Caterham Meets Storrington

July21st 2009Chris Windridge. Chair

The Caterham Community Partnership Ltd

ABCʼs study tour to Storrington....Highlights of best practice

The keys issues for us to learn about:

– Partnership structure and experiences– From aspiration to delivery of a significant Street Scene project– Making a case for and operating a community facility

Overall we gained confidence our goals wereachievable, further built our team and foundsome kindred spirits.



The Dayʼs format

The Buses4U trip– Excellent team building event on its

own......2hrs togetherDiscussions

– Partnership - Relationships with Parish,District & County and legal Aspects

– Launching and operating a Community Hub -The business case, the users, experiencesoperating a Community Hub

– The Street scene project - Working withcounty and highways and a discussion aboutSupermarkets and future options

Walkabout– Storrington street scene, public spaces and

part 2 of discussion about supermarkets,tradeoffs and a potential location.



Outcomes....Highlights of best practice

Major benefits:– Were able to talk to a moreadvanced group than us with relevantexpertise. Built a Town to Town link.

– Strengthened our team and builtbridge between ABC and Parishesparticularly. Later transformedhighways relationship

– Gave us all confidence with our nextsteps to form Partnership, bid forStreet Scheme improvement andconsider longer term Community Hubproject.



What did we do next?....Highlights of best practice

– Linked up with Leatherhead partnership, to create companyfor Caterham - with best of Storrington, Leatherhead andourselves. Three of the Study tour team as directors. Resolvedsome representation issues for Parishes.– Have finalised a SEEDA bid, with Excellent cooperation fromcounty, district and parishes, plus businesses and residents

– Applauded our Festival team for launching the first ever TownFestival over 6 weeks. 84 events and thousands of people.

– Launching a “Shop Smart” local card, with 30 shops, a Townportal site and fingers crossed 3,000 + members.

– Upgrading the 3rd Business meet Business event fromCaterham to District in Autumn, with District involvement >100businesses expected to be involved.



Quotes & Any Questions?....Highlights of best practice

Paul Mackie. Chair Storrington & Sullington Partnership It was a great pleasure to have suchstimulating discussion. It's morale boosting to have new friends who have recognised theproblems we have confronted and are deriving their own approaches.Nigel Wilkinson. What a good exercise. Informative, clarifying and educational - that wasonly the bus trip!It seemed that they'd suffered similar problems to ourselves, overcoming much to becometaken seriously. Becoming a registered charity had also helped. Having a close relationshipwith the Parish Council was a clear winner, to speak with one voice. In our case, two PC's.Pamela Cosgrove. The Community Hub was of great value - it was pleasing to see howmany different people and areas it was helping.Joined up Parish Councils. Two village parishcouncils had become one enabling a cohesive body to take the healthcheck forward andunite the future of Storrington and it's hinterlands.Also impressed with pavements, street lights, furniture and lack of railings. A great visualimpact without all the clutter. Also felt good value and noted strong links with countyhighways.Jean Pidgeon. Parish Councillor. I was so good to see what can be achieved whendetermined people work in partnership. I was very impressed with the Community Hub and its social inclusion agenda delivering such a wide range of services for people of every age.Everything rang true with me .