Compton Abbas & Twyford Community Website
Neighbourhood and Home Watch
Neighbourhood & Home Watch is a voluntary network of schemes where neighbours come together, along with the police and local partners, to build safe and friendly communities.
Our Mission
The aim of the Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch movement is to bring neighbours together to create strong, friendly, active communities where crime and anti-social behaviour are less likely to happen.
Our vision is that of a caring society that is focused on trust and respect in which people are safe from crime and enjoy a good quality of life. Neighbourhood Watch is about making sure that no one has to feel afraid, vulnerable or isolated in the place where they live. It’s about people looking out for each other, crossing barriers of age, race and class to create real communities that benefit everyone.
Our activities are characterised by their diversity, taking in everything from home security improvements to youth workshops to neighbourhood clean-up projects. The results can really be something to be proud of. Communities where Neighbourhood Watch or Home Watch operate become more friendly and cohesive and, research shows, experience a fall in crime.
The history of Neighbourhood & Home Watch
Since coming to the UK in the early eighties, Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch have evolved into wider regional associations and, finally, a coordinated national network.
Neighbourhood Watch first started in the United States as part of the community's response to the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964. The movement made its way across the Atlantic in 1982 when the first group started in Mollington, Cheshire.
Neighbourhood Watch in the UK was originally called Home Watch, a name by which it is still most widely known in some parts of England. The movement in the UK started out as individual groups of neighbours deciding to keep their eyes open and work with the police to report crime and suspicious occurrences. Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch groups at 'street level' are generally known as 'schemes' and are run by a 'coordinator'. Over the years schemes and coordinators have banded together to form local, county and regional Associations. Today, Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch is one of the UK’s largest voluntary movements, covering approximately 3.8 million households.
Sue Ryan is our Compton Abbas & Twyford HomeWatch co-ordinator.
If you would like to receive police alerts and notices about break-ins etc in our area, please email her on the email address below and she can add you to her distribution list.
Compton Abbas & Twyford HomeWatch contact:
Sue Ryan
Email: sue.ryan@uwclub.net