November 2007 - Website wins award
The Parish Council website recently received the Award for Best Parish and Town
Council Website in Hampshire at a Ceremony arranged as part of the Annual General
Meeting of the Hampshire Association of Parish and Town Councils. The website,
designed and maintained by Jane Bonnin as a contribution to the Hook Community,
was congratulated for achieving the aims that Jane sets out below.
The photograph shows Parish Council Chairman Antony Hunter and Webmaster Councillor
Jane Bonnin with the Award.
Jane Bonnin writes:
"Hook Parish Council's website was born in January 1997. Hampshire County Council
had announced that they would provide free web hosting for Parish Councils, just
as I had learnt how to write web pages. Thus we became one of the first few
Parish Councils in Hampshire - and the first in Hart - to have a web site.
Indeed, we actually had a site running before Hart District Council did!
Over the years the site has grown, but the overriding principle has been to keep
it simple, easy to navigate and easy to keep up to date. I've also attempted to
put on the site not only information about the Council, but about the community
that it serves. Thus there's a scrapbook of past events, some village history
and an old aerial photo - in addition to the Parish Council's Annual Report,
Accounts, Minutes and forthcoming Agendas. More items are added as the material
becomes available.
New challenges are on the horizon for government and local authority websites,
which are supposed to meet the e-government accessibility guidelines. These
allow people with disabilities (for example, poor eyesight) to access the pages
using special software that makes them easier to read. Modification of our pages
to meet the new standard is already well advanced.
My next target is to make the site updateable by our Clerks and Councillors, so
that I don't have to do it all!"
The web site is at
www.hook.gov.uk
and a version of the site from 1998 can be seen
here.
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October 2005 - The Base
Hook’s successful Youth Club "The Base" has received Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s
Youth
Options Youth Club of the Year award, in recognition of the fact that it runs 6 different
youth groups 5 nights a week, is staffed by volunteers and has an extremely high attendance of young
people. Youth Centre Manager Eileen Johnson said. "We run a busy and varied programme of
activities for the young people to participate in. Our success is down to all our volunteers,
parents and the young people themselves who give us so much support."
Parish Council Chairman Antony Hunter commented "We have long regarded
The Base as a highly successful and special place and this wonderful recognition by Hampshire is so
very well deserved."
Pictured with their award are Eileen Johnson (Youth Centre Manager), Danielle Mercure
(Year 8), Paul Thorp (Thursday Base leader), Georgina Ward (Year 8), Tom Mercer, who also received
an award for winning the Photography competition, Serina Spink (Year 8) and Base Chairman Neil Evans.
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