Sent to ECF full and associate members on 7th February 2017:
This is a bit of a bumper newsletter – about Community Builders, ECF’s next meeting about the Council’s new plans for planning, Grass Roots Grants a meeting about Green Spaces and *free* tickets for Ted X… so time for a strong cup of tea and a read!
Community Builders
After a lot of deliberation and talking with others the Steering Group have put together a detailed plan for deploying a team of Community Builders across the City.
Find out everything you need to know is here http://exetercommunityforum.net/community-builders/ and the pages under that heading.
Get your community involved, speak to other community groups in your area and express your interest in a community builder for your neighbourhood!
The deadline for applications is 12 noon on 20th March
There will be a Community Builders Questions & Answers on 23rd February 7:30 – 9:00pm at Newcourt Community Center, Blakeslee Drive, The Rydons, Exeter, EX2 7FN
Please let us know if you can come – and what your question is! exetercommunityforum@gmail.com
Next meeting of Exeter Community Forum:
“Making sense of the new big picture and what it might mean for communities”Tuesday 7th March 7-8.30pm at Sylvania Hall
Mincinglake Country Park, Exeter, off Stoke Hill almost opposite the bottom of Collins Road. EX4 7DR see http://www.sylvaniahall.co.uk/contact.html
The ‘Greater Exeter Strategic Partnership’ is being set up by Teignbridge, Mid-Devon, East Devon and Exeter to put together a new land use plan for these areas until 2040. We’re asking how should communities be involved in the new plan?
For more information and the Council’s draft statement of community involvement see the website: http://exetercommunityforum.net/communities-planning/
We will also look at the emerging Community Builders plan. If there’s any other issues you’d like on the agenda please let me know. exetercommunityforum@gmail.com
Grass Roots Grants
The new grants panel considered the first round of grants – not an easy job! The panel’s recommendations are now going through Exeter City Council’s decision making processes.
Details of the grants rounds for 2017 will be announced and the information on the website updated before the end of February. Thank you to people who provided feedback on our first round.
As a member of the Forum please do encourage other community organisations in your area to apply for funds. There will be a special round in the autumn for larger capital grants. We are especially interested to see joint applications from community organisations working with larger organisations to run projects or deliver services together. Please look at the different programmes and criteria carefully. See: http://exetercommunityforum.net/grass-roots-grants/ Celebrating Exeter’s Green Spaces
Thursday 16th February 18:00 – 20:00 Co-lab, Wat Tyler House
Exeter Green Partnership (on behalf of Exeter Parks Watch) and Exeter CVS would like to invite you to a networking event to celebrate the groups who look after the green spaces in Exeter. Details here: http://exetercommunityforum.net/celebrating-exeters-green-spaces/
Please RSVP to Stella exetergreenpartnership@gmail.com by Friday 10th February
TEDx FREE tickets for the community – 21st April
Exeter City Council has kindly sponsored 20 tickets at the University Alumini to see live streamed Ted x! Each ticket is valued at £20 each which includes lunch! There is the opportunity to win up to two tickets for each Exeter Community Forum member. Please send in the name of your representative(s), (sorry, not councillors) and the name of your organisation to Dawn.rivers@exeter.gov.uk by 1st March. All the names will be put in Dawn’s large hat to be picked out at random.