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16 The Link Magazine • February 2003
Parish Council seeks new assistant
Haydon Wick Parish Council needs additional staffing to help with
ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT the increasing workload of an ever-expanding parish and is looking
for an administrative assistant to work alongside parish clerk Sue
Haydon Wick Parish Council is looking
for an organised and efficient person to Martin at the Thames Avenue council offices.
undertake clerical and secretarial tasks The council also hopes to open areas, leisure gardens, work with
in the Parish Council Office. the office to the public for longer young people, footpaths and plan-
• Most of our party plan consultants
15 hours per week. hours. ning applications.
have another job
• But they have more fun at aVirgin Candidates should be computer and The new assistant will be con- An attractive feature of the job
make-up party IT literate with good communication skills. cerned with operating the com- may well be the scope for the per-
• They can also earn more money too Details may be obtained from the Clerk munity transport scheme, the son appointed to agree hours to
• Enough to pay off your credit card Mrs Sue Martin, tel: 722446. Christmas parcels scheme and the suit their personal circumstances,
bills
To apply, write with CV to: council's website, in addition to in addition to an interesting op-
• Or pay for a new car, family,
The Clerk, Haydon Parish Council, helping in a general way with the portunity to become involved with
holiday, etc.
Council Offices, Thames Avenue, Haydon work undertaken by the parish local affairs.
Tell me what you want to earn and Wick, Swindon SN25 1 00
we'll make it happen. Just call Denise E-mail: [email protected] council that deals with a range of See the advertisement on the left
01793 826577 or 07941 588557 functions like open spaces and play for application details.
Closing date: Monday 17 February
Pulling together a strategy
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Communities can only tackle their problems effectively if its people
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authorities in England and Wales have been given the task by
Specialists in fireplaces, gas "' Government of producing a Community Strategy which sets out how
effect fires with or without fives. the quality of life can be improved over the next five years.
Swindon Borough Council is are budget limitations applying to
electric fires, gas & multifuel
leading a consultation process to all agencies and a key intention is
stoves, baskets c accessories formulate the strategy in conjunc- therefore to make the best use of
tion with the Local Strategic Part- available resources and ensure that
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nership (LSP) board which has rep- funding goes to what is agreed to
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ness, voluntary and community Many of these priorities have
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bodies. The LSP board chairman already been identified from exist-
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a Mike Bell described its function in ing strategies and plans. The Com-
the January Link. munity Strategy is noy intended to
Getting it right is very impor- replace these plans but will act as a
tant. The production and applica- link between them, and a way of
tion of such strategies was one of measuring the quality of the pro-
the areas which concerned the posals the council puts forward
dtc thL )f h?-(1 ^ Audit Commission which so heav- for improving the town.
Dilys Huggins, Partnership Sup-
ily criticised the council's perform-
ance in the Comparative Perform- port Manager at Swindon Coun-
ance Assessment published in De- cil's Education and Community
^^^-rtG^xa-at^x^eG cember and reported in detail in department, stresses that the strat-
the January Link. egy brings together the work of all
The inspectors pronounced: "The agencies and organisations that
YOUR LOCAL PVC-U MANUFACTURER
council has no track record of sus- play a part in delivering services
tained focus." for or with the public sector - join-
• Buy direct from "Whilst the council has some suc- ing up all the plans that impact on
our factory 1,.•^ cess in identifying issues and provid- those services.
ing sound initial analysis, attention She said, "it is now important
• We make it and J I I too readily moves on to another per- that as many people as possible
we fit it ceived problem and attention to the have the chance to comment on
first one lapses." this top-level document. We real-
• High security
The council, the Swindon Pri- ise that we may have missed some-
• 10 year guarantee mary Care Trust and the police, thing out or included something
have developed a strategy in draft that is not generally well sup-
• Lowest prices
as the basis for discussion about ported. It is important to get it
the quality of life in Swindon. right."
Why not let It identifies seven themes that A case in point would be the
that people believe to be impor- absence of value placed upon eld-
us handle tant for Swindon. These are that erly people, a growing proportion
the town should be: of the population.
everything • an economically prosperous Views on the draft are needed
place by Friday 14 February. It can be
from start to • a learning and creative place inspected at libraries and Swin-
• a safe place don Council customer service
finish? • a healthy place desks at Wat Tyler House and Pre-
• a place that is good to live in mier House.
Call today 01793 790944 • an inclusive place with stronger It's also on the council's web site
communities at www.swindon.gov.uk/index/
or 07973 232435 (evenings and weekends) • a place where children and yourcouncil@work/ yourcouncilat
The Marsh, Lower Wanborough. SN4 OAS young people are valued workvision/lsp/community
The draft acknowledges that there strategy.htm