In attendance
- Andria Birch, CEO of BCVS (Chair),
- Sally Gillborn, Chief Executive, North Notts BID (Vice Chair),
- Julie Beresford, Head of Growth & Economic Prosperity BDC,
- Tony Ward S80 Partnership,
- Maggie Easton BDC,
- Karen Tarburton, Community Development Manager, BDC,
- Craig Taylor Assistant Chief Executive & Director of Regeneration & Neighbourhood, BDC,
- Becky Law – Member of Public,
- Cllr Steve Scotthorne,
- Philip Jackson, Chair of Worksop Business Forum,
- Jo White MP for Bassetlaw,
- Nicola Stevens, Notts County Council,
- Tracey Mace-Ackroyd, RNN Group,
- Dee Sissons, Aurora Wellbeing,
- Chris Grocock, Head of Business Development & Partnerships at Futures,
- Georgia Crossland, CEO, Centre Place,
- Helen Azar, Chief Executive, NHS / Talkzone.
Apologies
- Cllr Walker-Gurley
- Jo Bradley
- Joelle Davies
- Peter Gaw
- Karen Whitlam
| Action | Undertaken by: | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Amend previous minutes | ME | Complete |
| 4.1 Revisit membership | AB, JB, CT | New Year |
| 4.2 Draft and finalise Job Descriptions | JB | ASAP |
| 5.1 Set up meeting with community safety team with Cllr SS, TW, PJ | MC | Complete |
| 5.2 PJ & GC share events information with MC to forward on to Board | JB and MC | ASAP |
| 5.3 Draft tender document for business support programme | JB and MC | ASAP |
| 5.4 Skills and Workforce Development - engage with CG & SS from NCC | JB | ASAP |
Previous Minutes
With the exception of one amendment as follows, the minutes were agreed as a true record. Amendments to be made to AOB in the previous minutes re: “CANNS is willing to provide in kind support for this.” This has been noted from KW and AB via email and again by AB, highlighting at today’s meeting. Action: Amendments made and action completed by ME.
Chair Updates
For the submission of the Regeneration Plan, an official receipt has been received AB offered thanks to the team and everyone involved in the submission of the Plan.
Conflicts of Interest
None declared.
Pride in Place Updates
4.1 The new prospectus has been circulated; this initiates the next tranche of funding for the 169 new neighbourhood boards. There was also confirmation from LG that this will not delay or change any aspects of our submitted plan. The Plan and Vision were circulated on the 27th November and MHCLG has confirmed they are working through submissions. Notification was received from Ed verbally, and electronically from MHCLG.
Feedback from MHCLG will be provided once ministers have been consulted with regarding the submissions. If supplementary information is required, MHCLG will contact the LA/ PiP team directly. Reporting information has also been shared with board – this will be discussed at the meeting on the 8th January. Some changes have been noted to the new prospectus, but they do not affect us as present, these may need to be incorporated in the future. Advanced MP representation and involvement is required. Police representation is also required – RH has agreed to join the Board, has been added the membership, and invited to future meetings. Pre meets are to be scheduled with JW and the MP going forward. Key objectives / themes have not changed and more expectations around the community delivery model are required. Action: Revisit membership in the new year.
4.2 Staffing updates - JB updated the meeting that NC has been off work due to illness and has now resigned, ME’s fixed term contract is due to end on the 31st December - good luck wishes and a thank you have been passed on to NC. MC is supporting going forward for the interim period. CT stated systems need to be set up correctly going forward and job descriptions will be finalised and the role for Programme Officer will be advertised in the New Year. JB Action: Draft JDs are to be sent to AB and SG.
Project Specifications (PowerPoint Presentation)
Board input is required to feed into project specifications and JB directed the Board through the different project specifications as follows with discussions around each project taking place and actions / recommendations resulting. All have been linked back to the recommendations from the Consultation Report.
Thriving Places
5.1 Board agrees to a public realm audit; feedback can then help develop future tenders – AGREEMENT
- JW MP stated the public realm audit should hopefully help identify and cover places where there are ASB issues, where homeless people are located, sleeping in front of shops or gathering at the back of shops for drug related purposes.
- CT stated audit should cover elements of Martyn’s Law in relation to public safety.
- PJ stated audit could potentially be quick win.
- JB stated public safety is not currently a strand; JB mentioned the multi-agency ASB meeting that we could link in with, potentially convene a meeting in January – all information needs to be encapsulated in one area, then we can commission what work needs to be carried out. Feedback can be brought back to the next board meeting. We need to know where the hotspot areas are.
- AB highlighted we have already agreed commitment to which strand of audit is built into capital rather than revenue, extremely limited revenue pot – allocate what we can to capital. Are there several different audits without duplication?
- DS highlighted tackling ASB requires wardens.
- JB queried with finance if an audit can be capitalised, this is a possibility.
- JB queried including tourism and green space elements within the audit, this could also link in with other strands.
- Aiming to start the tender process the beginning of the new fiscal year.
- JB explained a full scoping exercise will be carried out.
- CT explained the street cleanse would be more of a deep cleanse through the town, including problem areas.
- PJ said cleansing exercises do make a difference, SG agreed, BL queried if this is the right fund to fund this exercise – AB clarified CT had previously explained that BDC will fund projects similar to this, this will fund a more advanced street cleanse and specialised aspects across areas of focus
- AB stated there have been ongoing conversations about procurement, we are aiming to procure local businesses to link in with, support and create social value locally. AB queried if board agree to support this approach – AGREED.
- Board to consider capital programmes in more depth in the new year – CT, said there is no risk to delaying. Board AGREED to postpone discussion.
Tony Ward, Phil Jackson and Cllr Scotthorne agreed to take part in the community safety meetings MC will set up with the Community Safety Team. Action.
MC to speak to the Environment/Street Cleaning Team to start conversations about public realm works.
5.1 Events programme - CYP was not the focus of the original consultation. An extra level of consultation is required. Regarding business consultation, we now have Discover Worksop to link in with.
- AB said there was some rich detail in the original report; it is important we build on that and embed going forward, PB suggested making grant funding available to new events
- AB said we need to be clear what is happening and add value
- TW explained we already have a good programme of events, which are run by the BID. This will impact footfall – town centre events create footfall to fall off in other areas of the Town
- GC said we struggle to get CYP to events, how to we engage them and encourage them to participate is key
- PJ said we need to be more reactive with the events
- PG highlighted some of this funding could leverage other external funding. We could put something aside for an Arts Council grant. The DCMS is likely to issue a prospectus for Towns of Culture. We need to look at how we commission out
- AB, we want to prioritise and protect to lever in additional money. We have already agreed to this. Different things will connect with different people
- PG, need to ensure Worksop is benefitting, the East Midlands has been selected as a pioneer region for youth jobs guarantee - PJ and GC to share information around youth guarantee with MC ACTION
- AB stated we need to ringfence all funding
Next steps – collate what is planned for next year, identify what feasibility studies we need to carry out, put a call for projects out (theme dependent) with accompanying guidance, using a staged approach
- JB suggested circulating an events proforma to assist with joined up working
- There was broad agreement from board to develop an events programme protecting, ringfencing and levering in additionality through the Arts Council and also through other resources, in addition to a collation of what is happening next year.
- CT explained that ED is to also reach out to other neighbouring authorities to ascertain what is on their events programme. CT explained there are specific events in Retford that draw in hundreds of thousands of visitors to Retford, but there is nothing comparable in Worksop that would benefit the local economy.
- JB highlighted we will clarify what has worked well elsewhere.
5.3 Empty Units - AS presented at the last meeting. We have a high street business support organisation called YTKO providing one to one support in place. JB asked if board were in agreement with developing a tender specification to go out to appoint a business support organisation to provide wrap around long term support with the revenue funding. TW highlighted it would be good if we could offer some level of support and training regarding reporting. JB said there will be some level of support for members, there is also a programme of support that is currently being commissioned via the UKSPF. YTKO has been directly commissioned by BDC – a number of webinars are being delivered and will be repeated and then businesses can attend at the most appropriate time. SG said the North Notts BID does fund events and asks that requests for funding go through the Business Forum, we look for where the gaps are to identify what to fund. JB, if any businesses contact BDC, ED help them identify to potential vacant properties. We are a member of the high streets rental auction early adopter scheme and as part of that we did receive government funding to develop a register of void units. JB, 65k is available to support business development
Board agreed to draft a tender to provide a business support package over a 2-year period with the option to extend AGREED.
Board is also happy to develop grant fit out criteria AGREED.
5.4 Skills & workforce development
There was a discussion around different authorities that are already undertaking this and the recent audit that has been carried out by Amion. Care needs to be taken not to duplicate what has already been done. The Board discussed the Gateway website and the need for a mapping exercise which can illustrate the gaps and then be used to advertise the gaps and provision.
Any Other Business
Circulate amended November minutes.
Last Updated on Wednesday, May 27, 2026