18 community projects have been submitted for the Bradgate, Rothley, Mountsorrel and Birstall Area Forum.

Each of these projects have requested a share of the £15,000 allocated to the Area Forum.

You can now view and comment on each proposal, offering suggestions for improvement. The information collated at this stage will help inform discussions at the Community Forum Budget Decision Night.

If you want to take part in the decision making on the night, you can now also book your place. The Decision Night will take place on 15th May 2012, from 6-9pm.

Last Saturday (April 21st) members of the Rotary Club of the Soar Valley joined forces with young people from Mountsorrel to clear litter from the area around the Sorrel Youth Café and the Green as part of a nationwide "Rotary Spring Clean", an annual event where Rotary Clubs across the UK organise clean ups of parks, beaches, towns, villages, natural beauty spots, lanes, streams, ponds, verges, in fact anywhere that needs a little tender loving care.

This year the Soar Valley Club chose Mountsorrel, where they already support the local Sorrel Youth Café project and organiser Rtn Ivan Brookes said he was very pleased with the result and thanked the Youth Café for their help, whilst Leslie Strange, the Youth Café project manager expressed delight that their work with Rotary ensured that the area around the Youth Café was clean and tidy. Pictured are (front) Selena Ryan, Ashley Read (back row) Rtns Alastair Wood, Carl Porter, Hilary Holmes, Ivan Brookes & Charles King, with Sorrel Cafe manager Leslie Strange. The Rotary Club meets on Mondays - 19.15 for 19.30 at Rothley Court LE7 7LG & welcomes enquiries from potential members. To contact us about attending one of our meetings and/or how you might get involved in Rotary please click on the following link: http://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.asp?ClubID=448 More »