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Essex Rural Partnership Community Agents Essex Community Agents Annual Review 2017-2018 RCCE speaks out for rural communities representing their needs to all levels of government. We also provide The Community Agents Essex service that RCCE runs in partnership handled over 6,000 enquiries in 2017/18 Thanks leadership for the wider rural sector in Essex through our management of the Essex Rural Partnership (ERP). with its three voluntary sector partners, British Red Cross, Age UK Parish and Town Council Members Essex and Neighbourhood Watch Essex, and with funding from Essex ERP brings together a broad range of stakeholders to foster collaboration on the major issues facing rural County Council, is now widely regarded as offering an innovative and highly Basildon West Mersea TC Essex. In addition to RCCE, key partners include Essex County Council, District Councils, Essex Police, Office effective approach to the challenge of providing social care in the 21st century. Billericay TC Wormingford PC Bowers Gifford & North of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, Essex Association of Local Councils, National Farmers Union, Benfleet PC Epping Forest Diocese of Chelmsford and Essex Wildlife Trust. Working in the community, the team of agents helps vulnerable elderly people retain their independence, Ramsden Bellhouse PC Buckhurst Hill PC Thanks Ramsden Crays PC Chigwell PC and by enabling them to continue living safe, happy and well in their own home, it is making a significant Epping TC The focus for ERP’s work is provided by the Essex Rural Strategy, launched in 2016. This sets out a shared contribution to tackling the scourge of social isolation. The service has now helped nearly 15,000 clients since Braintree Fyfield PC Alphamstone & Lamarsh PC Matching PC Corporate Partners vision and 10 priority themes for the next four years, as well as encouraging the creation of task and finish its launch in July 2014. Ashen PC Moreton, Bobbingworth & groups to address specific problems. The first of these has brought together relevant partners to tackle the Belchamp St Paul & Otten PC the Lavers PC Intercity Print Financial Limited Birdbrook PC North Weald PC Lee Chapel Floors problem of large-scale, industrial fly tipping. Community Agents Essex is working alongside other early intervention initiatives, such as social prescribers and Black Notley PC Ongar TC health coaches, as an integral part of new Care Navigation Partnerships established in West Essex, Basildon & Borley PC Roydon PC Bradwell with Pattiswick PC Stanford Rivers PC Brentwood and Mid Essex. It is also working with Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust to operate a Bures Hamlet PC Theydon Bois PC Life Members ‘Home from Hospital’ navigation service Castle Hedingham PC Waltham Abbey TC Coggeshall PC Sir Jeffery Bowman Case Study: Essex Police Rural Crime Strategy Cressing PC Maldon Mrs S Cohen Earls Colne PC Althorne PC Mr K Edwards Rural crime featured prominently in ERP’s deliberations in 2017/18, with Feering PC Burnham on Crouch PC Case Study: Beating Social Isolation in Braintree 94% of Community Finchingfield PC Cold Norton PC Mr & Mrs C B Manning-Press RCCE and other partners engaging directly in the development of the Agent clients remain living Foxearth & Liston PC Goldhanger PC Mr & Mrs R G Richmond new Essex Police Rural Crime Strategy. This is the first strategy of its kind Gestingthorpe PC Great Totham PC Community Agent Chivonne Claydon is a familiar face at a social group independently with no Mrs B Shuttleworth to be produced by Essex Police with direct input from external partners. Gosfield PC Heybridge PC in Braintree, but not as a member. Great Bardfield PC Langford & Ulting PC Mr M Stuchfield MBE, JP, DL additional statutory support 12 months later Great Maplestead PC Latchingdon PC Mrs M J Thorogood A special meeting of ERP was used to identify priorities for the strategy Great Saling PC Maldon TC Over the past few years Chivonne has introduced many clients to the Great Yeldham PC Mayland PC Mrs E F Toes and the launch event held at Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome in Moving On club, often taking them along to their first meeting as moral support. Greenstead Green PC North Fambridge PC Mr J Vesey November was jointly organised by ERP, Essex Police, and the Office of Hatfield Peverel PC St Lawrence PC Mrs M Webster Helions Bumpstead PC Tillingham VC the Police Fire & Crime Commissioner. This was staged in conjunction Recently, she took a 69 year-old widow to the club and was delighted to see another lady she had introduced Kelvedon PC Tollesbury PC Wilkin & Sons Ltd with a Rural Crime Awareness Day and was attended by the Lord Little Yeldham, Tilbury Juxta Wickham Bishops PC eighteen months ago. Clare & Ovington PC Woodham Walter PC Lieutenant of Essex, the Chief Constable and more than 30 partner Rayne PC organisations. In tandem with the launch of the new strategy, Essex Ridgewell PC Rochford Individual Members “It was lovely to chat to her and hear how her life has changed Rivenhall PC Ashingdon PC Mr S A Aldridge Police emphasised its commitment to rural policing by setting up a new since joining the club. This group does so many things – lunches, Shalford PC Barling Magna PC Gypsy, Traveller and Rural Engagement Team. Sible Hedingham PC Canewdon PC His Honour Christopher Barnett theatre trips, get-togethers on birthdays, holidays abroad and loads Silver End PC Hawkwell PC Mrs L Belgrove more. They are very proactive in keeping in touch with members Stambourne PC Hockley PC Steeple Bumpstead PC Hullbridge PC Mr D T A Boyle JP, DL between meetings and encouraging them to stay involved.” Stisted PC Paglesham PC Mr R Bray Terling & Fairstead PC Rawreth PC Mr R Brice LEADER 49 new rural jobs Toppesfield PC Stambridge PC Chivonne has introduced eight people to the club over the years. White Colne PC Sutton PC Mr S Brice DL have been created through White Notley & Faulkbourne PC The Rev J D Brown DL the Essex Rivers LEADER Wickham St Pauls PC Tendring The Essex Rivers LEADER programme has a total of £1.48 million She said: “Reducing the loneliness of clients is an important part of Witham TC Alresford PC Mr N Charrington DL available to stimulate rural business growth, diversification and programme since its launch Bradfield PC Mr G Courtauld OBE, DL our work as Community Agents. Often they don’t present with this, job creation across a large part of rural Essex. RCCE manages the Brentwood Brightlingsea TC Essex Society for Archaeology & History in 2015 but it soon becomes apparent that social isolation is a factor in their Blackmore PC Frinton & Walton TC programme in conjunction with a Local Action Group (LAG) of private, wellbeing, particularly nowadays when families live far apart.” Ingatestone & Fryerning PC Great Bentley PC Mr & Mrs Foreman West Horndon PC Great Bromley PC Mr S Hall public and voluntary sector representatives. The funding which comes This picture is not related to the case study. Great Oakley PC Mrs G Hayter JP from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development must be allocated by March 2019, in line with Chelmsford Lawford PC Boreham PC Mistley PC Mrs J Hinds the UK’s departure from the European Union. The Year in Brief Broomfield PC St Osyth PC Miss H Hiscocks Chignal PC Thorpe le Soken PC Danbury PC Weeley PC InFocus Essex An upsurge of interest this year resulted in the award of grants worth a total of £463,567. This means • Terling won the 2017 Essex Village of the Year Competition in spite of strong competition from East Hanningfield PC Wrabness PC Sir Alex Jarratt that more than £700,000 has now been allocated since the start of the programme in 2015. An important the other three finalists, Earls Colne, Wickham St Pauls and Berden. The competition focuses on the Galleywood PC Mr S Lyster DL Great Baddow PC Uttlesford feature of LEADER is that it can support any business based in a rural area, not just those from the work of communities and the efforts of local people, especially volunteers, to strengthen and sustain Gt & Lt Leighs PC Ashdon PC Mrs L McWilliams agricultural sector. This is reflected in the projects supported, which include food producers, vineyards, village life. Great Waltham PC Aythorpe Roding PC Mr P Martin MBE, DL Highwood PC Broxted PC heritage and tourism projects, as well as farm businesses. Little Baddow PC Chrishall PC National Farmers Union (Essex County Branch) • With large parts of rural Essex unable to access mains Margaretting PC Clavering PC Mrs M J Peel Rettendon PC Elmdon & Wenden Lofts PC Lord Petre KCVO gas, RCCE continues to provide a Community Oil Buying Runwell PC Felsted PC Scheme open to consumers, businesses and community Sandon PC Great Canfield PC Mrs S Pinkerton South Hanningfield PC Great Dunmow TC Mr & Mrs J Porter Case Study: Essex Waterways buildings. The scheme is run in partnership with Community South Woodham Ferrers TC Great Easton & Tilty PC Mrs M St Aubyn DL Action Suffolk, our counterparts across the county boundary, West Hanningfield PC Great Hallingbury PC Woodham Ferrers & Bicnacre PC Hatfield Heath PC H Siggers & Sons Essex Waterways manages and maintains the Chelmer and AF Affinity, a subsidiary of Anglia Farmers. In a typical Writtle PC Hempstead PC Mr D Stewart month, members saved an average of £27.57 inclusive of Henham PC and Blackwater Navigation which runs through a Colchester High Easter PC John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust delightful part of the Essex countryside connecting VAT on an average order of 890 litres of oil. Aldham PC Langley PC Mr & Mrs R I Turpin Chelmsford with the tidal River Blackwater at Heybridge Birch PC Leaden Roding PC Mr S Walsh Boxted PC Little Dunmow PC Basin.