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It's Valentine's Day - love your community

The Royal Borough's community safety partnership is encouraging residents to support the borough's first Love Your Community Week which runs from Monday 14 February to Saturday 19 February.

Throughout the week community wardens, police, housing associations and residents' associations will be out and about in the borough carrying out clean-up days, hosting information stands with crime reduction advice, carrying out a community speed watch and property marking events.

The week was the brainchild of the borough's community wardens who wanted to do something a bit different for Valentine's Day.

Cllr Colin Rayner, Cabinet Member for Highways and Streetcare, said: "Once again our community wardens have taken an innovative approach to further improving our borough. Community involvement is key to a safer community for all and Love Your Community Week enables us to work with parish councils and other partners and embody the spirit of the Big Society.

"The week should not be seen as one off - we work tirelessly throughout the year with our partners to ensure we deal robustly with issues that matter to residents and to ensure that incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour go down. By working with Thames Valley Police we want to make the Royal Borough a safe and clean place to work, rest and play.

"I would urge anyone living in the borough to come along to their local event to learn more about the work that the community wardens do.

"The borough takes a zero tolerance approach to litter and graffiti and our community wardens will fine any anti-social behaviour such as litter and graffiti."

Andy Aldridge, Senior Community Warden, said: "This is a first for the borough and I am delighted that the wardens wanted to something a bit different and are spearheading such an exciting initiative. These events help us achieve a greener, cleaner and safer borough and actively involve local communities in the work we do."

Love Your Community Week - timetable below.

Date	Activity	Location	Timings	Contact on theday	Partners involved
Monday 14 February	Clean up of the Greenway	Starting from WRVS Centre, York Road, Maidenhead	12noon	Grant Hing	Community wardens Thames Valley Police Youth Offending Team Housing Solutions
Monday 14 February	Crime reduction and community safety stand	WRVS Centre, York Road, Maidenhead	2 - 4pm	Grant Hing	Community wardens Thames Valley Police
Tuesday 15 February	Community Speedwatch	Slough Road, Datchet	10.30am - 12noon	Duncan Dimbleby	Community wardens Thames Valley Police
Wednesday 16 February	Bike marking	Centrica, Maidenhead Road, Windsor	12noon - 2pm	Stephen Stentiford	Community wardens Centrica Thames Valley Police
Thursday 17 February	Community Safety stand and property and bike marking	Waitrose, Sunningdale	11am - 1 pm	Ben Page	Community wardens Thames Valley Police
Friday 18 February	Gardening project	Ward Royal	2 - 4pm	Stephen Stentiford	Community wardens Ward Royal Residents' Association Thames Valley Police Radian
Saturday 19 February	Community clean up	Evenlode, Maidenhead	12noon - 1.30pm Followed by information stand at 2-4pm	Peter Murkin	Community wardens Thames Valley Police Youth Offending Team Housing Solutions