forward for 2013/14, there would be Footpath links between villages and Youth Activities.

 

1. Footpath links between villages

Councillor Leo Randall would be leading on this project with the continued help of the volunteer Footpath Group established in 2012/13. Councillor Randall explained that if new links between parishes could be established, the outcome could be very worthwhile.

 

2. Youth Activities

Due to the spread out nature of the area, the Board felt that an appropriate solution would be to have the community area broken down into clusters of villages. These clusters would not be restricted to political boundaries. The proposed clusters were grouped as follows:

 

Clusters

Villages

1

Laverstock, Ford & Old Sarum

2

Alderbury, Whaddon, West Grimstead, Clarendon

3

CoombeBissett, Homington, Britford, Odstock, Nunton & Bodenham

4

Downton, Charlton All Saints, Redlynch, Lover, Morgan’s Vale & Woodfalls

5

Firsdown, Winterslow (M,E,W), Lopcombe Corner, Pitton, Farley, East Grimstead, West Dean

6

Whiteparish, Landford, Nomansland

 

 

The Board would like to develop a way of working with the young people, through the Youth Development Coordinator Tony Nye, to try and improve leisure and development opportunities available to the young people in the South West Wiltshire community area.

 

Tony’s role would be to work with appropriate people within each cluster to identify what is already taking place, what resources are in place and what do the young people within the individual clusters wish to add to that. Through the proposed village clusters the aim would be to achieve the following:

 

1.  Identify and promote existing activities for young people within each cluster.

2.  Where there is no youth club within the cluster, promote the provision of one. (Voluntary-led with support from the youth service.)

3.  Engagement with voluntary sector partners (youth clubs, scouts, sports clubs, parish councils etc) to avoid duplication and maximize the effect of the available resources within each cluster.

4.  Joined up approach to organizing transport within and between clusters.

Comments and questions were then taken, these included:

 

·         Firsdown PC would welcome being clustered with other parishes as it would bring resources together.

·         West Dean PC – Our young people already have links with Alderbury, we need to consider the geography of the areas when forming clusters as our young people may cycle to Alderbury as the route is flat, but they probably wouldn’t cycle over the hill to Whiteparish.

·         One part of the project could look at transport, if it was established that young people needed transport to get to another area to access the resources, then this could be worked on.

·         Would Tony visit the PC’s to discuss the project? Answer: Tony would put together a group of interested people in each cluster. Anyone interested should contact Tony so that he could add them to the list. Tony.nye@wiltshire.gov.uk One meeting pre cluster would be held.

 

Following the discussion and a show of hands from the room which showed support for the cluster arrangement as the best way to develop our Youth activities for the year. The Board members voted on the proposals to focus on the 2 themes for 2013/14.

 

Decision

The Southern Wiltshire Area Board agreed the 2 themes for 2013/14 and proposals would be:

 

1.    Footpath links between villages

 

Proposals:

·         Tom Bray to ask Parishes where links between villages can be improved.

·         Leo Randall to host a meeting with volunteer Coordinators and Nick Cowen to develop a plan of action.

 

2.    Youth activities

 

Proposal:

·         Tony will establish a working group, in liaison with the key contacts such as the Parish Councils, Youth Clubs and other groups in each cluster to identify what is already on offer and create a budgeted action plan for each cluster. Local funding and in-kind support will be important in making this work. Funding for projects delivered through voluntary sector groups will be available from the Area Board.

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