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The Kingsbrook and Cauldwell areas of Bedford are one of 50 neighbourhoods identified by the Big Lottery Fund, which will each receive at least £1 million for local funding schemes over a period of up to ten years.
Website: www.yourfundyoursay.info
BIG Local Residents Meeting
Faraday Community Centre, Kelvin Avenue
Thursday 2nd February 2012 at 7pm
Light refreshments will be available
Kingsbrook and Cauldwell is getting a boost thanks to a substantial investment of lottery funding. To make a success of this opportunity we need people living in the area to get involved. We need your ideas about what needs to be done.
Do YOU live or work in Kingsbrook or Cauldwell?
Would you like to have YOUR say about how to spend
the Big Local funding?
Would you simply like to find out more about Big Local?
Then please come along
Give us your views
If you live in Kingsbrook or Cauldwell please fill in the survey at:
The work so far
CVS has been asked to facilitate some initial work in the area, in preparation for the £1 million being available in late 2011 or early 2012.
A stakeholder meeting was held in January 2011, where over 40 local members of the community discussed the initiative and considered how best to get local communities involved. To support this early engagement work, £10,000, and possibly a further £20,000 has been made available by the Big Lottery Fund.
The stakeholder meeting agreed to focus the £10,000 on awareness-raising and improving methods of communicating with the local community, and then consider using the £20,000 on more specific consultation work.
Where are we now? - April 2011
CVS have secured the £10,000 investment and we are now looking for people to help us deliver this work over the next six months. Click here for a list of the activities to be supported with the initial £10,000 investment.
CVS are also establishing a steering group to help guide this initiative towards the final goal of empowering the community to decide how it wants the £1 million investment to be spent. The steering group would develop ideas and then consult with wider stakeholders to gain a consensus on how to move forward. The iniitial meeting of the steering group will be at 10am on Tuesday 3rd May 2011 at CVS’s offices in Bedford.
For more information on the Big Local initiative, contact Martin Trinder on 01234 354366 or email martin@yourcvs.org.
Further information
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