Are you a neighbourly type of person? do you speak to your neighbours? Unfortunately, it is very common for neighbours to be living in the same street or neighbourhood and they’re not talking to each other. We all have busy lives, so much to do, there’s work, bringing families up, social live, health, education and school to say the least.
Barriers to talking to each other can include language, multiple and mixed-race neighbours.
It is often forgotten that everyone will automatically have something in common with each other, they share the same street, roads access, bin collection services,
public services, streetlights and sadly all hit by the same criminal were numbers of properties or vehicles area attacked. 
Neighbourhood Watch, its what we all do in our daily lives, as we walk from our home to the street or road outside, we can see the public space, we can see who is about. Walking the dog, taking children to the park or just popping to the shops we are instinctively looking where we are going. Ensuring our short journey is a safe one. Later in the day we will come home from work to the same neighbourhood, the same streets, parking spot, all the time watching the space just in front of us. So, neighbourhood watch is what we all do whether a member of an official Neighbourhood Watch or not. So simply be registering as a group of neighbours who all agree to do the same thing you become a touch organised and effective in keeping your streets safer by reporting concerns, anti-social behaviour, keeping an eye on vulnerable neighbours and taking at least the basic crime prevention measures.
There is a long list of advantages with being a member of neighbourhood watch, feeling a connection to the community, not having to live in isolation and sharing problems affecting the neighbours are but a few.
So, the first thing to do is register yourself as a neighbourhood watch member and be part of the Peterborough Neighbourhood Watch Association- register on ourwatch.org.uk
You can contact your area neighbourhood watch coordinator who should be able to supply you with some leaflets to help connect with your prospective neighbour members.  Look for the links and contacts on this website.
The next thing to do is speak to neighbours, four is the minimum but talk to more if you can. There is no rush do this in your own time. We know that different people have varying levels of confidence when making that contact with a neighbour they have never met before. Many will use the Members Guide leaflet as a talking point. Find out what concerns your neighbours have about safety in the area, where they live and whether they feel isolated and connected with other neighbours. Often calling at doors when there is two of you can give you more confidence and generate constructive and helpful conversations.
Make use of the many Guides available on this website to help you deal with or overcome any barriers to building a neighbour network. The key at this stage is to help each other out e.g., one person door knocks one side of street one the other, one talks to neighbours the other sources some leaflets. As you go along get each neighbour to register onto the Ourwatch website as a member of the neighbourhood watch and part of your group.   Neighbours don’t have to live next door to each other, some can live down the road and some around the corner. Do remember it’s the neighbour connection that makes it into a neighbourhood.  Also if a householder is not interested then perhaps they may consider at a later date.
Assuming your registered as a new neighbourhood watch you should get a visit for one of the Associations Action Group members who will be an experienced coordinator. This is to get to know each other, check out that you have all your questions answered and of course welcome you to the Association.