Reaching Communities

I have with the support of Councillor Billard, met with the Andrew and Jo at the Minster to discuss the basis for a Reaching Communities bid and whether they would be willing to take a leading role in the process.
This has been agreed in principle and as a community we need to look at the best way to position ourselves to meet the funding criteria laid down by the bid. So using the Community Plan as our template and recent agreement at WMF to follow this process we need to agree as a community our priorities for both Communities First and the bid in to Reaching Communities. One of the biggest issues discussed at WMF has been around housing on the Ward and the need to bring void properties back in to use. It would be useful, I think, to look at that as the Capital and Training strand of the bid and the revenue and development strand would be used to support the current activities at all of our Community Centres. In this way we have the potential to show how we can be sustainable and innovative and most of all collaborative and inclusive.
In the words of Barack Obama Yes We Can.