National Neighbourhood Watch Week
Neighbourhood & Home Watch Week 2009
23rd May 2009
Dear Colleagues
With the NHW week for 2009 fast approaching I would like to take this opportunity of reminding you all of the main themes which we here at NHWN are using to promote this years event:
- Action Against Burglary
As one of the most well known crime prevention initiatives, Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch members are already supporting our Police partners in helping to promote awareness around burglary of homes and outbuildings. Given the economic hard times which are facing us all, there are concerns that burglary rates may rise, so we would ask that you particularly concentrate your activities on anti- burglary initiatives where possible.
The financial support afforded to Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch under the Home office banner of ‘Securing Homes - Action Against Burglary’ (SHAAB) campaign has made available £500,000 to Watch groups in 93 priority areas of the country. How to apply and further guidance information can be found online at http://grantsadmin.co.uk/neighbourhoodwatch/ This funding will enable you to focus your attentions on helping elderly and vulnerable residents and young people safe, or to assist in creating new Watch schemes in hard to reach areas.
- New Website Developments
From 15th June each region of the country will have its own regional website based on the ‘official Neighbourhood & Home Watch site at www.mynhw.co.uk. These specific sites will be available to anyone who would like to inform Watch members and their communities of forthcoming events, where schemes are within your area, add web links of local and county sites which already exist and to showcase best practice for other Watch members to share. An easy to follow users guide with video instructions, will be made available on the site for those of us who are not website savvy! Further support will also be available via a telephone helpline.
To ensure that you receive the latest updates about Neighbourhood & Home Watch Week 2009, forthcoming conferences and new initiatives for Neighbourhood & Home Watch, please encourage your members to register with us on the official NHW site at to receive our national e newsletter at http://www.mynhw.co.uk/register.php .which will be sent out monthly in the future.
- Its ‘OFFICIAL’ www.mynhw.co.uk is now the national website for the watch movement
During 2009 the Home Office NHW mini website will be closed down. NHWN have begun transferring all of the information regarding NHW and HW from the Home Office site (www.neighbourhoodwatch.uk.com) to ours. Much of the information has already been transferred to our site at www.mynhw.co.uk Information about, PLI, ordering leaflets and NHW & HW materials, who to contact for advice and support, training toolkits, future national campaigns and initiatives and much more will now only be housed within on our site. For the time being obtaining a licence to use the NHW logo will remain within the Home Office site, but how to reach this information in the future will be clearly signposted from our site.
These are just a few examples of information which might be useful to you for Neighbourhood & Home Watch week in 2009. I appreciate that many of you will already have planned events around your local priorities, but please encourage your members to look at the new revised ‘official’ Neighbourhood & Home Watch national website www.mynhw.co.uk as there will be much more information available to keep members across England & Wales updated .
Remember if you wish to have your events publicised on our new far reaching website email the information to us nhwn.1@btinternet.com You may be interested to learn that we receive 15,000 new visitors to our site each week, so it is well worth letting them know what you are doing in your Watch area at local, force and regional levels.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any queries about how you can use this week in your area. This letter is also being sent via ACPO to your Force Police single point of contact to keep them informed on how that can assist you during NHW week.
I look forward to hearing the latest news and initiatives which members are undertaking from around the country, and thank you for your continued work in keeping your local communities safe.
Marion Lewis
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