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Welcome! I'm Angela Piccini, forum manager and current Chair of Brislington
Community Partnership. I took over from the Partnership's founding Chair, David
Waters, in November 2007.
Brislington Community Partnership (BCP) was founded in 1999 and is made up of
residents, business representatives, interested individuals, members of
community groups and representatives from schools, churches and statutory
agencies. Our vision for Brislington is:
• To be prosperous, harmonious and safe;
• To support a vibrant and growing local economy that is balanced with the
protection of our local environment;
• That people in the area will have equal access to opportunities, including
employment, training and education;
• That people in the area have opportunities to participate in local decision
making;
• To be a sustainable community.
In its history, the Partnership has achieved notable successes in the East and
West Wards, including the establishment of working groups such as Respect
(youth issues) and Friends of Nightingale Valley to deal with specific issues
in our community. The Partnership also set up a stand-alone website
(www.brislington.org) and has drawn up a community directory of businesses and
groups that serve the area. For the past 2 years the Partnership has been
working with the City Council's Environment and Sustainability Unit to produce
a Community Action Plan, which is to be launched in July 2008. More recently,
the Partnership has become a formal Neighbourhood Partnership, working closely
with Community Development and PACT (Police and Communities Together). The
Partnership is also an active member of the Bristol Neighbourhood Planning
Network.
Although I am Chair of the Partnership, it is important that you see this
e-forum as a space in which to raise and discuss issues that may not have been
given attention by either the Partnership or any of the formal entities with
which it works. We can help to bring your questions, concerns and issues to the
table and address these through meaningful action.
I look forward to meeting all of you and hearing your views!
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