Community Development

Getting involved in your local community

BCHF works across all of our developments in north Bristol to help communities to tackle local concerns, improve service delivery and develop projects to address local needs. We work in partnership with local neighbourhood organisations to ensure residents enjoy a high quality of life and benefit from living in a thriving, diverse and active local community.

Local Groups

BCHF supports a number of groups to address local issues and develop community projects. Currently the following groups meet and are open to you to join. These groups are:

Pride of Place (POP) Action Group: This group meets monthly to conduct local walkabouts in Upper Horfield to log and report problems with street cleanliness, refuse and street safety e.g. lighting, overgrown shrubs, broken drain covers etc. These issues are collected together each month and reported through to the relevant agency. The POP group and our network of street contacts monitor the problem and update the register when they have been fixed. The dates for 2008 walkabouts and POP group meetings are available by clicking here (664kb).

Two Street Reps on a walkabout in Upper Horfield

Partners and Communities Together (PACT): These groups have been set up by Safer Bristol and the Police to cover all issues concerning neighbourhood community safety. If you would like to come along to the next local meeting click here for a list of dates and venues for Upper Horfield or call Cheryl Coles on 07810 506846 for details of neighbouring meetings e.g. Southmead.
Click here to go to the Horfield Neighbourhood Policing web pages.
Click here to go to the Lockleaze Neighbourhood Policing web pages.
Click here to go to the Southmead Neighbourhood Policing we pages.

Poets Park Action Group: This group is specific to users and neighbours of Poets Park – our local park in Eliot Close. The group meets periodically to improve facilities at the park and feed concerns and ideas to BCC Parks Dept. We have recently worked with local residents to come up with some plans to improve the park and thes first phase of work has now been completed. For more details, contact Scott on 0117 9319776 or email scott@bchf.co.uk

Emerson Square Park: This new park for Upper Horfield has now opened and we are now working with local young people and the Police to set up a Young Rangers scheme to involve young people in management of local parks. If you are interested in getting involved or have any questions, please contact Scott on (0117) 9319776 or email: scott@bchf.co.uk

Street Reps: BCHF has a Street Rep scheme which any resident is welcome to join. It only takes a minimum of 20 min per week of your time and reps are supported to report information about local street issues such as litter and safety matters to the relevant agency. If you are interested in becoming a Street Rep for your street, please contact Scott on (0117) 9319776 or email scott@bchf.co.uk

If you have just moved into any of our developments in north Bristol, and want to find out more about local groups and activities or would like help to start something up, please contact our Community Development Worker.

BCHF Community Development Worker:

Scott Jacobs-Lange. Email: scott@bchf.co.uk or telephone 0117 9319776

Click here to open the Calendar of Local Community events (if you have something you would like to add here, please email details to scott@bchf.co.uk)

2008 is Upper Horfield's year of Celebration

'The Other Side of the Road' is a play put together by local residents about the life of the people of Upper Horfield, from its original build in the 1920s, to the present day. This play will be performed at Monks Park School on Thursday 27th Nov and Friday 28th Nov at 7:30 pm, and on Saturday 29th Nov at 2:30 pm. Entry: £3/£2 concs, £10 Family. Contact (0117) 9690011 for tickets.

Community Cohesion graffiti board

Other Useful Links

Waste and Recyling information

If you would like details of recycling centres local to you or other information relating to waste and recycling, please download our information sheet by clicking here for Upper Horfield or by clicking here for other areas of Bristol

To find out were your nearest Plastic Bottle bank is, visit the Bank Locator website by clicking here

To report a local issue concerning street cleanliness or fly-tipping you can do so by calling Bristol City Council on 0117 9222 100 or by visiting the http://www.fixmystreet.com website

To find out more about composting your kitchen and garden waste in your own compost bin, visit the Bristol City Council website where you can find lots of answers to common questions. Click here for details.

For details about home composting and obtaining a disounted compost bin, click here.

Community

Upper Horfield Neighbourhood Trust

Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust

Southmead Development Trust

The Barrowmead Project (Lawrence Weston)

Henbury and Brentry Community Council

Voscur (Bristol’s Council for Voluntary Service)

Bristol's local Neighbourhood Partnerships

Bristol City Council

Bristol City Council Recycling, planning and Waste

Bristol City Council Street care and Cleansing

Bristol City Council Parks and Open Spaces

Bristol City Council Youth and Play Services

Ask Bristol – the local online consultation website: http://www.askbristol.com

The Bristol Partnership (the Local Strategic Partnership)

Democracy

Local Councillors’ detail via Councillor Finder

Local MP website: Doug Naysmith

Education

The local Secondary School: Monks Park School

Upper Horfield Primary School

Filton Avenue Primary School

Crime and Safety

Horfield Beat Website

Community Safety Links (via Police website)

Transport

Bristol Dial-a-ride

First Bus (Bristol and West)

U-Link Buses

Wessex Connect

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Community Development

Getting involved in your local community

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