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What is Heart of Pitsea?

Heart of Pitsea is a 10-year local community project dedicated to everyone who lives, works or is educated within the defined Heart of Pitsea Boundary.

The project is run by a partnership of volunteers, who are all residents within this area. Their local knowledge, combined with their enthusiasm, ambitions and skills come together to create a dynamic team that is passionate about Pitsea. And the best bit? It is down to them how Heart of Pitsea spends its funding.

Ah funding, now that’s where things get a little bit complicated! Heart of Pitsea has been granted funding through the National Lottery Community Fund and this is managed by an organisation called Local Trust under a scheme called ‘Big Local’. That means we are a ‘Big Local’, one of 150 projects dotted around England.

The great thing about being a Big Local is we aren’t told what to do by our local authority, the government or any national body! But we do receive support from a number local of organisations including Basildon Council, Essex Youth Services and the Basildon, Billericay and Wickford Council for Voluntary Service.

“We have a vision and our vision is for an engaged community

that creates opportunities for everyone and feels good about itself”

What do we do?

We run weekly projects, which are all free to anyone who lives, works or is educated within the defined Heart of Pitsea boundaries.  These include Youth Clubs for youngsters aged from 5-19 years of age, our Tuesday ‘Walk and Talk’ group and our fortnightly Pitsea Pots gardening volunteer group (on alternate Thursdays in the Market area).

An amazing group of young people take part in our Youth Forum and they decide how to spend their own budget, which funds activities for young people, including regular, free activity sessions for children at Pitsea Library.

Throughout the year we also host quiz nights, seasonal holiday fun days and our annual community Christmas event, all in and around Pitsea.

Find out how to get involved with Heart of Pitsea.

Keep in touch through our Facebook Page and look out for our regular newsletters.

 

Heart of Pitsea is supported through Big Local

and administered by Local Trust for the National Lottery Community Fund

 

Find out more about LOCAL TRUST

Feel free to take a look through the minutes of our Partnership meetings:

January 2023

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December 2023

January 2024