Your Norfolk Your Decision Update on the first year projects

It may seem a long time since 6 December 2008 when 100 local people decided how to spend £200,000 on projects that would help us meet our targets in our Local Area Agreement.  For a reminder of the day, why not have a look at the Your Norfolk Your Decision film.

The Norfolk County Strategic Partnership has been keeping track with the successful nine projects.  

Here is a summary of their achievements, however to find out more please look at our progress report.

•  3930 people have directly benefited from Your Norfolk Your Decision participatory budgeting projects.
• The projects benefit a diverse cross section of the community, focussing on young people, disadvantaged people living in both rural and urban areas and on older people.
• Projects are aimed at addressing multiple areas of disadvantage, as well as working with wider social areas such as employment and cohesion.
• One project has brought in 25 jobs and £3 million in additional funding in the last six months, as well as securing 130 new jobs from October 2009.