Meeting : Friday 21 July @ 10am, Sons of Rest Building
It looked as though this wasn't going ahead. But now it is! (Well done Delith).
Anyway, here are some hastily put together briefing notes for everyone (may yet be amended).
We will email this to those who have said they can attend. We should have a few hard copies tomorrow morning.
Handsworth Parents for Play
Briefing Paper for Meeting 10am, Friday, 21st July 2006
Expected to be present: Councillor Kim Brom; Councillor Mahmood Hussain; Councillor Don B Brown; Peter Short (parks); Jacquie Ellis (parks community liaison); Steve Salt (parks / council); Adrian Rourke (head of parks dept); us.
Our objectives (these are cobbled together and are not exhaustive):
1. We need to get a sense of the funding landscape. We need to find out how to become constituted and who we will liaise with in the pursuit of bids. There are a number of bids in progress. We would like Adrian to provide an overview of these and where the funding for each is coming from.
One of the above is a sum of £70K for play facilities in the coming financial year. Robin Bryan, Park Ranger Manager is the person behind this bid. It is unclear if this is for the whole city or just for Handsworth Park. This may be funding we can build on to meet our objectives. Rachel has asked us to find out: What plans are there for it? Which pot has it come from? Can we have a copy of the bid? Are there match funding possibilities?
2. Our aim is to join forces with Adrian / the parks dept to access around £300K of funding by helping put a bid together. We estimate £200K should go for equipment alone (this figure comes from the idea that the play area in front of the Leisure Centre cost about £90K). A further £100K needs to be added to facilitate consultation (in the way we mean it) and design etc of the equipment (if they are to be designed from scratch). We are aiming high because there is often overspend on projects like these.
We envisage a series of pods (perhaps 4) of play facilities that could be dotted around the park. We want to monitor the consultation and to try to ensure that children, young people, parents and others are consulted in an ongoing, interactive way, rather than through one off events.
If we are successful with the bid, we may want to have some critical input in relation to the proposed designs to check they meet the brief.
3. Rachel suggests: The Council are proposing a new consultative group combining Handsworth Park Association, Hinstock Rd Residents Assoc, us, the Play Centre, can it be set up sooner rather than later?
4. There are also plans for more local events to be put on in the Park. Can we get details on this?
5. Adrian has yet to send the drawings of the original designs that were presented to people as part of the consultation for the recent refurbishment. Without these, the Consultation document does not mean very much, as it isn’t clear what exactly, people were in favour of.
6. There may be other thoughts that need to be raised not covered in this. We can all contribute.
Anyway, here are some hastily put together briefing notes for everyone (may yet be amended).
We will email this to those who have said they can attend. We should have a few hard copies tomorrow morning.
Handsworth Parents for Play
Briefing Paper for Meeting 10am, Friday, 21st July 2006
Expected to be present: Councillor Kim Brom; Councillor Mahmood Hussain; Councillor Don B Brown; Peter Short (parks); Jacquie Ellis (parks community liaison); Steve Salt (parks / council); Adrian Rourke (head of parks dept); us.
Our objectives (these are cobbled together and are not exhaustive):
1. We need to get a sense of the funding landscape. We need to find out how to become constituted and who we will liaise with in the pursuit of bids. There are a number of bids in progress. We would like Adrian to provide an overview of these and where the funding for each is coming from.
One of the above is a sum of £70K for play facilities in the coming financial year. Robin Bryan, Park Ranger Manager is the person behind this bid. It is unclear if this is for the whole city or just for Handsworth Park. This may be funding we can build on to meet our objectives. Rachel has asked us to find out: What plans are there for it? Which pot has it come from? Can we have a copy of the bid? Are there match funding possibilities?
2. Our aim is to join forces with Adrian / the parks dept to access around £300K of funding by helping put a bid together. We estimate £200K should go for equipment alone (this figure comes from the idea that the play area in front of the Leisure Centre cost about £90K). A further £100K needs to be added to facilitate consultation (in the way we mean it) and design etc of the equipment (if they are to be designed from scratch). We are aiming high because there is often overspend on projects like these.
We envisage a series of pods (perhaps 4) of play facilities that could be dotted around the park. We want to monitor the consultation and to try to ensure that children, young people, parents and others are consulted in an ongoing, interactive way, rather than through one off events.
If we are successful with the bid, we may want to have some critical input in relation to the proposed designs to check they meet the brief.
3. Rachel suggests: The Council are proposing a new consultative group combining Handsworth Park Association, Hinstock Rd Residents Assoc, us, the Play Centre, can it be set up sooner rather than later?
4. There are also plans for more local events to be put on in the Park. Can we get details on this?
5. Adrian has yet to send the drawings of the original designs that were presented to people as part of the consultation for the recent refurbishment. Without these, the Consultation document does not mean very much, as it isn’t clear what exactly, people were in favour of.
6. There may be other thoughts that need to be raised not covered in this. We can all contribute.
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