St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee successfully launched

Organisations in the St Oswald and Llanymynech area are being encouraged to apply for a share of £10,000 for community projects.

The money is part of the budget given to the St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee (LJC) meeting, one of 28 LJCs established around the county by Shropshire Council.

As well as providing an opportunity for people to raise issues that matter to them and their area, LJCs have a dedicated budget to spend on projects for the local community. The meetings are overseen by a panel of councillors from local town and parish councils, and Shropshire Council, who vote on decisions after discussion with everyone at the meeting.

At the first meeting of the St Oswald and Llanymynech LJC on 23 July, the panel decided to earmark £10,000 of the total year’s budget of £31,000 as a community fund – and organisations are being invited to apply for grants up to £2,000. The closing date for applications is 11 September. Shropshire Council community regeneration officer, Debbie Marais, can offer support and guidance to groups wishing to apply for grants and can be contacted on 01939 237413.

Chairman of the St Oswald and Llanymynech LJC, Shropshire Councillor Arthur Walpole, said: “About 20 people came to the first meeting, which was a good start. We discussed what the meetings were for and what powers the committee will have. We hope organisations take the opportunity to apply for funding, and I look forward to discussing the applications at the next meeting. The LJC gives people a real opportunity to raise issues and get things done in their local area, and it is important that residents come along and get involved.”

Topics discussed at the first meeting included a debate about how people are supported following their discharge from hospital, road safety on the A483, traffic and speeding in villages.

Application forms and guidance on requesting funding can be found at www.shropshire.gov.uk/communityworking  or by calling 01939 237570.

NOTES ON MEETING OF St. OSWALD AND LLANYMYNECH LOCAL JOINT COMMITTEE.     13 OCTOBER 2009

Extra chairs were needed for those attending a meeting in Pant primary school [Bryn Offa]. The meeting was of the Llanymynech Local Joint Committee [LJC] which is run by Shropshire Council and involves six parish councils in the Llanymynech area. One purpose of the LJC is to act as a forum for members of the public, in these parishes, to raise issues of concern and get responses from the responsible authorities. Its second function is to grant funds to local organisations who make a successful bid to the LJC.

The main subject of concern was the safety issues on the A483 in the area. To respond to the meeting were Mr Saqib Mir, the Highways Agency route performance manager for the West Midlands, and Mr Martin Withington, head of transportation for Shropshire Council. Mr Mir made it clear that the A483 is the sole responsibility of the Highways Agency. He also explained that any funding for the A483 has to be considered against the needs of the whole of the West Midlands which included all the motorways and the road networks of the major towns and cities. 

The audience brought forward many safety issues involving accidents and incidents on the A483. In particular the volume of traffic going through Pant, the dangerous nature of the narrow pavements, the Llynclys crossroads and Maesbury Road junction. There were many fervent and rational descriptions of the dangers and accidents in these locations. The repeated response from Mr Mir was that the recorded number of incidents did not warrant any improvements to any of these areas. The audience were assured that the Highways Agency would continue to review the situations on the A483 and possibly involve local people more in these reviews. The strong feeling of the meeting was that improvements were needed even if Highways Agency statistics stated that there were no significant issues.

On a more positive note, 12 local organisation shared grants totaling some £21,000. Four groups had their application deferred and two bids were not recommended for funding.

The next meeting of the LJC will be on 13^th January 2010 at Kinnerley Village Hall.

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PRESS RELEASE issued by Shropshire Council
9 June 2010

Funding provides boost to community groups

Llanyblodwel’s village newsletter is set to increase its circulation after receiving almost £500 of funding from the area’s Local Joint Committee.

At its meeting last month, the St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee (LJC) agreed to award £489.88 to The Messenger newsletter to cover printing and postage costs for the next 12 months.

The newsletter was one of several community and voluntary groups in the Kinnerley, Knockin, Melverley and Llanymynech areas to receive funding from the committee’s last round of funding.

Other community groups receiving funding from the committee in May included:
·Maesbrook village hall – awarded £269 for signage and water heaters
·Cruse Bereavement care – awarded £1500 towards training and supervision costs for volunteers working in rural parishes.
·Morton Minors – awarded £950 to spend on music, keyboards and percussion instruments for children’s choir.

On behalf of The Messenger newsletter, Becky Hunt said: “We would like to thank the committee very much for giving us funding. It will help support our printing and distribution costs and enable the circulation to be increased to reach a wider audience as demand arises.

“This is a widespread parish and The Messenger has been a good way to bring people together via the various charity events and group activities. Just the other week over 150 people joined friends and neighbours here for the annual Big Breakfast! Part of the charm of the newsletter is that it is hand delivered by a team of volunteers and it is free.”

Ron Argyle, Chairman of Llanyblodwel Parish Council said "The Messenger has become invaluable to the council as a vehicle to pass on information about current projects and initiatives.”

Councillor Arthur Walpole, Chairman of the St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee, said: “I’m delighted that funding from the committee is proving so valuable in helping local community groups with their important work in this area. I encourage other groups in need of funding to send in their applications before our next deadline, and look forward to announcing the next successful bids at our next meeting in July.”

Groups wishing to apply for up to £2000 from the LJC’s current round of funding are being reminded that they must do so by Monday 14 June.

The successful bids will be announced at the committee’s next meeting on Tuesday 20 July at 7pm, at Melverley Village Hall.

Application forms and guidance on requesting funding can be found at www.shropshire.gov.uk/communityworking or by calling 01939 237413.

Shropshire Council community regeneration officer, Debbie Marais, can offer support and guidance to groups wishing to apply for grants from the LJC as well as other sources of funding. Call 01939 237413.
 

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PRESS RELEASE issued by Shropshire Council
22 June 2010

Residents asked to name important local issues

Residents living in the parishes of Oswestry Rural, Kinnerley, Knockin, Llanyblodwel, Melverley, and Llanymynech and Pant are being asked to name the local issues that are of most interest or concern to them.

A survey is being carried out by the area’s Local Joint Committee (LJC) to help ensure that the subjects covered at its meetings in the next year are those that people feel are most important.

The St Oswald and Llanymynech LJC meets four times every year and gives local people the chance to find out more, and have their say, about local issues.

Councillor Arthur Walpole, Chairman of the St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee, said: “We are currently planning our meetings for the next year, and we want to be sure that we discuss things that matter to local people. In the past we have discussed a wide range of issues that people told us were important to them, and we want to do the same again this year to ensure that our meetings remain relevant and interesting.”

The survey – which can be found on the Shropshire Council website at SURVEY is asking people what they like most, and least, about living in their area; what they think are the most important issues in the area at the moment; and what they think could or should be done to improve the area.

They are also being asked what would make them more likely to attend a meeting of the LJC in future

People are asked to complete and submit the survey by Friday 16 July.

Responses will be considered at the next meeting of the St Oswald and Llanymynech Local Joint Committee on Tuesday 20 July at Melverley Village Hall. The meeting starts at 7pm and all local people are invited to attend.

Items discussed by the LJC in the past year at the suggestion of local people have included highways and road safety, affordable local housing, local health services, dog fouling, local tourism, waste and recycling, footpaths and funding for older children.
 

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