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Getting your voice heard
Caerphilly 50+ Forum is an independent platform for people aged 50+ in Caerphilly County Borough to “get their voices heard” on issues that are important to them. The following links will prove useful to people looking to lobby and campaign on various issues.
BBC Action Network
Action Network can help you change something in your area. Get in touch with people who feel the same way and get advice on taking action. The 2nd link is a guide on how to lobby political representatives.
Breaking Barriers
Everybody has a voice, but not everyone is heard.
Breaking Barriers Digital Storytelling offers the opportunity for people from all over Caerphilly to use their voices to share their stories with us. Form one to one, to full-blown production workshops and working in community halls, drop-in centres, peoples own homes and once even in a forest, local people from eight to eighty are making short films about things that are important to them.
Website - http://www.breakingbarriers.org.uk/
Caerphilly County Borough Council (CCBC)
Caerphilly County Borough Council has a website detailing local councillors contact details and committees and consultations that you can input into.
Caerphilly County Borough Council Community Strategy
You can comment on the Community Strategy for the whole county borough or on any local community plans produced for your area.
Caerphilly Local Health Board
This web site provides information to the general public on a range of topics, central to the work of the Local Health Board. This ranges from on line of copies of key publications to information relating to opening hours of local surgeries and other primary care organisations.
CCBC Viewpoint Panel
One of the ways in which the Council find out what the residents think about their policies and services and how they can improve them is through their Viewpoint Panel.
The Panel is made up of 1,300 local people who are selected to be representative of the community on a broad range of characteristics such as gender, age and location. Panel members are asked to complete 3 or 4 postal questionnaires a year and are invited to attend meetings on particular services/areas and on more general issues like the Community Strategy, customer services and the council decision making process. Sometimes, the Police and Local Health Board have also used the Panel. If you would like further information please contact the Consultation Officer by phone on 01443 864354 or email on consultation@caerphilly.gov.uk
Cefn Forest Communities First Partnership
If you are a community group and would like to publicise your services; meeting dates and minutes, or would like assistance in adding events or accessing grant forms please do not hesitate to contact Russell Todd, Communities First Co-ordinator on 01443 864226 or toddr@caerphilly.gov.uk. Alternately, you can contact Danielle Davies, Communities First Support Officer on 01443 864385 or davied6@caerphilly.gov.uk.
Central Government
This is a great A-Z guide that lists central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies. It also includes contact details, addresses, e-mails etc.
Digital Lobbying
This is an innovative Caerphilly 50+ forum project to give local people the opportunity to campaign and lobby on issues that matter to them.
Find My MP
This is a great website if you want to find contact details about your MP, or any other MP.
Friends of the Earth
If environmental issues concern you the following link is the hub for various campaigns. Some campaigns will assist you in contacting your MEP to get your voice heard.
Help the Aged
Help the Aged have a really informative website and the following link is all about campaigning and getting your voice heard.
Help the Aged, 12 Cathedral Rd, Cardiff, CF11 9LJ. 02920346550
Upper Sirhowy Valley Communities First Partnership
If you are a community group and would like to publicise your services; meeting dates and minutes, or would like assistance in adding events or accessing grant forms please do not hesitate to contact Russell Todd, Communities First Co-ordinator on 01443 864226 or toddr@caerphilly.gov.uk. Alternately, you can contact Danielle Davies, Communities First Support Officer on 01443 864385 or davied6@caerphilly.gov.uk.
Welsh Assembly Government
Here is a list of the various Cabinet Ministers at the Welsh Assembly. Click on their names for further information and their e-mails so you can contact them directly. Website: http://new.wales.gov.uk/about/cabinet/cabinetm/?lang=en
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