Abbey Ward Partnership

Ward Councillors: Cllr Lesley Clarke OBE and Cllr Mahboob Hussain OBE JP.

Opportunity Bucks Lead Officer: Joanne Fowler.

The Abbey Ward Partnership is part of the Opportunity Bucks programme. It brings together local people, community groups, organisations and councillors to take action on what is important to their area.

Over the coming months, we plan to:

• create a sense of pride and ownership of place
• improve the quality of the public spaces for the Desborough area
• address Anti-social behaviour
• work on safe and suitable spaces and activities for children, young people and families

View the Abbey Ward Action Plan (PDF, 297 KB)

We're identifying areas that need improvement and issues that need addressing.

We'll promote events (for example community activity days and community litter-picks and clean-ups). This will help to:

• improve the community connectedness
• develop a sense of community ownership

We'll improve areas in Desborough, including areas that need:

• cleaning
• fly-tipping to be cleared
• graffiti to be removed
• additional security

We're tracking progress and tasks in an action plan.

We're working with other services to reduce illegal parking and nuisance vehicles in the area.

We're supporting projects that address knife crime and give support to some of our most vulnerable residents.

We'll be working with existing providers in the town to develop effective ways of promoting activities.

We're reviewing existing green spaces to make them more accessible for children and young families.

We're supporting initiatives that provide activities for young people including:

• mentoring
• youth clubs
• anti-knife crime projects

You can tell us what’s important to you by:

• attending a ward partnership meeting (either 1 or regularly)
• joining a working group linked to one of our priorities or projects
• completing surveys
• emailing us to share your views

Email our Partnerships and Communities team for more information: partnerships&[email protected]