Aim of the team
The aim of the Town Team is to support Wadebridge stakeholders achieve their aspirations for Wadebridge. To promote leadership and make Wadebridge an even better town in which to work, live and visit, by providing a forum to work up and co-ordinate delivery of aspirational and viable projects which will secure the long term economic, social, environmental vitality and prosperity of the town.
Role
To achieve this aim, the Team will:
- Work with Cornwall Council, the Town Council, and other key stakeholders as appropriate to identify priority projects to improve the economic, social and environmental prosperity of the Town
- Pull the required information together to help inform decisions.
- Find solutions to issues through partnership working and to call on the expertise of other groups or individuals as and when required
- Provide a forum whereby members of the group can help to ensure co-ordination between existing and emerging projects
- Organise when relevant public engagement sessions/events with consideration given to Action Planning Workshops.
- The Team, in the short term, will look to submit bids to access funding such as Cornwall Council’s Town Vitality Funds, Community Levelling Up and Community Capacity Funding to progress studies and projects in Wadebridge town.
- It is important to note that it is not currently envisaged that the Team will be contracting for services directly.
The Town Team has commissioned a consultant led project with the aim of Developing priorities and a plan for Wadebridge.
A summary of the projects findings can be accessed here: Delivering the ‘Wadebridge We Want - summary
