Our estate walkabouts are a great chance for customers to share what’s been happening in their area.
At a recent walkabout at Lovatt Drive, Langley Mill, customers shared concerns about increased anti-social behaviour in the school holidays. In response, we partnered up with local organisations to create picnic and litter pick events on their street.
We had a picnic on the big green space where the children play, and families helped us with community litter picks.
Hannah Albrighton, Communities Housing Officer at Futures said: “It was a pleasure to be able to spend time with customers and their children and I loved seeing the kids have such a good time, being outdoors and playing together.”
Coaches from Derby County Community Trust brought bags of sports equipment, including footballs, badminton kits, swing ball and nerf darts.
Councillor Alex Stevenson brought along rubbish bins and Bob Molloy from Amber Valley Borough Council’s Community Safety Partnership team brought along crime prevention kits, which included sensor lights and padlocks.
Derbyshire Police officers also worked with the children to deter them from anti-social behaviour and community development organisation, Sporting Communities, brought their mobile van where the children could talk about what they want from their community over a quick game on their Xbox.
A Youth Officer from Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service also led football matches at both events!
Thanks to those from Infinite Wellbeing, Derbyshire Police, Derbyshire Fire & Rescue, Sporting Communities, Derby County Community Trust, Amber Valley Borough Council, and our Grounds Maintenance team for your support.
We’d also like to thank Asda in Langley Mill and the Co-op who donated the picnic food.
Hannah added: “It was great to see at the second event the areas had stayed tidy due to the hard work with the litter picks that we did the month before at the first event, and that the customers had really tried hard to maintain that.
“I’d like to thank everyone that came along, especially all the organisations who each brought a different, but valuable skillset to help the children and community.”
