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

Take part in You Decide!

Please be aware you can only attend a You Decide! event in your area.

To find out which event to go to  simply put your postcode into the LAP (Local Area Partnership) finder map, and then register to take part by filling in the online form. Otherwise you can call 0800 035 1395 between 9am-5pm Monday -Friday.

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