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This week is Wiltshire Compact week, so take a look at their website: http://www.compactweek.org.uk/ and get involved.

Thanks to all who came along to our training event last week, we had good attendence with 25 delegates from 12 of our 19 existing CAPs. It was especially good to see our newest partnerships of Westbury and Melksham represented and also to have many new faces from within the steering groups of the other CAPs.

I hope you all found the event useful, we received all positive feedback from those who filled in the forms. I've also opened a discussion in the forum section to get more views as it's alw… Continue

Hope everyone's had a lovely summer, thought i'd just post an update as it's been a bit quiet on the ning front!

You should have all received an invite along to the WFCAP Autumn Event. There will be more details following on. It was agreed at our recent steering group meeting that what was really needed by the CAPs is a training session, covering all those fundamental topics such as funding, consultation etc. So we've booked the town hall in Devizes (due to its central location) for the evening… Continue

It seems our Steering Group meeting competed well in the face of two rare British events; a heatwave & a Wimbledon quarter-finalist! We had twelve CAPs represented last evening which is over half our membership. We were also pleased to see the Chairs from our two newest Partnerships attending – so welcome to Debrah Biggs from Salisbury City CAP & Graham Wright from Stonehenge CAP.

It seems that the Area Board meetings are running well but with the obvious concerns of establishing a work… Continue

Welcome to a new site for WFCAP! Firstly we must own up that it's not our brilliant idea but one we took from one of our member CAPs after seeing their site: The Pewsey Community Area Network. The idea is that, whilst our website is a great archive for agendas & minutes, CAP & Council documents and area information, a networking site can be much more interactive and of the moment.

Basically there are 4 main parts to the site: Groups, Events, Blogs & Forum.
Events - a quick, simple w… Continue