- Policing priorities set by neighbourhood groups
- Participatory budgeting pilot rolled-out across Mansfield enabling local people to decide how local funds are spent
- Active citizenship programme introduced
- ‘Active Mansfield’ programme established co-ordinating community sports activity
- Inter Faith forum established
- Opening of the Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre
- Mansfield Neighbourhoods scoop the prizes at ‘Nottinghamshire Neighbourhood of the Year Awards’
- Funding was secured for the Council to build 44 new Council owned houses
- Mansfield, Ashfield and Newark & Sherwood District Councils adopted the joint Sherwood Forest Area Housing Strategy 2008 – 2018
- Funding was secured with partners to implement a pilot scheme to bring empty homes back into use
- Increased the number of decent homes owned by the Council and in the private sector