Welcome to the St Leonards and St Ives Parish Home Watch

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Welcome to the Home Watch website for the parish of St Leonards and St Ives in Dorset which covers the areas of St Leonards, St Ives, Ashley Heath, Ashley, Avon Castle and Matchams.

To view a map of the area we cover please click here.

The parish has around 3500 homes, where approximately 7200 of us reside, and of these homes the current membership is about 1555. We are actively encouraging the householders within the 55%, who do not belong to Home Watch, to contact us to help in reducing criminal activity and anti-social behaviour in our neighbourhood.

The St Leonards and St Ives Parish Home Watch is one of many similar schemes operating nationally. Being a community based organisation, it involves residents working together to raise awareness of anything untoward happening in the neighbourhood that could cause worry and concern to any of its residents.

Our scheme works in partnership with the local police and has the support of the Dorset Police Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT). As the job title implies, this involves co-ordinating with Home Watch on many police and security matters which include issuing ‘Ringmaster’ messages to us to report any activities in the area we should be warned about.

Home Watch schemes rely upon volunteers of the parish to work as Co-ordinators who then communicate information to members for the benefit of the local community. Far from replacing or doing the work of the local police, it merely seeks to provide an informal lookout service that complements their work.

Our partnership with the Dorset police and our two neighbourhood PCs can be strengthened even more by joining us.

For more reasons to join Home Watch click on about us.