The community of Castleward came together this past weekend to celebrate the annual “Better Together” Summer Event at Liversage Square. Organized by Fatima Eltinay, a dedicated Neighbourhood Watch coordinator and active member of the community, the event was a tremendous success, highlighting the strength and unity of the Castleward neighborhood.

Supported by Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch, the event featured a variety of activities designed to engage and bring the community together along with partners who offered amazing advice on keeping safe.

Children enjoyed participating in mini detective games, where they could earn their Mini Detective Certificate and police sticker by solving puzzles and getting dressed in police uniforms for a picture with the Derbyshire Safer Neighbourhood Team. The team also provided bike marking services and shared valuable crime prevention advice.

We had DCC Recycling team, Nathan Wood and Kevin Douglas talking all about recycling with a great stand to get involved with.

A standout attraction was the Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, who brought along a fire truck and equipment for the children to explore. Young attendees had the chance to dress up in firefighter gear, sit in the truck, and ask firefighters questions about their work. The firefighters also offered crucial fire prevention tips to residents. Although the juggling skills the crew had were not quite as impressive as their firefighting skills!

Sporting Communities added to the fun by organising a range of games for children, including a massive tug-of-war contest that saw participation from both the Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service and the Derbyshire Safer Neighbourhood Team. The event also featured Andre from Introverted Moves a juggler who entertained and taught children. Along with glitter tattoos and candy floss from Abi Entertainment.

In addition to the fun and games, the event emphasized health and wellbeing. A men’s mental health expert Dave Powell from Time To Talk was on hand to provide advice, along with free health checks from Dawn at Live Well that included blood pressure measurements. A bric-a-brac stand offered a variety of free items, including an impressive collection of high-quality books for residents to take and swap. The children’s tombola, art stand, and carnival mask creation station were also hugely popular.

The event also included a vital segment on cybercrime from Derbyshire Police, where parents received guidance on keeping their children and themselves safe online.

Lynn Farrar, Chair of Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch, praised the event, saying, “This really is a jewel in our crown, showing how when communities come together, we can create something so special. We are already planning to go bigger and better for next year.” For more information or to get involved in next year’s event, please contact hello@derbyshireneighbourhoodwatch.co.uk

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Are you looking to grow your watch or help encourage others to start more neighbourhood watches in your area? If so this fund could be for you.

For full support with supplying or questions or queries contact us on hello@derbyshireneighbourhoodwatch.co.uk

About The Neighbourhood Watch Support Fund

Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Angelique Foster has announced details of a new funding boost to help neighbourhoods prevent crime and increase safety.

Neighbourhood Watch schemes across Derbyshire are being invited to apply for a grant to support their efforts to protect communities and deter crime.

The funding, unveiled at Derbyshire’s Neighbourhood Watch AGM, is being made available through Police and Crime Commissioner Angelique Foster’s Neighbourhood Watch Support Fund 2021-2022 and will be allocated in grants of up to £250 per proposal.

Police and Crime Commissioner Angelique Foster has pledged to deliver stronger and more effective neighbourhood policing across Derbyshire, bolstering the number of volunteers and citizens who support the work of the Police and increase visibility in the county’s communities.
The funding scheme supports her goals to provide neighbourhoods with additional resources and tools to proactively deter crime and keep local people safe.

The Neighbourhood Watch Support Fund is aimed at increasing the number of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in operation across Derby and Derbyshire as well as boosting membership and supporting existing schemes.

Applications will be screened by the Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch Association Trust (DNWAT) before being submitted to the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC).

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Great family afternoon with Derby City SNT, British Transport Police, Derbyshire FRS, Traffic.

NHW will be there to help set up NHW in the area.

Derby SNT Team

The Derby city centre team are responsible for the safety of the residents inside the inner ring road, which includes the Bus Station, Derbion centre, River Gardens, the Cathedral Quarter and several residential areas around the inner ring road.

Our priorities are: – tackling anti-social behaviour, begging, bicycle thefts and drugs misuse. Whilst still, maintaining the safety of the residents who live, work and visit Derby City Centre which, is our top priority. We aim to conduct foot patrols in the city centre, in order to be a visible presence for those that live and work within the city centre.

Our proposals for tackling these situations are: – Focused patrols inside the city centre, making sure the team are in places where they are needed, and can respond to any incidents quickly. Continuous communication between partner agencies, including the city council and the rangers who also patrol the city centre. We have a variety of tools available for us to use throughout the day, including the use of a dispersal notice where we can exclude individuals from the city centre for a period of 48 hours.

We have a good working relationship with the city council cameras, Derbion centre, the St Peter’s Quarters Rangers, Cathedral Quarter Rangers. Between us all we communicate any antisocial behaviour reported, we can then respond to and take any necessary action if needed.

We currently have an office in the city centre, which is in a prime location. We’re able to patrol from there from a day to day basis and ensure we can meet the needs of the community.

City Centre Team are proud and dedicated to serving the public in Derby and are here to listen to any suggestions you may have.

Contact us on derbycitysnt@derbyshire.pnn.police.uk Also on Twitter @derbycitySNT and Facebook @derbycitySNT

# Derby City SNT

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The handbook supports Coordinators setting up new watches and growing existing watches along with lots of security advice from the very best out there.

The handbook covers

Setting up a watch
Growing a watch
Frequently asked questions
Hate Crime
Home Security
Keyless Car Crime
Home Security

Garden / Home Office Security
Bike Theft
Dog Theft
Useful Numbers

Click here to download your free copy

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DEADLINE 27th October 2020

For the third year running, we’re excited to launch the
nationwide search in partnership with our friends at Co-op
Insurance to find and celebrate some of the UK’s best
neighbours, with our Neighbour of the year celebrations.

Our members have told us that to be a great neighbour
people share some clear qualities: a willingness to look out
for others; being sociable and friendly; offering practical
help; and being kind, caring and respectful.

In addition to the Neighbour of the Year Award, this year
we have a brand-new category, Co-op’s Young Neighbour
of the Year. This award will celebrate someone aged
18-24 who has gone above and beyond to help enhance
their community and has brought people, young and old,
together.

If you’ve got someone who ticks all these boxes and
more in either category, tell us all about them and how
they go above and beyond.

Click here to be taken to our nomination form to share
your stories of great neighbourly activities and acts of
kindness. The deadline for nominations is 27th October

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Neighbourhood Watch schemes across Derbyshire are being invited to apply for a share of £5,000 to fund new and innovative approaches to crime prevention.

Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa has doubled his Neighbourhood Watch Innovation Fund from £2,500 to £5,000 in 2020-21 in recognition of the hugely valuable work NHW schemes undertake to reduce the fear of crime and boost public safety.

The funding will be available in two separate rounds concluding in March next year and will help NHW schemes introduce new ideas to promote safety and prevent crime and antisocial behaviour.

Launching the fund, Mr Dhindsa said: “NHW volunteers make a huge difference to our communities and help police become closer and more connected to the neighbourhoods they serve.

“NHW is one of the many important partners working alongside Derbyshire Police to drive criminals from our county and their reassuring presence really does improve quality of life, especially for vulnerable residents who have no other support network.

“Our NHW schemes are worth every penny of investment and I’m delighted to be in a position to double the fund this year to £5,000 in gratitude for the very important work they do.”

Lynn Farrar, Chair of the Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch Association Trust, who will be administering the Fund, said: “We in Derbyshire NHW (DNWAT) are delighted to be able to take the Neighbourhood  Innovation Fund into a second year thanks to our Police and Crime Commissioner, Hardyal Dhindsa.

“The PCC has agreed to provide the funds to DNWAT to enable us to award  Neighbourhood Watch groups and members that will enable them to carry out projects in the community.

“He has also generously increased the amount to £5,000 which means we can provide up to £300 for each successful applicant. We are asking NW volunteers across Derbyshire to tell us about projects that will facilitate caring and resilience within communities.

“This is a very exciting prospect for us as last year we were able to help dozens of NW schemes benefit in helping to build safer communities. DNWAT can once again provide an opportunity of funding help to those NW volunteers to help their communities. These people give their time freely in the endeavour to keep their neighbourhoods safe and to bring their communities together.”

The PCC set up the Neighbourhood Innovation Fund last year and has successfully allocated £2,500 of grants during the past 12 months.

So far, the scheme has funded a new community allotment, dash cams in an area impacted by antisocial driving and NHW dustbin stickers for several schemes to advertise the organisation’s presence in the community.  

In addition, the PCC has agreed to fund a new website for Derbyshire NHW to encourage people to sign up to Derbyshire Alert which is due to launch this month.

In addition to doubling the fund, The PCC is also increasing the cap per proposal from £100 to £300 to enable NHW schemes to submit more comprehensive bids.

The first round of grants will be announced at the next NHW/PCC meeting in November.

To apply, please email your completed form (download below) and email to Lynn Farrar lfarrar7@hotmail.com

# Apply for NHW funding from the PCC for your NHW watch

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We have been very pleased with our working relationship with the PCC, Hardyal Dhindsa, who has also provided the funds for the Neighbourhood Watch Innovation fund that we ran last year. We hope to do the same this year and announce this on the website shortly.

We are also working in partnership with Derbyshire Police and have an excellent communication service via Derbyshire Alert which is paid for by them. We have been able to increase coverage of NW schemes in Derbyshire as a result of working together with local Safer Neighbourhood Teams.

I hope that you find the content of the website helpful and will use it frequently. It contains information on starting and operating a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme and provides advice and documents that you can download and use. There is also a Blog page and links to other websites that you may find useful. A Question & Answer page provides you with additional information that may have confused you in the past. Plus there is lots of additional help and advice.

Thank you all for your continuing hard work as NW volunteers.

Lynn Farrar
Chair of Derbyshire NHW

Find out more about the latest funding for NHW projects from the PCC you could access, click here

# Chair of Derbyshire NHW

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Because social media is instant, it can be a very useful crime prevention tool, warning residents in a timely manner and making them more vigilant. It can be used to alert residents to suspicious activity in your neighbourhood, spread the word about Neighbourhood Watch events and personnel changes, communicate on recent crimes in the area and successes in apprehending offenders, alert residents to personnel changes of local police/ community safety teams, provide warnings about new types of scams and reminders on how to report scams. In terms of increasing community cohesion social media is a great tool in emergency response situations (e.g COVID-19, flooding), and arranging events in the area such as street clean ups, street parties, community lunches or book hides.

It is vital when representing Neighbourhood Watch on social media we aspire to achieve our vision and mission and all posts are aligned with our core values.

Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch Vision

At Neighbourhood Watch our vision is a society where neighbours come together to create safer, stronger, and active communities.

Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch Mission

Our mission is to support and enable individuals and communities to be connected, active and safe, which increases wellbeing and minimises crime.

Derbyshire Neighbourhood Watch Values

Below are some guidelines in how our social media posts can align to our six core values of Values: Below are some guidelines in how our social media posts can align to our six core values of being neighbourly, community focused, inclusive, proactive, trusted, and collaborative

Be neighbourly: we aspire to be good neighbours…

• Be polite by using kind words and praise people
• Use emoji’s like ? ? ? to instantly communicate a feeling to your audience
• Avoid swearing, even if you replace letters with symbols

Want to know more about our social media guidelines? Download the full guide here.

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