Garioch Community Planning News

Community Asset Register

AN army of volunteers who own boats and 4x4s are offering to mobilise to protect and support their communities – in a unique partnership with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS).

Members of rural communities who have access to private vehicles that can be used to cross water or negotiate rough and rural terrain have signed up to a Community Asset Register (CAR).

They also have a range of specialist skills such as mountain rescue.

And those volunteers can now be quickly identified through CAR which is operated and activated by Operations Control at times of significant emergency to enhance a full SFRS response.

The register will also be available to SFRS’ emergency service and local authority partners.

Volunteers who wish to offer their support should register an interest with SFRS.CommunityAssetRegister@firescotland.gov.uk. 

Council seeks residents' views on how to recycle more - the Big Recycling Challenge

Aberdeenshire residents are being asked to take part in the Big Recycling Challenge by giving their views on the council’s recycling and waste services to help recycle more materials and send less to landfill.
The online survey is open now and will run until the end of February.

Tackling social isolation and loneliness and building stronger social connections
Read the Scottish Government's Draft Strategy which is out for consultation
access the consultation document here
Several consultation events have been planned by the Scottish Government to engage with people of all ages and backgrounds and gather their feedback on the draft strategy. As there was no event planned for Grampian, Befriending Networks has teamed up with the NHS Grampian Public Health team and Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action to run a consultation event in:
Garioch Heritage Cenre
on
Wednesday 21^st March
11am – 1pm
 Professionals, volunteers, service users and people of all ages and backgrounds are encouraged to come along and add their voice to the consultation on this extremely important piece of work.
You can register for the event (via Eventbrite) here: Inverurie event

Aberdeenshire LEADER 

Do Something Different - Farm Diversification in Aberdeenshire

Wednesday 21st February 2018

18.30 - 20.45

Lochter, Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire

Follow us on twitter @EconDevAbshire for updates.

Scottish Community Development Centre is about to go on tour!

SCDC are planning to deliver ten community-focused workshops across Scotland on participation requests, and we're asking interested community and voluntary organisations to help...
Participation requests are part of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act and enable community bodies to start a dialogue with public service authorities about how to improve outcomes. An accessible introduction to participation requests can be read here.
SCDC would like to ask interested organisations in the community and voluntary sector to help us to host a workshop on participation requests for community organisations in their area. This would mainly involve helping us in terms of finding a suitable venue and promoting the event to as many local groups as possible.
They are hoping to arrange workshops between February and June 2018.
If you are interested in helping to host a workshop, please contact Andrew Paterson at SCDC on 0141 222 4837 or email andrew@scdc.org.uk.)

·         New Scottish Rural Action website - https://www.sra.scot/
 

New website launched by DWP
https://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/
 

Nominations for the AVA Awards 2018 open on 12^th February 2018 and will close on Friday 6^th April 2018.  Nominations will be assessed by the panel in early April, with winners presented with their Awards at  the AVA Conference on 30^th April.  This year there are five Award categories:
 

• Outstanding Volunteer
• Top Team
• Community Impact
• Inspirational Leader
• Innovation

for nomination forms see www.avashire.org.uk

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