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Summer Reading Blast Off at High Heaton Library
Are you brave enough to take a giant leap to the final frontier this summer? Join our Space Hop reading challenge from Saturday 26 June where your mission will be to read six books over the summer holidays. Everyone who signs up can keep track of the books they read on a special fold out poster and it’s FREE to join. If you triumph in your space mission you will be presented with a certificate from High Heaton Library Mission Control and be entered into a fantastic prize draw!
During the school summer holidays from Saturday 24 July – Sunday 5 September, there will be a range of FREE Space Hop events in High Heaton library.
Come along every Tuesday 2.15-3.15pm for interplanetary crafts.
Thursday 5 August 2.30-3.30pm - Charlie’s Space Hop magic show. Fun for all the family.
Friday 13 August 10am-12noon - Jack and Daniel’s Space Hop Quick comics.
Thursday 19 August 11am-12noon - Alien Spotting with author Simon Bartram
There’s also plenty more fun to be had on the Space Hop website. You can find out about cool new books to read, comment on books you’ve enjoyed and join in games that are out of this world! Read blogs from your favourite authors too on www.spacehop.org.uk.
For further Space Hop information keep checking this website or phone High Heaton library on 0191 277 4233. Events need to be booked, unless otherwise stated. Children under the age of eight must be accompanied by a parent or carer. It’s time to prepare for blast off!
Health Trainers – making healthy choices easier
HealthWorks Newcastle have a team of Community Health Trainers who can help you to make better health choices. They can provide people with information about local services, community groups and projects. They can support people to stop smoking, reduce stress and anxiety, get fit and make friends and make healthy and safe relationship choices. Community Health Trainers work with individuals and groups. If you would like their support phone 273 8889.
Volunteer for the Youth Offender Panel
Volunteers are needed to join youth offender panels in Newcastle. If you become a panel member you will be joining the thousands of volunteers who are already seeing their efforts pay off to tackle crime in their area.
You can do it
Being a panel member is a challenging yet rewarding role. If you want to see less crime in your community, this is the perfect opportunity to get actively involved. It makes no difference where you come from or what you do, as long you are over 18 years old and are willing to make a difference in your community. For more information please visit our Youth Offender Panel webpage.
E-mail Mark Johnson mark.w.johnson@newcastle.gov.uk or Kerry Turner kerry.turner@newcastle.gov.uk or phone 0191 277 7377 for an application pack.
Dene Neighbourhood Charter - Our neighbourhood our future
We're working on the first-ever Neighbourhood Charter for Dene. The charter sets out what local people tell us are the main things that we and other agencies need to do to make the area a better place for everyone.
What is a Neighbourhood Charter?
A Neighbourhood Charter is an agreement between you, the community, and us with our partners such as the police and health service at a local level. A charter can be for any part of the city but in this case it's for Dene and its neighbourhoods. The purpose of a charter is to help us give you the services you want at a local level to improve your quality of life. This includes giving you a bigger say over health, housing, employment, education, policing and local facilities. Charters are designed to give local people a say in the decisions that affect their day-to-day life. They can be helpful in understanding problems, identifying what's most important for action, and measuring how well we are doing making changes.
You will have a final opportunity to comment at the Dene Ward Committee meeting on the 9 November at St. George's Church, Boundary Gardens, High Heaton.
What Happens Next? (Update November 2009)
The priorities are now being shared with services providers so they can identity actions and responses to these with timescales. The Neighbourhood Charter will be formally launched at the March 2010 Ward Committee.
The agreed priorities will then be monitored through the Ward Committee over the coming 12 months.
View the Dene Ward Neighbourhood Charter Newsletter (pdf, 758Kb)
Active Newcastle
A new four year campaign to get more people who live and work in Newcastle doing more exercise more often. The Active Newcastle website gives you information about the wide range of activities taking place in the city from regular classes to one off and annual events.
Grassroots Grants
If you can answer 'yes' to the following questions then you may be eligible for a Grassroots Grant.
- Have you been in existence for a year or more?
- Do you have an average income over three years of less than £20,000 per year?
- Are you working for the benefit of your local community?
- Are volunteers vital to your group’s activities?
- Do you have a constitution?
- Do you have a bank account in your own right
To find out more visit www.communityfoundation.org.uk
Fusion is a two-year, City Council-led scheme that aims to increase participation in physical activity amongst children, young people and family groups across Newcastle. The scheme offers free activities at council managed leisure centres and pools and at partner organisations.
View the latest newsletter (pdf, 595Kb).
New Leaf New Life Active Ageing Programme
The New Leaf New Life Active Ageing Programme is funded by the Big Lottery and led by Michelle Mordue from the Quality of Life Partnership. It offers some exciting new programmes, tips on staying well, and activities to improve your health and social life.
Phone Michelle on 255 1985
Room Hire at Disability North
Looking for accessible, affordable hire spaces for seminars, workshops, committee meetings or conferences? Disability North is based at The Dene Centre, a modern and purpose built accessible environment offering a range of flexible conference facilities at low rates.
Phone: 284 0480
Email events@disabilitynorth.org.uk.
Working It Out
Are you aged 16-24? Are you ready to do something different? Join us on Working It Out – a 16 week personal development course where you work in a team to complete challenging projects that help the local community. The Working It Out team is a group of young people who like to help to get things done. They want to help community groups, schools, nurseries, pensioners clubs, etc. Interested? Call your local Working It Out team on 261 6242.
Anchor Staying Put Newcastle Trades Register
For many older people finding a trades person can be a worry. Not getting the right one can work out costly and be more stressful than necessary. The Newcastle Trades Register can help you to find trades people to carry out repairs and maintenance in your home.
View more information about the Register
Night-Watch is now operating seven nights a week. The number may have changed but Newcastle's night time noise service 'Night-Watch' is still here. If you are having problems with noisy neighbours then call 0300 1000 101 8pm - 4am 7 nights a week.
Could your community organisation use an individual funding advice session?
Are you a community organisation working in Newcastle? Do you need advice on improving a draft application or have you just had an application rejected and want to talk about why it happened? Are you looking for new funding opportunities? Perhaps you want advice on measuring outcomes or you just want to discuss whether your proposed project is likely to attract funding. You can come to NCVS and talk to a Funding Advice Officer about any aspects of fundraising. For an appointment phone Louise or Chris on 232 7445.
Newcastle Warm Zone are working in your area. An assessment to see if you are eligible for free cavity wall and loft insulation takes only five minutes and we don't even need to enter your property. All our staff carry ID and wear the Warm Zone uniform. If you have any queries about the Newcastle Warm Zone project please call us on 277 7373.
Click here for more information about Newcastle Warm Zone.
Local council services
Neighbourhood Services, one of the council's departments, is responsible for dealing with the cleanliness, safety and improvement of the local environment. The manager for Dene ward is Stephen Green.
The managers are in charge of the Neighbourhood Response Teams, whose job it is to respond quickly to problems that soon make a place look untidy or make it feel unsafe. This team includes the Rapid Response staff who sweep the streets, pick up litter and empty litter bins; remove small scale graffiti; make minor repairs to the footpath or street furniture; and cut back shrubs. They also deal with problems such as dead animals, blocked street drains, potholes and fly-tipping.
The Neighbourhood Response Managers make sure these teams are doing the jobs that are a priority for the local community. They work with local councillors, ward co-ordinators, tenants' and residents' groups and local people to find out what their priorities are. They work closely with other Neighbourhood Services teams in the area such as grounds maintenance, and road and pavement work.
If you want to contact your Neighbourhood Response Manager you can contact them directly, e-mail them or go along to a ward committee meeting.
Key monitoring documents
- Ward priority plan (pdf, 9.9Kb)
- sets out the key environmental issues in the ward and what we are doing to tackle them - Service requests to Envirocall
- shows the number of requests for our cleansing services
Reporting problems
If you want to report environmental problems, such as overh anging trees or graffiti, or ask for a bulky rubbish collection, you should contact Envirocall.
Our streetlights are maintained by a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) project.
We work with the police on removing abandoned vehicles.
Your ward committee and getting involved
Ward Committees
Your Ward Committee is made up of three local councillors. Its purpose is to identify and address local issues. The committee consults and works with local r esidents and business es, agencies and voluntary and community sector organisations. All meetings start at 7pm and are open to all members of the public. The dates for meetings are:
2010
10 May - St Georges Church, Boundary Gardens
12 July - Henderson Hall, University Campus
13 September - Benton Park Primary School
8 November - St Georges Church, Boundary Gardens
The Ward Co-ord inator organises and publicises Ward Committee meetings and deals with any issues raised. They can help you with transport to and from the meeting, childcare a nd information in a range of community language s.
View the public papers for Dene Wa r d Committee meetings .
Grant Aid
The Ward Committee has a budget which community and voluntary sector groups can apply for by completing a grant aid application form. Further information about this budget and copies of the application form are available on the Ward Committee Funding webpage, or by contacting your Ward Co-ordinator.
Deadlines for the submission of application forms for Dene Ward Committee are:
2010
26 April - for 10 May meeting
28 June - for 12 July meeting
30 August - for 13 September meeting
25 October - for 8 November meeting
Further Information
Residents Survey 2008-09
Each year the Council undertakes a survey of residents in the city to find out what you think about the Council’s performance, the services we provide to you and what you think about the area you live in.
View the results for Dene w ard (pdf, 47Kb).
Find out what consultations the council is carrying out in your ward and submit your views online. You can also see the results of previous con sultations .
Cityeye gives details of events in your ward. You can also find information about societies and clubs in Dene.
Use our online map to find your nearest libraries and schools. You can also find out where your nearest recycling site is and find leisure servic es, such as swimming pools, and heritage information, such as listed buildings and ancient monuments.
See also the Related Pages panel at the right of the screen.