The purpose of this page is to keep local people in Aireborough updated on community development, social enterprises and community events - as well as to explore new ideas for designing a better place to live and work. Aireborough Neighbourhood Development Forum 2. Aireborough Civic Society
Both are voluntary organizations working to help revitalise and regenerate the community assets and spirit of Guiseley, Yeadon, Hawksworth, High Royds, and Nether Yeadon. The Forum is officially designated to fund, produce and manage the Aireborough Neighbourhood Development Plan and undertake other community tasks associated with Localism, by facilitating community involvement in the development and planning process - thereby helping the local community to shape the place they live. The Forum works with Council for the Protection of Rural England. Aireborough Civic Society aims to make the area more attractive and distinctive, preserve Aireborough's heritage and engender civic pride. Both organizations are non party political, and work closely with all elected representatives in Aireborough and a range of community groups. Both have researched and represented the views of Aireborough people in a number of public hearings and with Local Government and Government Organizations eg Department of Communities and Local Government. Details of the Forum can be found on the website aireboroughnf.com; membership is open to anyone who lives, or works, or does business in the area. Chair Mrs Jennifer Kirkby
Details of the Civic Society can be found on the website aireboroughcivicsociety.org.uk, and membership is open to anyone who pays the annual fee. Chair Mr Clive Woods
Both organizations run regular events including talks, walks, festivals, workshops for urban design, and Pop-Up events to help inform local people about the history and development of the area. Volunteers also get involved in funding and supporting local projects to do with better placemaking from litter picking and planting - to landscape surveys and research.
