Woughton is 50 - What Next?

 

- Used CCTV to work with partners to address concerns such as fly-tipping, serious anti-social behaviour, dog fouling and more 

- Moved the Landscape team onto parish, in a new depot using land that was previously used for dumping and ASB. This has both saved money AND made the area safer 

- Opened the new Community Garden (grant funded) providing space for resident groups to grow, learn and develop. Fully 'off grid', the garden has composting toilet, solar power, polytunnel, cabin and some cutting edge composting equipment! 

- Installed solar panels on the meeting place that we own (grant funding covered the full cost of this), meaning that we now use around 80% less of the electricity from the 'grid' than previously. We will continue to look for funding to do more of this across the parish 

- Supported hundreds of sessions through our advice and wellbeing services, helping people access benefits, prevent homelessness, manage paperwork and gain additional support where this is needed 

- Addressed landscaping issues reported to us in an average of less than 72 hours (with many addressed the same day), as well as continuing to deliver all contractual works AND additional projects 

- Renewed and replaced dog bins, as well as finding a new, cheaper supplier of dog waste bags, providing over 60,000 bags over the past year 

- Delivered thousands of youth sessions, including Holiday Activities during summer, Christmas and Easter holidays, providing lunches for hundreds of local children 

- Our Community Food projects have provided around 5,000 meals across the community cafes and redistributed 40 tonnes of food through the community fridge. With other cafes, fridges and larders across the parish, this means that well over 100 tonnes of food a year is saved from landfill and put to better use. 

 

And our events (working with resident associations for some) have seen people from across the parish come together and enjoy food, music and activities, including Apple Day, D-Day Anniversary, the Wheelie Big Picnic, the Peartree Bridge Picnic, fun days on estates, quiz nights, bingo and so much more... 

 

There are things that we can't do - roads, street lights, rubbish collections, schools, social care - these are all MKCC services and whilst we will assist where we can, we cannot do the work ourselves. We continue to offer the wide range of support that we always have - advice, wellbeing, youth services, landscaping, environment team, community grants, training and education, community centres and more.