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Gosport Neighbourhood Watch Association invite all members to their Annual General Meeting

It is asked that ALL schemes at least send a representative to the association Annual General Meeting on Thursday 30th September, 7.15 pm at St Mary the Virgin Church Hall, 174 Rowner Lane, Rowner, Gosport PO13 9SU. As well as hearing from our local Police teams, we have a presentation about how Gosport is tackling antisocial behaviour which is high on most people’s agenda.

Editor Required

Your current editor of Watchnews will be resigning in September 2010 therefore someone is required as soon as possible to take over. If interested and would like to find out more please contact Carole Rudin 023 92583637 or email newswatch@gosportnhw.co.uk.

Help Required

At the moment a small group of coordinators provide the following services for Gosport NHW :

Prepare and distribute a quarterly newsletter the yellow sheet called WatchNews
Phone coordinators with details of current crimes in their area a twice weekly service we call ‘Ringround’

Unless more NHW members are willing to help us, I’m afraid some or all of these activities will have to stop.

Are you willing to help us in some small way to keep NHW alive and well ?

Do you know anyone in your scheme that has got just one or two hours a month to support us?

This is the sort of thing we need you to do:

Watchnews:

Arrange for the sheets to be printed by the Council.
Use your computer to layout the Watchnews articles onto four A4 sheets.
Collect the sheets and put into batches for delivery to coordinators.

Could you do any, or all of these things every three months?

Ringround:

Go to our office in the police station on Monday or Thursday evening.
Read the reports of recent crimes in the area and then phone the local NHW coordinators.

This takes no more than an hour the more people willing to do this once a month the more reliable the service becomes.

For all of these jobs we will help and support you until you feel comfortable doing it on your own.

What next?

Within the next few weeks, one of the coordinators who currently do these jobs will ‘phone you to discuss how you might be able to help.

Please think about hoe one or two hours of your time, once a month, could help continue this valuable community service.

If you would like to help or need more information now, then call me Bob Combes on 023 92 522439 or Carole Rudin on 023 92583637

Good Neighbour Award Scheme

Do you know someone who makes a difference in your community and especially to you? Would you like to nominate them for an award next year?

We know that many people across the county commit their own time to help people live comfortably and safely in their own homes. The Good Neighbour Awards, introduced three years ago, give you the opportunity to publicly acknowledge and reward the support of volunteers and neighbours.

We understand that becoming less independent is a key concern, especially for older people. It is often the small things, such as getting to and from the shops, collecting prescriptions or keeping the garden tidy that can become increasingly difficult. May be you know someone who helps make these tasks easier? Perhaps you're an older person who would like to nominate a neighbour whose support you find invaluable. This is your chance to say thank you to them. Nomination are welcome from everybody.

We also welcome nominations for people who coordinate volunteers or groups that undertake this type of voluntary work. Due to the number of nominations we have received in the past, we will have to limit these to coordinators or groups who were not nominated or successful last year and to one nomination per group.

Nominations for Good Neighbour Award Scheme 2010

If you know someone who makes a difference in your community and especially to you, please use the forms below to nominate them for the Good Neighbour Award Scheme 2010:

You can either download a nomination form or use the online form.

Clean and bright street signs gives the right message

NHW street signs should be a bright flash of yellow that catches your eye as you go about the Borough and makes you think ‘ here is a street that looks after itself and cares about what’s going on’

Unfortunately many of our signs have faded with age and are no longer a warning to ‘would-be’ criminals.

In fact, I think these faded signs give the message to criminals ‘we don’t care anymore so come and have a go’!

For just £4.00 we can supply you with a self adhesive cover to completely refresh your sign or we can refurbish for you at a cost of £6 per sign.

Check your signs today then give your order to Carole on 023 92 583637 or sales@gosportnhw.co.uk It’s a great investment so what’s stopping you?

Our aims

To strive to reduce crime and also the fear of crime in the Gosport area.
To encourage the creation of new Neighbourhood Watch schemes.
To foster the development of existing schemes.
To work in conjunction with the Police in the support of all Neighbourhood Watch schemes.
To facilitate the free flow of information between the association, it's schemes and the Police.
To provide a representative voice to pursue the collective objectives of members.
To promote good citizenship and a greater public participation in the prevention and detection of crime.
To encourage an increased awareness of crime and crime patterns with Neighbourhood Watch areas.

The association is made up of local co-ordinators and deputy co-ordinators and has representation at a higher level, on the Hampshire Neighbourhood Watch Association. We hold regular meetings with Police management and operate a "Ring Around" system to pass crime information by phone to local co-ordinators.