Croods 2 - Win a Holiday!!

WIN A FUN-FILLED TREEHOUSE ADVENTURE STAYCATION

To mark the end of a very successful Neighbourhood Watch Week, and to celebrate the release of The Croods 2: A New Age, we are delighted to launch a prize draw on our Facebook page to give you the opportunity to win a fun-filled treehouse adventure.

The Croods 2: A New Age, which is in cinemas on 16th July 2021, celebrates community, neighbourliness, inclusivity, and working together - values that are close to the heart of all Neighbourhood Watch supporters. The opportunity presented by this partnership enables us to reach more young families and to build on the awareness of Neighbourhood Watch as positive and approachable. The Croods and the Bettermans are two very different families who are thrown together and have to learn to live with one another when an evil tribe of monkeys threaten their homes. The Croods and the Bettermans realise that home is not a place, its people, and together they create history’s first neighbourhood!

Neighbourhood Watch’s partnership with this film provides the opportunity to promote the importance of neighbourliness and community spirit to new audiences and across diverse communities. We know many young people and their families share the values that we stand for and this partnership gives them an introduction to Neighbourhood Watch and hopefully they will become supporters for life.

The Croods faced their biggest threat when they left their cave - another family – while we are offering an opportunity to leave your cave behind and experience a very different treehouse adventure with your family! To be in with a chance to win this amazing prize, be sure to visit our Facebook pageand enter the prize draw. Terms and conditions can be found here.

HOW TO SUPPORT THIS CAMPAIGN

We rely on the wonderful Neighbourhood Watch volunteers to promote Neighbourhood Watch as the first step for all people to connect with their neighbours for mutual support. We hope that you will share this campaign within your community and use it to reach more young families across your area. We have amazing prizes to be won over the course of the partnership.

To support this campaign, you can:

• ENTER:Visit facebook.com/ourwatch to enter the prize draw

• SHARE: Follow us on social media and share our posts on the prize draw

  • Facebook: facebook.com/ourwatch

  • Twitter: twitter.cm/N_watch

  • Instagram: neighburhood.watch.insta

• INFORM: Share this activity pack with your community. This could be via email, WhatsApp or in your local newsletter

• WATCH: Go and see the film when it comes out on 16th July. See the trailer here

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH AND THE CROODS 2: A NEW AGE SPECIAL EDITION LOGO

The Neighbourhood Watch brand and iconic yellow roundel is undeniably widely recognised across the UK. To celebrate the film’s release, we have created a unique and playful adaptation of our logo to be used on all supporting material. We will be using the fresh and fun logo on all our social media channels, on relevant pages on our website and materials created for this partnership. Feel free to use the logo on your materials up until the end of the partnership.

Want to be part of Universal Pictures’ universe? To hear more The Croods 2: A New Age news and find out about other upcoming film releases, exclusive competitions and giveaways, click here.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH WEEK 2021: LISTEN. TALK. DO!

Thank you to all those that supported Neighbourhood Watch Week. Please find links to resources and activities below which you may find useful:

New Neighbourhood Watch resources

• Every Mind Matters neighbourly postcard

• ‘How to run a listening campaign’ guide

• ‘How to organise a litter pick’guide

• ‘How to organise a street party’guide

• ‘How to conduct an Environmental Visual Audit’guide

Podcast

• Listen to John Hayward-Cripps talk about community safety in the 21st Century

Webinar (click to book onto an upcoming scam webinar)

• 6th July, 5pm: Exploring the psychology behind scams and how scammers are so effective at their crimes

• 14th July, 5pm: Insights into how a fraud case is investigated and how not to be the next victim

• 23rd July, 5pm: Scams awareness training from the Friends Against Scams initiative

• 30th July, 5pm: Don't get hooked by

A great start to Neighbourhood Watch Week

What an amazing start with the first of our events talking about Connecting Communities.

A great time was had by the participants and a good discussion followed.

Well done to our new board members Rashmee and Dan who did a fantastic job and pulled on their experiences in their own schemes too.

Don‘t forget to book your space for the others we have every night this week.

www.greenwichnhwconnect.org/events

CEO Neighbourhood Watch Network - June 2021 letter

Neighbourhood Watch Network

WG07, Vox Studios

1 – 45 Durham Street

Vauxhall

SE11 5JH

2nd June 2021

Dear Neighbourhood Watch Association Leads,

As the restrictions ease and the summer weather is with us, I hope you are all enjoying more contact and social time with family, friends, and neighbours. It is increasingly clear from feedback from members that, as mentioned previously, some people are worried about having more contact and the continued uncertainty of new variants etc. With Neighbourhood Watch Week in a few days’ timeit is important we support all our neighbours and members and follow the Government Guidance.

PROTECT YOUR POOCH campaign – May 2021

The ‘PROTECT YOUR POOCH’ campaign that we ran last month has been extremely successful with a reach of over 270K people on social media and 14K hits on the website landing page. Nearly 4K people clicked on our link to the petition page, and nearly 1K to get their dog microchipped. A further 1K people requested or downloaded a campaign pack to share the campaign locally and our press release was shared in over 28 papers. The campaign message is also scheduled to be published in Kent magazines to be distributed to 29K homes. As you know this additional campaign was in response to the concerns raised by Neighbourhood Watch members about pet crime. The dog theft webinar we ran last weekwas our first and saw over 250 people attend at different times with a further 170 watching the recording on our website. The speakers included Katy Bourne (PCC for Sussex) who is currently championing an increased response to pet theft, along with others leading in pet theft reform and prevention. During the campaign Philip Allott, North Yorkshire Police Fire and Crime Commissioner, met with local Neighbourhood Watch members and their dogs and spoke about his commitment to the campaign and addressing pet theft.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH WEEK – 5th -11th June 2021

With Neighbourhood Watch Week just a few days away I hope the plans you have in your Associations and areas to celebrate the week are all in place. As you know the theme is ‘Listen. Talk. Do!’ with the aim of supporting people to re-engage in their communities and to encourage the continuation and enhancement of the connections made over the past 15 months. We know that through connections and being active in our communities we all feel safer, we are more resilient, and crime is reduced. We hope that the information, details and resources developed with members that you received last month have been useful and supported and enabled your plans for the week. Please share any stories and photos with us so we can publish these especially of any Big Lunches with you are running.

SLING YOUR HOOK scams campaign and scams webinars – July 2021

We will be running a scams campaign during the month of July. We will send you details of the campaign in mid June. As part of the campaign we have 4 webinars scheduled to run in July. (click on the webinar title below to book your place)

- 6th July, 5pm: Exploring the psychology behind scams and how scammers are so effective at their crimes, Paul Maskell, Fraud & Cyber Crime Prevention Manager, Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU)

- 14th July, 5pm: Insights into how a fraud case is investigated and how not to be the next victim, Ben Hobbs, Detective Sergeant; and Catriona Still, Head of Fraud Prevention & Training, Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU)

- 23rd July, 5pm: Scams awareness training from the Friends Against Scams initiative, The National Trading Standards Scams Team (NTSST)

- 30th July, 5pm: Don't get hooked by scammers! What you need to know about flubot and phishing scams, Christopher Budd, Senior Global Threat Communications Manager, Avast

SUMMER SEMINARS – 17th to 19th August 2021

We will be running the Summer Seminars online again this year due to the ongoing uncertainty and to enable as many people as possible to attend the events. The seminars will be both during the day and in the evening in response to members saying some evening sessions would support those with day-time commitments. The plan is to have a mixture of Central Support Team presentations, presentations from Associations and local groups, and from external speakers. The Seminars will take place on the 17th, 18th and 19th August 2021.

AGM 2021 – November/December 2021

After the AGM held on Zoom last year, we are planning to hold the AGM in person this year. The date will be in November/December, and we will be sending out a hold the date in the next few weeks. Given the continuing uncertainty regarding restrictions we will be using a venue that will enable online conference calling in addition to in person facilities. We hope that this will enable in person contact for those that are able to make this and feel confident this will also enable online attendance for those not wanting to attend in person.

COMPARE THE MARKET and the COMMUNITY GRANT FUND

We have been in contact with Compare the Market who will be using the roundel shape and yellow background in a new advertising campaign. The use of the shape and colour is not restricted but we have negotiated a goodwill fee of £5,000 from Compare the Market that we will put into the next phase of the Community Grant Fund so Associations and local groups can benefit.

Following my letter last month, I haven’t received any feedback against the proposal to alter the Patlock funding for Neighbourhood Watch so it would go directly into the Community Grant Fund for Associations and local groups. As a result, we will be changing Patlock income to go directly into the Community Grant Fund.

ALERT VERSION 4

The roll out of the new Alert community messaging system Version 4 (V4) has begun in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. The Neighbourhood Watch Associations in both areas are liaising with their local police forces and Visav to ensure the transfer works smoothly and to resolve the inevitable problems and snags. The Central Support Team are also working closely with Visav to ensure the needs of Neighbourhood Watch are highlighted and addressed. After the initial roll out of 2-3 police forces Visav are planning a pause. We will be working with them to learn from the initial roll out and develop an implementation plan for other areas and training. Initial learning is making it clear that the local Neighbourhood Watch Association needs to be working as closely as possible with their police force to resolve issues and ensure the system is working for both parties.

I hope your Neighbourhood Watch Week celebrations and activities all go well and please share this letter with your Coordinators,members and partners.

Yours sincerely,

John Hayward-Cripps​

CEO, Neighbourhood Watch Network