I've just sent this info. round.
I appreciate it is a long message, but please do take the time to read it.
Good Morning
Very short notice I know, but my computer has been down for a while; hope it isn't too late for you to enjoy.
In today's newsletter, we have:
Crabble Corn Mill's Beer Festival
Community Funding
New Exhibition at Dover Museum
Neighbourhood Forums
Rotaract Quiz Night
Lots to read, so please take the time - you'll be pleased you did.
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Just a reminder that the Crabble Corn Mill hare having their Beer Festival this week-end - Friday and Saturday, the 27th. and 28th.
A great event and the major funder of the Corn Mill, so your support is very necessary.
I have attached a document to this email, giving much more information - about the beers and ciders, the sponsors of the beers, how to get there and back without driving and of course the food and musical entertainment over the week-end.
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Community Funding - if you are part of, or involved with, a Community Group, the following information will be very useful to you and them:
FUNDING AVAILABLE 2011/12
It's that time of year again when funding has become available for projects that bring community benefit to the Dover District. There are three funding streams available:
Member Community Grant (KCC)
Each Kent County Council Member has a total of £10,000 to allocate to projects within the Dover area that provide community benefit.
Local Schemes Grant (KCC)
The Local Schemes Grant is for support of revenue or minor capital projects.
Examples of capital costs - in general terms any expenditure that leads to the acquisition of a fixed asset (land; buildings; plant; machinery; equipment; vehicles etc) or increases the life or market value of a fixed asset.
Examples of revenue costs - all other expenditure, normally considered to be day to day running expenses of a business/organisation.
Small Community Capital Projects (SCCP) Grant (KCC and DDC)
KCC and DDC have allocated funding to the Dover District Neighbourhood Forums to award grants for community projects. The SCCP grant scheme supports local projects involving capital costs, such as those involved with the purchase, creation or significant renovation of capital assets. This scheme cannot pay for any running costs associated with your project. If you apply for a grant for the capital cost of your project, you must be able to meet all subsequent running costs from sources available to you.
You Decide
All applications to the Small Community Capital Projects (SCCP) Fund will be decided by participatory budgeting (PB) which d irectly involves local people in making decisions on how a particular pot of money will be spent, with the aim of increasing transparency, accountability, understanding and social inclusion in local government affairs. PB means engaging residents, community groups and representatives of all parts of the community to discuss and vote on grant applications and to make final recommendations on how money is spent on local projects in their own area during a 'You Decide' community day.
In many areas local members are also adding their Member Community Grant and Local Schemes grant money to this pot.
How you apply for funding will be determined by your Local Member and the area of Dover in which your project/organisation exists.
If you wish to apply for funding please email me with details of your project, organisation, area of Dover where you are based and how much you need. I will then be able to send you further information and the most suitable application form.
Best Wishes
Emma
Emma Carey
Community Engagement Manager - Dover
Room 1.97 Sessions House
Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XQ
Tel: 07850 924247
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NEW EXHIBITION SETTLES AT DOVER MUSEUM
A new exhibition has opened at Dover Museum showing the rich diversity of our culture and charting thousands of years of social history in the area.
The exhibition features fascinating artefacts, eye-catching artwork and life-size room settings, which help to bring the area's incredible history to life, and looks at the range of new cultures, skills, knowledge, language, religion and trade that have been brought to the area. It includes a range of historical detail and displays spanning thousands of years, from the first settlers after the creation of the English Channel around 425,000 years ago and the Roman and Saxon invasions, to the Huguenot and Jewish refugees fleeing persecution on the Continent, and British migrants searching for work in the Kent coal mines.
The exhibition can be seen at Dover Museum until 3 September. For more information, please call Dover Museum on 01304 201066.
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Neighbourhood Forums: PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE DOVER DISTRICT
Everyone is under pressure to deliver their services with fewer resources
Find out what is happening with your public services.
Tell us what it is like living in your area.
Ask questions and receive answers.
Three Forum meetings have been set up to to discuss "Public Services in the Dover District". Everyone is under pressure to deliver their services with fewer resources and representatives from partner organisations will be available to let you know what is happening with your public services and answer your questions.
Representatives include Kent County Council, Dover District Council, Kent Police and the Community Safety Partnership, Eastern & Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust, Kent Highway Services and Kent Fire and Rescue.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Deal & Walmer / Sandwich Area
Tuesday 07 June, The Guildhall, Sandwich at 6.00pm
Dover Town
Thursday 16 June, St. Mary's Parish Centre, Dover at 6.00pm
Dover North / Dover West
Tuesday 28 June, Venue and Timings TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY
Doors open 30 minutes before the start of each meeting with light refreshments and an opportunity to view display stands, meet your local Councillors, public service partners and other Forum members.
Please feel free to send this e-mail on to anyone you think may be interested in coming along.
If you have any queries about the Dover District Neighbourhood Forums please contact KCC Community Engagement Manager Emma Carey, on Tel: 07850 924247; E-mail:
emma.carey@kent.gov.uk
We will be sending out more detailed invitations nearer the time, posters and fliers for this meeting and would be grateful if you could display these in your area.
Kind regards
Emma
Emma Carey
Community Engagement Manager - Dover
Room 1.97 Sessions House
Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XQ
Tel: 07850 924247
These Neighbourhood Forums are very important to you and where you live, so please, if you can, do come along and have your say.
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And finally, Rotaract are having a fund-raising quiz-nite - a Wine and Wisdom evening this coming Saturday evening, the 28th. at St. Richards School - 2 charities will benefit, so please put your thinking caps on and come along.
I have attached a poster on the wine and wisdom evening - it has been checked for viruses so is safe to download.
Kind Regards
Roger
