Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership
Public Meeting
Monday 25 May 6.30pm
Blackhall Library
Come along to the Inverleith NP meeting on Monday at Blackhall Library!
If crime is an issue for you, please come and hear what’s being done and what you can do to reduce risks!
Local crime and Raeburn Place issues on the agenda
The next public meeting of the Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership takes place next Monday 25 May at Blackhall Library from 6.30pm. Agenda and papers are now available online and can be found here.
If you have concerns about crime / housebreaking in your neighbourhood, come hear from Inspector Happs about some of the work that is taking place to tackle this.
Also, Raeburn Place: what are your views on traffic / waste / street furniture, etc ? Come and share them!
Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership’s small community grants fund is available again this year to support small, one-off projects. Proposed projects should show how they help progress one of our four key priorities and any group that is constituted and has a bank account can apply.
We have £26301 to allocated this year and welcome applications now for our meeting on 25 May. Other applications can be assessed and decided at future meetings.
Please click here for guidance and application form.
North Neighbourhood Partnership is taking forward the Youth Talk initative as part of ‘Engaging Young People’ priority identified in both Inverleith and Forth Neighourhood Partnerships’ community plans. Youth Talk, originally developed in Liberton/Gilmerton where it was well-received, gives young people an opportunity to talk about facilities, activities and services in their local area.
It has now been launched in the Craigroyston Community High School, Royal High School and Broughton High School, where pupils were asked to vote/rate their local services. The results will be collated after the Easter break and the young people will then be gathered to map out their suggestions and discuss these in more detail.
It is intended that the outcome of the Youth Talk initiative will inform future service development and third sector commissioning. For more information contact info@totalcraigroyston.co.uk or scott.donkin@edinburgh.gov.uk
Government beefs up Community Empowerment Bill to encourage community participation in decision-making
More community involvement in the decisions of public bodies will strengthen democracy, according to Community Empowerment Minister Marco Biagi .
A change to the Community Empowerment Bill, agreed by the Local Government and Regeneration Committee last week, encourages public bodies to promote and facilitate participation with people and communities in decision making and budget setting.
The move follows huge participation in last year’s independence referendum.
Ministers will also have powers to require public bodies to engage if they fail to do so.
Speaking at the Community Development Alliance Scotland conference in Glasgow earlier this week, Mr Biagi said: “Involving people and communities in decision-making unquestionably makes for better decisions.
“As the referendum demonstrated, people will get involved when they understand the issues at stake and know that they can make a difference. It’s my job to ensure that enthusiasm continues and make it clear that people know their voice matters.
“Participation is about more than consulting, it is about empowering communities to shape decisions and have a say on how ideas are delivered.
“18 Scottish councils have taken up the Government’s offer of training and support for participatory budgeting projects, giving communities the chance to have their say on local budgets. That helps build community capacity while ensuring the public sector understands local needs and priorities and can target budgets more effectively to improve services.
“More participation brings fresh perspectives, strengthens democracy and will help build a fairer Scotland.”
Fiona Garven, Chair of Community Development Alliance Scotland said: “CDAS welcomes the changes to the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill which will pave the way for communities to be involved in meaningful decisions about how public money is spent.
“We are encouraged that the legislation will also require processes to be put in place to support communities and community organisations to engage with public bodies to raise awareness of local issues and to contribute to more effective shaping and delivery of local services.
“Such support will be important to encourage the involvement of a diverse range of communities in local democratic processes and achieve a rebalance of power across all sections of Scottish society.”
More and more local and national governments have come to the view that engaging with citizens and planning, purchasing and delivering services at a ‘sub-local’ or ‘localities’ level is the way to add value.
In Edinburgh the City of Edinburgh Council has agreed a localities way of working, with the city divided into four quadrants, or localities, as described in the Council’s ‘Organise to Deliver’ reports.
Simultaneously, there is a drive within the legislation covering the integration of Adult Health with Social Care that services will be designed and delivered closer to communities.
What does this mean for Edinburgh? What does this mean for the city’s Voluntary Organisations? What are your hopes and your fears? What are your expectations of EVOC?
EVOC intends to bring organisations together to consider current plans, and their implications for our communities, by means of a series of four thinkSpace events spread across the city.
This comes out to you as a request to ‘save the date’ to attend the event within the locality most relevant to your service provision:
SOUTH WEST
Tuesday 21 April 2 – 4.30pm, WHALE Arts
NORTH EAST
Thursday 30 April 10am – 12.30pm, The Halls
SOUTH EAST/CENTRAL
Wednesday 6 May 10am – 12.30pm, Methodist Church
NORTH WEST
Monday 11 May 2 – 4.30pm, Royston/Wardieburn Community Centre.
If you have any comments or queries, please don’t hesitate to contact Dianne Morrison on 0131 555 9100 in the first instance.
EVOC will continue to publish relevant documents on its ‘Organise To Deliver’ page:http://www.evoc.org.uk/information/organise-deliver-bold-initiatives/
Milind Kolhatkar
senior development officer – community planning
Can you please take a couple of minutes to complete the survey linked below? Many thanks to those who have responded already …
The Forth and Inverleith Voluntary Sector Forum would like to carry out a short survey to ascertain what day and time best suits the majority for the Forth and Inverleith VSF meetings.
Can you please take a couple of minutes to complete? We want to ensure that we are having these meetings at a time most convenient for the majority.
Many thanks
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7WLVMS2
Compact Partnership – The Next Ten Years: Time for Action
Help us shape a forward strategy for the Edinburgh Compact Partnership – to help make YOUR ambitions reality.
Ten years since the launch of the Edinburgh Compact Partnership, we are developing a new forward strategy – to enable the Third Sector and the Public Sector to grow Social Value together. Join us for a panel discussion to consider the draft strategy and how the Compact Partnership might support your work for the next ten years.
Find more information and book your place now.
Compact: The Next 10 Years
Take this opportunity to have a say on an early draft of the new Edinburgh Compact Partnership Strategy at this panel discussion with input from Shulah Allan, David Jack and Geoff Pearson.
Over the last 5 months, Compact 10 have consulted with over 120 Third Sector organisations to hear their hopes for the future, and their view of Compact’s role in this future. This event is your chance to see how the new strategy is shaping up, and have your views on it heard.
This will be the premier Edinburgh Compact Partnership annual event, which will open up the work of the Partnership for discussion with Edinburgh’s Third Sector.
We think the strategy reflects our shared ambitions, but come and see what YOU think.
Date: Tuesday 3 March 2015, 5-8pm
Venue: King Khalid Symposium Hall, Hill Square, EH8 9DS
Contact Sarah Wade (sarah.wade@evoc.org.uk) for more details or click here to book your place.
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Come join us on Monday at Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership at Blackhall Library, 6.30pm, on Monday (23 February).
Hear about ‘Edinburgh Living Landscapes’ and have a say in creating, restoring and connecting green areas of the city. There will also be a presentation on local roads and pavements budgets – come find out how much we have and how we decide where it gets spent!
Finally, see a display of plans for Fet-Lor Youth Club’s new building, Drylaw Skatepark, and hear decisions by Board on our Community Grants Fund applications.
We’d love to see you! Full papers are now available here: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeting/3608/inverleith_neighbourhood_partnership
Elaine Lennon, Partnership Development Officer
City of Edinburgh Council – Services for Communities
8 West Pilton Gardens, Edinburgh, EH4 4DP
Tel: 0131 529 5270
Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership
Monday 23 February 6.30 -8.30pm, Blackhall Library
You are warmly invited to the next meeting of the Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership. The main theme for this meeting is ‘Edinburgh Living Landscapes’ where you can have a say in identifying potential areas to be part of this project to create, restore and connect green areas of the city, making attractive and biodiverse landscapes to be enjoyed by residents and visitors.
There will also be a presentation on local roads and pavements budgets – come find out how much we have and how we decide where it gets spent!
Also, come and see a display of plans for Fet-Lor Youth Club’s new building and hear decisions by Board on our Community Grants Fund applications.
We’d love to see you and full papers will be available in advance of meeting by following this link:
The meeting will take place on
Monday 23 February at Blackhall Library, 6.30 – 8.30pm.
Elaine Lennon, Partnership Development Officer
Tel: 0131 529 5270
