Whittlesey and District Neighbourhood Watch

The Community Safety Charter

Help to make Whittlesey a better place to live by learning how to reduce crime and improve wellbeing. You can make a difference!

Cambridgeshire Neighbourhood Watch Association has signed the pledge to support the Community Safety Charter. You can join us by visiting https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/charter. You do not need to be member – everyone can join!

When you join you will receive:

  • Downloadable copies of the Charter to display
  • Downloadable or interactive training modules in various formats to use for you and your members/staff/volunteer
  • Crime prevention advice and guidance through our dedicated website pages
  • Other promotional materials (for example badges, pens, window display stickers and beer mats) to purchase at a later stage
  • The opportunity to attend online events to share ideas and good practices in promoting and implementing the Charter.
  • The opportunity to sign up for Alerts about the crime affecting your local area
  • Businesses can become an Affiliate member of Neighbourhood Watch.

The aim of the Community Safety Charter is to involve everyone in crime prevention activity and extend the scope of this work towards a goal of eliminating harassment, antisocial behaviour, and intimidation experienced by anyone who lives, works, studies, or visits anywhere in England and Wales.

The Community Safety Charter is a means by which Neighbourhood Watch members, local residents, businesses, and organisations, agree to do whatever they can together to provide an environment that is safer for everyone. Neighbourhood Watch provide frr training packs to help you understand how to be an active bystander, 

You can find out more by viewing the CSC & ASB presentation

  • Promote a culture that does not tolerate antisocial behaviour, harassment, intimidation and hostility towards others
  • Enable others to identify and take an active stance against these crimes and incidents
  • Actively encourage and support those who experience or witness these crimes and incidents to report them to the relevant authorities
  • Support those affected and signpost those who need further support to agencies who can help them

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