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What's happening in your ward
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Your ward committee and getting involved
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What's happening in your ward
Fusion is a two-year, City Council-led scheme that, through a mixed programme of free-use, coached activities, innovation and outreach work, aims to increase participation in physical activity amongst children, young people and family groups across Newcastle. FUSION is aimed at all children and young people aged 5-18 who live in Newcastle. The scheme offers free activities at council managed leisure centres and pools and at partner organisations.
View the latest newsletter (pdf, 595Kb).
Udecide programme
Denton Ward will introduce the participatory budgeting programme this year and this is a fantastic opportunity for local people to have their say and decide how pots of public money should be spent in their area. Details of the programme in Denton will be coming through your doors. For more information see the Udecide webpage or phone the Udecide team on 277 7807.
Neighbourhood Policing Team
Denton and Westerhope Wards
Inspector: Jan Harrison 7156
E-mail: jan.harrison.7156@northumbria.pnn.police.uk
Sergeant: Paul Booth
E-mail: paul.booth.0716@northumbria.pnn.police.uk
Sergeant: Niall Mackel 911
E-mail: niall.mackel.0911@northumbria.pnn.police.uk
Neighbourhood Beat Managers:
Les Mitchell 1188
Keith Roberts 1310
Community Support Officers:
Michelle Clark 9814
Stuart Baird 6838
Andrew Christian 9900
Kevin Downey 5678
Paul Mood 5710
Contact phone number
03456 043 043 ext. 69191
Denton Digital Imagery Project
This project was set up to bring older and younger local Denton residents together to develop new skills during a 6 week digital imagery course at the Falcons Rugby Club Learning Centre earlier this year. As part of the Dunblane Community Safety Family Event in April, Elizabeth Stanley, tutor from the Falcons Learning Centre and several from the digital imagery group attended. They used this as an opportunity to use their new skills to take community images of the event and local area. Some of the images were displayed at the Outer West Customer Services Centre from in the summer. The images will be available to display in other community venues if there is an interest. All 3 cameras purchased are held with the arts development officer and are available for members of the local community to use as part of other community initiatives.
Bouncing higher in the Outer West
A full programme of activities for children and young people in the Outer West has been developed by the City Council's Arts and Sports Development Teams, Play Service, Youth Service, and Newcastle Libraries.
Information Leaflet (pdf, 5.8Mb)
Sport at All Saints College
The Centre has an outdoor playing area, sports hall, multi- purpose studio, and fitness suite, and can accommodate a wide range of activities including childrens birthday parties, sports days, five-a-side tournaments, and fitness training plus a wide range of sports including badminton, basketball, football, fencing, gymnastics, karate, keep fit, racquet sports, rugby, trampolining and toning.
For more information contact Amy McCulloch, Sports Centre Manager.
Phone: 267 2680 / 07834 700 535
E-mail: amy.mcculloch@allsaints.newcastle.sch.uk
Outer West Pool Impulse Fitness Suite
Anyone over the age of 16 can go to Impulse Fitness and, for those aged 13-15 years there is Impulse Evolution, a youth gym project which is fully operational at six sites across the city, including Outer West.
For more information contact the Outer West Impulse Suite.
Phone: 277 7980.
Denton Park Shopping Centre
Newsletter (pdf, 158Kb)
Fortnightly meetings are held between the College, Council officers and Morrisons representatives where any problems or issues are raised and addressed. Whilst it is inevitable that some disruption to normal services is only to be expected, all parties are striving to keep this to a minimum.
Contact Officer - Geoff Scott, Senior Planning Officer, phone 211 5636.
A new Children's Centre for Denton
The new Children's Centre is now open. Services from Health, the City Council and the Voluntary and Community Sector are working together to improve support and information for children and families, with particular emphasis on families with children from pre-birth to five years of age.
Children's Centres include:
Childcare and early education support for pre-school, and before and after school childcare
Information and support for parents and families, including training and jobs advice and information
Child and family health services including baby massage, breast feeding support and general parenting support.
If you would like more information about the Children's Centre developments please contact Rebecca Budden, Sure Start Westerhope and Denton Children’s Centre Manager.
Phone: 0191 277 2033
E-mail: rebecca.budden@newcastle.gov.uk
Westerhope Park
The Friends of Westerhope Park are now looking at ways to improve the park. For further details about the Friends of Westerhope Park contact Jackie Bartlett, Community Development Officer.
Phone: 277 2464
E-mail: jackie.bartlett@newcastle.gov.uk
Newcastle Warm Zone are working in your area and we encourage you to talk to our assessor who will call to your door - an assessment to see if you are eligible for free cavity wall an d loft in sulation takes o nly five minutes and we don't even need to enter your property. All of our staff carry ID and wear the Warm Zone uniform. If you have any queries a bout the Newcastle Warm Zone project please call us on 277 7373.
Click here for more information about Newcastle Warm Zone.
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Neighbourhood Services, one of the council's departments, is responsible for dealing with the cleanliness, safety and improvement of the local environment. The manager for Denton ward is Edward Bulloch.
The managers are in charge of the Neighbourhood Response Teams, whose job it is to respond quickly to problems that soon make a place look untidy or make it feel unsafe. This team includes the Rapid Response staff who sweep the streets, pick up litter and empty litter bins; remove small scale graffiti; make minor repairs to the footpath or street furniture; and cut back shrubs . They also deal with problems such as dead animals, blocked street drains, potholes and fly-tipping.
The Neighbourhood Response Managers make sure these teams are doing the jobs that are a priority for the local community. They work with local councillors, ward co-ordinators, tenants' and residents' groups and local people to find out what their priorities are. They work closely with other Neighbourhood Services teams in the area such as grounds maintenance, and road and pavement work.
If you want to contact your Neighbourhood Response Manager you can contact them directly, e-mail them or go along to a ward committee meeting.
Key monitoring documents
Ward priority plan (pdf, 45Kb)
- sets out the key environmental issues in the ward and what we are doing to tackle them
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If you want to report environmental problems, such as overhanging trees or graffiti, or ask for a bulky rubbish collection, you should contact Envirocall.
Our streetlights are maintained by a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) project.
We work with the police on removing abandoned vehicles.
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Ward Committees
Your Ward Committee is made up of three local councillors. Its purpose is to identify and address local issues. The committee consults and works with local residents and businesses, agencies and voluntary and community sector organisations.
The Ward Committee meets every two months on the third Thursday and is open to all members of the public. The dates for meetings are:
2009
15 January, 6pm * - West Denton Association Hall, Hillhead Road
19 March, 6pm * - West Denton Association Hall, Hillhead Road
* Drop-in sessions are held immediately prior to these meetings from 5-5.45pm.
The Ward Co-ordinator organises and publicises Ward Committee meetings and deals with any issues raised. They can help you with transport to and from the meeting, childcare and information in a range of community languages.
View the public papers for Denton Ward Committee meetings.
Grant Aid
The Ward Committee has a budget which
community and voluntary sector groups can apply for by completing a grant aid application form. Further information about this budget and copies of the application form are available on the Ward Committee Funding webpage, or by contacting your Ward Co-ordinator.
Deadlines for the submission of application forms for Denton Ward Committee are:
2009
5pm, 2 January (for 15 January meeting)
5pm, 6 March (for 19 March)
Community Groups
Denton Mature Action Group
The Denton Ward Committee is seeking to engage with as wide a range of local residents over the age of 50 as possible in order to ensure that local priorities are reflected in the work of the Committee and shape the development of the Denton Older People's Strategy. Meetings are held on the fourth Thursday in the month (except August and December) at 10.45am in the bar/lounge of the West Denton Association, Hillhead Road.
Speakers attend the meetings to discuss issues of importance to older people.
View programme of activities (pdf, 151Kb)
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Residents Survey 2007
Each year the Council undertakes a survey of residents in the city to find out what you think about the Council’s performance, the services we provide to you and what you think about the area you live in.
View the results for Denton ward.
More information about the Residents Survey and Citywide results.
Find out what consultations the council is carrying out in your ward and submit your views online. You can also see the results of previous consultations.
Cityeye gives details of events in your ward. You can also find information about societies and clubs in Fenham.
Use our online map to find your nearest libraries and schools. You can also find out where your nearest recycling site is and find leisure services, such as swimming pools, and heritage information, such as listed buildings and ancient monuments.
See also the Related Pages panel at the right of the screen.