BCHF is launching its Future Jobs programme to provide six months paid work experience to unemployed young people in posts such as Youth Work, Caretaking, Community Work and Office Administration. For more details, click here.
BCHF's annual review is now available to view online. This report provides you with information about key areas of performance as well as an overview of our work during the past year. Please click here to view and download a copy.
Play Rangers will be based in Poets Park, Eliot Close, Horfield every Thursday afternoon from 2 until 4pm until October 2009. Activities will be organised for young people aged 5 to 13. Please click here to view the poster or call Ruth Cornish on 0117 9551561.
On Saturday 16th May from 12 noon, BCHF held a community festival and feast for all its tenants and anyone living in the local area at the Eden Grove Church Hall in Horfield. We also launched the Upper Horfield Community Cookbook that local residents have helped to create.
We are pleased to be able to offer anyone interested in purchasing a copy of the cookbook an online facility, courtesy of one of our sponsors, Bart Spices. If you would like to buy a copy online, please click here to visit Bart Spices' website (there is a minimum £10 order to qualify for free postage).
You may also buy a copy at the UHCT Community Cafe at Eden Grove and from our office reception at 400 Filton Avenue. All copies are a mere £2 and proceeds will be used to fund community cohesion projects in the local area.
The Government has issued a leaflet for all households regarding Swine Flu that should be received in Bristol homes on 5th May. Translations of the leaflet are available by clicking here.
A small backland site at Cinderford Road in Southmead has been transformed by local housing association, Bristol Community Housing Foundation, beyond all recognition. Used as a dumping ground for years with every type of anti-social behaviour, more than a vision was required to see its potential as a housing development.
Following years of campaigning by local residents and councillors, the privately owned site was purchased by Bristol City Council in 2006 using their compulsory purchase powers.
BCHF stepped in to carry out the development and have built six bungalows for rent, two of which are specially adapted for wheelchair use.
BCHF's Pride of Place (POP) action group is to apply for the national Cleaner, Safer, Greener Neighbourhood Kitemark Award following a decision by the city's Cleaner, Safer, Greener board to partner with BCHF in providing financial support for the bid.
The area's POP group comprises residents and local agencies and meets monthly to conduct walkabouts, litter picks, identify safety issues and get street-level issues resolved more quickly. The group will meet in October to commence the Kitemark process.
If you are involved in Upper Horfield and would like information about the POP group, please contact Scott on 0117 9319776.
The National Housing Federation in the South West have produced a guide for Councillors that explains the role housing associations can play in developing safer and stronger neighbourhoods. Click here to view and download the guide in Adobe PDF format or visit the NHF website: www.housing.org.uk
Find out what IDeA - the govt's Improvement and Development Agency - say about BCHF's redevelopment of Upper Horfield. View the whole publication here (we are featured on page 38): www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/8222866
BCHF's redevelopment of Upper Horfield is also featured as a case study on the SW Creating Excellence website. Click here to view.
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Bristol Community Housing Foundation Ltd
400 Filton Avenue, Horfield, Bristol, BS7 0LJ
Tel: 0117 947 0501
Fax: 0117 969 4111
