Services

When you attend your local You Decide! event there will be a budget of over £250,000 to spend on additional services to improve the lives of local people. Find out about the services you can buy for your local area:

• Supporting older people
• Improving cleanliness and quality of streets, pavements and parks
• Tackling crime and anti-social behaviour
• Reducing levels of youth unemployment
• Raising GCSE results to be the best in the country
• Health projects in partnership with NHS Tower Hamlets

Supporting older people

You can choose to spend part of the budget on one of these projects to help support older people:

• Tea Dances: £2,500
• Hoppa Bus for Older People: £60,000
• Gyms in the Park: £20,000
• Day Trips: £20,000
• Outreach worker: £35,000
• Gardening Project: £40,000
• Handyperson service: £10,000
• Support for carers: £10,000
• Massage Therapy Service: £13,000
• Pamper Days: £1,500

Improving cleanliness and quality of streets, pavements and parks

You can choose to spend part of the budget on one of these projects to help improve streets and parks:

• Community shrub and tree planting: £20,000
• Park improvement project: £50,000
• Active parks – outdoor gyms and community planting: £40,000
• Bike It!: £16,500
• Better street lighting: £15,000
• Speed indicator devices to encourage slower driving: £3,500
• Expansion of Mile End Skate Park: £50,000
• Traffic calming and road safety developments: £18,000

Tackling crime and anti-social behaviour

You can choose to spend part of the budget on one of these projects to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour:

• Enforcement activity in markets: £30,000
• Warrior Women personal safety training: £6,000
• Intergenerational events (An opportunity for people of all age groups to get together): £25,000
• No Place for Hate Champions: £15,000
• Drug & Alcohol Outreach Support Workers: £42,500
• THEO (Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers) operations: £35,000
• Police operations: £35,000
• New CCTV cameras: £30,000

Reducing levels of youth unemployment

You can choose to spend part of the budget on one of these projects to help reduce levels of youth unemployment:

• Engaging young people in community events: £7,000
• Youth Disability and Special Educational Needs Employment: £5,000
• Family Learning ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages): £7,500
• Family Learning Support ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages): £15,000
• Community football coaching for young people: £4,500
• Learn to swim lessons: £7,000
• Jobs fairs: £5,000
• Skillsmatch graduate placement programme: £22,000

Raising GCSE results to be the best in the country

You can choose to spend part of the budget on one of these projects to help raise GCSE results:

• Laptops for GCSE Students: £42,000
• One to one and small group tuition for GCSE students: £20,000
• Study Support - Learning beyond the Classroom: £20,000
• Youth Inclusion Programme (Prevents 13 to 17 years entering the criminal justice system): £50,000
• Youth Inclusion & Support Panel (Supporting children between 8 to 13 who may be known to the police or council): £35,000
• Early GCSE in mother tongue: £35,000

Health projects in partnership with NHS Tower Hamlets

You can choose to spend part of the budget on one of these projects to help residents become healthier:

• Reducing the harm of alcohol amongst key groups: £35,000
• Healthy Lifestyle Promotion - Older people: £35,000
• Healthy Diet - Children & Young People: £35,000
• Oral Health Trainers – (Children, adults and older adults): £35,00
• Sexual Health  (Under 18-conception): £35,000