One thing many people don't realise about Neighbourhood Watch is that we are a charity, (charity number 1173349, in fact!) and we're quite a small one too. It’s a team of just twelve people who support a network of brilliant volunteers across the country.

As a volunteer-led organisation, we achieve a huge amount with limited resources. Our fantastic Neighbourhood Watch members make a difference in communities every day. We've just published our latest Impact Report so you can see how we've been creating better and safer neighbourhoods over the last 12 months.

As well as our Impact Report, highlights this month include: 

• Local updates from Southwater and Staffordshire
• Don’t let scammers take advantage of the Virgin email changes
• Hate Crime Awareness week, 10-17 October 

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Lancashire county council's community insight and engagement team would like to invite any interested community groups to contact them if they meet the following criteria. One site from  each district will subsequently be invited to become one of twelve district Red Rose Roots Well-being Gardens.

Looking to improve your wellbeing, learn something new, or connect with others in your community?
Community Roots has a fantastic range of free activities and support sessions taking place throughout October across Burnley, Pendle, Accrington, Ilkley and Blackburn. 

We’re inviting members of the Influence Network to help shape the refreshed strategy for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB).
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A lot has changed since the current strategy was agreed. There are new national priorities, the role of ICBs is evolving, and there have been changes within our organisation. As we refresh our strategy, we want to make sure it remains ambitious, relevant and focused on what matters most to the people and communities we serve.

​As part of Talk Money Week, Resolve Poverty, alongside our partners from the More Than Advice programme, are hosting a webinar which will explore the role and potential of community-based debt advice and why it matters within the wider financial inclusion and policy landscape.

When: 5th November 2026, 10am-11:30am
Where: Online, Microsoft Teams

The webinar will introduce More Than Advice and how its community-based approach is being delivered across the programme, share early learning and reflections, and create space to consider the wider implications for policy and practice. 

Today, we are delighted to share our Neighbourhood Watch Network 2025–26 Impact Report.


This report celebrates everything we have achieved together over the past year and showcases the incredible difference made by our members, volunteers, Coordinators, Association Leads, partners and supporters across England and Wales. It demonstrates how, together, we are creating safer, stronger and more connected communities through our shared commitment to Watch, Connect and Act.

Ever wondered what it’s really like to be an on-call firefighter? 

Come along to one of our upcoming drill nights and see for yourself. 
Meet the crew, see what happens on a training night, ask questions and get a feel for what being an on-call firefighter is really like. 

Find your local station and drill night details: www.lancsfirerescue.org.uk/your-community/your-local-station 

Thinking it could be for you? 
No experience is needed – full training is provided. ​

These stories come from the 1950s to the present day. They've been housed in a jukebox, alongside an exhibition of photography and films, which will be on display for everyone to experience in Nelson Town Centre. 
The recordings were gathered across 2025 and 2026 by Rob St John, with Diane Muldowney and Michael Powell. Fourteen were never collected at all: people had taped themselves, or left a VHS camera running on a last night of a club, and their recordings had sat in a drawer for years.

As part of Talk Money Week, Resolve Poverty, alongside our partners from the More Than Advice programme, are hosting a webinar which will explore the role and potential of community-based debt advice and why it matters within the wider financial inclusion and policy landscape.

When: 5th November 2026, 10am-11:30am
Where: Online, Microsoft Teams

The webinar will introduce More Than Advice and how its community-based approach is being delivered across the programme, share early learning and reflections, and create space to consider the wider implications for policy and practice. 
This session will provide an opportunity to: 

• Learn about More Than Advice and how its community-based approach is being delivered in practice.
• Hear early reflections and emerging insights from across the partnership, including what the programme is beginning to tell us about community-based approaches to debt advice.
• Consider the wider policy and financial inclusion context, and the questions More Than Advice raises for future policy, commissioning and practice.