Locality Fund Consultation 2008

How would you spend £10,000 in the ward?

We are pleased to announce that once again we have Locality Funding of £10,000 to spend on improvements or activities in Lee Green ward and we would like to invite you to take part in the consultation process which runs until Friday September the 26th. The criteria for applications or suggestions for how to spend this money is that they should directly benefit the local neighbourhood and that all funding must be allocated and spent by the 31st March 2009. It would help greatly if when making an application you could give details of cost and supplier.

To give you an idea of the kind of thing we are looking for, in the previous three years funding has been spent on:
• a community board at Hither Green station
• cleaning up a problem area like the Burnt Ash Triangle
• match funding for the sculpture in Manor Park
• installing litter bins and planters at Leegate
• planting the flower bed at Lee station
• installing security gates at Burnt Ash
• start-up funding for the Friends of Hither Green Triangle and Manor Park User Group
• outdoor classroom seating at Brindishe school
• local poetry events and workshops
• Lee Manor Society Local History Board
• Good Shepherd Youth Club Folding Pool Table
• Picnic bench for Manor House Gardens User Group
• Community notice board at Hither Green station
• Manor House Library User Group notice board
• FUSS Staplehurst Road Christmas Lights & plants

Some ideas your councillors have had for this year's funding are:
• poetry event at this year's Open Studios
• community notice board for Lee station
• compost workshops
• anti-graffiti paint treatments for Burnt Ash Hill and Manor Lane
• cycle training and Dr Bike workshops
• tree clearance from around the pond area of the Triangle nature reserve
• railway sleeper step access from platform 5 to nature reserve

Funding cannot be used to employ staff although 'one off' costs for personnel who will be directly responsible for delivering the improvement, i.e. artists, are allowed, and money can be added to funding that has already been identified for a particular activity. No applications can be accepted after midnight on Sunday October the 28th when the consultation process finishes so the earlier you can get your application or suggestions in the better, and we can't guarantee that every application or suggestion we receive will be included. We'll have input this year from our Ward Assembly but the decision of your ward councillors is final, and we'll contact everyone who has submitted a suggestion or application with a list of this year's successful applications, which will also be published on Leepedia and in E-Focus.

We very much look forward to hearing from you.