Useful Links

Click on any of the link below for further useful information about Canford Heath, or about Neighbourhood Watch:

• Neighbourhood Watch – The Neighbourhood Watch national website. For news about what the organisation as a whole is doing or finding your local watch if outside of the Canford Heath area.
  
  
• Association of Residents of Canford Heath – ARCH
  
  
• Dorset Alert – The Dorset Alert website. To sign up for live alerts keeping you informed of criminal and anti-social activity in you area. Once signed up the aim is to send you information in the event that doing so will help prevent a crime, will help officers solve a crime or protect you from becoming the victim of a crime.
  
  
• Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner – The Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner website. For news on crime trends within the area, explanations of local budgetry spending and your chance to have your say as both the PCC and his team are there to represent you.
  
  
• Poole Neighbourhood Policing Team – The Poole Neighbourhood Policing Team’s Facebook page, offering updates on local community policing matters and a platform upon which you can engage with them.
  
  
• Association Of Dorset Watches – The Association of Dorset Watches. An umbrella organisation supporting local watch schemes throughout the whole of Dorset as well as offering advice and safety products to residents.
  
  
• Dorset Victims Bureau – Dorset Victims Bureau. A service offering support and advice for victims of crime, from the practical points of keeping you informed to the processes involved and how to contact the police officers involved in your case, to help and advice where needed such as where to get support as a victim of crime.
  
  
• Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue – Dorset & Wiltshire Fire And Rescue Service for advice on fire safety and prevention in your home, as well as offering free home safety checks, ensuring you have working smoke and monoxide alarms as well as advice on fire risks and how to rectify or avoid them within your home.
  
  
• SAIL: Safe And Independent Living – An organisation particularly useful to the elderly or otherwise less able, providing a simple tick box list of areas in which support or assistance may be needed (Either online or as a form) following completion they will arrange for the relevant agencies to contact you. The free services provided by the agencies they work with include help for the elderly, infirm, hearing and sight impaired; fire, home and personal safety, as well as police, council and NHS services.
  
  
• PSPS: Poole Social Prescription Service – A free and confidential service aimed at improving health and well-being by connecting people with services and activities in the community. Offering support to people who feel depressed or isolated, who out of work due to illness, who are recently bereaved, fear the outside world, or are low in confidence or self-esteem.
  
  
• What’s On in Poole Libraries – Serving as a social hub for the community by offering a host of social activities ideal for those who feel lonely or isolated, as well as hosting sessions specifically targeting the blind and partially sighted (such as audio books).
  
  
• Prama Care – A locally based charity service offering community social clubs, dementia services, befriending and chaplaincy services, carers support and community shops. Also offering personal and domestic in home care services for the elderly and infirm.
  
  
• Canford Heath Link – A locally based magazine which lists a host of various activities, events and groups to help engage people within the community, as well as lists of useful numbers for those in need of support in a variety of areas, including Healthcare, Citizen’s Advice, and community social groups.
  
  
• Around Poole Guide – Another locally based magazine which lists a host of various activities, events and groups to help engage people within the community, as well as lists of useful numbers for those in need of support in a variety of areas, including Healthcare, Citizen’s Advice, and community social groups.
  
  
• Poole Trading Standards – Advice for both consumers and traders on how to avoid scams and what to do if you have been a victim of a scam, as well as up to date information on current local issues and cyber crimes.