Innovation Day: Safety, Security & Cohesion

Focused on safety, security and cohesion - this is an exciting, hands‑on event where your ideas, creativity and local insight will help shape our future investment. This event forms part of Hartlepool's10‑year Pride in Place Programme, which is investing £20million into the priorities identified by local people within the Borough.

Now, we’re inviting you - community organisations, businesses, partners, stakeholders and residents - to help us to turn these priorities into real, long‑term projects that will make a difference across Hartlepool.

This is your chance to play a direct role in improving safety, security and cohesion within Hartlepool. By taking part, you will:

• Bring your voice and ideas to support Pride in Place
• Collaborate with people and organisations with a passion for Hartlepool
• Explore creative solutions to improve safety, security and cohesion
• Shape the next four years of investment in Hartlepool

This Innovation Day will guide you through a structured journey with the ambition of designing a better future for Hartlepool.

Local people have shaped every stage of Pride in Place, with nearly 1,500 residents sharing their views, helping set priority themes and interventions for the initial four-year Investment Plan. For Safety, Security and Cohesion, this includes:

• Design out crime and encourage positive behaviour
• Policing interventions to target crime prevention in specific locations
• Interventions to tackle anti-social behaviour, crime and reoffending
• Measures to improve community cohesion

Together, these interventions aim to create safer and more resilient communities across the whole of Hartlepool.

Info: A brief overview of the Pride in Place Programme, its priorities, the local context and the importance of 'Community Power' alongside our aims for the Innovation Day

Info: Hear the insights gathered from almost 1,500 residents and learn about the needs of mission‑critical neighbourhoods across Hartlepool

Info: A collaborative and creative session to generate potential projects, approaches, and solutions that could address the community‑identified priorities through Pride in Place

Info: This will help refine a few of the most promising ideas into potential project concepts that can inform future investment decisions within Hartlepool