The Next Stage
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If you want to start a scheme, decide on the area to be covered.
There are no hard and fast rules over the number of homes involved, although on average, it tends to be between 10 and 20 houses. The size is entirely up to the Co-ordinator as he or she is the one that will probably have to visit every house house several times!
The first job is to canvass your neighbours to see if there is sufficient interest. If you have a good response, contact your Watch Scheme Administrator to arrange an evening for him or her to give a talk to everyone. The meeting can be in a local hall, school or in someone's front room. You may not be able to fix a date to suit everyone; just arrange the meeting with the Watch Scheme Administrator and he or she will give you invitation cards to pop through letterboxes.
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You will probably have a hundred questions about Home Watch:
Does it cost anything? (no,unless you want street signs)
How do we get street signs?
How do I mark property? And so on.
The Watch Scheme Administrator will explain all this at the meeting, so don't worry ~ you've completed the hardest part!
Set up meetings usually take about an hour ~ where possible the Watch Scheme Administrator will be accompanied by your Community Beat Officer.
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