Welcome to the Thatcham Vision website!
The Thatcham Vision project is involving residents and others with an interest in Thatcham in improving the town, its environment and their wellbeing. To find out more, visit our frequently asked questions page by clicking here.
Community and Resource Development Manager - part time post
21st February 2008 Thatcham Vision is delighted to learn that Thatcham Town Council has agreed to fund this three-year post. We will be looking for an experienced project manager who has previous experience of working with local communities to fill this post, which is part-time (up to 4 days per week). The work involved will be to liaise with local agencies and ensure that actions in the First Thatcham Vision Action Plan are taken forward, to cover additional topics and extend the plan, and to re-establish and coordinate topic working groups where needed. Additional tasks relating to other work that will develop and support community initiatives in Thatcham are also likely to arise. Initial expressions of interest are being sought. Interested persons should forward a covering letter explaining why they would like to work in this role and a CV. This can be emailed to suejeverett@hotmail.com. Enquiries can be made to Sue via 01635 847164. Further details and a formal application form will be available in March.Thatcham Vision News
19th July 2007 More HGVs on Crookham Hill? West Berkshire Council's Highways Department are currently conducting a consultation exercise in connection with their draft Freight Route Network for the district. Crookham Hill, to the south of Thatcham's level crossing, is included as part of the network in the draft plans.If you would like to express your views about the plan visit this web page where you can download maps and a copy of a questionnaire. The consultation exercise ends on 14th September. In the Vision's main consultation exercise in the spring of 2006 over 70% of respondents thought that heavy goods vehicles should be banned from using Crookham Hill altogether. Click on the databank link to the left and follow the 'consultations' link to find out more about the results of our survey.
11th July 2007 Thing Global Act Thatcham Thatcham resident Daniel Raven-Ellison wants Thatcham to become the first 0.23 town. To find out what that means, and to play a part in making it happen, click here. Daniel is a geography teacher and - for a special edition - a guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme.
Also be sure to visit the Vision's environment team's recently added section of this website - see the link on the left. Volunteers have been working quietly on a number of initiatives since the first action plan was issued earlier in the year and we're planning to get a lot more activity under way in the autumn.
11th May 2007 New Photography Club A feature of Thatcham which was highlighted by the work on the first Thatcham Vision Action Plan (see links to the left and below) was the fact that the town already hosts a wide range of clubs, groups and associations. The latest addition to the list is the Thatcham Photography Club, formed by resident Norman Norrie. The next meeting of the club is, weather permitting, at Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre, off Lower Way, at 7.30pm on 30th May. For more details - and to find out where the club will meet if the weather doesn't cooperate - email Norman by clicking here.
13th March 2007 Thatcham Vision Launch Event this evening! The event starts at 7.30pm at Thatcham Football Club. A free buffet with soft drinks is available from 7.00pm and a pay bar will be open until the meeting starts. If you'd like to find our more about the Vision or get involved in its further development and implementation, this is an ideal opportunitity to do so. If you see this, are planning to come and haven't been in touch already please drop a line to thatchamvision@gmail.com so that we can get a feel for numbers.
Thatcham Football Club is located on Crookham Road at Waterside Park, to the south of the level crossing on the left hand side if you're heading away from Thatcham.
16th January 2007 Thatcham Vision's first newsletter available online. Our
eight page newsletter, which will be distributed to homes and made
available in public places at the end of February, can be downloaded by clicking here. (This is a 2 megabyte file and you will need the Adobe Reader
to view it.) The newsletter summarises the main points in the the
Thatcham Vision Action Plan and explains how the action pan will be developed and implemented.
15th January 2007 Thatcham's first parish plan has been issued by Thatcham Vision. The plan has been produced by members of Thatcham's community and identifies
measures that will improve the town and its surrounding countryside.
Please click here to visit a page from which you can dowload the documents which form the action plan.
The plan is the result of over a year's work involving over 80
residents and others with an interest in the town. Thousands of
residents, from children at primary school to senior citizens, were
asked about what improvements they would like to see in Thatcham.
Printed copies of the plan will be available for reference at libraries and Thatcham Council after 1st February. A press release covering the launch of the plan can be downloaded here.
15th December We have started building the Thatcham Databank. The Databank will be used to store all the consultation results, statistical information and maps collected by Thatcham Vision and will be updated frequently as the situation changes. The Databank also includes links to our online collection of photographs of Thatcham. Please click on Databank link on the left hand side bar to visit the site which hosts the Databank.
14th December We have started building the Thatcham Databank. The Databank will be used to store all the consultation results, statistical information and maps collected by Thatcham Vision and will be updated frequently as the situation changes. The Databank also includes links to our online collection of photographs of Thatcham. Please click on Databank link on the left hand side bar to visit the site which hosts the Databank.
30th November Earlier this year we completed our major consultation exercise, the Thatcham Survey 2006. Results of the survey are now available online. A summary of the survey can be viewed online by clicking here Click on the controls which will appear at the bottom of the first slide to adjust the timing and to scroll through the slides.
Alternatively click here to download a
Microsoft Powerpoint Show version of the summary of results.
If you do not have Powerpoint installed on your computer, you
will also need the free Powerpoint Reader which can be downloaded from
this webpage http://tinyurl.com/3nend
To download a copy of the special supplement to The Advertiser which includes the Thatcham Survey 2006 questionnaire and items explaining the background to the topics covered, click on the picture to the right.*
10th November Our action plan is close to its final draft. We've been putting a lot of effort into this because so much has come out of the project that we're keen to ensure that we capture and present all the ideas as effectively as possible. The plan will get its first public airing in January when it's presented to the Thatcham Area Forum, a regular meeting of all the town and district councillors who represent Thatcham. In the meantime, there's lots going on so please check back here, and visit our blog, to keep up-to-date. Detailed results of our consultation exercises are in the final stages of preparation and willl be published online very soon.
What else is here?
Make sure you visit our
interviews page, on
which you can download
and listen to mini-interviews with Thatcham residents and also hear the
project team talking about the Vision. A
number of
people, notably Thatcham resident Mike Cass, have been busy taking
photographs for us: click
here to view a gallery of
them.
You can vi
sit
Mike's own website by clicking
here.
What is your vision for the future of Thatcham? Visit our ideas
page to find out how you can contribute your ideas to the
Vision and to travel in time into Thatcham’s past and
possible
futures.
You can also visit our Weblog
(or blog)
which, amongst other things, is
our online newsletter and information resource. The blog
includes
information about similar projects elsewhere and news items which are
relevant to the Vision.
Finally, be sure to bookmark this page so that you can keep up to
date with
developments. A lot will be happening in the coming months
and
we’re sure that you wouldn’t want to miss out.
You
can also keep in touch by setting up a 'feed' from our webblog
(it
contains an item which explains what this is and how to do it) or by
emailing us by
clicking here and putting the word 'update' in the title of
your message -
you don't need to provide any other information.
