Beeches Community Board reflects back and focuses forward at latest meeting

Democracy and Local Affairs

The latest meeting of Beeches Community Board on Wednesday (30 June), gave the opportunity to look back at the first 12 months and also plan ahead for the coming year.

Looking back at the past year, board members reviewed how well the board had integrated itself into the local community. Nineteen projects and initiatives, from supporting foodbanks to improving road safety, were funded through the community board budget. The board also match-funded a joint, Be Your Own Boss project with several other community boards and Bucks Business First.

For the coming year, the board agreed on the action groups (formerly known as sub-groups) that will be set up to focus on the priorities for 2021/22:

  • Improving the Environment
  • Supporting Economic Recovery
  • Infrastructure & Highways
  • Wellbeing (bringing together the work of the previous Older and Vulnerable People sub-group and the Young People sub-group)

 

Local groups and organisations are invited to submit applications for funding for projects and initiatives that fit into the board’s priority areas for next year. More than £277k is available. For more information contact: beechescb@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

David Anthony, Chairman of the Beeches Community Board said: “The past 12 months have been busy as we have established ourselves into the local community and helped to provide support and assistance to local people and organisations in response to the Covid pandemic.

“We are really pleased at how well we have managed to work together and look forward to continuing to progress and bring about positive change for our local communities over the next 12 months.”

Community Boards are open to any local group or individual. If you are passionate about bringing about positive change in your area why not get involved? For more information visit: www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/community-boards

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