Road Safety Wales Presentation Evening

Pictured left to right: Rob Morgan - Motaquote; Susan Storch - Chair Road Safety Wales; award recipient Joanne Yeo and Sarah Morris, Vice Chair Road Safety Wales.

Joanne Yeo is Secretary of the Safer Communities Action Group and Road Safety Sub Group in Glanymor and Tyisha,the work of which she promotes through various sources including the local press.

She is continually fund raising for the group and in her own time looks for ideas for future campaigns/events. Joanne organises Walking Buses for 4 primary schools and has assisted in sourcing funding for Hi-Visibility vests. She also volunteers to deliver the Kerbcraft scheme and throughout June 2010 she organised and delivered a Road Safety Road Show to all schools, nurseries and family centres within her community.

In 2009 she also supported the Road Safety Unit Child Safety Day, she returned in 2010 to read road safety stories to visitors. Joanne has a passion for road safety and has been extremely proactive in her promotion of a variety of road safety project in her community. All her efforts and time have been given freely and she is a perfect example of how to promote road safety with nothing more than passion and commitment.

Joanns said: "I was very honoured to receive a nomination and an award. Donna Davies of Carmarthenshire County Council's Road Safety Team nominated me and I was delighted to be told that I was one of 5 winners. Road Safety is very important to me, I want my children to grow up in a community where it is safe to cross the roads. I can't do all the things I do without the support of the Safer Communities Action Group, Communities First, the community at large and many other partners and service providers."

Press Release also on Llanellitown.com. Just follow the link
http://www.llanellitown.com/local-news/all-local-news/260-road-safety-awards-2010

Graffiti Clean Up!!

Keeping Wales Tidy is a difficult and at sometimes, dirty job, and luckily, the members of the Safer Communities Action Group have no worries about finding the funding they need for their clean up graffiti project as they’ve received a secure fund of £904.88 from Keep Wales Tidy.


Keep Wales Tidy is now able to support volunteer groups around Wales by offering free insurance to the groups and anyone who is fighting to improve their local communities.


Funded by the Welsh Assembly Government’s local Environmental Quality Department, the groups who are tackling practical environmental projects such as Graffiti removal can really benefit from the new scheme.


The Safer Communities Action Group, in partnership with Communities First, have recently had their application approved and are now able to carry out their removal of graffiti within Glanymor & Tyisha, Llanelli now that they are insured.

The Action Group will be working together with the Wales Probation Trust and Carmarthenshire County Council to make these wards a graffiti-free area.


Through the Tidy Towns Project, Keep Wales Tidy is also able to offer financial assistance to other community groups who have shown a commitment to restoring their local communities to their former appearances.


The support and practical assistance is available from its tidy town officers who are on hand across Wales to offer the help and advice on forming groups, running events and also applying for grants.


For more information on the Tidy Towns insurance and small grants scheme or to get contact details of your local project officer, please contact Tidy Towns on 0292072 6994
For further information on the Safer Communities Action Group graffiti removal project please contact 01554 777850 or 01554 752138 or email us at safercommunitiesactiongroup@gmail.com

Please visit the following link for press release:
http://www.llanellitown.com/local-news/all-local-news/145-keeping-llanelli-tidy

"Don't Let It Be You" Road Safety Campaign

“Don’t let it be you” was the message being taught to school children and adults in Glanymor and Tyisha this week as three schools got together with emergency services and other partners to highlight the dangers posed by cars and inconsiderate parking outside schools.

Pupils from Coedcae Comprehensive and Bigyn Primary School found themselves pretending to be victims of car accidents on Tuesday 28th September while emergency services tended to them.Whilst pupils from Copperworks Infants School dressed in white jump suit and became the zig zags outside school.

It is hoped that by producing local road safety posters and postcards, it will highlight the potential road safety dangers within Glanymor and Tyisha. By personalising the road safety message and ensuring it is advertised in schools and throughout the community, the group aims to reduce the number of accidents and potential accidents as well as reducing inconsiderate parking.

“This project is all about using local faces and local places to highlight important concerns,” said Joanne Yeo of the Glanymor and Tyisha Communities Action Group, which organized the event with Communities First.

The Safer Communities Action Group works to reduce crime and the perception of crime throughout Glanymor and Tyisha. Road Safety issues around the local schools are often brought up in their monthly meetings. One of the group’s targets for this year is to promote road safety in the community, and the group hopes that with school “walk to school” events, Kerbcraft sessions and this campaign, it will bring a greater awareness and have a huge impact on the community.

“Road Safety issues around our local schools are often brought up in the monthly meetings we hold with communities across the town, and indeed the county,” said Inspector Eric Evans. “And it’s an issue we take very seriously. I would hope that by highlighting the potential dangers in such a visual and hard hitting way, that drivers will think more carefully of their speed when they travel past schools, and think twice about where they park.”

“Safety of school children is paramount and hopefully these iniatives will get the message across about taking care whilst travelling to and from school” said Watch Manager Sean Lloyd of Carmarthenshire Community Safety at Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service.

The project was funded by the Community Safety Partnership, Carmarthenshire County Council and Dyfed Crime Beat. It involved the Glanymor and Tyisha Safer Communities Action Group , Communities First, the Glanymor and Tyisha Neighbourhood Policing Team, Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Carmarthenshire County Council Road Safety Unit, Community Safety Partnership, Coedcae Comprehensive School, Bigyn Primary School, Copperworks Infant School, Louise Charles of Llanelli Face Painting and Graham Harries of Llanelli Photographic Society.

"The safety of children outside schools is paramount" said Nicola Olsson, Carmarthenshire County Council's Assistant Road Safety Officer. "The 'Don't Let It Be You Campaign' highlights the dangers and raises the awareness of speeding outside schools not only to the drivers, but to the children as well. This campaign highlights what we can achieve when we work together."

The group are now working with Carmarthenshire County Council's Road Safety Unit to create "Parents Parking Pledge" tax discs which we hope will encourage more considerate parking.

Visit the following links for press releases:

http://www.llanellitown.com/local-news/all-local-news/250-dont-let-it-be-you-road-safety-campaign

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-11443305