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One Borough One Future

May 2012 - Council Leader Claire Kober introduces the One Borough One Future innovation fund

The council’s pioneering One Borough One Future fund offers a unique opportunity to involve local groups in exploring innovative new approaches to services.

I have talked often about the challenges facing Haringey as we strive to deliver quality services, tackle inequality and protect our most vulnerable residents against a backdrop of unprecedented funding cuts by central government.

In the face of increasingly tight budgets, we remain determined to adapt to changing times. We want to harness the wealth of energy and ideas which exist across the borough to help us to make best use of resources, work more efficiently and deliver more for less.

Through the One Borough One Future fund we will aim to raise standards and also to tackle inequality in the borough. The £1.2million fund will support projects which will help us to create responsive, higher quality services for residents.

One Borough One Future is about encouraging social and economic innovation across the whole borough, putting the needs of our community at the heart of everything we do.

We know that Haringey is a hive of talent and imagination, and we really want to make the most of that. We are keen to hear from anyone with an interest in Haringey who has an idea they think could help – residents, community and voluntary groups, statutory partners, public sector organisations, local businesses, council staff and councillors.

I hope that through the fund we’ll be able to deliver projects which will help introduce new services delivered in different ways; make creative use of our existing resources; address urgent needs in the borough, and help us explore new ways to reduce inequality and meet social needs.

I look forward to hearing your ideas on how together we can make our borough a better place for everyone who lives here.

One Borough One Future will be opening for applications later this month. For further information on the fund, including how to submit a proposal call 020 8489 2964.

Contact details

Councillor Kober's ward surgery and contact details are shown on her councillor web page.

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