Following our success last year in acquiring funding of £1.6m to save the Exeter Community Centre, refurbishment finally got underway in Spring 2011. Due to various structural issues discovered during the work it was necessary to go back to the funders (the Social Investment Business) and seek their support for a modified scheme. Work on the revised scheme was resumed in December 2011 and is expected to be complete in May 2012.
Plans and further information is available on the Exeter Community Centre Trust website at www.eccentre.org
Community MeetingWe held a community 'visioning' workshop on the 22nd November at St David's Primary School with invited speakers from Exeter City Council and Devon County Council. Click here to read the report from that meeting where residents and businesses in the neighbourhood raised issues of concern in the context of a ten year vision for the area. This is the first stage of consultation across our area as we begin to create a formal 'neighbourhood plan'.
Click here to read or print the September 2011 Newsletter which has been produced and distributed by our volunteer members to nearly 1,000 households across the St David's area.
Neighbourhood NewsLocal resident and founder of the St David’s Neighbourhood Partnership, Hannah Reynolds, has won a Home Office Award for helping tackle crime and anti-social behaviour near her home. |  |
| Devon County Council have given the St Davids Neighbourhood Partnership and the Exeter Community Centre Trust just 21 days to secure funding required to complete a £1.4m refurbishment of the Exeter Community Centre. After five years of negotiation DCC had finally agreed in March 2009 to grant the building to our community based trust. |  |
 |  |
The family day out was held on Guys & Hylton Allotments in St Thomas on Saturday 13th June 2009 in glorious sunshine and a gentle summer breeze. A report on the very successful day can now be read here with a gallery of photos illustrating the event. The photo above shows Pete's Peas in full flower ! ...read the full story
Exeter Community Centre | We are now a very significant step closer to seeing the transformation of Exeter Community Centre into a new hub of activity, with doctors' surgery, children's nursery, community meeting spaces, offices, training and 'hot desks' for local agencies and groups. County Council Press Release Local empowerment and inclusion bill... |
Devon County Council has offered to transfer the building, estimated to be worth approximately £500,000, free of charge, from their ownership to that of a new community trust formed by the St David's Neighbourhood Partnership - our community-based association of residents, community groups, businesses and local Councillors. Included with the Council's offer is £200,000 towards the costs of refurbishment, but our community group will need to raise the remaining £1.2 million before the new community hub becomes reality.
The Partnership MEMBERSHIP HELP AND SUPPORTFor queries, or more information about us and how you can get involved, please call: Hannah Reynolds on 01392 421869 or email: St David's Neighbourhood Partnership.
DeterminationThe slogan 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge
