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
Announcement of Chosen Projects
The chosen and funded projects for the 2022/23 Forest Gate and Maryland Community Assembly cycle are:
1. Food For all in Newham
2. Youth Led - Nature and bio diversity
3. Trees in the High Street
4. A Green Oasis in the Town Centre
5. Let's repair
6. Wayfinding Wall Murals
7. Safer Pavements Greener Pavements
8. Clean, green E15 - A Place to grow
9. Get in Touch with Nature
10. Dance for Wellbeing
11. Forest Gate and Maryland environmental Network
12. Shine a Light


