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Funding for local community projects: Small Community Capital Projects fund:
Grants of up to £5000 are available to local voluntary and community groups for capital projects of benefit to the community. Successful projects last year included new equipment, small building works, stage and security lighting, among others.

KCC is administering the Small Community Capital Projects fund – please contact KCC Community Liaison Manager, Emma Carey for an application pack (Tel: 01622 694599; E-mail: emma.carey@kent.gov.uk); You can also download the application pack from Dover District Council’s website: www.dover.gov.uk/neighbourhoodforums/funding.asp

We are keen to encourage applications from voluntary and community groups that have not applied to the Neighbourhood Forums before. Please let local groups know about this grant fund - the application is straightforward, with advice and help available from Emma Carey.

Dover District Neighbourhood Forums

Joining all Three-Tiers of Local Government

A chance to have your say…

Do you have any comments on the services that your local councils deliver?
Would you like opportunities to have a say on how services are delivered in your community?
Would you like the chance to speak to your local county, district and town and parish councillors about issues affecting your community?

If so, then Neighbourhood Forums are for you.

Following a successful pilot year, Dover District Council, in partnership with Kent County Council and the Town & Parish Councils throughout the district, has extended its Neighbourhood Forum meetings for another year.

This is a new way of involving local people in the way public services are delivered. The Neighbourhood Forums replace the Dover Local Board (run just by Kent County Council) joining all three tiers of local government to form one forum, giving residents greater influence over local services.

The forums are designed to help engage more closely with residents throughout the district and to work together to tackle common issues.

Come along to our neighbourhood forums and tell us about the issues affecting life where you live.

There are five forums within the district, made up of county, district and town and parish council members, and they act as an advisory body for the both County and District Councils. The Forums will consult residents’ opinions and views on local issues, gathering suggestions at a neighbourhood level, and will also recommend projects for grant funding.

The five neighbourhood forums are:

Each forum covers different areas of the district:

Deal and Walmer Neighbourhood Forum: Middle Deal, Mill Hill, North Deal and Walmer.

Dover North Neighbourhood Forum: Aylesham, Eythorne, Great Mongeham, Guston, Langdon, Nonington, Northbourne, Ringwould with Kingsdown, Ripple, St.Margaret’s at Cliffe, Sutton and Tilmanstone.
Dover Town Neighbourhood Forum: Buckland, Castle. Maxton Elms Vale and Priory, St.Radigunds, Tower Hamlets and Town and Pier.
Dover West Neighbourhood Forum: Alkham, Capel-Le-Ferne, Denton with Wootton, Hougham Without, Lydden, River, Shepherdswell with Coldred, Temple Ewell and Whitfield.
Sandwich Neighbourhood Forum: Ash, Eastry, Goodnestone, Preston, Sandwich, Sholden, Staple, Stourmouth, Wingham, Woodnesborough and Worth.

Each forum holds quarterly public meetings to give all residents the opportunity to meet their local county, district, town and parish councillors and have a say on issues affecting life where they life.

Although the district is divided geographically, if a topic interests you in another area you are more than welcome to attend.

Dates for 2009-10 meetings have now been set.

FORUM AREA	DATE	DATE	DATE	DATE	DATE
Deal & Walmer 6pm – 6.30pm	27 April 2009	28 July 2009	06 October 2009	26 January 2010	04 May 2010
Dover North 6.30pm – 7pm	21 April 2009	15 July 2009	14 October 2009	13 January 2010	21 April 2010
Dover Town 6pm – 6.30pm	07 April 2009	23 July 2009	01 October 2009	14 January 2010	06 May 2010
Dover West 6pm – 6.30pm	02 April 2009	20 July 2009	26 October 2009	18 January 2010	26 April 2010
Sandwich 6.30pm – 7pm	22 April 2009	16 July 2009	29 October 2009	21 January 2010	22 April 2010

Examples of topics already discussed include issues such as air quality, transport and highways, waste and recycling, community safety and the Local Development Framework (LDF). The special LDF Neighbourhood Forum meetings, arranged as an addition to the normal quarterly meetings, gave residents a chance to gain a better understanding about the what, why, where and how of the LDF consultation and process.

Meetings are usually held in a different venue for each meeting, our aim is to reach to as many communities as possible. We try to give at least a month's notice of the venue. All meetings are open to the public and you can just turn up to any meeting. We publicise the dates, times and venues of forthcoming Neighbourhood Forum meetings locally and in the local media. Meeting times vary between each forum, but there is always a half-hour period before a meeting opens where you can have an informal chat with your local district, county or town and parish councillor.

Come and have your say:

Tell us about the issues that affect your community and what matters to you.

For further information please contact:

Caroline Hargreaves (Leadership Support Team)

Pauline Hodding (Democratic Services)
Dover District Council
Email: neighbourhoodforums@dover.gov.uk
Tel: 01304 821199

Emma Carey (All Forums except Sandwich)

Kent County Council
Community Liaison Manager
Email: emma.carey@kent.gov.uk

Tel: 01622 694599

Anne Charman (Sandwich)

Kent County Council
Community Liaison Manager
Email: anne.charman@kent.gov.uk

Tel: 01622 696389

Contact your District Councillors

Cllr Stephen Manion Portfolio Holder for Corporate Resources and IT Conservative Party

Cllr Nicholas Kenton Portfolio Holder for Environment and Planning Conservative Party

Great Mongeham Parish Council

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