19-2-10
Rural Forum
The next Rural Forum will be on Thursday 25th March at High Ercall Village Hall at 7pm.
The Forum is looking for nominations for the role of Chair.
If anyone is interested please contact Caroline Oakes-Rural Locality Manager on caroline.oakes@telford.gov.uk
3-2-10
All rural organisations are invited to attend a FREE workshop about quality standards.
" QUALITY MATTERS " is an informal workshop about standards which are specifically aimed at volunteers involved with organising village community venues.
The training will take place on Friday 5th March 9.45-1.00.
Breakfast will be included.
Please have a look in TRAINING for further information and a booking form.
3-2-10
CVS has now released its Spring Training Programme please look at TRAINING in the menu.
21-12-09
The next Rural Forum will be held at Rodington Village Hall on Thursday 7th January between 7.30-9.00pm.
IF YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH A RURAL ORGAINISATION PLEASE COME ALONG AND JOIN US.
21-12-09
Dr Stuart Burgess the Rural Advocate will be visiting Telford on Tuesday 12th January. For more information please contact
caroline.oakes@telford.gov.uk
18-11-09
Dates for the New Year
The next Telford Village Hall gathering will be in February 2010.
It is planned to be a social/networking meeting.
Everyone is welcome venue and date will be confirmed nearer the time.
A quality standards information event is being planned to take place in February 2010 to help organisations gather information about sector appropriate quality standards.
Future funders and grant givers may prefer to award monies to organisations who have worked with processes which transparently display their committment to best practice.
The half day event will offer information about nationally recognised quality processes connected to venues,volunteers and voluntary organisations.
Everyone is welcome date and venue to be confirmed in the New Year.
If anyone has any queries about future events please contact Lois on 291350 or loisbreen@tandwcvs.org.uk
27-10-09
The next Village Hall Information event will be held at
Meeting Point House-Telford Town Centre on Wednesday 11th Novemeber from 2.30-4.30pm.
Please come along and join the group if you are in any way connected to your local village hall.
Gill Porter the Village Hall Advisor for Telford and Shropshire will be available for consultation about your village hall business.
26-10-09
Newport Partnership AGM
Will be held at Harper Adams in the Board Room on Tuesday 10th November at 7.30pm.
Rural Forum Meeting
The next Rural Forum meeting will take place on
TBC
If you would like to attend or would like further information please contact Caroline Oakes-Rural Locality Manager on caroline.oakes@telford.gov.uk
The Rural Improvement Programme
£1 MILLION allocated to improve the rural areas of Telford and Wrekin.
Andrew Eade Leader of Telford and Wrekin Council announced £1 million has been reserved to improve the infrastructure of ruralTelford and Wrekin.
The Rural Forum has an opportunity to set up a Rural Improvement Programme sub group which will be looking for volunteers to identify a plan to spend the money. The plan will then be presented to the Council for their approval.
If anyone is interested in being part of this group please contact caroline.oakes@telford.gov.uk
If anyone has items for the next Rural Forum meeting please contact Caroline Oakes on the email above.
28-8-09
Rural Forum Village Hall Sub group
The first meeting of the group was attended by 7 representatives from village venues.
The group came up with many ideas about how they would like to use meetings to benefit their work with the halls.
If you would like further information please contact Lois on loisbreen@tandwcvs.org.uk
Village Hall Information Events
CVS in Partnership with The Shropshire Village Hall Advisor will be travelling around Telford hosting village hall information sessions.
We would request that people book a place so that we can prepare information requests individually.
The events are as follows:-
Wed NOVEMBER 11th at Meeting Point House -Telford Town Centre at 2.30-4.30pm
Wed NOVEMBER 11th at Meeting Point House -Telford Town Centre at 2.30-4.30pm
Please contact Lois Breen on 01952 291350 or
loisbreen@tandwcvs.org.uk
with any comments/ queries/ to book events or additions for Rural News.
Rural Round-up-quarterly magazine
The Rural Round-up would like to attract some willing volunteers to act as its editorial group.
If you would like to volunteer or place an article in Rural Round-up please contact Caroline Oakes on
Rural Health Group
Please contact Vicki Pike for further information on
Training
There are various training opportunities in the area
which are downloadable below
- Training programme from the Community Council of Shropshire.
- Hallmark for village halls.
- Energy audit for community buildings.
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What has been happening ?
The Rural Forum
The Rural Forum now has some terms of reference.
The aim of the Forum is to bring together organisations from the public, private and voluntary/community sectors, and local residents, who are interested in working together to identify issues of common concern affecting rural communities across Telford and Wrekin and to develop and implement projects to the benefit of Telford and Wrekin's rural communities.
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The first Rural Forum took place on 17th Sept at Water's Upton Village Hall.
The event was well attended and the workshops gathered information about a number of rural issues.
Some of the information shared was
How Can We Work Better Together ?
The top 3 responses were
1. Communicate- using clear contact structures,use a concensus about what forum participants want and work together.
2. Resources- use local skills and knowledge to deliver services,pool resources,map volunteers and do a skills audit and identify possible funding.
3. Identify key priorities for actions-who needs to be involved,be creative and "think outside the box"
What Do We Want From a Rural Forum ?
1. Communication-not a talking shop,accountability,a strong rural voice,collective marketing, 2 way information.
2. Access to and engagement with expertise-sharing good practice and ideas to generate resources.
3. An opportunity to bring "like minded" people together.
What Are the Key Opportunities and Challenges in Rural Telford and Wrekin ?
1. Transport and traffic issues
2. Education provision issues
3. Planning and development of rural areas.
The top 3 issues from the above broad subjects were
1. A need for the representation of young people on the forum
2. A culture that rural residents "have to do it themselves" and urban areas get Council provision
3. The perception that crime and fear of crime are low level
Some ideas about how to improve working together were
- to research other rural fora
- to use electronic technology to communicate.
- to collate all activities available in all the village halls
- to use Parish Councils knowledge and expertise to get to know areas.
- to share resources
- to include a representative from each Parish/Town Council on the forum
- to work together to apply for funding
- to advocate a method of feedback from planners
- to provide a central point for Telford and Wrekin Council to communicate relevant information.
- to campaign about local rural issues
- to hold local information which would serve the community e.g bus times etc.
The Top Priorities were
The development of web site links
The importance of using local knowledge.
The discovery of rural funding schemes for Telford and Wrekin.
If you have any comments or would like further information about the Rural Forum developments please contact: caroline.oakes@telford.gov.uk