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Tag: community engagement
Your Voluntary Sector Forum: let’s talk
What with ongoing funding uncertainty and major council reorganisation, there’s lots to talk about. The local Voluntary Sector Forum offers third sectors groups a chance to join together to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead (writes EVOC’s June Dickson):
EVOC works directly with Voluntary Sector Forums. These groups link to the Neighbourhood Partnerships, & facilitate communication and planning among the voluntary sector organisations that operate within each local area. They fit within and feed back into the Neighbourhood Partnership structure.
However, the Forums are invaluable to third Sector representatives as they also:
- Provide a Forum for Peer Support
- Share issues of concern, information and knowledge
- Take a collective approach to challenges and opportunities
- Promote Third Sector Engagement with Neighbourhood Partnerships
and Community Planning
An example of how the Forums are a vehicle to work co-productively with partners, especially in terms of Community Planning, has been the schedule of meetings through the various Forums in Edinburgh where the CEC Transformation Team have attended and presented the Plans for Transformation and Localities to Third Sector organisations within each Locality. These meetings have proved invaluable in terms of informing the Third Sector and other partners, as to the changes being planned whilst also providing a consultation opportunity with Third Sector and a line of communication providing feedback on concerns and challenges as well as opportunities.
The Agendas of each Forum are driven and decided by Forum members to ensure topics pertinent to a particular area are being addressed and discussed.
Find upcoming meeting dates and meeting papers for the Forth and Inverleith Voluntary Sector Forum page:
If you require any further information please contact June Dickson: june.dickson@evoc.org.uk or call 0131 555 9114.
Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre AGM tomorrow
Wednesday 2 December 7pm
Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre AGM
Are you interested in being more active in your local community and shaping the future of your Neighbourhood Centre?
Drylaw Telford Community Association is looking for local people to join the Centre’s management committee.
Come along to the meeting tomorrow evening to find out more – and there are refreshments and bingo after the meeting too!
Change is coming … on Tuesday!
OPEN SPACE EVENT
Tuesday 1 December 6 – 9pm
McDonald Road Library
Trinity Community Council: November update
Twenty folk attended TCC on 9 November. Here’s an update … Continue reading Trinity Community Council: November update
Pilton Community Health Project AGM
Pilton Community Health Project Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 1 December from 2 – 3.30pm, PCHP Office Boswall Parkway
Bright Nights: Get Involved!
If you are interested in getting involved, let us know by calling, emailing or by popping in to see us:
MAKING REFLECTIVE ACCESSORIES & PROPS
Don Bosco @ Craigroyston Community High School
Wednesdays 18th & 25th November 5.30-7.00pm
Ages 8 – 12 (up to P7)
MYDG Arts Hub @ North Edinburgh Arts
Thursdays 12th & 19th November 6.00-8.00pm
Ages 12 – 18 (from S1)
Saturday Arts @ North Edinburgh Arts
Saturday 14th & 21st November
Age 5 – 8: 10.30-11.30
Age 8 – 12: 11.40-12.30
PERFORMANCE
Saturday Dance @ North Edinburgh Arts
Saturday 14th & 21st November
Age 5 – 8: 11.40-12.30
Age 8 – 12: 10.30-11.30
Flash-mob workshops @ North Edinburgh Arts
Perform together using our reflective props for cool effects
All ages.
Tuesday 24th @ North Edinburgh Arts
3.30 – 5.30 (book in for 3.30 or 4.30 start)
Thursday 26th@ North Edinburgh Arts
3.30 – 6.00 (book in for a 3.30 or 4.30 start)
Dance instructor Hayley MacDonald will stay with participants for the event to support their flash-mob performances.
These are drop in workshops open to everyone. If you have made a prop in a school workshop, please book ahead by calling North Edinburgh Arts so that we can make sure that the props you made at your school workshop are ready there for you.
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS ON THE NIGHT
Painting With Light
with Kenny Bean
5.45 – 6.30
6.40 – 7.20
7.30 – 8.15
Take away a print of your best photo(s)!
Drylaw Telford Community Association AGM
Wednesday 2 December at 7pm in Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre
You are invited to the Drylaw Telford Community Association Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 2 December at 7pm in Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre (off Groathill Road North). Continue reading Drylaw Telford Community Association AGM
Inverleith by numbers
Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership
Monday 16 November 6.30 – 8.30pm, Blackhall Library
All welcome – for further information call 0131 529 5050 or email elaine.lennon@edinburgh.gov.uk
Edinburgh Tenants Federation celebrates 25 years
Holyrood reception marks ETF’s special year
Edinburgh Tenants Federation (ETF) celebrated their 25th Anniversary with a Parliamentary Reception hosted by MSP Sarah Boyack on Wednesday evening.
Edinburgh Tenants Federation, which has a membership of over 40 tenants and residents groups across the city, was congratulated on its 25th Anniversary by the MSP.
ETF members old and new joined in the celebrations along with representatives from the Tenants Information Service, Blackwood Homes and Care, the International Association for Community Development (IACD), Shakti Women’s Aid and Inverkeithing Community Initiative. MSPs Gordon MacDonald and Alison Johnstone also joined the celebrations.
The event featured contributions from Sarah Boyack MSP, Convenor Betty Stevenson and Vice Convenor Maud Wylie, who said that the success of ETF could not have been achieved without the determination and commitment of the tenant volunteers. Councillor Cammy Day talked of the work that Edinburgh City Council and ETF have collaborated on over the years, in particular the successful tenant-led inspections.
Sarah Boyack MSP said: “The work of the Federation over the years has been fantastic. It has been great to see the work that has been done supporting tenants with mental ill health and campaigning for fairer rents. I was very encouraged to hear that the Federation are already working with the Syrian community in helping the refugees coming to settle in to the city.”
ETF Convener Betty Stevenson said: “Thanks to Sarah for hosting this event for us; it was wonderful to see so many people supporting the work of the Federation. Thanks to all those who have been involved over the years, here’s to the next 25!”
Thursday was the final day of ETF’s Parliamentary Exhibition and Housing Minister Margaret Burgess (above) was among the MSPs and staff to view photos and news stories dating back to the 1980’s and the Federation’s formation in October 1990.