ASB Awareness Week 3rd – 9th July 2023

Dear Crofters,

Please see below message from Neighbourhood Watch Network:

Neighbourhood Watch knows that Antisocial Behaviour (ASB) can be the highest contributor to negative influence in our community.  Often affecting an individual person or group, a whole community and the place we live.  We know, because we have heard the distress from people that are going through this, here and now.

ASB Awareness Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of what it covers, provide methods of how and who to report it to, understand your right to your case being reviewed and more importantly, what support you can expect from various agencies and organisations.

We would like to encourage the conversations and we have arranged for 4 webinars to help you.  We have speakers from Resolve, ASB Help, British Transport Police and from our Central Support Team, all talking about the many facets of antisocial behaviour in our communities and helping you to know the changes that were announced earlier this year and how that affects you, understanding your rights, knowing what to do when faced with ASB whilst on transport and what Neighbourhood Watch is doing to help communities deal with ASB in public spaces, through the Community Safety Charter.

ASB Awareness Week is spearheaded by Resolve and we are delighted to welcome Rebecca Bryant OBE, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  Resolve is a Centre of Excellence solely focused upon community safety and antisocial behaviour (ASB) who strongly advocate that community safety issues and ASB can be tackled effectively, and everyone has a right to feel safe. ASB should be treated as a priority, it is not low level and is a precursor to serious crime.

Our webinar programme for ASB Awareness Week is as follows.  If you see a webinar that you would like to attend online, please click on the below links (webinar title) to book your space.  You will need to do this for each individual webinar that you wish to attend.  All webinars are online and are via the platform Zoom.

Information about our speakers organisation

Resolve, Rebecca Bryant OBE – Rebecca brings her knowledge and expertise an anti-social behaviour to explain the changes made earlier this year. Rebecca joined Resolve in October 2018 as the chief executive with over 15 years’ experience of working with community safety and having worked in Manchester City Council as a Head of Crime and Disorder.  Prior to becoming chief executive Rebecca worked as a senior associate with resolve for a number of years and is a well-respected consultant within the industry possessing a broad and extensive noise around community safety and anti-social behaviour solutions.

ASB Help – ASB Help is a registered charity in England and Wales set up to provide advice and support to victims of anti-social behaviour.

ASB Help aims to provide information and advice to interested parties and members of the public involved with and suffering from anti-social behaviour. They believe there is a clear need for coordinated information and advice that is readily accessible to those who need it.

British Transport Police – Their mission is to help the millions of people who use the railways of England, Wales and Scotland get home safely and on time. We police Britain’s railways, providing a service to rail operators, their staff and passengers across the country. We also police the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, the Midland Metro tram system, Croydon Tramlink, Tyne and Wear Metro, and Glasgow Subway.

Antisocial Behaviour on public transport focuses on trains and underground services. It explores the behaviour from passengers that should be reported.  They will go into the different ways you can report ASB, either at the time or after the event, how not to put yourself at risk and how you can support victims. David will talk about the work of British Transport Police and how technology plays a part in reporting.

Neighbourhood Watch Network – Neighbourhood Watch Network is the umbrella charitable organisation which supports Neighbourhood Watch membership across England and Wales, making it the largest crime prevention movement.  They are the National body that represents the interests and needs of it members and promotes crime prevention, community health and wellbeing and connectiveness.  A grassroots organisation which is proud to continue to have communities and neighbours at its heart.

We would like to encourage you to book your space now to avoid disappointment, as our webinars can fill up very quickly.  Spaces are limited.