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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).
Christmas Fayre
St Matthew’s Church, Big Lamp, Summerhill Street
6 December, 11am-1pm. Admission 20p.
Come along to the Church Hall and join in the fun. There will be a Christmas tombola, toy stall, grand prize draw, cakes, chocolate tombola and lots more to enjoy. Everyone welcome.
West End Customer Service Centre and Library
The West End customer Service Centre and Library opened on Monday 17 November. The centre, which is based on Condercum Road in Benwell, offers people of the West End of Newcastle a range of services all under one roof. This newly built centre brings together a Customer Service Centre, Library and Your Homes Newcastle office. You can:
access 90 different council services and information
make council payments
see a Housing or Council Tax Benefit Officer
use the library services, formerly available from Benwell library
get in touch with Your Homes Newcastle staff who used to be located in North Benwell and Scotswood Housing offices
To find out more about the centre follow this link.
Care Homes Project needs volunteers to act as friends and mentors to care home residents. We provide full support and training and pay out-of-pocket expenses. You will be working alongside older people to provide a listening ear and to help them to be physically and mentally active. There will be involvement in local community activities such as dancing, film and drama groups, local history classes, reminiscence sessions, arts and crafts, etc. This is an exciting opportunity to meet new people and take part in new things.
For further details contact Nicole Dowley (Project Co-ordinator)
West End Befrienders, St. John's House, Westgate Road, NE4 9PQ
Phone: 272 4414
E-mail: carehomesproject@yahoo.co.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 and loft insulation takes only 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 about the Newcastle Warm Zone project please call us on 277 7373.
Click here for more information about Newcastle Warm Zone.
Families First
Families First is a family support project which works with families where there is a child aged 0-11. The project operates in the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne and is funded through the local Primary Care Trust and Sure Start Children Centre. Referrals are made directly to the project or for 0-5's they can be made to the Children's Centre. Every Tuesday there is an allocations panel meeting at the Children's Centre. Referrals can be made from a wide range of professionals, and families can also self refer. Services provided include:
Short-term, intensive family support through home visiting and group work.
Plans are developed with the family to identify solutions. This is reviewed after 8 weeks.
Advice on parenting approaches and group programmes.
Advice and initial support to access groups, services, appointments and amenities.
Groups e.g. for women from the BME communities; fathers and parents in general. Refer to project for up to date programme.
There are Family Support workers who can communicate in languages other than English.
View the information leaflet (pdf, 37Kb)
North Benwell Neighbourhood Management Initiative
North Benwell Neighbourhood Management Initiative delivers service improvements at a local level through working in partnership. It brings together a wide range of service providers, local residents and other local stakeholders. It is funded primarily by Bridging Newcastle Gateshead and is a partnership between Home Housing, Newcastle City Council, and Northumbria Police. The overall aim is to improve services in the area, improve the physical fabric and to build an equal and effective partnership between residents and service providers.
View the website
Aspire 2 Project
Explores issues faced by women from diverse religions and cultural backgrounds in achieving career aspirations aged between 13 and 30. Contact Ashma Saeema Rumin
Phone: 226 0394 or 07795 025 202 / 07951 640 895
www.aspire2project@yahoo.co.uk
angeloucentre@wwwmail.co.uk
Record of the Past
Would you like to help keep a record of the West End’s past? Westgate PAST is now an established Local Heritage Initiative for the collection of oral history, photographs and artefacts in order to record the change that is taking place in the West End of Newcastle from days gone by to the present day. You can help the project in a number of ways:
Contact us so we can interview you and record your memories
Tell us if you have any photographs you’d like us to look at
Come to our skills sessions on: digital photography editing; interview skills; photography; sound editing; using the internet to send e-mails as a historical research tool; and computer skills.
Phone: 242 1236
E-mail: admin@westgatepast.com
Website www.westgatepast.com
Excelsior Academy – Find Out More
Information about the Excelsior Academy in the West End of Newcastle is now available online at www.excelsiornewcastle.org.uk. The website includes a wide range of information about the new school which will be for local children aged 11-18 living in the West End. Visit the site to find out more including a chance to download recent newsletters and ‘question and answer’ documents.
‘Get riddum if you got the blooz’.
Park Road community Centre. Tuesdays 4.30pm – 6.30pm.
These free sessions in hand drumming use African drums called djembes which are supplied or you can bring your own. Contact Barbara Slasor, West End Community Consortium.
Phone: 272 4244.
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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 Elswick ward is David Orr.
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, 42Kb)
- 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 at least once every two months and is open to all members of the public. The dates for meetings are:
2009
Monday 12 January, 10am - British Red Cross Headquarters, Croft House, Western Avenue
Monday 9 March, 6.30pm - Colby Court Fire Station
Monday 11 May - Church of the Venerable Bede, Benwell Grove (to be confirmed)
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 f
or Elswick 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 Elswick Ward Committee are:
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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 Elswick 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 Elswick. You can also find information about societies and clubs in Elswick.
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 bu ildings and ancient monuments.
See also the Related Pages panel at the right of the screen.