Norwood Community Safety Partnership (in abeyance)

London is outside the national network of  Community Safety Partnerships . Instead it has Safer Neighbourhood Boards funded via the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.  The Norwood Community Safety Partnership is a local pilot hosted (at no charge) by Winsafe Ltd on behalf of the Development Team for Neighbourhood Watch in Lambeth, pending the relaunch of the Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Watch Association and the Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Board.

Subject to the outcome of discussions currently under way, the partnership was intended to operate as the pilot for a shared cluster (copying best practice elsewhere) to serve the Association, the Board and their community partners. in the mean time the partnership is an unfunded partnership of equals, with one of its roles being to help participants to secure funding for relevant projects.

The strategy was to use volunteers with relevant experience to facilitate practical local co-operation across professional and funding boundaries between local community groups, charities and businesses and organisations (including Council, NHS and Police) which are undergoing radical change in a period of increasing austerity which is expected to last for years not months.

Most of the members of the previous steering group have joined with their peers from other parts of Lambeth to form the development team working on the formation of an Association to support Neighbourhood Watch Groups across the whole of Lambeth.

As part of the Association it is expected that the Safer Neighbourhood Panels and Area Neighbourhood Watch groups for the wards of Gipsy Hill, Knights Hill, St Martins and West Dulwich will work together as a cluster with the local Primary Care Networks , Hill Brook and Dale and Croxted and their service providers, including community pharmacies and collective operations like the Well Centre.

Discussion as to how that will happen is in abeyance pending launch of the Association.

The previous material on advice, guidance and support has been moved to the Lambeth Neighbourhood Watch test pages

 Please e-mail community@winsafe.ltd for an invitation to help relaunch the West Norwood Community Safety Partnership

Please e-mail development@lambethnhw.co.uk for an invitation to join the development team for the Lambeth Neighbourhood watch Association