West Devon January Report
West Devon Brough Council PC Report January 2023
Household Support Fund Helps Provide Christmas Cheer
The Benefits team have been working hard to make payments from the Household Support Fund to eligible households. Since the scheme opened before Christmas it has made payments totalling £7,920 to 25 households helping them with food, energy costs and other essential household items. WDBC have also made payments of £300 to 133 households which receive Council Tax disabled band reduction. The Household Support Fund remains open for applications. To find out more information visit the Household Support Fund page on WDBC website.
Platinum Jubilee Fund Opens
On Tuesday the Government announced that the Platinum Jubilee Village Hall Fund has opened for applications. The fund is managed by the charity Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) and village halls in England can now apply for grants to improve and modernise their facilities. Village halls interested in applying can request grants from £7,500 to £75,000, and up to a maximum of 20 per cent of eligible project costs. Capital grants will be allocated to support infrastructure improvements, the refurbishment of facilities, such as kitchens and toilets, and measures to improve energy efficiency. The application window will close on 20 January 2023, with successful applicants being able to draw on the funding from April 2023. To find out more information on the fund, visit the Government website and the ACRE website.
Lets Talk Programme
The South Devon and Dartmoor Community Safety Partnership have been working with a wide range of partners to produce a toolkit to support parents of pre-teens (9-12 year olds). This has been developed as a result of the resounding success of the Let’s Talk Teenagers programme that has seen 2497 engagements with parents and carers so far. FREE online sessions through the Let’s Talk programme for parents and carers of pre-teens are available this month.
The Let’s Talk program is designed to increase parent and carers knowledge around the key risks whilst giving simple tools and techniques to help them support their child. As a partnership we acknowledge that parenting can be really difficult, especially in such challenging times. We want to get these resources to as many parents as possible and we need your help! We would be really grateful if you could share the information included in this email with all your contacts and communities so we can reach as many parents and carers as possible. From the 2nd of January we will be running a social media campaign through Devon County Council so if you have social media please share the posts.
Tickets are free and available at Let’s Talk Pre-Teens.
The topics covered will be as follows:
Tuesday 17th January 2023
- Biology
- Difficult emotions
- Substance misuse
Tuesday 24th January 2023
- Relationships
- Exploitation
- Pornography
- Societal Stereotypes
Tuesday 31st January 2023
- Physical risks
- Safety planning
- Mental health
- Self-care
A Happy New Year from Cllr. Lynn Daniel