Kilburn & Kensal Rise - You Decide Decision Day Event

This is the first time Brent Council is using Participatory Budgeting to put the community at the heart of decision-making and empower residents to decide (VOTE) how council cash will be spent to benefit the community.

Named You Decide, £2million will be divided equally amongst the Brent Connects areas of Willesden, Harlesden, Wembley, Kingsbury and Kenton, and Kilburn. Residents will be asked to take the lead in submitting project ideas that will improve local communities while focusing on physical improvements through the You Decide: Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy fund (NCIL).

Alongside this £2million fund, a further £250K will be available through the Brent Health Matters, £50K will be available for projects focused on health and wellbeing that will be delivered in one Brent Connects area to support their local community,

About the Decision Day event

Local residents from each Brent Connects areas will hear from organisations and businesses directly as to why their project is needed! These events will be participatory days where local residents will vote to decide which projects, you wish to fund across each programme to benefit your local community in Kilburn & Kensal Rise:

• Brent Health Matters - residents will allocate who is awarded funds from the £50,000 grant.
• You Decide NCIL (Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy) - residents will allocate who is awarded funds from the £400,000 grant.

For this Decision Day event, we are encouraging residents who live in Kilburn & Kensal Rise to participate in the local decision making process by attending the in person event . The venue will be confirmed shortly and the event will take place in Kilburn & Kensal Rise.

You will need to register to attend one or both of the Decision Day events. You can only attend the event in the area that you live in.

Only Brent residents aged 18 and over will be allowed to vote.

Decision Day Event Agenda

• Entry - 10am
• Brent Health Projects presentations from 10:30am - 12:30pm
• You Decide NCIL presentations from 1:00-3:30pm

The agenda for each Decision Day event will be the same in each Brent Connects area and may be subject to change.

Decision Day Dates for each Brent Connects area:

• Harlesden Decision Day event will take place on Saturday 16 July 2022

• Kilburn & Kensal Rise Decision Day event will take place on Saturday 18 June 2022

• Kingsbury & Kenton Decision Day event will take place on Saturday 25 June 2022

• Wembley Decision Day event will take place on Tuesday 12 July for You Decide NCIL event and Wednesday 13 July for You Decide Brent Health Matters event.

• Willesden Decision Day event will take place on Saturday 2 July 2022

Participatory Budgeting

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a proven method of enabling local people to come together and decide on the allocation of money to benefit the community.

PB will follow these steps:

• Criteria for spending the pot of money is set

• Ideas and proposals are submitted by eligible local groups, organisations, businesses or individuals (depending on the criteria) via an application process

• The community comes together on ‘Decision Day’ to vote on which projects are funded

You Decide: NCIL (Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy)

We are looking for community-led projects, which address the impacts and supports the ongoing development in the community by delivering a physical or social infrastructure project. Total of £2M is available. Each Brent Connects Area has £400k to enable projects to be delivered.

A physical improvement project should aim to support the local community through initiatives such as improving or renovating a building or installing a new facility like a play area.

A social infrastructure project should aim to support the local community through initiatives such as educational courses, support schemes or promoting community cohesion.

This fund opened on 22 March 2022 and we are encouraging constituted organisations and businesses to apply before the application closing date on Tuesday 31 May 2022 at 23:59.

For further information please visit: www.brent.gov.uk/neighbourhoods-and-communities/have-your-say/you-decide - youdecide

Email: youdecide@brent.gov.uk

Brent Health Matters £250k

The goal of the Brent Health Matters Programme is to reduce health inequalities in Brent.

Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups of people.

Our shared programme will be looking to engage with the community on a number of wide ranging issues to reduce the health inequalities experienced in Brent.

Brent Health Matters is looking for community led projects to support Health and wellbeing of local communities.

There is total of £250k grant available, £50k will be ring fenced for each of the Brent connect areas.

It is only by working with the local people, groups and organisations around Brent and listening to what you have to say that we can improve the overall health of our borough.

To find out more about this programme, please visit: https://www.brent.gov.uk/adult-social-care/health-and-wellbeing/brent-health-matters#whatisbrenthealthmatters

There will be a Decision Day Event brochure being distributed of all the eligible submitted ideas from organisations and businesses in each area that will be available online for you to download ahead of the events to familiarise yourself with these project profiles. Brochures will be available to those attending the in person events.

At the end of each event, all projects who have been successful will be announced.

Do you want to know more information?

Email us at: youdecide@brent.gov.uk

Privacy notice

You are providing your information to Brent Council's Strategy and Partnership team who can be contacted via youdecide@brent.gov.uk. Your information is collected for the purpose of gathering, administering and assessing grant-funding applications.

The information you give us will be shared with those involved in administering the grant, and if necessary, the organisation you represent. The information shall be retained for a maximum period of three years. Your information shall be processed in adherence to your legal rights, including but not limited to the right to withdraw consent, right to copies of your information and right to be forgotten. You have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk).

Further information can be found at www.brent.gov.uk/privacy