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CTDU December 2007 to January 2008!

News about our BIG application

Board of Directors meetings

Farewell Rosemary!

BIG NEWS

At CTDU we recently carried out research into the training opportunities for community members to help them to participate in Community Health Partnerships, Community Regeneration Boards and Community Planning Partnerships. The research was funded by the Big Lottery's Investing in Ideas Fund.

The first stage of our study involved asking people who are representing their communities to fill in a short questionnaire, to find out if they'd had training on any of the following:- Meeting Skills, Assertiveness skills, Speaking in front of groups, Note taking, Listening skills, The role of a community representative, Constructive debating skills, Making sense of budgets

The second stage of our research involved speaking to a number of people who responded to the first stage questionnaire in more depth about their training needs.

The information we collected during our research has formed the basis of our outline proposal to the Big Lottery's Investing in Communities fund for a new project which we've called 'The Reps Factor'.

A BIG "thank you" to the many people who participated in this stage of our research.

'The Reps Factor'

The Big Lottery liked our outline proposal, and have invited us to submit a full application to their Dynamic Inclusive Communities Fund.

A spanner in the works is that the Big Lottery have announced a review of their Dynamic Inclusive Communities fund to ensure that the projects it funds meet their set outcomes and have the biggest impact.

This means that we will not hear whether our application is successful or not until mid-October 2008!

This is devastating news for small organisations like CTDU that don't have the financial resources to survive without project funding. We we are currently looking to the local CVS's and SCVO to appeal to the Big Lottery on our behalf to bring this date forward.

Click here to email us support about our Big Lottery application.

CTDU's Board of Directors

CTDU's Board of Directors are elected annually at our Annual General Meeting. Directors retire every year, but are immediately eligible for re-election. Directors for 2007 - 2008 are:

Alison Black (Company Secretary)
Roni Fleming (Vice-Chair)
Carey Sinclair (Treasurer)
Lorraine Kane (Chair)
Colin Taylor
Finlay Robertson

The directors and staff will participate in a Development Day at Bothkennar with external facilator Duncan Wallace from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on Thursday, 17th January 2008. The objectives of the day are to:

Identify and map the positioning of CTDU in relation to other organisations
Analyse the relationships to identify negotiation synergies
Develop messages and negotiation strategies

The next Business meeting of our Board will be on Monday 28th January 2008 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.

Venue: Bothkennar Centre for Citizen Education.

Farewell to Rosemary!

Staff, directors, students and friends gathered together on Friday, 14th December to say farewell to Rosemary who is leaving CTDU in January 2008 after 15 years. A huge thank you Rosemary for your commitment and dedication to CTDU. We will miss you dearly.

Hi, Rosemary here. I want to say A BIG THANK YOU to everyone at CTDU for giving me such a great send off, for all the cards and presents I received, and for the personal messages you all recorded on DVD. I will miss you all very much, and will probably cry every time I watch the DVD. Make sure you send me an invitation to the next AGM - I'll get it in my diary!
Take care, see you all soon. xx

Participatory Action Research

CTDU members with a history of mental health problems carried out a Participatory Action Research project in 2006. Their aim is to create awareness of the needs of people with mental health problems, so that their experiences can be considered in policy making, to improve services at a local level and build working relationships with local services.

A written report of the research findings and recommendations is available. Phone 01324 832040 or email and we'll send you a copy in the post.



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"CTDU: It does what it says on the tin" A review of CTDU's recent Volunteers' Mentoring Project is available on DVD and in a written report both called "CTDU: It does what it says on the tin" Phone 01324 832040, or email Fiona or Rosemary.

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