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Your Home, Your Forum

Working together to improve our communities.

In Dudley we have a strong history of people working together to improve their local communities. Community forum meetings are open to everyone and provide a great opportunity for local councillors, police, local organisations/businesses and residents to come together on a regular basis.

Since January 2017 community forum meetings and Police and Communities Together (PACT) meetings have become joint meetings with both ward councillors and a police representative present at all forums.

Many of the issues and concerns that you have about your local area can only be addressed by all of us working together. We have received positive feedback on this arrangement as it has helped to reduce the overall number of meetings in local areas, as well as improve our ability to come up with solutions and work together to address local issues.

To further improve engagement, Community Forum meetings have been rebranded and renamed. In July 2022 it was agreed that the geography of Community Forums be reduced from 10 to 5 Forums together with the pooling of ward funding allocations. 

Development of Community Forums - Change of name for Community Forums decision sheet

Your Home, Your Forum meetings

  • provide an opportunity for you to share all of the great things which are happening in the local area, as well as to discuss and collectively address local issues and concerns;
  • support you to be actively involved in your community through connecting you to other people and groups, enabling you to share ideas.
  • engage with you about local priorities and provide opportunities for you to influence plans and services which will impact on your local area;
  • focus on wider community issues rather than individual complaints or individual case work issues. These can be reported in a variety of ways including directly to your local councillor.

There are five forums, each covering a number of wards.

Further details on forthcoming Your Home, Your Forum meetings.

Your Home, Your Forum meetings provide a great opportunity for everyone to work together to benefit the local community. To ensure that everyone feels valued and able to contribute we have some guidelines for people attending the forums.

Community Development Workers

People in Dudley have some great ideas about how to make their community better but they don’t always know how to get started. This is where our team of Community Development Workers can help.

We are able to listen, build trust, share ideas and connect you to support resources, venues, groups and much more.

Working in this way we can create stronger, happier, more confident communities who work together and trust each other.

Find out more about Community Development Workers.