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Find out more about your local Community Engagement Forum in this special supplement. Forums are supported by a wide range of organisations delivering your local services. Importantly, they give you a chance to get involved in decisions about your local area. There are details of what’s happening in each area, and how people are making a difference to Your community the place where you live. Thorganby Stillingfleet . EASTERN AREA Escrick Skipwith Focus on.. Ryther Kelfield Cawood North Duffield Church Fenton Riccall Full of Eastern Promises Little Wistow Fenton Biggin The December Community Engagement Forum meeting Barlby Osgodby was full of Eastern Promise with the launch of the Lund Community Development Plan – “Eastern Promises”. Cliffe South Duffield The plan was developed following celebrations and environmental projects. Hemingbrough consultation with residents in the Eastern 6 Tackling eyesores – to work with area and it was their views and comments partners and the community to tackle that helped shape the Top Ten Project ‘To eyesores. Do’ list. The top ten projects are: 7 Old red phone box – improve the Supporting families 1 Local transport links – we are looking appearance of the old red phone box at at how the district’s community transport Little Fenton.COMPLETED A little tender and young people service can help meet demand and at 8 Winter Gritting tool-kit – we will roll how the 42 weekend bus service can be out a tool-kit helping parish councils The Eastern area is holding a loving care... secured. set up volunteer schemes. Recruitment Fair for local sports 2 Recruitment Fair - will help recruit 9 School traffic safety tool-kit– As part of the consultation to develop clubs and societies on Sunday 16 people to local sports clubs and working to keep our children safe ‘Eastern Promises’, pupils at Barlby High September at Barlby High School. societies. outside schools. School went around the Eastern area and The fair is aimed at families to come 3 Barlby Youth Centre – focused on 10 A19 junction at Riccall – we will, took pictures of what they saw as the “The along and see what is on offer. There finding a way to secure its future. in partnership with Riccall Parish good, the bad and the ugly”. The Old Red will also be local produce and other 4 High Speed Broadband – expand the Council, lobby on safety issues. Phone Box at Little Fenton was identified stalls to browse around. Barlby High Speed Broadband project as The launch of Eastern Promises didn’t as being in need of some tender loving This is one of the priorities in the far as possible through the area. just end there. Turkish Delight prizes care (TLC) and became ‘promise’ number “Eastern Promises” Community 5 Reviewing the grants criteria – were handed out for the short quiz about seven. Development Plan. In the consultation to make it as easy as possible for the plan and the area. Local volunteers quickly got together for the plan, local people had asked for people to access money to deliver the If you would like to view Eastern and gave the phone box the TLC it more for young people and families to ‘Eastern Promises’ priorities, especially Promises it is on the website at: needed, cleaning the box inside and out do and were keen to build community connected to Jubilee and Olympic www.your-community.org.uk/eastern and cutting back the growth around the spirit. The event will also provide a door and sides. Well done to all involved! wonderful opportunity for those who have been bitten by the Olympics bug to find out how to get active and develop a more a healthy lifestyle. There will be plenty of other activities going on around the Olympics. It is a Ticket to ride very exciting time for Britain to have the A bus service offering important connections to a number of Bowled over Games held here. Both the Olympics A popular bowling club in Church Fenton villages including Wistow, Cawood, Kelfield and Stillingfleet is to be has thanked the CEF for its support. and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee reintroduced on Sundays and Friday and Saturday evenings, following are encouraging communities to get The Forum granted funding of £1,000 to together and think of ideas of how to the efforts of parish councils supported by the Eastern Area Forum. the Church Fenton Bowling Club which is extending its clubhouse to provide a celebrate both landmark events. If Money from the parish councils and the partnership working. All the parish councils you have a good idea, please contact facility for the whole community to use. Forum is being used to support Arriva along the route, together with the Eastern Club secretary, David Herbert, visited Rachael Bradshaw on 01757 705101. Yorkshire run the ‘42’ service on Sundays, Area Forum, have provided funding”. The Forum is also reviewing its grant the Forum in person to say thank you for and Friday and Saturday evenings. These The funding will be used to support the the group’s support. He explained, “The criteria to make it as easy as possible services had been withdrawn last year, Sunday service between 1 April for twelve for people to access money for projects money has been used for the cost of following reductions in transport funding months; the extra Friday and Saturday building materials. Work is ongoing but we which will help deliver the “Eastern across the whole of North Yorkshire. evening services will run between April Promises” priorities, especially projects expect it to be ready for the next indoor Selby District Councillor, John Cattanach, and September, with a view to increasing bowling season in September”. connected to Jubilee and Olympic has been leading negotiations to reinstate passenger numbers and making these celebrations. The facilities are due to be completed in the services. He said, “This is a testament to services viable in the long-term. May and the club welcomes all ages. Hambleton Gateforth Burn Focus on... SOUTHERN AREA West Long Drax Haddlesey Drax Chapel Temple Hirst Beal Kellington Haddlesey Camblesforth Newland Kellingley Hensall Hirst Carlton Courtney Growing success and Eggbrough Great Heck Cridling Stubbs Whitley building good behaviour Womersley Baine A survey has been carried out by the Southern Little Walden Area Community Engagement Forum to support its Smeaton Stubbs Community Plan, named ‘Beautiful South’. People Kirk were asked what they liked about where they lived and Smeaton what they would like to see improved. Having analysed Can you help us the responses, seven key priorities for the area were identified. broaden the band? Burn switched on The Forum’s Partnership Board was keen to find a cross-cutting project Getting high quality broadband BBC Radio York’s Elly Fiorentini was given that would help tackle a number of the key priorities. The Board throughout the district is a priority the honorary position as the Baroness of decided that using allotments could deliver on a number of the key for the District Council. We know Burn as she switched on Burn Christmas issues including helping to sustain the local environment, getting young how important it is to families and Lights last year. Also in attendance was people involved and working alongside older residents to build a sense businesses alike. In the Southern Area Jean Alexander, former Coronation Street of community spirit. Another benefit would be selling the produce. the Forum is keen to do all it can to get and Last of the Summer Wine star, who is The allotments are run by a non profit making group comprising better quality broadband. For residents Burn’s honorary mayoress. neighbours and friends who enjoy eating home grown food. The Forum it provides an opportunity to remain in Burn village has organised a Christmas granted £1,000 to the group to support its work. To learn more, visit touch even in rural areas and it enables lights ‘switch on’ event for the last five www.beal-kellingley-allotment.co.uk. new businesses to start and others to years. It has been attended by over 200 The survey also showed people were concerned about antisocial grow, building the local economy and people and has raised funds exceeding behaviour combined with not enough for young people to do. As increasing job opportunities. £1,000 at each event; all the money goes to a result, the Partnership Board is considering such things as youth The Southern Area Forum and other charity. They received £900 last year from shelters. Young people like to have places to gather that they can call Forums in the district are working the Southern Area Community Engagement their own and take care of; youth shelters provide this. The planning together with the county-wide NYnet Forum in order to upgrade and maintain this and building of a shelter can also help grow an understanding and ‘Connecting North Yorkshire’ project. annual switch on. respect between the younger and older residents in a community. With money coming from a variety of sources the southern area, along with other parts of the district, will soon have a real opportunity to get broadband that matches the quality available in Leeds Toolkit at the ready and London, even in the most rural areas. The Broadband available will be a Nearly 70 percent of respondents to the Slow your speed reliable service with consistent speeds. Southern Area Community Development This will give families and businesses Plan questionnaire said that HGVs, traffic Speeding drivers have been successfully slowed down by the chance to connect with face-to-face and speeding were problems where they new matrix signs along the A19 through Whitley.