Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership to meet on 30 January

The next meeting of Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership will take place on Monday 30 January at 6.30pm in Stockbridge Church, Saxe Coburg Street. Continue reading Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership to meet on 30 January

Have your say on locality priorities

There’s still time to complete our Locality Improvement Plan survey and tell us what your priorities are: everyone who lives in, visits or works in the North West area can now help shape what the LIP should focus on.

The link below will take you to a brief questionnaire where you are asked to identify what you feel is important to you, your family and your neighbours:

https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/north-west-lip

Take a break … and help form LIP!

Christmas shopping all done? Presents all wrapped? Tired of listening to Slade and Wizzard? Then why not spend ten minutes helping to identify what your North West Locality should be like in 5 years time! Continue reading Take a break … and help form LIP!

Today: Setting priorities for new Localities

FORTH & INVERLEITH VOLUNTARY SECTOR FORUM

Friday 2 December 11am – 1pm

North Edinburgh Arts

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets this afternoon

Forth Neighbourhood Partnership

Public Meeting

At 2pm on Wednesday 30^th November 2016

City of Edinburgh Council North Office

8 West Pilton Gardens

EH4 4DP

The main focus of the meeting will be current and planned Transport Planning across the area – and how this links with local regeneration activity. Continue reading Forth Neighbourhood Partnership meets this afternoon

And more on Localities ….

More opportunities to have your say in Forth and Inverleith

Work is now well underway in shaping the new 2017 – 2022 Locality Improvement Plan for North West Edinburgh and it’s important that you can tell us what you think needs to happen in the next five years (writes Elaine Lennon).

We are focusing on the themes of Place; Health & Social Care; Community Safety; Children, young people and families; and Employment. Some of you might have been involved already but you might have something else you think you wish to add to the process.

You can do this online by clicking on this link. Simply go to the North West link and thinking of the themes above, let us have your thoughts on how things should be in 2022. We will gather in all of the comments and look to see where there are similarities and then we will ask the communities of North West to rank those statements to help identify the future priorities. If you prefer, you can attend one of these focus groups to give us your views:

Health – An Inverleith specific focus group is on TODAY Monday 28^th Nov, 2.30-4pm at LifeCare
Children & Young People – A joint Forth / Inverleith focus group looked at services for Children and Young People and a second one is planned on Tuesday to look specifically at Support to families and parenting- on Tuesday 29^th Nov, West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre 10-12.
Place – A final Inverleith specific event will be held in Stockbridge Library on Monday 5^th Dec, 2-3.30pm where the main focus will be on ‘place’ – environment, parks etc.

We hope that you can either join us at one of the above focus groups, or give your views on the link above. Please distribute this link throughout your networks.

Thanks

Elaine

Help develop the new Locality Improvement Plan

Work is now underway in shaping the new 2017 – 2022 Locality Improvement Plan for North West Edinburgh and it’s important that you can tell us what you think needs to happen in the next 5 years.

We are focussing on the themes of:

Place;
Health & Social Care;
Community Safety;
Children, young people and families;
Employment.

Some of you might have been involved already but you might have something else you think you wish to add to the process. Using the link below, simply go to the North West link and thinking of the themes above, let us have your thoughts on how things should be in 2022.

We will gather in all of the comments and look to see where there are similarities and then we will ask the communities of North West to rank those statements to help identify the future priorities. May I ask if you would distribute this link throughout your networks.

https://edinburgh.dialogue-app.com/

Elaine Lennon, Partnership Development Officer

City of Edinburgh Council, Services for Communities, 8 West Pilton Gardens, Edinburgh, EH4 4DP

Tel: 0131 529 5270

northteam@edinburgh.gov.uk or Scott.donkin@edinburgh.gov.uk

Edinburgh: the Cooperative Capital?

Invite: Edinburgh the Cooperative Capital – The Big Look Back + The Big Look Forward

Friday 11 November 0930 – 1400

City Chambers, High Street

Cllr Andrew Burns and Cllr Frank Ross invite you to this chance to hear about the big success story involving cooperatives and cooperative working in Edinburgh. The conference will provide an opportunity to learn and reflect on the growth in cooperatives and social enterprises, cooperative working in schools, cooperative procurement, cooperative service re design, cooperative social responsibility and cooperative community engagement. The conference will also look at what are the next steps for this work, linking cooperative working to the City Vision 2050 and community planning.

This conference is open to anybody or organisation who has been involved in this work over the last four years.

Agenda:

0930 – 1000 – arrival, refreshments, registration, stalls

1000 – 1050 – key note speakers: Cllr Andrew Burns – reflections of four years of cooperative capital / Ed Mayo – UK Co-ops

1050 – 1100 – Getting ready for participant engagement!

1100 – 1200 – 1st round of participant workshops

1200 – 1230 – Lunch

1230 – 1330 – 2^nd round of participant workshops

1330 – 1400 – next steps – Cllr Frank Ross

https://youtu.be/-DwG1au1SFk

To attend please contact korstiaan.allan@edinburgh.gov.uk or Elizabeth.mcghee@edinburgh.gov.uk

Leith Links set for community council election – but local CCs fail to attract enough members

An election is to be held for membership of Leith Links Community Council due to the volume of nominations submitted, but it’s a different story for two local community councils: both Drylaw Telford and Muirhouse Salvesen CCs failed to attract sufficient nominations to reform.

The nomination process closed on 26 September and membership has now been confirmed for the city’s other community councils.

Continue reading Leith Links set for community council election – but local CCs fail to attract enough members

Learning to love Localities?

Forth & Inverleith Voluntary Sector Forum

Tuesday 11 October 9.30 – 11.30am

North Edinburgh Arts Centre

Next week’s Forth & Inverleith Voluntary Sector Forum will focus on Localities. What are Localities – and how will they affect your organisation?

What are Localities?

The City of Edinburgh Council and the Health and Social Care Partnership are moving to a locality model of working with a phased implementation from the start of April 2016 – July 2016. This is supported by the Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland.

There will be four localities in Edinburgh – details of the geography for each of these areas and the current voluntary sector forums that are in them can be found here.

Why the move to Localities?

Locality working is a legal requirement of the Health and Social Care Partnership and City of Edinburgh Council has decided to move to the same model, believing that this change will help the services deliver better outcomes through being less bureaucratic, more agile and innovative in approaches. Their need for cost savings through staff reductions have also reinforced this move. Police Scotland and the Fire and Rescue Service are supportive of the move and are aligning to the model.

There is an overall desired outcome that Edinburgh citizens will receive better co-produced services with the third sector as a key partner.

What does it mean for the Third Sector?

EVOC has held ThinkSpace events in each locality to update organisations and groups on locality working and to discuss how the third sector can be represented in localities. The papers relevant to each locality can be found under each locality.

Here are the notes gathered from the robust discussions at these events: Report from four Locality Think Space Events

Locality Leadership groups have been established for each locality with monthly meetings planned. As a result of the discussions the following immediate actions have resulted:

The Third Sector Lead will now be referred to as the Third Sector Representative
As well as EVOC staff representing the third sector at these meetings there will also be a Chair from one of the voluntary sector forums attending these meetings.
A session will be held at the next meeting where EVOC can report back from these ThinkSpaces.
EVOC is applying for support to support better communications across the third sector regarding locality working.

Influencing the locality leadership meetings can be done via the quarterly local Voluntary Sector Forums

To access information on a particular locality please click on the links below

WANT TO FIND OUT THE LATEST ON LOCALITIES?

Tuesday 11th October 2016, 9.30-11.30am – North Edinburgh Arts

‘Getting to know you’ event with the locality leadership team. All Third Sector organisations in the area are welcome to attend – and please be ready to talk about your project!

For further information please contact Denise Horn, email denise.horn@evoc.org.uk or call 555 9117.