Winton Forum is a focus point for community action

We meet regularly and take up a range of issues with the Council and other authorities on behalf of our members. See here for more details.

Our public meetings deal with topics of interest or concern to the community. If there is something you would like raised, we can normally get in the experts.

Tell us what you want.

You are invited to a

PUBLIC MEETING

To discuss problems relating to the area's high concentration of student houses and houses in multiple occupation. These include late-night noise, parking, waste disposal and general anti-social behaviour.

You will be able to voice your opinions and demand answers from a top-level panel including Bournemouth West MP Conor Burns and very senior representatives of the University, Students, Borough Council and Police.

The meeting is at 10.30AM, Saturday 11 February, at The YMCA, Jameson Road.

Web figures still rising!

We've now got our website statistics for 2011 and they show that our hit rate was up one hundred thousand on the previous year! The total number of hits recorded for the whole of last year was 1,787,821.

One of the top local websites in the country, this site contains nearly 200 pages of local information - and that doesn't include the many that are dynamically generated on our message board.

If you'd like to see the full figures, click here.

Living in a ghetto?

Residents have put local MP Conor Burns in the picture of exactly what it is like to live in a street that has been taken over by students. He heard horrifying tales of selfish, agressive and anti-social behaviour by some of the student population.

There is a report on our news page and you can have your say on our message board.

The sign pictured on the right is in the window of a house in Cardigan Road. Five students to one bed?

UPDATE

Winton is not alone. Like a number of other university towns, Oxford is now taking action to counter the effects of "Studentification". We have posted an article on what it is doing to deal with HMO's (Houses in Multiple Occupancy). Read it here on our Planning page

NOISE

In a move that will be welcomed by many in Winton and Charminster, the council is taking people to court if they make too much noise. Several cases are now reported on our news page.

Funny old weather ...

Super springs, lousy summers, warm autumns and unpredictable winters. Even the birds and the plants are confused. Check out the figures to see if the weather really has changed that much locally over the years. We've just updated the information on our climate page. You can see how the local weather was five years, ten years, fifty years and one hundred years ago.

Community Safety Updates

• Our Policing page has now been expanded to include the Safer Neighbourhood teams forCharminster & Queens Park, Northbourne & Wallisdown and Moordown as well as Winton. Details are included of email addresses and mobile phone numbers.
• This website has now linked in to the Dorset Police community information network. We expect to be able to post all relevant community safety information issued by the local police Safer Neighbourhood Team.
• This includes warnings about current local crime, appeals for assistance etc. Messages will be posted in a new Police Messages section of the Message Board. Check it out regularly.

Do you remember ....

Don't let them tell you that nostalgia is not what it was. Winton has a heritage just like everywhere else. It is kept alive by this website, and by your contributions.

We already have a substantial chronicle of your recollections of the old Moderne cinema and now we have started a page dedicated to memories of Winton in general.

Our first is a slice of life from the 1960's. Take a look, and maybe it will prompt you to send us your memories.

Crime down your road?

The police's new crime map website crumpled under the weight of interest when it was launched.

As a result you may never have got a chance to see your local facts and figures - including the number and types of crimes committed recently in your road.

You might find it surprising. We have a link to the Winton crime map on our policing page.

Then and now....

It's interesting how much and sometimes how little things have changed in a hundred years.

We've compiled a collecton of photos showing some local places both as they are and as they were in the past.

For the Winton pictures click here and for the Charminster and Queens Park collection, click here.

All that and much much more of Winton across the ages. Our history is just a click away.

All the other Wintons!

They are everywhere in the English speaking world. Take a look.

There is a Winton in just about every kind of setting you can imagine from deserts to frozen forests.

If you happen to know of another Winton, let us know.

Bournemouth 2026

Winton community Forum is a member of Bournemouth 2026 - a partnership that brings together hundreds of people from voluntary, community and faith organisations, private companies and public services working together to improve the lives of people who live, work and visit the town.

By cooperating with each other, organisations can pool resources and expertise to achieve the goals which are part of the twenty year vision for Bournemouth's future that was formulated in 2006.

We have teamed up with the Queens Park and Charminster Community Forum to provide a special section dedicated solely to Queens Park and Charminster.

You'll find facts, figures, addresses, local history and lots more - making this the most comprehensive local website in the area. Click here to visit the Queens Park and Charminster section of the site.

Search the site

Want to look up something about Winton but can't be bothered to browse the menus? Saw something somewhere, but can't remember where? We now have an easy answer for you - we've installed a search engine. Just click here to search the site. There is now a "site search" button at the bottom of the menu bar on the left of every page.