On Monday evening I chaired my second full council meeting. We had presentations from Thames Valley Crimestoppers, Newbury Citizens Advice Bureau and the Berkshire Community Responders Team.
The first explained how they team up with local authorities to create posters and leaflets to publicise anti-social and criminal behaviour, in order to encourage the public to help catch the offenders. They are an independant charity and all calls made to them are totally anonymous.
The second presentation by the CAB Chief Executive, Bob King, was to advise the Town Council that our funding of Saturday morning opening was possibly not as cost effective as it could be. Bob is going to evaluate opening on a weekday evening instead. The Town Council has funded Saturday opening for about four years, to enable those who work during the week to have access to the fantastic advise that the CAB can offer.
Finally we heard from Richard Davies the Community Defibulation Officer, who explained the benefits of having trained volunteers in each centre of population who are able to reach people having heart attacks within eight minutes, to give them a much better chance of survival. The Councillors resolved to look at the possibility of having a town centre volunteer team to add to the network within West Berkshire.
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