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Birkenhead Constituency Committee

 

 

Meeting: 01/03/2018 - Constituency Committee - Birkenhead (Item 32)

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To receive the report of the Constituency Manager.

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Minutes:

The Birkenhead Constituency Manager presented her report providing an update on progress in relation to agreed schemes of work from the budget devolved to the Constituency Committee to date and other Birkenhead Constituency Committee projects in progress.

 

The report considered and reported on progress of projects and schemes under the following areas –

  • Keeping Birkenhead Clean
    • The launch of ‘love where you live’ litterpick kits;
    • 2018 ‘In Bloom’ proposed projects and In Bloom projects that had delivered positive outcomes, the Committee receiving a further verbal update from Mr John Booth, Oxton Secret Gardens, in respect of Oxton in Bloom and related activities;
    • Skip Fund Community Partnership days and clean-ups;
    • Clean-up dates in the past 12 months; and
    • Work of the ‘Community Payback Team’.

 

  • Feeding Birkenhead
    • St James Centre – North Birkenhead Development Trust, including appendices to the submitted report detailing St James holiday food and activities provision in the half term week commencing 19 February 2018;
    • Beechwood Update;
    • Rock Ferry Food Hub – Neo Café at The Beaconsfield Centre, the Committee receiving a further verbal update from Ms Emma Wilkes, Neo Community Café, concerning provision at the Food Hub;
    • Gautby Road Community Centre; and
    • Livingstone Street Centre – BEE Wirral Council.

 

  • Improving Life Chances

 

  • Community Connectors Project, including presentation slides appended to the submitted report advising on the role and activities of the Community Connectors.

 

 

  • Birkenhead Assets Update
    • The Beechwood Centre; and
    • Beaconsfield Centre, Rock Ferry

 

An appendix to the submitted report provided details of the Good Neighbour Champions Scheme, an initiative aimed at harnessing the principals of Asset Based Community Development by seeking to identify and work with people who would wish to volunteer to be a Good Neighbour in their street, road, cul-de-sac or neighbourhood, and reporting on the progress of the Scheme to date.

 

The Committee expressed their thanks for the work undertaken by the Constituency Manager and the Constituency Team.

 

RESOLVED: That -

 

(1)  the partnership work undertaken and future clean-up days funded by the skip fund be noted;

 

(2)  the contribution of probation to Birkenhead clean-ups be noted;

 

(3)  the 2018 Birkenhead in Bloom schemes be noted;

 

(4)  the updates from food hubs and holiday food projects be noted;

 

(5)  the updates regarding the Improving Life Chances community pilots be noted;

 

(6)  the updates for the Birkenhead Improvement District (BID) Team, Community Connectors and those related to assets be noted.