What does ‘clean and pleasant’ mean to Northolt – collective statements and emerging ideas
As part of the development of Your Voice, Your Town in Northolt, residents, businesses, faith and community organisations took part in a workshop at Middlesex Football Association, where people shared their project ideas and their thoughts on what a ‘clean and pleasant area’ means to them.
The groups created a series of ‘collective statements’ to help shape how Your Voice, Your Town Northolt could help communities take action to create a more ‘clean and pleasant’ Northolt. These statements have been used by Northolt’s Town Team, to set the criteria for future community-led projects. They are not exhaustive but provide valuable insights about what matters most to local residents and communities.
If you are inspired by the collective statements, you might want to apply to the Your Voice, Your Town Northolt Genie Community Fund where money is available for projects that will help make Northolt clean and pleasant – find out more. If you want to find out more about the Northolt Town Team and how to get involved in local action, go to the Northolt Town Team page.
Kickstart festival or carnival at Northala Fields
Goal
““To create friends of group, get people together in order to build a sustainable social resource.â€
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Project ideas
“A festival to bring people together, those who already do something in the community and those who would like to do something new for the community. For Volunteers we would need to engage with community, for tech skills involve experts and capacity building, for funding give time to develop fund raising strategy, for unknown experience create a pilot or a pop-up event.“
Church road and surrounding areas clean safe and well maintained with trees
Goal
““ To make the area around Church Road safer cleaner and traffic regulated and parking better managed.–
Project ideas
“A partnership approach of community working together with council services, Â such as road sweepers, tree officers, volunteer groups, police, and fire brigade, alongside an independent forum of residents and businesses that are local.“
Our space the epicentre
Goal
““Create community cohesion, spaces for community engagement, outreach, joint working, ownership, belonging, purpose, community action groups, responsible for its own environment, utilising existing spaces.–
Project ideas
“A hub for community projects open spaces, skill learning, joint working, and Community Action groups. Community Action groups have joint working spaces. Information sharing hub that provides information about other services in the local area and what’s on. A place to create community cohesion. Outreach and engagement teams. Multicultural/ faith/ age /skills /special education needs/ LGBTQ +. Fund raising opportunities with in-house cafe or shop to support sustainability. Play spaces and chill spaces. Fund raising community days.“
Pocket Parks -the community Heaven
Goal
““To have a great place to meet up in the community, a place that is inter-generational with spaces for all.–
Project ideas
“A safe attractive space such as a park, with good accessibility and infrastructure where people can come together for fun-based events and social activities in a friendly atmosphere so as to get to know their local community and to help and support each other. Each corner of the space would be adopted by different sections of the community, a small garden of flowers, bulbs and benches, maintained and managed by the elderly acting as a meeting place for conversation. Another corner hosted by parents, for young children, hosting games and play activity. A third corner for older children where they can study outside and meet to have conversations. The last corner would allow for sports, providing adults the opportunity to play football/badminton/cricket.
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