You Decide! at London Muslim Centre (LAP 2)
2009
Thank you to all 68 residents who took part in
You Decide! at London Muslim Centre on Monday 6 April.
During the event participants heard about 33
extra council services and projects available to buy to improve
their neighbourhood and other residents’ lives.
Find out more about the services and
projects participants could choose from to help improve their
area. (pdf, 890 kb)
Here’s how you decided
With the £280,000 of council cash - £140,000
for each ward Bethnal Green South, Spitalfields and
Banglatown. Participants voted on the best way to spend the
budget to benefit their local community.
Here are the extra council services and
projects participants wanted in the order they were voted for:
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Youth Inclusion Programme
This programme will help to prevent 13-17 year
olds from entering the criminal justice system, by working with 75
teenagers.
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£50,000
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Drug Outreach Worker (2
yrs)
The worker will be based in the community
offering advice, support and routes into drug rehabilitation
treatments.
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£85,000
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Designing Out Crime
Redesigning areas of estates to make it safer
and reduce local crime and anti-social (ASB) behaviour problems.
Changes may include, improved lighting, removal of natural seating
areas where ASB happens, improved natural surveillance by opening
up lines of sight especially along paths.
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£40,000
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Improved Street Lighting (per
street)
This means level of lighting will be improved.
Trees will be cut back were they block the light, lanterns will be
cleaned and light bulbs replaced before they fail.
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£10,000
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Extended Learning (per
school)
This will provide out of school study support
to cover a wide range of learning activities outside normal lesson
time. Young people can participate in this voluntarily.
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£18,000
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Youth Inclusion and Support
Panel
The panel will work with 30 children aged 8-13
who have become known to the police or council’s youth offending
team and may have anti-social behaviour warnings or acceptable
behaviour contracts.
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£35,000
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Youth Disabilities Employment Project
x2 ( £5,000 per placement)
Tower Hamlets council will ensure two young
people with disabilities will be employed with council contractors
or within the Idea Store / Library Service. They will be supported
by a dedicated team.
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£10,000
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Estate Action Days (per action
day)
These are clean up days on estates that bring
together a variety of services to refresh the appearance of the
estate.
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£8,000
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Family learning (per 20 week
course)
Free family learning course will be organised
by the council’s life long learning team to provide parents,
grandparents and carers with the skills they need to encourage
their child to learn at home.
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£15,000
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Litter Pickers (team of 4 for 1
month)
Litter pickers will do one off “spring clean”
to remove built up litter and recycle where possible.
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£8,000
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Shrub Beds (30 metres) This
project will provide 30meters of new and refurbished shrub beds in
parks and open spaces. It will include other, various bulbs, roses,
ground cover and climbing plants.
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£1,000
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