Waltham Forest: Our Place in London
Waltham Forest is getting ready for one of the most exciting and challenging chapters in its history – and you could help decide what our borough should look like in 20 years.
We want you to have your say in the biggest discussion ever held about the future of Waltham Forest.
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Current Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement
The current Community Strategy was developed with our partners to identify the vision, priorities and targets for the Borough. The LAA provides more details on these targets and how they will be achieved in the short term.
We are also working with our partners to respond to more recent opportunities and challenges. This update will be in our Sustainable Community Strategy. For more details follow the Our Place in London link.
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Community Councils
There are six Community Councils covering the Borough and each have an annual budget of £10,000 to spend in their local area.
» Walthamstow West, Leytonstone, North Chingford, South Chingford and Highams Park, Leyton and Whipps Cross, Walthamstow and Lea Bridge
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Births, Deaths, Marriages, Civil Partnerships, and Citizenships
These pages contain information about the services offered by the Register Office. You can also take a virtual tour to see the newly refurbished Forest Suite and the immaculate gardens.
» More about Births, Deaths, Marriages, Civil Partnerships and Citizenships
Moving home
The Life Events pages also have advice about moving home, and how to let the council know about your change of address.
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Communication Card
The Communication Card aims to improve access to Council and Health Services for Deaf and hard of hearing people.
More on the Communication Card for deaf and hard of hearing people
Community Safety
» More on improving personal safety and preventing crime in the home
» More on Community Safety delivery groups anti-social behaviour, domestic violence, hate crime, volume crime, violent crime, drugs and alcohol abuse, youth crime
Residents Panel
1,150 residents have been recruited to voice the community’s views on important local issues. The opinions and information they give will help the Council make informed decisions which will influence the future of local services in the Borough.
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Volunteering
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or your organisation involves volunteers then contact The Volunteer Centre for further information.
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Waltham Forest Stats
Waltham Forest Stats provides a single point of access to key stats about Waltham Forest and the small areas within it. Waltham Forest Stats has a set of tools that can be used to view stats in tables, graphs or maps alongside each other, or conduct further analysis by comparing different data sets.
We are developing a set of ward profiles and will work with relevant services to produce reports on specific themes such as children and young people and employment.
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Community based projects
Cyber Link is a community-based IT project based on the Beaumont Estate in Leyton.
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