Wrexham is to receive a share of a £1.5 million to help fund extra street marshals and a pop-up police station on Eagles Meadow. The funding is part of Safer Streets, a £75 million Home Office programme that encourages Police and Crime Commissioners and local authorities to bid for investment for initiatives to prevent neighbourhood […]
Wrexham Council’s Ty Pawb facility is running at a loss – however the arts offer is ‘very successful’ at grant applications and does not run a deficit – with the ‘building costs and car park’ ‘pulling down’ the overall budgets. The detail emerged during an ‘urgent’ (but not really – more here) meeting of the […]
Wrexham councillors have examined Ty Pawb “as matter of urgency” as the lead member ‘clarifies’ it never left his portfolio, despite council reports and briefings saying otherwise. A meeting held by the employment, business and investment scrutiny committee this week was held under somewhat different circumstances to normal after the regular long scheduled report on […]
Ty Pawb and the Arts will go back under the responsibility of Cllr Hugh Jones after an adjustment to lead member responsibilities, two weeks after it was finalised. At the media brief before the most recent Executive Board our first question was “Who is the cultural Lead Member at Wrexham Council?” as the information before […]