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Very Sadly, Filton People Community Group in its current form closed down at the end of March 2008 and was no longer able to offer services.

Do contact Filton Town Council, Southern Brooks Community Partnership or South Gloucestershire Council's area Community Engagement Officer for help in areas Filton People used to cover.

Note well: As from our closure at March 2008, all our publications available from this website will start to become out of date and contact information may be wrong. Some publications such as the over 60s Information Sheet have already not been updated for some years. Please allow for this if using these publications: check with The Care Forum's 'Purple Pages' to find more up to date contact details.

Filton People is a local community group with an interest in Filton’s social, environmental and recreational needs. We work with the community to help make Filton a better place to live. We are currently service-commissioned by South Gloucestershire Council’s Community Development Unit to provide community development help in Filton. Our commissioned work includes:

• Development work with local Groups, including help with fundraising, publicity, and professional and other advice.
• Supporting/running local groups such as Filton Families, Filton Youth Group and Healthy Filton.
• Running twice-yearly Filton Community Lunches.
• Producing twice-yearly newsletters.

Other work we are involved in includes:

• Running the Filton Contact the Elderly Group, which provides monthly outings for elderly housebound people living alone.
• Continuing to support initiatives to improve facilities for families, children and young people.

We work closely with other statutory and voluntary organisations, particularly with South Gloucestershire Council and Filton Town Council. Local councillors have generally given active support for issues raised by Filton People, and have helped enable effective resolution of problems. All our services are free to local people, and are made widely known to them through our newsletter.

We are a constituted voluntary organisation with charitable aims, founded in 1994 and working actively in the community since 1996. We are core-funded by South Gloucestershire Council and Filton Town Council, and employ one part-time community development worker and a part-time administrative assistant. Our management committee meets bi-monthly and our various projects  are helped by a variety of volunteers.

In the past we have worked to improve local transport provision and road-related problems, to save, record and promote historic Filton including in schools, and to act as watchdog on local planning matters. We have worked with local groups to improve the environment, and to improve practical, leisure and care services for older people, and we have worked with local groups, children and their families to improve out-of-school facilities for children and young people. We have also worked county-wide to raise the profile of play, and to help create long-term voluntary sector infrastructures such as the South Gloucestershire CVS.