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Newport Community Forum

The idea of setting up the Community Forum arose from very well attended community visioning workshops (organised by Planed - Pembrokeshire Local Action Network for Enterprise & Development. www.planed.org.uk) and these also formed the basis of a Newport Action Plan adopted in May 2004.

What benefits are there for individuals & local groups?

The Forum is open to anyone living in the area of benefit or who has an affinity with Newport. It brings together local organisations, groups and individuals to work on developing projects of environmental, economic, social and cultural benefit to the community of Newport.

By becoming involved in the Forum you can learn about other local groups and what they do. The Forum can help to inform other people about your group and we can all discover how to work together and with other organisations and statutory authorities to the benefit of the community.

Because the Forum provides a means of consultation and the opportunity to work in partnership by engaging a wide range of people and organisations, it can clearly demonstrate community support. This is respected by grant giving bodies and can be of assistance in fund raising. As the Forum is a constituted body with a bank account, member groups are able to apply for funding through us.

What has Newport Community Forum achieved so far?

One of the Forum's main achievements is to form working groups that have gone on to become independent or largely independent. These include The Newport Area Environment Group, Newport History Society and Newport and Dinas Older Persons Forum.

In 2009, a new Action Plan for Newport was written by Newport  Forum members and can be found at http://www.planed.org.uk/Download/documents/NewportActionPlan2009ENGLISH.pdf

The Forum, along with other groups and community councils, is now engaging with PLANED in development of an Area Development Plan in which Newport will be the “HUB” community –the Heart (social and cultural) and the Pulse (economic and environmental) of community life in North East Pembrokeshire. This is part of the implementation programme of the EU/Welsh Assembly Government funded Rural Development Plan http://wales.gov.uk/topics/environmentcountryside/farmingandcountryside/ruraldevelopment/?lang=en

For more information about the Forum, please contact Reg Atkinson on 01239 820 889