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Call us on 0117 localwell doctor’s as group surgeries, hire and dayother trips local outside community the area. venues as 377Would 3451 you or emaillike to [email protected] use the CATT bus? Call us on 0117 well as group hire and day trips outside the area. 377 3451 or email [email protected] This is the final issue of WHAM! But we are working to Thiscreate is thea new final community issue of WHAM! newsletter But soon.we are In workingthe meantime to createsign up a tonew our community e-news at www.hwcp.org.uknewsletter soon. In the meantime signthe wham! up to newsletter our e-news 2000/2017 at www.hwcp.org.uk issue 68, the The final last wham! issue - issueMay 201768 1 the wham! newsletter 2000/2017 issue 68, the The final last wham! issue - issueMay 201768 1 LOCALLOCAL NEWSNEWS Councillors’ Symes House Citizen Service Point closed on 31 March surgeries Bishopsworth ward The community Cllr Richard Eddy (Con): 5 Little Headley Close, Bristol BS13 fought to save 7PJ T: 0117 377 5072 E:[email protected] Symes House Cllr Kevin Quartley (Con): T: (0117) 353 3161 E:[email protected] Post: Bristol City Council Room U01, City Hall, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TR Hartcliffe & Withywood ward Cllr Mark Brain (Lab): E: [email protected] T: 07826 858298 Cllr Helen Holland (Lab): E:[email protected] T: (0117) 987 2238 Cllr Paul Goggin (Lab): E:[email protected] M: 07584 480648 Labour Group Office, City Hall PO Box 3176, Bristol BS3 9FS Hartcliffe & Withywood Surgeries • 11.00am-12.30pm 2nd & 3rd Heather Jarrett and Matt Carey outside the former Saturday every month in Hartcliffe Housing Office on Symes Avenue Library, @symes community building, In February local residents worked Sadly Symes House closed on 31 opposite Morrisons, Hartcliffe and hard to gather 1,422 signatures March, despite many efforts to • 2pm-3pm last Friday of every opposing the plans to shut the challenge this decision. The local month in the Withywood Centre cafe, housing office, and to request Neighbourhood Partnership will Queens Road protection for the Hartcliffe Library continue with reduced resources, and and local Neighbourhood we hope that the Library will stay. Partnerhsip. It takes an enormous Residents accessing council services wham! info effort to gather that many signatures. now need to either get an appointment Well done to everyone who signed, at the Citizen Service Point at 100 wham! is published by Hartcliffe helped gather signatures, and also to Temple Street, BS1 6AG or use the and Withywood Community those who set up their stall outside council’s website to access services Partnership (HWCP). Symes House to talk to local residents online at www.bristol.gov.uk HWCP, @symes community building, (Heather Jarrett deserves particular If you don’t have access to the internet, Peterson Avenue, Bristol BS13 0BE mention here). Jim Hodgson from you can use public computers in local T: 0117 903 8013 HWCP went to the council budget community venues - (see page 5 for HWCP is a company limited by meeting with local residents George info). You can also pay council bills in guarantee no. 4167878 and registered Denford and Hayley Ward to present the Post Office on Peterson Avenue, charity no. 1092914. the petition to the council. opposite Morrisons Supermarket. 2 The last wham! - issue 68 FIRST PERSON I am a proud Bristolian. I have lived in Bristol all my life and I have seen it change significantly over the years. I grew up in Withywood and during my childhood it gave me all the adventure, community and ‘things to do’ I needed. I have been away from the city I love for 18 months and I have returned with the hunger to see its success trickle down to all walks of life. On one hand, I see and hear about Bristol’s booming successes with the influx of small businesses, improved transport infrastructure, a new Ashton Gate, an expanding airport, etc and on the other I see a real lack of investment and funds in some of our most deprived areas. Blue O’Connor pictured March 2017 Wherever I look, I am reminded that Bristol is a great place to live and visit. I Partnership was in jeopardy along with the Citizen Service Point at Symes House, would whole-heartedly agree with this the library, local crisis and prevention funding, wellbeing grants, alcohol and drug statement but with the caveat that this isn’t misuse services and more. the case for everyone. Unfortunately it has I could not fathom how a city that is hitting headlines around the world for all the been clear for me to see that inequality is right reasons has just passed its most controversial budget in recent years with rising and social spending is reducing. I plans to cut £100m over the next five years. Key social services will be hit the fear this is a recipe for disaster. hardest. This equation just doesn’t balance for me. I love this city but I am During my nostalgic return to Bristol I anxious that inequality will just be exacerbated under these constraints. revisited some of my old childhood haunts. As a child I used the local youth centre, played on freshly-cut green public spaces, Local resident and HWCP board member Blue O’Connor reflects on changes - some positive, others not - in the area I noticed that it didn’t seem like they were nose dived into an array of books at the local library and witnessed my family reaping the benefits of a growing Bristol. and friends benefit from local services. From then on, I knew I had no choice but So what can we do about all this? First of all, let’s act in the realms that we can to get involved with the local community control. We can control where we spend our time, how we treat each other and and help drive positive change. what we do for family, friends and our community members. Secondly, let’s get So I did what any twenty-something active! Your community needs you. Get out there and shape the area you want person would do and ‘Googled’ my way to work, live and play in. through the potential opportunities. I came Organisations supporting the most vulnerable in our city are going to really feel across the Dundry View Neighbourhood the strain. Find something you are passionate about and get involved. Partnership and HWCP (Hartcliffe and Volunteer, donate, sign petitions, change careers, just do something. Withywood Community Partnership).
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