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 :

1. Greener and Cleaner Environment
2. Crime and Antisocial Behaviour
3. 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.