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Contact us at: yettontogether@hotmail.co.uk Who we are
On this page we hope to keep you informed of the progress made towards formulating a village action plan 'A big thank you to the United and Parish churches for donating the collection at their interdenominational service on Sunday 22nd January [a sum of £209] to Yetton Together to further our work in the community'.
It's arrived - the community plan is launched!
Kirkburton Parish Council Aims to Reduce Dog Fouling with In response to many concerns expressed by residents, members of Kirkburton Parish Council have recently created a new “Bag It and Bin It” Working Party with the aim of reducing the increasing amount of dog fouling in the Parish. As well as being extremely unpleasant and unsightly, dog fouling can have serious health issues, especially to children. The Working Party plans to provide dispensers in all the villages, specifically located where there is a problem. We are working with the Dog Warden to identify the worst areas and Councillors are currently consulting residents on this. If you have a view where a dispenser would be useful, please do let us know. Dog waste bags and dispensers will be situated in the worst areas and leaflets and posters will exhort people to behave responsibly. The Working Party also aims to teach the younger generation that if you have a dog, you have a responsibility to look after it properly and clear up the mess. To try to do this we will be running a competition for local schools for pupils to design a poster to get the “Bag It and Bin It” message across. At the last Parish Council meeting, members gave full support to Kirklees’ plans to introduce Dog Control Orders and issue penalty notices against offenders who allow their dogs to foul, to designate certain areas dog-free zones and to compel owners to keep their dogs on a lead in specified areas. The Council wishes to make it clear that the “Bag It and Bin It” campaign is not a vendetta against dogs, their owners or animal lovers but simply wants dog owners to behave responsibly. The message is very clear: Bag It and Bin It! YT meet with local business people Hopefully we have now distributed all the YT newsletters to the community.
If you haven't received your copy of the Autumn newsletter please phone 01484 537617 Please click here to see an electronic copy Latest update 29th September 2011 Volunteers meeting On the 26th September a meeting was held for all the people who, through the village questionnaire, expressed an interest in volunteering in some aspect of the community
Initial meetings have been set up. BUT – If you were unable to attend the meeting or were unaware of it it’s not too late to join in.[Many people expressed an interest on the questionnaire but didn’t supply us with contact details!] We would welcome anyone willing to help in writing up our action plans or helping us to implement them. – We’d love to hear from you. We hope to produce the village plan around January 2012 - so watch this space for further information and the launch date. Update 4th September 2011 Over 600 questionnaires were completed and we are now in the process of anaylysing the data from them. Many people expressed an interest in finding out how they can help in improving our community so we have arranged a meeting to be held on Monday 26th September at the Parish Centre at 8pm. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served and it will be a chance to find out what is going to happen over the next few months without any obligation. Update 20th June 2011 Kirkheaton Questionnaire Distribution Hopefully we have now collected most of the completed questionnaires. A big thankyou to all those people who took the time to complete them. We are now in the process of entering the data. The information gathered will be very useful in improving life for us all in the village. If yours hasn't been collected please phone 01484 537617
A Community-Led Plan is a way of involving as many people as possible in looking at the community we live in, the issues facing us, and the hopes we might have for it. Many communities around the country have produced such a plan and have already seen definite benefits. Yetton Together is an independent local community organisation, a group of volunteers set up last year to steer the Plan process. It is not associated with any political group or any religious organisation. This questionnaire is for Kirkheaton and the surrounding area (Upper Heaton, Lascelles Hall, House Hill, Gawthorpe and Briggate). This is your Plan and will achieve several things:
We need to be realistic. This is not a ‘wish list’ to take to someone else. It is primarily something we work on together as a community. Whilst we realise there are obvious financial constraints in the current climate, this should not mean we put our ambitions on hold. A number of public consultation events were held in Kirkheaton in March this year to enable local people to talk about what they liked or disliked about the area and how it could be improved. This questionnaire is based on the feedback from these events. It will guide the whole development of the plan, which is to be launched in the Autumn. The information on this form is and will remain, completely anonymous. The data will be analysed on our behalf by Rural Action Yorkshire and the data will only be used in relation to developing our Community-Led Plan. All completed questionnaires will be shredded once the data analysis is complete. There is a page where you can give your contact details, if you wish, but this is completely separate.
We need your opinions. Have your say about future projects and improvements in and around Kirkheaton by filling this in. Thank you Yetton Together Steering Group Update February 1st 2011 Young people will also have their voice heard through the activities planned for King James's school and Kirkheaton Primary. Update November 2010 We are still waiting to see if we will be awarded grants from Awards for All and Kirkburton PC to allow us to continue with the plan. Hopefully when we have secured the funding we will be in a position to distribute our first news letter in January 2011. Other grant applications are in the pipeline. Look out for our new name and logo Yetton Together - action in our community! This was agreed at our meeting on August 17th. A chair, treasurer and secretary were appointed and we now have our own bank account! We just need money to kick start the action! Grants have been applied for from various organisations. One of the first actions of the group wil lbe to compile and distribute a Community newsletter which will outline the timetable of events etc in the village and keep everyone informed of our progress upto date. Click here to see a copy of our constitution The following letter explains the aim of a community plan |
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On Tuesday (6th July) around 70 people attended the launch of a Community Plan for Kirkheaton. The idea was given an overwhelmingly positive response and a good proportion of those there immediately volunteered to take part in the work to produce it. The work to produce the report will take place over the next year, with a questionnaire and a series of events to allow those who live, work or are members of organisations in and around the village to become involved. There will also be wide consultations with Kirklees and Kirkburton Parish Council, local businesses and other service providers. “We were delighted that so many people turned up,” says the Revd Richard Steel, Chair of Kirkheaton Community Network. “It was a really encouraging start and gives a great boost to those who have been working for the community over many years.”
“One really exciting thing was that as well as Parish Councillors and others who already are involved in community action there were many others too who wish to get involved,” he continues, “including a number of teenagers. As well as the main report there will be a special report looking at the needs and concerns of children and young people.”
“The aim of a Community Plan is to gather information about the hopes and concerns of local people,” says Mr Richard Steel. “It looks both at what already is happening and what people would like to see.”
“Everyone who lives or works in the Kirkheaton area (including Lascelles Hall, Briggate, Gawthorpe and Houses Hill) will be encouraged to take part,” he adds. “It’s very important that all the groups currently working in the community should be listening to what people in the community really want, what they need. This workwill be very relevant for all sorts of future planning.”
“We hope that, over the next year, many more people will become involved with the research and the writing of the report. We want this to be a significant document that supports the development of the community for years to come. This project has got off to a flying start.”
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Village Issues? |
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Community Centre |
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Heaton Moor Rd Surgery |
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Demolished mill site |
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The Environment |
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