Help Points in Leamington Town Centre

Help Points in Leamington Town Centre

by | Apr 15, 2025

Help Points in Leamington Spa Town Centre

Delivered and supported by a partnership including Warwick District Council Safer Streets Team, Royal Leamington Spa Town Council, Warwickshire County Council, the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, BID Leamington and the Warwickshire Retail Crime Initiative (WRCI).

We are very pleased to have 10 ‘Help Points’ in various town centre locations to support community safety.

These allow members of the public or staff in nearby businesses to have direct voice contact with a trained CCTV room operator. They can be used in emergencies or to get support or advice if someone is feeling vulnerable.

These call points, dotted around the town centre, are located on posts in carefully selected locations that are visible via CCTV, and can be identified by a bright ‘yellow box’ and an information sign.

When you press the call button, a member of staff from Warwick District Council’s CCTV operation room will respond. This is manned 24 hours are day, 7 days a week.

The CCTV team will reassure you that you are visible on camera and can make contact with local Police.

Here’s a list of locations with Help Points in Leamington Spa Town Centre:

  1. Clarendon Avenue / Beauchamp Road (by the Service Station)
  2. Parade – Regent Street Junction (by Crew Clothing)
  3. Parade – Warwick Street Junction (by Nero)
  4. Warwick Street – Oxford Street (opposite Leif)
  5. Parade – Pump Room Gardens (on the Dormer Place junction)
  6. Bedford Street Car Park
  7. Bath Street – High Street Junction
  8. Court Street Car Park
  9. Clemens Street (outside No 30)
  10. Brunswick Street (outside the Public Toilets)

Please click here for a short video of how to use them:

Please click here to view a map of all the locations in Warwick District – 14 in total.

Other Policing & Public Safety Initiatives

Alongside the help points, a manned ‘Safe Space’ operates on Friday and Saturday nights from 10pm – 4am, in ‘South Lodge’ at the entrance to Jephson Gardens. A team of Community Wardens work alongside the Police to keep our community safe, and we also value the presence and help of Street Pastors on selected evenings. Finally, the Warwickshire Retail Crime Initiative (WRCI) partners with businesses and agencies to help identify and address retail crime.

 

Meaningful Change

Meaningful Change

by | Sep 20, 2022

(Image credit: yes, but look how far we have come said the horse – Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse). 

If you would like to help we recommend you contact one of the local charities already supporting people in the town centre. Their contact details and examples the support they give can be found by clicking here. If you would like to host a contactless donation point, please contact us.

Meaningful Change

Delivered by BID Leamington

Meaningful Change is a multi-agency campaign aimed at helping to positively change the lives of those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Royal Leamington Spa.

BID Leamington developed Meaningful Change with funding from the Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner and with input from Warwick and Stratford District Councils, Warwickshire Police and numerous local Leamington charities that support vulnerable people (i.e. Helping Hands, Salvation Army, P3).

In Leamington there are a range of charities working to support vulnerable people in our community in different ways. This ranges from supporting people with day-to-day needs, to providing long term support enabling them to make a lasting and meaningful change.

Meaningful Change comprises of a website and a number of contactless donation points around the town centre, enabling a trusted source of information and giving. Funds are distributed back to our local charities via grants to support gaps in services. You can read more about this by clicking here.

Day-to-day administration of Meaningful Change is managed by BID Leamington and Warwick District Council. Meaningful Change is also supported by the Heart of England Community Foundation (Charity No 1117345).

The feedback has been overwhelmingly good – both locally and further afield.

“I have been meaning to say for a long time a big “Thank You” for organising Meaningful Change and implementing it.  I am lost in admiration.  Making card donations so easy is great”

Highlights of this project include:

  • Over £10,000 has been collected since we launched – and many grants has been made.
  • A Warwick District Council officer (Jon Barnett) has been assigned to help manage this project. He also helps to administer the Warwick Retail Crime Initiative (WRCI) here in Leamington. This is a much needed and very welcome new resource.
  • Further financial resources have been provided by WDC and the Town Council (£2000) to create more contactless giving points. Using this funding we now have 4 x window devices and 2 x podiums, so we are working on securing locations.
  • A7 information cards which have been distributed locally and A0 and A1 posters are in the car parks.
  • There has been strong media support – including numerous interviews on BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire as part of a national homelessness focus.
  • The project has been replicated in Stratford Upon Avon, with local distinctions and some shared resources.

To learn more about this project and how to help vulnerable people in Leamington please visit: www.meaningfulchange.org.uk/leamington/