City of York Council is launching a three-month community safety campaign next month entitled 'feeling and being safe in York'. 

The campaign will tackle issues of personal safety, property safety and fear of crime, as well as stepping up enforcement activity.  One of its aims is to raise awareness of the simple steps that people can take to improve their personal safety.

As part of the campaign, the council's neighbourhood management team, together with the Safer York Partnership and North Yorkshire Police, will be attending ward committee meetings to promote personal safety by offering personal alarms, marking people's property and offering cycle tagging.

Anyone interested in finding out more is urged to go along to their local ward committee meeting as these will be given to members of the public on a first come first serve basis. These will take place at the following venues:

- Acomb (Carr Infants School) - 5 July at 7pm.
- Bishopthorpe and Wheldrake (Yorkshire Air Museum) - 18 July from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
- Clifton (Burton Green Primary School) - 12 July from 3.15pm to 5.30pm.
- Derwent, Heworth Without and Osbaldwick (Dunnington Primary School) - 10 July from 6.30pm and followed by the meeting itself from 7pm to 8.30pm.
- Dringhouses and Woodthorpe (Dringhouses Primary)  - 9 July at 7pm.
- Fishergate (Fulford Parish Church Hall) - 24 July from 6pm followed by the meeting itself at 7.30pm.
- Guildhall (Treasurer's House) - 12 July at 6pm.
- Haxby and Wigginton (Oakengrove Community Centre) - 17 July from 7pm to 9pm.
- Heslington and Fulford (Lord Deramore's School) - 9 July from 6pm to 8pm.
- Heworth (St. Wulstans Church, Fossway) - 19 July from 6pm until 8pm.
- Holgate (National Railway Museum) - 4 July from 7pm.
- Hull Road (Archbishop Holgate's School in the main hall) - 5 July from 6.30pm with the meeting afterwards from 7pm until 8.30pm.
- Huntington and New Earswick (Orchard Park Community Centre) - 9 July from 6pm until 8pm.
- Micklegate (Scarcroft Green/Scarcroft Primary School) - 5 July from 2pm until 5pm.
- Rural West York (Poppleton Community Centre) - 4 July from 7pm until 8.30pm.
- Skelton, Rawcliffe and Clifton Without (Clifton Moor Church and Community Centre)  - 26 July from 6.30pm until 9pm.
- Strensall (Strensall Methodist Church) - 11 July from 6.30pm, with the meeting afterwards at 7pm.
- Westfield (Oaklands Sports Centre) - 11 July from 7pm.

Zoe Burns, head of the council's neighbourhood pride unit, said: "We do hope that people will take the opportunity to go along to their local ward committee meeting to have their cycle tagsproperty marked and claim their personal alarms and property marking kits. This is a great chance for people to find out more about how they can be safe."

To find out more about the community safety campaign or to view agendas for your local ward committee meeting, please contact the neighbourhood management team on 551832