13/9/17: Steve Evans our East of England Regional Representative was asked to attend the quarterly meeting of the Essex Joint Licensing Officers Forum at the Council Chambers in Rayleigh Essex to give a presentation about National Pubwatch.
The Essex Joint Licensing Officer’s Forum is made up of Police and Council Licensing Officers and other stakeholders, such as, Trading Standards, Fire and Rescue Service, Gaming Commission and The SIA. Over 35 members attended the event.
Steve gave a talk on the history and foundations of NPW, our successes and the support we offer to Local Schemes throughout the UK, along with our Awards and Annual Conference.
Several issues were identified where local support is needed and this was an ideal opportunity to gain contact details of the schemes that we are not aware of so that we can include them on our mapping tool.
Steve has offered to provide future meeting with any up-dates and materials from NPW.
Present was Jenny McCallum – Police Licensing Officer at Harlow who has previously received one of our Star Awards for her support for a local Pubwatch scheme.
Following the meeting we received contact from the Gambling Commission seeking advice relating to the gambling industry’s own Betwatch scheme which operates in a similar manner to Pubwatch.
