Forest Gate Community Assemblies
Overview
The Community Assemblies will identify and discuss how best to address challenges 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 set priorities, establish community projects for your neighbourhood, influence decision making, and have a greater say in how local funding of approximately £100,000 will be spent.
Click read more to find out about how you can get involved in your local assembly and how to use this platform.
Background
Forest Gate Community Neighbourhood is made up of 2 electoral wards: Forest Gate North and Forest Gate South.
The previous cycle of Forest Gate Community Assemblies were allocated £25,000 to spend on improving the local area from September 2018 - October 2020. The following 3 priorities were set at the assemblies :
- Greener and Cleaner Environment
- Crime and Antisocial Behaviour
- Community Celebrations and Community Spaces
A summary of the community projects delivered and materials of the previous assemblies can be seen at: www.newham.gov.uk/communityassemblies
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.
As an overview, the overall timeline of engagement will follow the staged 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 and add ‘Community Assembly’ on the email’s subject line 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
Progress on Community Projects & Registration for 3rd Community Assembly
In this phase we have agreed principles and timescales for each project and are issuing applicants with grant agreements and terms and conditions.
The third Community Assembly in November will be an opportunity to hear progress on successful projects and share feedback on the process so far. Residents will also be able to volunteer to support with the delivery of projects.
To book your place at the next Community Assembly please visit the events section below.
If you are unable to attend, you can still provide feedback by completing the survey below.
Take the survey
Upcoming and ongoing events
Past events
Event date: February 23rd, 2022 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM.
Zoom
Event date: November 1st, 2021 from 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM.
Zoom
Event date: July 14th, 2021 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM.
On-line via Zoom
Event date: April 14th, 2021 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM.
Online
Event date: April 14th, 2021 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM.
Online