We have successfully completed Round 1 of the process to work out how we are going to spend the £1million Grant and have now entered Round 2, where we will all have to complete an acceptable plan based on detailed research about the needs of the area. This is where we will open out the whole discussion into the community and we want to talk to local businesses and start a business forum, start a youth forum, and develop more detailed ways for finding out what individuals think. So you will be seeing more information around the area from now on, e.g. at events.
This meeting will discuss how we do this and how we get more people signed up as volunteers to help the process so we really need lots more people there. We have already got useful information about the area from questionnaires and research undertaken in Round 1 but need to enlarge on this. There is still a huge gap between where we are now and where we need to be before we can spend anything, in terms of needing to work out how best to spend the money so that it maximises benefits to the whole area.
Once Round 2 has been successfully completed and reported back we then move into the exciting bit where we start to spend the £1million in the area.
