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Community Chest Grant
The Community Chest Grant scheme was launched in April 2004 and aims to make
small grants more accessible to local voluntary and community groups.
Grants of up to £500 are available for one-off pieces of expenditure if
projects or activities meet the priorities under the following five headings:
 • Health and
Wellbeing
• Safer and Stronger Communities
• Economic Prosperity
• High Quality Environment
• Inclusive Society
Your organisation needs to be a not-for-profit voluntary organisation,
community group or a registered charity running activities or projects that
benefit the residents of the Winchester District.
This scheme is now open for applications for grant awards in 2008-2009.
For information about previously supported schemes and closing dates for
applications visit the Community
Chest Scheme page on the Winchester City Council website.
If you wish to discuss your project or have any queries regarding the
Community Chest scheme please contact the Partnership and External Funding
Officer (PEFO) on 01962 848582.
Small
Grants Scheme
The closing date for the last round in this financial year is 7th January
2009, and applications are welcome for activities/projects that will take
place after 18th February 2009.
For this round successful applicants will have six months from the date of
the award in which to complete their project.
Grants of up to £500 are available for projects/activities that fall within
the following schemes:
1. Biodiversity Projects
2. Carbon Reduction Schemes
3. Community Chest Scheme
4. Community Planning
Organisations/groups must be able to demonstrate that they are seeking the
views and wishes of all residents within their area of interest.
For more information visit to the Small
Grants page on the Winchester City Council Website.
If you wish to discuss your project or have any queries regarding any of
these schemes please contact the Partnership and External Funding Officer
(PEFO) on 01962 848582.
A helping
hand for Parish Plans
Winchester
City Council, East Hampshire District Council and Hampshire County Council
joined forces recently to help communities in the two districts progress
their parish plans.
A total of
eight parishes sent representatives to a surgery event, where they met with
officers of the three councils and partner organisations to take forward
ideas and projects emerging from their parish plans.
More details can be found on the Council's
website
Locally
Produced Winners
 A third wave of
Winchester businesses have recently received the Hampshire Hospitality Award,
a quality marque for restaurants, bars, cafés and sandwich bars.
All the businesses taking part underwent a 'mystery shopper' assessment,
which took place over the busy summer season. The trained assessors
considered every aspect of customer service and a total of 60 businesses
in Hampshire received quality marques with 25 of these spread across the
Winchester District. Lainston House Hotel at Sparsholt received the top
rating of superior quality award, as well as picking up a local produce
marque in recognition of their use of ingredients grown in the hotel's
kitchen garden. The Thomas Lord pub at West Meon, who source over 90% of
their produce locally, also received a local produce marque.
For a full list of businesses who have achieved an award contact Winchester's
own award-winning tourist information centre on 01962 840 500 or email: tourism@winchester.gov.uk. There
is also a list on our tourism website - Hampshire
Hospitality Award. Happy eating!
The
21st century business directory for Winchester
 The Disc Directory, an online business directory
provider, has partnered Winchester City Council to launch a new, searchable
database of over 6,000 businesses based in the district.
The Council, which is committed to supporting local enterprise, has taken a
major step in providing a technologically advanced business directory which
offers a free listing to every business in the Winchester District.
Parish Councils in the Winchester District are encouraged to link to the
directory from their own web pages to promote the use of their local
businesses.
The Winchester City Council business directory can be accessed at www.wccbd.co.uk
Over
55's Action Forum
Following the hugely successful Older People's Information Day that took
place at the Winchester Discovery Centre last month, Winchester City Council
is now supporting the development of an 'Over 55s Action Forum' for the
district.
Feedback from the Information Day in October showed that older people
are very keen to work directly with the City Council to make sure that
resources are targeted precisely at the services and amenities that matter to
older people.
The next meeting of the forum is going to be on Tuesday 13th January 2009 at
the United Reform Church, Jewry Street, Winchester from 10.30am - 12.30. If
you would like to find out more about the over 55's action forum or to get
involved please contact Nicola Lawrence, Projects & Business Support
Officer at Winchester City Council on 01962 848497 or email nlawrence@winchester.gov.uk
Youth of Winchester (formerly Winchester Youth Council) was formed in October
2007 following on from a 'Who Runs This Place' event held at St Mary's
Stadium. Winchester City Council is working in partnership with Hampshire
County Council Children's Services (Youth Service) and secondary schools
across the district.
So far Youth of Winchester (YOW) has representatives from
Kings school
The Westgate School
Perins School
Swanmore School
Henry Beaufort School
Osborne School
Youth Action Winchester
Peter Symonds College
These young
people will be the link between the school, school council and their peers
and represent the views of young people in the Winchester District.
Meetings:
YOW
meets every half term during school time (12-3pm), for elected officers only,
but also has an open meeting (to which any young person can attend) from 5pm
- 6.15pm, every other month. By having the 'open meetings' out of school time
it will enable all young people who are interested in any of the priorities
to be involved and have their voices heard.
The meetings will be rotating around the district so that everyone has a
chance to get involved. You can find out more at http://www.winchester.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemocracy/YouthCouncil/
How to
get involved: If you want to get involved or would like more information,
please contact Nicola Lawrence at Winchester City Council on NLawrence@winchester.gov.uk or
call 01962 848497 or contact David Mackie, Winchester Youth Worker david.mackie@hants.gov.uk 01962
876361
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Dates for your diary...
16th December 2008
Cabinet
(Local Development Framework) - Walton Room, Guildhall, Winchester
7th January 2009
Full Council - Conference Chamber, Guildhall Winchester
08
January 2009
Planning Development Control - Walton Room, Guildhall, Winchester
13th
January 2009
Winchester Town Forum - Walton Room, Guildhall, Winchester
Latest News from Winchester City Council...
CAB and City Council Launch Improved Services
The new premises for the Citizens Advice Bureau in Bishop's
Waltham, which also incorporates Winchester City Council's new Local
Office, will be officially opened by the Leader of the City Council, Cllr
George Beckett, on 27 November.
Customer Service Hat trick for Winchester TIC
Winchester's award-winning Tourist Information Centre (TIC) has come first
for the third year running in a national email 'mystery shopper' test.
Leading Economist addresses Winchester's business
leaders
International financier, Brian Lord Griffiths, gave a stirring
presentation at the Guildhall on Wednesday 19th November as he shared his
thoughts on the current global financial crisis.
Free customer service training for bus and taxi
drivers in Winchester
Winchester bus and taxi drivers are being offered a FREE day of training to
help enhance customer service and satisfaction.
Vandals jeopardise road safety
A road safety initiative, involving the use of flashing speed limit signs,
has been thwarted by vandals.
Government subsidy causes cutbacks for tenants
Winchester City Council has today apologised to its tenants after being
forced to make cutbacks in its repairs and renovations programme to meet
shortfalls in Council housing budgets.
Winchester
District Sports Awards 2008
Local Olympic star, Julia Beckett, was just one of the many winners at the
first annual Winchester District Sports Awards.
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