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GYBC -
Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) are the local government district that are responsible for Great Yarmouth and the surrounding area.
They are responsible for a host of different things across the area such as education, transport, planning, fire and public safety, social care, libraries, waste management, trading standards and tourism (this is a huge part due to having lots of seaside towns).
They work closely with residents across these topics to make the Yarmouth area the best it can be within the budget they have. They listen to ideas and some aspects of this include working with community groups that help the local neighbourhoods.
Within the borough they have three neighbourhood offices to help people. This includes Comeunity on Kings Street, MESH in Gorleston and the Make It Happen site which is at the Kings Centre which is also in Great Yarmouth. Each site creates links with residents to help engage them with partnerships like the Norfolk Constabulary, charity and community groups. They believe this helps residents "make strong and vibrant communities".
MESH -
MESH is for the Gorleston residents and a main aim is to ensure local residents learn skills so don't have to be as reliant on the councils services. They run lots of support groups that help cover many everyday situations. The office is open Monday to Friday during the day for anyone to drop in and give suggestions or just to attend the groups. They are also there to be able to give a lot of advice in sectors like benefits, legal, housing, money management, funding, local clubs and training.
Also MESH host events for the community to attend such as family fun days which are free to attend for anyone. Also a youth group is in place which happens weekly at a low cost for 6-12 year olds which helps keep kids off the streets and provides a safe place for them to learn new skills.
Cutting Hedge & Voluntary Norfolk -
Cutting Hedge is a project which was set up within MESH and funded by the peoples health trust. This was after incidences of overgrowing gardens in council house properties from people who had disabilities which meant they were not able to do the garden work that was required. In cases this would mean that they would not meet there council house agreements which could potentially mean they would have to face eviction from that property. Other people didn't have the skills or knowhow on how to keep up a garden. This project included recruitment via social media and word of mouth to get people onto the training courses to learn skills on garden maintenance. Tim Inger from East Coast College then went on to teach the group about plant identification and trained them on how to use the gardening tools. Once training was complete they went into the community homes and helped transform gardens to become useable once again. They also had information in about an alley way which had become unusable due to it being over run by fallen trees and garden waste. The team with their training were able to go along and clear it so it could be used by everyone once again.
From this ongoing project one person has been able to gain a gardening job using skills learnt in the group.
Voluntary Norfolk are a charity organisation who have three main goals that include -
- working with the community to gain skills
- helping the most vulnerable in the community
- enable better employment outcomes for the younger and older generation
East Norfolk Sixth Form College -
Our college got involved in the MESH Cutting Hedge project through Jane Palmer who is the progression and community adviser. Julie from MESH got in touch in regards to a video that they wanted to have made which could be shown at a councillor's yearly event.
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