Quarterly Communications update: April - June 2009
Introduction
The Safer Havant Partnership Communications
update is a quarterly document detailing all major communications,
publicity and community engagement events that have taken place or
are being planned by the Safer Havant Partnership. This
document will inform both partner agencies and residents of all
communications that are being planned or that have taken place and
will inform the work of the Safer Havant Partnership Community
Engagement Group.
Update on communications
Safer Havant website update – 2000 visitors and Home Office
recognition
The Safer Havant Partnership website www.saferhavant.co.uk was
launched on the 11th of November 2008, offering help and
advice on a variety of up-to-date topics including anti-social
behaviour, reporting a crime and getting involved to make the local
area a safer place. Features include an online monthly poll
and information on upcoming community events. The website is
updated at least weekly with up-to-date articles and information on
community safety issues.
The Safer Havant Partnership website has been
recognised nationally as best practice in a Home Office guide to
community engagement called ‘Ten of the Best’,
which was launched at a conference held in May on reducing fear of
crime through communications. Follow the link below to read
the Home Office document:
Link to Home Office
document 'Ten of the Best' (PDF) >>
On the 1st of June 2009 the website
had its 2000th unique visitor, with the site viewed over
11000 times. The Safer Havant Partnership celebrated this
achievement by issuing a press release, including an article in the
Havant Borough Councillor’s newsletter and creating a poster for
internal use. To date the site has had 2222 visitors and over
12000 page views.
Safer Havant Partnership presentations
The Community Safety Team continued to deliver
presentations on the Safer Havant Partnership to a number of
Community Boards across the Borough. Their aim is to visit
each Community Board twice a year. The Team also gave a
presentation on the Partnership to the Waterlooville Neighbourhood
Watch Annual General Meeting.
Promoting the Partnership
The Safer Havant Partnership is currently
sponsoring a series of ‘Cackle and Pop’ discos for 8-11 year olds
to promote community safety and sensible behaviour to young
people. At the first of this series of events, 180 young
people were given Safer Havant Partnership goody bags, which
included community safety information and promotional goods from
the Safer Havant Partnership. Sharps Copse Primary School has
also been given a number of these promotional bags for use on a
school trip abroad.
In the News
The Safer Havant Partnership has continued to
promote their work through a range of local media:
The Safer Havant Partnership has secured three
centre-page spreads in Park Life community newspaper. The
first centre-page spread, which was distributed in May, focused on
promoting the Safer Havant Partnership with a simple, advert-style
page explaining the role of the Partnership and promoting their
website. The next centre page spread will be more
article-based, with a focus on giving advice on the issues raised
by Leigh Park residents through the Havant Borough Council
Citizen’s Panel and local Neighbourhood Watch schemes.
Residents raised litter and vandalism, teenagers hanging around on
the street and motorcycle nuisance as their main issues, so our
advice will focus on these problem areas. If you would like
to contribute to the next edition of Park Life, please contact
info@saferhavant.gov.uk
In April the News featured a front cover and
two-page spread on ‘Operation Pond’, a successful initiative to
reduce violent crime and anti-social behaviour committed by a small
group of individuals in the Leigh Park area.
The News also included a very positive article
on the Havant Borough Council Parchment Awards, where staff members
were recognised for their achievements throughout the year.
The Community Safety Team, who co-ordinate the activities of the
Safer Havant Partnership, were awarded the Achievement of the Year
award at this event.
A short article on the first of the Safer
Havant Partnership ‘Cackle and Pop’ parties was also featured in
the News.
The summer edition of Havant Borough Council’s
magazine Serving You included an update and reminder for residents
to visit the website www.saferhavant.co.uk for
community safety information and advice. The Community Safety
Team plans to have a piece responding to the issues raised through
the Citizen’s Panel in the next edition of the magazine.
The Safer Havant Partnership was also promoted
internally within partner agencies with articles on community
safety and the Partnership’s work in the Havant Borough Council and
the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service newsletters.
Community engagement events
In April the Safer Havant Partnership
completed a series of community safety leaflet delivery days.
These events focused on roads in the Leigh Park area where
residents had been identified as vulnerable by Hampshire Fire and
Rescue Service’s Mosaic system. Information and advice on a
wide range of community safety issues, including arson, vehicle
crime, anti-social behaviour, health and disabilities was included
in the packs and the three events were a great success with around
3000 community safety information packs delivered to some of the
most vulnerable residents in the area.
Representatives of Havant Borough Council,
Leigh Park Safer Neighbourhoods Team and Havant Neighbourhood Watch
visited the Greywell Shopping Centre on the 11th of May
to give information and advice on community safety. The team
gave out leaflets and promotional items in order to help those
suffering from anti-social behaviour and to promote the Safer
Havant website.
Future plans
Safer Havant Fun day 2009, 12th of August, ASDA
Leigh Park
The Safer Havant Partnership is currently
planning their major event of the year, a large community
engagement event based at ASDA in Leigh Park. This event will
focus on giving community safety information and advice to help
tackle the Safer Havant’s main priorities, which are alcohol,
anti-social behaviour and violence. This event is set to be
really exciting, with a number of activities being considered to
encourage residents, and in particular young people, to come along
and get involved, including a possible climbing wall, face painting
and performances by a local dance group. The Safer Havant
Partnership Community Engagement Group will meet on the
7th of July to plan around this event.
New campaign – Safer Havant Promise
The Safer Havant Partnership are currently
planning a new campaign to get the public involved in making the
borough a safer place to live, work and visit. The results of
the recent Citizen’s Panel showed that the majority of respondents
feel that the public should play more of a role in making Havant
safer, and a number would like to get involved but don’t know how.
Therefore the Safer Havant Partnership will be launching a campaign
to encourage residents to get involved and make their community a
safer place to live.
Website updates
The Safer Havant Partnership website www.saferhavant.co.uk is
currently being updated with a new events calendar detailing all
upcoming local and national events and campaigns related to
Community Safety. We will also be adding an online feedback
form which will allow visitors to let us know what they would like
to see on the website. Due to technical difficulties these
updates are still in progress.
Report produced by Katherine Vasey, Community
Safety Projects Officer, 19th of June 2009
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