Community Development

The Community Development Team is responsible for a diverse range of services all focused on improving leisure and recreational opportunities for the residents and visitors to Wychavon. Our main areas of work centre around 7 key areas:

• Sports Development - working with a wide range of partners (including National Governing Bodies of Sport, our Leisure Centres, Schools, Communty Groups and Sports Clubs) to deliver better sports and healthy recreational opportunities. This could include developing facilities, coach, advice on policies and procedures as well as directly delivering sessions.
• Arts Development - working in conjunction with Worcester Sub-Regional Arts Partnership, Local Theatres and Community Groups to provide accessible cultural opportunities.
• Public Hall - managing a 19th Century hall for use by local community groups and events.
• Football Pitches - managing 6 football pitches and changing facilities.
• Management of Wychavon's parks and open spaces for for public events, either directly provided by the council (e.g. Children's Summer Holiday Events and the Eastern Festival) to the public events (e.g. the national Race For Life event, Fairs and the Evesham Angling Festival)
• Community Grants - managing the council's annual grants process distributing £273,000 (in 2007) to community groups for a variety of projects such as village hall refurbishment, youth groups, sports club expansion, rural transport initiatives. In addition, we provide funding advice on external programmes such as the lottery good causes, trusts, foundations and other government funding streams.
• Youth Development - working with other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to provide services and activities to young people. Projects to date have included the provision of skateparks in Droitwich, Evesham and Pershore, participation in a national pilot for targeted youth work in Honeybourne and representation on a number of youth action groups i.e. County, District and Sub-district.

The main constraint in the delivery of our services centre on the rural nature of the district, which pose a number of problems, such as transport issues and the difficulty providing value for money on events and initiatives with small populations.

For details about what service you can expect from us please see our Community Development Service Charter  (95.70 KB) or for details on our service costs download Community Development Cost of Service  (23.04 KB) charts.

To comment on our service or give feedback or if you would like to ask any questions regarding Community Development please visit our Wychavon Arts, Sports & Leisure Blog

The Community Development Team are:

Jem Teal
Community Development Manager
Telephone: 01386 565235 or 07977 493488 between 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday
Email: jem.teal@wychavon.gov.uk

Tracy Grubb
Community Development Officer
Telephone: 01386 565168 or 07989 511280
Email: tracy.grubb@wychavon.gov.uk
Hours of work: Mon, Tues & Thurs 9am-2.30pm, Wed 9am-3pm and Fri 9am-5pm

Mark Williams
Sports Development Officer
Telephone:01386 565229 or 07778 464622 between 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday
Email mark.williams@wychavon.gov.uk

Sue Healey
Leisure Development Officer
Telephone: 01386 565238 or 07974 187227
Email:sue.healey@wychavon.gov.uk
Hours of work: Mon & Wed 9.15am-2pm and Tues & Thurs 9.15-am1.45pm

Jenny Davis
Arts Development Officer
Telephone: 01386 565396 or 07967 640820
Email: jenny.davis@wychavon.gov.uk

Katherine Williams
Assistant Community Development Officer
Telephone: 01386 565497 between 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday
Email:katherine.williams@wychavon.gov.uk

Tim Brown
Community Sports Coach
Telephone: 01386 565578 or 07980 331729, 9am-5pm Mon - Friday ( office hours vary)
Email: tim.brown@wychavon.gov.uk

See our organisational_chart  (187.46 KB) for full details of the staffing levels and hierarchy within the team.

If you have any comments, feedback about our service please visit our Wychavon Arts, Sports & Leisure Blog

If you have any questions, comments or queries on any of our services please feel free to contact one of the team members above.