Sustaining schemes

Nearly every household joined in with a socially distance street party on Friday 8th May. Most households decorated their front gardens with appropriate banners and flags, and joined in a celebration with music, speeches from Sir Winston Churchill and, in many cases, war time food and drinks. It really built on the community spirit felt on Thursday evenings with neighbours getting to know each other much better. There was a flurry of new members afterwards too.

To keep residents involved with Meadow Road Neighbourhood Watch in Derbyshire, we ran a quiz for the residents on the road with the chance to win a prize.

Essex County Members’ Guide offered local involvement and collaboration with Force-Area partners to raise awareness of Neighbourhood Watch, crime prevention and reducing isolation.

Extension of a Dorset Neighbourhood Watch and Police community office offering mobile crime prevention advice and the opportunity for members of the public to buy reduced cost security products.

Greenwich Neighbourhood Watch proactively signs up existing and all new coordinators and schemes up to the Neighbourhood Watch's national database. We do this as they collect new signage for their scheme, we get them to complete a form which states that they will be added to the national scheme. This then saves time and allows us all to have the same database of members.

This March, Croydon Neighbourhood Watch Association launched our first ever Good Neighbour Guide to approximately half of the residents in the London Brough of Croydon. The guide aims to foster and help create a strong community spirit by offering suggestions and tips on how to be better neighbours, as well as signposting Croydon residents to the assistance available for common neighbourhood concerns such as parking problems and fly tipping. The guide also provides contact information for local police safer neighbourhood teams.

The process provides Force Area Neighbourhood Watch Associations, that no longer have the support of dedicated police staff, with a method of setting up and validating New Watches and also ensuring proposed coordinators are accepted and approved by the New Watch members.

Offering affordable security for members of the public. Run as a partnership between Neighbourhood Watch and Dorset Police. There is a small mark up to allow the office to purchase items to give out for free.

The Association of Dorset Watches (ADW) have appointed seven Watch Advisors across Dorset available to offer personalised help and advice to existing and potential members. Their contact details are posted on our ADW website.