Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership similar to a Parish Council get involved today!
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Neighbourhood Forums - click on to each ward name below and explore: Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership webpage Community teams specifically involved in the overall partnership Greater Fishponds NP Board Membership for 2011/ 2012 Click Here |
Neighbourhood Forums - click on to each ward name below and explore:
Hillfields, Frome Valeand Eastville
Essential planning groups to make Greater Fishponds a better place to live, work and preserve ethical and sustainable growth:
Volunteering in Greater Fishponds. Please join us today
Community groups which specialise in areas of Greater Fishponds to do good in any way possible for local people and the local area:
Snuff Mills Action Group
Hillfields Community Trust and more.. click here
Greater Fishponds is award winning for history and heritage with known activity in the area since 500 BC and a land of kings for over 1000 years until about 1700 AD & listed in the Doomsday book!
Fishponds Local History Society
Glenside Hospital Museum
Neighbourhood Forums, Pride of Place Awards 2011, Please list artwork on buildings, Volunteering in Greater Fishponds
Eastville Ward Map and Frome Vale Ward Map and Hillfields Ward Map
Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership Wellbeing Fund
If you are a community or voluntary organisation working in the Greater Fishponds Area you could apply for a grant from our Neighbourhood Partnership Well Being Fund.
We are looking for projects that will deliver against the following priorities:
• Enhancing community provision and activity
• Provision for the young and elderly
• Open spaces maintenance and the environment
• Traffic and transport
• Anti social behaviour
• Drug misuse and vice
• Fly tipping, litter and graffiti
Good news for Hillfields ward!
Hillfields ward has been allocated £33,910 of Community First Neighbourhood Matched Funding. This is a scheme where the government will provide money to match, pound for pound, the money raised for qualifying projects. The first years (2011/12) allocation is £5,624.
Please visit the Hillfields Community First page for details click here
Many thanks
What is the Neighbourhood Partnership?
The Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership is an alliance of local councillors, neighbourhood police teams, voluntary and community organisations, private businesses and public agencies within the three Bristol wards of Hillfields, Eastville and Frome Vale.
Launched in 2008, the partnership helps local residents shape services such as street cleaning, park maintenance, local recycling schemes, minor traffic schemes, highway maintenance and community safety. About 40,000 people live within this area which includes the neighbourhoods of Hillfields Estate, Speedwell, Cossham, Mayfield Park, Lodge Causeway, Staple Hill Road, Downend area, Frenchay area, Stapleton, Rose Green, Whitehall area, Greenbank, Eastville Park, Oldbury Court, Soundwell area, Begbrook, Stoke Park area, Eastgate area, Whitefield Road and more.
The Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership is one of 14 neighbourhood partnerships across Bristol.
What are Neighbourhood Partnerships?
Neighbourhood Partnerships bring public sector decision making to a local level where local residents can influence how they would like to see their neighbourhood improve.
A Neighbourhood Partnership is the decision-making body, with a formal agenda. They meet on a regular basis in the local community. Membership varies but typically includes the local ward councillors, representatives from local residents, community and voluntary groups, NHS Bristol, Police and Avon Fire & Rescue.
The 14 Neighbourhood Partnerships make budget decisions and have influence over some public services such as street cleaning, minor traffic schemes, community safety and local recycling schemes. Local councillors make the final decisions at Neighbourhood Partnership meetings about where council money is spent.
Have Your Say! Neighbourhood Forum Meeting
How could your neighbourhood be improved? What problems do you think need tackling to make your area feel safer? Whatever the issue, from noise to graffiti, or street lighting to anti-social behaviour, make sure you have your say. You will speak direct to a panel of decision makers from the police, council and key local agencies who will agree the top priorities for your neighbourhood and put an action plan together there and then.
Neighbourhood Forums are led by the community, with residents setting the agenda. Each ward has four meetings a year, and incorporate the PACT (Partners And Communities Together) meetings.
How do they work?
Each forum will vary, but most will include:
- ‘You Said, We Did’, a report back on actions taken after priorities from the previous Quarter's Decisions.
- An opportunity to raise new concerns or issues – these are collected from meetings, events, surveys and conversations in all sorts of community settings.
- Agreeing how issues will be taken forward for action.
Forums are normally chaired by a local resident and supported by representatives from local services.
Visit: Neighbourhood Forums
Neighbourhood Forums - Please read this page and leave your comments or write to your councillor.
There are three wards that make up Greater Fishponds including Eastville, Frome Vale and Hillfields and every two months the people from each ward are invited to attend a neighbourhood forum meeting to discuss current topics, raise new topics and awareness issues and listen to guests from the council and question them on current and future plans. Our community Police teams are present, plus ward councillors and dedicated employees from Bristol Council who manage Greater Fishponds; all to find out what priorities that you'd like them to prioritise over the following two months.
Hillfields Neighbourhood Forum meeting dates: Please turn up & make Hillfields better!
bristolpartnership.org/neighbourhood-partnerships/greater-fishponds-area-neighbourhood-partnership
Weds 30th May 2012 Harry Crook Youth Activity Centre, Moorlands Road BS16 3LF 7pm
Message your councillor.
If you'd rather email your councillor directly then they are very happy to hear from you:
Email Patrick Hassell with your comments/ complaints or try Phil Hanby
Where is Hillfields: Hillfields Ward Map
Frome Vale Neighbourhood Forum meeting dates: Please turn up & make Frome Vale better!
bristolpartnership.org/neighbourhood-partnerships/greater-fishponds-area-neighbourhood-partnership
Thurs 17th May 2012 Fishponds Baptist Church, Downend Road BS16 5AS 7pm
Message your councillor.
If you'd rather email your councillors directly then they are very happy to hear from you:
Email Lesley Alexander with your comments/ complaints or try James Stevenson
Where is Frome Vale: Frome Vale Ward Map
Eastville Neighbourhood Forum meeting dates: Please turn up & make Eastville better!
bristolpartnership.org/neighbourhood-partnerships/greater-fishponds-area-neighbourhood-partnership
Thursday 31st May 2012 7pm Gadshill Scout Hut, Gadshill Road.
Message your councillor.
If you'd rather email your councillor directly then they are very happy to hear from you:
Email Steve Comer with your comments/ complaints or try Mahmadur Khan
Where is Eastville: Eastville Vale Ward Map
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Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership meeting follows ward meeting every quarter taking ideas forward.
The Greater Fishponds meeting is where councillors, police and officials take all ward ideas forward..
bristolpartnership.org/neighbourhood-partnerships/greater-fishponds-area-neighbourhood-partnership
Learn more about our local partnership..
Greater Fishponds Area Neighbourhood Partnership: greater-fishponds-area-neighbourhood-partnership
new online Our City News site: bristol.gov.uk/page/our-city-news
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Some of the work achieved in 2011
Greater Fishponds won joint 1st prize at the Pride of Place competition for Local History Award.. well done to our amazing action groups for making this possible. Let's make sure we win more awards next year.
1st Place Local History Award for the Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership at the 2011 MShed Pride of Place awards for Bristol's areas.
This display is current at the Vassall Centre Trust in Oldbury Court for everyone to view from April 10th 2012.
The Lord Mayor of Bristol presents Greater Fishponds with the Local History Award, shared with St George.
John Bartlett holding the Local History Award following 35 years of dedication
to local History in Greater Fishponds on behalf of the Fishponds Local History Society.
Cllr Steve Comer and Cllr Muriel Cole (Muriel until Summer 2011) outside the Farriers Arms building next to Morrisons accepting their well deserved 'Pride of Place' photo for their hard work and on behalf of a team of others plus 100's of local people who have worked since 2010 to save this building from demolition. 250 years of Heritage could be lost if Morrisons do not listen to local people. Any plans must include this building!
So many people in the wider community to thank and who better than two local councillors to thank on behalf of everyone who has objected to Morrisons plans so that our future generations can enjoy local history and heritage.
The Vassall Centre Trust, a charity led by disabled people, is transforming a former military hospital in Fishponds to make it fully accessible for people with all forms of impairment, to empower them and enable them to work on equal terms with non-disabled people. Our fully accessible Vassall Conference Centre is based within the Vassall Centre and helps local groups and businesses serving our community. Members of the Vassall Centre team here in the picture are also helping to champion the local community of Oldbury Court. The Pride of Place Award for Local History thanking the charity for 13 years of hard work, change, preservation and saved heritage as well as countless community activities. Visit: vassallcentre.org
Vassall Centre Trust - Fundraising and Funding vassallcentre.org/fundraising-and-funding
Kate Jerrold is Chair of the Greater Fishponds Environmental Sub Group and Friends of Eastville Park as well as a champion of the Fishponds Planning Group. Kate is an antique furniture professional and she has worked hard to preserve Eastville Park's historic benches, buildings and general environment as one of the oldest parks in England with links to the English Civil War. Kate accepting the Pride of Place Award for Local History which is well deserved for years of hard work in this wonderful area.
Glenside Hospital Museum team holding the award after 135 years of mental health care in Stapleton and for their dedication as volunteers.
The Glenside Museum is open on Wednesday's and Saturday's for everyone to visit and it's popular with people as far away as asia who have visited here for field trip studies in neurological medicine. glensidemuseum.org.uk
The Snuff Mills Action Group meet every Sunday to preserve local heritage and maintain the gardens, landscapes, parks and open spaces as well as planning and policy for Greater Fishponds.
Mark Logan holding the award behind Cllr Lesley Alexander is also chair of the Fishponds Planning Group to ensure that new and existing buildings are suitable for our community and our heritage is preserved. Cllr Alexander chairs friends of Fishponds Park as well.. get involved!
Cllr Patrick Hassell has a passion for aircraft manufacturing and he has shared a remarkable journey with us covering events which led to Rolls Royce in Bristol which all started right here in Hillfields at the site of ParnAll and ALD Automative. This story played an important part in winning this award.
Sir Roy Fedden was knighted in 1942 sometime after when this picture was taken.
How the ALD Automotive site looked
before the Great War at Brazil Straker works in Lodge Causeway, probably photographed just before the Great War when they were building the Straker Squire cars, and the lorries and buses too. Joseph Brazil was in charge with young Roy Fedden as his Chief Engineer.
Patrick is now working to name any future developments in this area including houses and streets after the hero's who worked here so that their memories are never forgotten.
Afternoon tea at the Lord Mayor's Mansion House for award volunteers.
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Greater Fishponds Community Police Teams: click here
Please visit our community improvement page as well to read about local action groups and report problems using Bristol Council's website: click here i.e. graffiti removal and waste clearance..
Crime & Emergencies Telephone. 999
Police non-emergencies
Tel. 0845 456 7000Crimestoppers
Tel. 0800 555 111
Waste & Street Maintenance
Fly Tipping, Graffiti, Sex & Drugs Litter, Roads & Lampposts
Tel. 01179 222 100
Anti Social Behaviour Team 0117 9222500 (report any kind of anti social behavior i.e. neighbours to gangs etc)
Report issues with private homes 0117 3533871 (Landlords and tenants)
Council tenants are required to keep their homes in good order as a part of the tenancy agreement, report any local issues to the council i.e. hedges, gardens, paths etc.Sarah Sparks looks after part our Greater Fishponds email. sarah.sparks@bristol.gov.uk
Gas Emergency: Tel. 0800 111 999
Electrical Emergency: Tel. 0800 365900
Visit our action page to take community action as well.. let's all make Fishponds in to a wonderful area in every way possible Fishponds Action Page
Report Rubbish and unpleasant environments.. click here or email community@fishpondspeople.co.uk
Please visit the Bristol Council website and report anything wrong visit bristol.gov.uk and find 'Report v' at the top of the page. Just 5 minutes of your time will make a difference to our community. Whether it's a bench like this or sofa dumped in a park, please report it. Cllr Lesley Alexander reported this as well and within 7 weeks it was like new.
We have had bins replaced, beds removed, graffitti removed, lights repaired, walls rebuilt and much more...
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Are you suffering from accessibility constraints and you would like to attend neighbourhood meetings?
Based right here in Fishponds is Bristol Dial-A-Ride for people with accessibility restraints, and others. It's free to join and free to use for anyone with a free bus-pass. Please visit: bristoldialaride.org.uk
We provide a citywide service for any resident of Bristol who has difficulty using conventional public transport. Membership is free and members can travel free of charge if they have a bus pass.
We also offer an organisational membership for groups to hire our vehicles/drivers and publish a day trips programme every quarter which is very popular. We also offer volunteering opportunities and do quite a lot of outreach work to encourage isolated people to get out more.
Visit: bristoldialaride.org.uk (a new website coming soon) Tel. Tel/Minicom: 0845 130 1875
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Improvements to Parks and Open Spaces in the Greater Fishponds
To participate and to comment about making our parks and open spaces better for the Greater Fishponds green strategy please click here
All queries or comments, please contact Rob McGovern Tel. 0117 3521045 email robert.mcgovern@bristol.gov.uk
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Listing artwork on buildings - by Steve Comer Cllr for Eastville Ward in Greater Fishponds
For a while I've had a concern that there was no listing of art on buildings that people consider of value. We had a reminder of this with the accidental painting of a Banksy piece in Eastville banksy.co.uk. I think it would be a good idea for Neighbourhood Forum's to identify such art, and put it on a register. I'm copying the press release I've sent out on this topic. Although this refers to public art, it could also apply to stone signs, old adverts etc. on buildings.
Since sending the press release I've done an interview for Jack FM/Breeze and the BBC and the Evening Post have also expressed an interest. I've also asked that this be put on the agenda for the next meetings of the Neighbourhood Forums in Greater Fishponds.
Steve Comer
Liberal Democrat City Councillor for Eastville in Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership.
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