Local Bulletins and Information

Voice of Experience V

"Don't Stop Me Now - 50 Not Out"

Come and have your say and share your "recipe for life", helping to shape the future in Bracknell Forest.

A Conference for the 50+ on Friday 23rd January 2009 9.00 am to 4.00 pm at the Grange Hotel. Lunch will be provided.

If you are interested please contact Elaine Wrighton on 01344 425650 or elaine.wrighton@bracknell-forest.gov.uk or write to Mrs Elaine Wrighton, Heathlands EPH, Crossfell, Wildridings, Bracknell, RG12 7ZG to book a place. If you wish to come but find travelling a problem transport can be arranged by using the same contact.

Community Messaging

This site www.tvpcommunitymessaging.org provides an invitation for you to participate in the exchange of information with Thames Valley Police, Neighbourhood Watch and other community groups.

Telephone Directories

BT will now send residents WHO ARE BT CUSTOMERS, free of charge, the telephone directory that covers Bracknell if you have a GU47 post code. To order call free phone number 0800 833 400 press option 5.

Concessionary Bus Fares Scheme

The new concessionary bus fares scheme in England commences 1st Aril 2008. This will allow pass holders free off-peak local bus travel anywhere at any time at weekends and Bank Holidays and between 09.30 and 23.00 on other days.This applies to people aged 60 and over and eligible disabled people resident in England. You will automatically be sent a National Concessionary Fares bus pass in February or March 2008. You existing card is valid until 31st March 2008.

If you have any queries you should contact Roger Cook Transport Development Manager at Bracknell Forest Borough Council on 01344 351200.

Sandhurst goes online
Influence your neighbourhood from your own home!

Residents are now able to discuss issues in their area and influence local priorities from their own homes via new online neighbourhood forums, which went on trial in three areas in September 2008. The forums will run until January 2009 for Sandhurst, Great Hollands and Birch Hill residents. If it is successful, they will be used across all of Bracknell Forest’s neighbourhoods for future surveys. The online forums will assist the work of the borough’s 14 Neighbourhood Action Groups, which are supported by Bracknell Forest Council and Thames Valley Police, to help residents improve their communities. They will be run via the Council's website at http://www.bfcforums.org.uk/viewforum.php?f=6

Residents have also been asked to give their views in Neighbourhood Forum meetings, which are taking place across the borough in September, October and November or by responding to a survey which will be delivered with the October edition of Bracknell Forest Council’s newspaper Town & Country. Feedback from the online forums, Neighbourhood Forum meetings and the Town & Country survey will all be fed into the Neighbourhood Action Groups to help identify issues which matter to residents, to be resolved together with Bracknell Forest Council the parishes and the police.

The online forums and all Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Action Group dates can be accessed at www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/neighbourhoodforums