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Who is the GSP? Who Runs it? What does it
do?
GSP stands for the Grenfell Park, St Thomas, Port Tennant
Partnership and was established as a group name to start the
regeneration process in the area, and represents the geographical
area covered by the partnership. The GSP Partnership has continued
to build since its inception in 2003 and became a Limited Company in
October 2005 and is currently waiting for confirmation of charitable
status.
The partnership has developed and adopted all documents relating to
good governance and applied to the WDA Regeneration Toolkit for
funding for a Co-ordinator to work with the partnership to take
forward the recommendations from the Consultant’s Report and work
with the Partnership and others to improve the area through an
Action plan, as well as linking into the opportunities arising from
the SA1 Development.
The GSP Group are an extremely active and successful partnership,
working to better the community, ensuring that they exploit the full
potential that an internationally recognised property development
brings to the area.
Some of our successful projects have included the 1st Community
Awards, the GSP Charity Calendar and the Magazine. To date we have
already published 12 issues which have been delivered to every house
in the St Thomas Ward including SA1 Swansea Waterfront. The first
newsletter was funded by the WDA and introduced the GSP to the
community. The second issue was funded by SCVS and gave the
community a chance to catch up on some of the things we have done
and some of our future plans.
We hope to continue to publish magazines regularly and hope that
more members of our community will start writing articles for it.
We also had this years second annual Celtic Light Parade though
whilst scheduled for St. David’s Day it was postponed because of
snow, however, it did successfully take place a couple of weeks
later.
This year also saw the return of the much missed Eastside Carnival.
Whilst these days we can’t have floats our two walking parades
certainly brought some cheer to our community and the turn out at
Jersey Park was fantastic.
We are also working to establish properly a 50+ Forum, a Business
Forum and a Youth Forum to represent more of our community.
Other than raising money through events or advertising we have
applied to various organisations for a variety of different funds.
We have had a flexible package of support from the Welsh Assembly
Government including office set up costs and development
co-ordinator costs.
SDF (Swansea Development Fund) through SCVS (Swansea Council for
Voluntary Service) helped us in our first year with funding for 4
issues of the magazine. It is excellent that we have managed to
produce a further 12 issues through advertising and the support of
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Swansea’s £2,000,000 Sail Bridge
connects the city’s marina with the new SA1 Waterfront Development |
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We have arranged and raised money for
the following good causes and charities: SA1 Youth Club, Anthony
Heslop, Connor Jones, Leukaemia Research and Cancer Research UK.
Our ultimate aim is to develop a sustainable social enterprise
through partnership which will help to support further projects to
regenerate our community.Who
are the people doing this work you might ask. The current Members of
the Board are:
 Martin
Summons – Acting Chair
John
Tancock – Vice Chair
Pat
Brown – Company Secretary
Winnie
Wong –Treasurer
The other Members of the Board are:
Pat Brown, Les Jones, Martin Joyce,
Maureen Scannell, Martin Summons, John Tancock, Kath Thyer, Richard Brown, Beverley Roberts, Chris Lewis, Janet Robert-Lewis and Dave Lloyd
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