CVS North Projects

 

 

A Connected Voluntary Sector Voluntary sector organisations have a voice, are heard and are active partners in changing communities for the better.

 

  • Leader Development Plan response

 

 

 

 

  • Youth Development Scheme

To create a North West Sutherland youth experience and establish a community youth exchange program.

Cvs North proposed 3 year youth programme for North West Sutherland

Our proposal is to develop the idea and prepare a plan with costings and run a pilot venture by commissioning  or employing  an officer to write a business plan to expand the idea with details regarding the area, the facilities, the possible scheme of diverse programmes involving the youths, community youth workers and Youth Development Officers of the Highland Council. We will work closely with the North West Highland Geopark and the community based social enterprise Mackay Country. This would recognize the varied themed activities that could be coordinated and coherently combined to create up to two week long activities providing a range of social and educational actions exploiting the locality and integrated into the cultures and traditions of the area. We would plan to use many facilities’ and events already occurring identified and matched to potential incorporated schemes. Examples of this are heritage schemes, art digital and conventional, outdoor adventure, music and producing draft programmes of these to distribute and market through youth networks

THRIVE

CONNECT

Year 1- 2008

Secure funding for community youth workers, Tongue, Bettyhill and Kinlochbervie as Durness 2008 – 2011.

Consult and identify transport around the area.

Seek sources of funding for youth exchanges

Identify training needs and arrange delivery

Identifying with the young people their interests and aspirations through youth workers

Sutherland wide youth activity

Leadership training to accompany young people abroad

Contact youth groups through Princes trust and others developing associations in urban UK and abroad

Finding funds and working with funding programmes through the Highland Council Youth Development workers and others to fund specific interest schemes long and short term.

YEAR 2- 2009

Improve and expand local facilities

Ensure longevity of the community youth works

 

Involving youth groups in planned Mackay country, Cape Wrath Challenge and festival for year of home coming activities.

 Regular interaction between community youth groups

Instigation of specific interest projects using local facilities and groups where available and developing others where absent e.g.

  • Arts

  • Drama 

  • Music

  • Sport

  • Trips detailed for visits and ready to host visiting groups.

YEAR 3 – 2010

 

Dedicated youth worker provision with good accommodation and facilities and secure future for continued youth development throughout the area with appropriate transport facilities between communities.

 

Regular and a planned programme of trips and activities including visits in and out of the UK.

Young people see the benefit of involvement in a structured and interesting movement of security for the spectrum of ages in youths.
  • Sutherland Summit

 

  • Economic Impact study for North west Sutherland in relation to care for the elderly

    STEVE WESTBROOK ECONOMIST Has been commissioned  to carry out a study on the role of the Assynt Centre in Lochinver and Caladh Sona in Talmine in care provision in West and North Sutherland, and the scope for these facilities to be developed to play a continuing role in the future. The work that would be involved in research, analysis and report production below.

     the study will encompass:

     

    • A review of the benefits currently provided by the two facilities within their catchment areas – in terms of health care, social role and economic impact.

     

    • Consideration of the wider context of current provision and the future plans of Highland Council, NHS Highland and the Highland Community Care Partnership between the two agencies.

     

    • Identification of future needs and options for the provision of day care, short stay medical beds, home care and respite care for the communities of West and North Sutherland.

     

    • An economic and social cost benefit analysis of the principal options (as available cost information allows).

     

    The work would involve:

    • Initial briefing from representatives of the two communities and other relevant parties.

     

    • Accessing and reviewing key documentation – including reports by the Highland Community Care Partnership and the North West Sutherland Local Health Partnership.

     

    • Consideration of the findings of the community surveys carried out in the catchment areas of the two facilities.

     

    • A review of Highland Council’s Capital Plan.

     

    • A demographic analysis of the future population of the area (which will include a higher proportion of elderly people).

     

    • Liaison with the two communities on the facilities that they would like to see within redeveloped buildings, the services that might be provided, and how the facilities might operate.

     

    • Producing indicative capital and revenue costings for redeveloped facilities, and comparing these with alternative provision.

     

    • Providing a draft report for comment prior to a final report.

     

    My estimate of the time requirement for the above would be 8 days in professional fees and 4 assistant days – excluding visits to the two communities.