Forest Gate & Maryland Community Assemblies 2022
Overview
The Community Assemblies will identify how best to address concerns in your area. The assemblies give you and your neighbours direct influence to create a shared vision for the place where you live, work or learn and to help shape its development and growth. This will be your chance to discuss local priorities, establish community projects for your neighbourhood, and influence how the £100,000 available in your neighbourhood will be spent.
Click read more to find out about more about the assemblies and how to use this platform, or scroll down to take part in the various phases.
Background
Forest Gate Community Neighbourhood is made up of 3 electoral wards: Forest Gate North, Forest Gate South and Maryland.
In the previous cycle, residents put forward and voted for their top three priorities of concern for each neighbourhood. These priorities will be carried forward to the current cycle. The chosen priorities for Forest Gate:
- Cleanliness and Waste
- Nature and Biodiversity
- Public Spaces and Buildings
You can find out about projects delivered in the previous cycle here.
How to join your local assembly
Please visit the Events section at the bottom of this page to find details of upcoming assemblies.
How to use this platform:
We will use this space to invite you to actively contribute in many different ways on how funding is spent on community projects to improve your local area and to also inform you about the progress of the projects. The timeline illustrates the different stages of engagement, both past and present. Only the current stage is open for contributions, but you can also review past engagements and see what is coming up in the future.
The timeline of engagement will follow the stages outlined in the cycle below
Cycle of assemblies:
How else can you engage with the Forest Gate community assemblies:
We would like local residents to join the Community Assembly Working Groups for each Community Neighbourhood area. To find out more about how you can get involved visit the Working Group page
Contact Us
You can email us at CN.Forestgate@newham.gov.uk or call us on 020 3373 0856, from Monday to Saturday, between 10am - 5pm. You can also keep up to date via the council's social media pages on Facebook , Twitter, and Instagram.
Post Assembly content
Presentations for each Community Assembly will be uploaded here following each meeting.
Phases
Vote on Community Projects
When this phase opens you will be able to vote to decide which projects get allocated a portion of the £100,000 Forest Gate Community Neighbourhood budget.
Add the projects which are most important to you to your basket for the value of up to £100,000 and 'click submit my basket'. You can only vote once, so please read through all the projects before clicking submit.
Below is a short tutorial you can watch to learn about how to submit your vote.
The projects which receive the most votes will progress to the next phase where they will be allocated a portion of the funds. Projects will be approved by London Borough of Newham and successful projects will be announced in August. Projects will be required to meet certain grant conditions, such as implementing safeguarding measures and acquiring relevant permissions before any funding is released.
Results
Final results
850
people submitted their budgets online
Upcoming and ongoing events
Past events
Event date: March 6th, 2023 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Forest Gate Library
Event date: November 10th, 2022 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Forest Gate Learning Zone
Event date: October 5th, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Zoom meeting
Event date: July 14th, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM.
The Learning Zone
Event date: May 31st, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM.
Zoom
Event date: May 30th, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM.
Zoom
Event date: May 12th, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Forest Gate Learning Zone 1 Woodford Road London E7 0DH Or Online via Zoom