Tuesday 10 August 2010

Take Part's 'Community Budget Challenge' at Southsea Carnival 2010

The council's Take Part Pathfinder team had a stand on Southsea Common during Southsea Carnival 2010 to promote active citizenship in the city. As well as giving away the Take Part newspaper and 'How to' guides, the team ran a budget challenge for local people. Each person was given 4 cards, each representing £10,000 and asked to choose between 6 areas to spend the money: Crime, Education, Employment & Economic Well-being, Environment, Health & Youth.

Monday 9 August 2010

First consultation event results

The drop-in last week at Milton was very successful with more than 50 people talking to us at the Library and several more at the park and local shops.

30 residents completed our survey (online version at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/neighbourhoodforumsconsultation)

Initial result show that although 57% had heard of neighbourhood forums only 10% had attended one.

57% felt that they could influence local decisions and 23% felt they couldn’t the remaining 20% didn’t know.

Looking to the future of neighbourhood forums respondents could chose as many ideas as they liked
• 23% didn’t choose any option
Of those that did
• 91% thought that drop-ins would be a good idea
• 44% thought that walkabouts would be good
• 35% liked the idea of question and answer sessions and
• 30% liked the idea of open forums
• 74% had further comments and suggestions including
• Using social media and the internet,
• Having suggestion/query boxes at the libraries,
• Putting information in the newspaper,
• Use of Milton Matters
• Highlighting the problems of childcare to allow attendance at meetings.

There are further consultations advertised in the calendar at the bottom of this page, please come along or complete the survey online.