Basildon Community Television...
A fresh and exciting way for Basildon District Community Safety Partnership to communicate with residents, businesses and visitors to the District. | |
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Background information and progress to date.
Basildon Community TV, launched in January 2007, is a fresh and exciting way for Basildon District Community Safety Partnership  to communicate with residents, businesses and visitors to the District. Our 10 screens show useful and entertaining information to keep you in touch with what’s happening around you, providing information on what we are doing to reduce crime and disorder and to improve the quality of life.
The network shows local initiatives, all filmed locally in the Basildon District, crime prevention advice, crime reduction news, education and health projects, and national news, sport and weather. The system also has the ability to show missing person and serious crime appeals within minutes.
10 plasma screens are hosted across the District by Asda (Eastgate Shopping Centre), Tesco Extra (Pitsea), Aroma (Festival Leisure Park), Basildon University Hospital both Accident & Emergency and Outpatients, Basildon College, The Basildon Centre, Billericay, Laindon and Wickford Health Centres.
Working in partnership with Community Communication Network Limited , the Basildon District Community Safety Partnership launched Basildon Community TV on 17 January 2007, the first District in the Eastern Region to do so.
An early evaluation has been undertaken and some of the results have shown a 30% reduction in fire related incidents across the District. There have been some significant increases in access to services with homelessness prevention seeing an increase of 34.8%.
The general feel from Partners and the local community is that awareness is being raised across the District. The local community are better informed of local services and approximately 1,000 people (9%) act on information shown.
Crime in the District has continued to reduce since the launch in January 2007 and the perception of crime has also reduced, this mirrors and in some cases exceeds other Community TV networks in other regions.
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