Winter 2012/13
The OSSCAs are back! The Outstanding Safer and Stronger Communities Awards (OSSCAs) return in 2013 with exciting new categories and a sparkling awards ceremony. Safer and Stronger Communities feels it is important to recognise the hard work from the groups, individuals and volunteers that make North East Lincolnshire a better and safer place to live. The OSSCAs are a great way to say thank you and to showcase the good work that is going on. Nominations are invited in the following categories: 1. Standing up against anti-social behaviour award 2. Outstanding community safety project award
3. Lifetime achievement award 4. Judges’ award 5. Outstanding contribution to reducing crime award 6. Creativity and innovation award 7. Building stronger communities award 8. Community thank you award Nominations open soon at www.OSSCAs.org.uk and close on Friday 12th April 2013 with a glittering awards ceremony for winners and nominees in May. For further information contact 01472 324944.
Have your say in our annual crime priorities survey Safer and Stronger Communities, in conjunction with Humberside Police, are currently running our annual priorities survey. We’d love to hear your views on how crime and anti-social behaviour have affected you in your community and neighbourhood, as well as your ideas about what you think we should be focusing on in 2013/14. The Community Safety Team will be out and about visiting supermarkets, libraries,
colleges, children's centres and community groups at the end of January to speak to our residents about your priorities and concerns. This will inform how we select our priorities for the coming year. For a full timetable of where we'll be and when, or to answer the quick, ten question, survey online, please visit www.safercommunitie s.org.uk/news/annualpriorities-consultation
New Neighbourhood Watch in Peaks Lane Local residents of Peaks Lane and Weelsby Road in Grimsby have taken on the responsibility of championing community safety in their area and have formed a Neighbourhood Watch Group. Residents on and near Peaks Lane have been suffering myriad issues including criminal damage, hate related insults, late night drunkenness, littering and fly-tipping. Support was requested to deal with the multitude of issues affecting the area and local Councillors organised an initial meeting. The residents decided to explore the option of working closer together in an effort to
make their community safer and this has been a great success. Local businesses and agencies have since become involved, including The Hainton Pub, NAVIGO's Harrison House, Peaks Lane YMCA, St Andrews Hospice, St Hughes hospital and the Fire Station. The group has already organised the clearing of litter in the area through the Community Payback scheme, and all the neighbours are keeping their eyes peeled for flytippers. Several members of the community have taken the responsibility to support and lead the group, including a new Coordinator, Vice Coordinator and secretarial staff.
A short sentence or two on Porridge On 15th November a group of 12 people from the Safer Future Communities Network, Neighbourhood Watch and other community leaders spent the day in Hull Prison, organised by the Community and Voluntary Safer and Stronger Working Group. They had a tour of the entire prison complex starting with the new wing and culminating in the old Victorian area. Two members of the party said that it reinforced their understanding that prison is a dire place – not the ‘prisoners get everything’ kind of understanding that some people talk about. Group visits an be arranged by calling Gary Swales at HMP Hull on 01482 282200.
Peaks Lane before the Community Payback clean up operation
After the clean up