Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Attendees:
− Will Golding, Sally Swann, David Buchan, Georgia March, David Hurst, Karen Carrick,
Moira Stevenson
− Apologises from Chris Macefield, John Knox, Anna Danby, Hugo Whittaker, John Palmer ,
Ron Brown, Simon Beames, Norma Hart and Andy Hunter who could not make it.
− Draw up a clear and succinct 2 page plan to send to the council estates department by
Tuesday 26th at the latest (with accompanying appendices showing official notes of support,
use, membership and official documentation)..
− If this is successful – to then develop this into a full business plan and proposal to send as a
funding application to the Big Lottery Investing In Ideas and Growing community Assets
grant funding stage 1, both simultaneously.
− To continue to gather more members, official notes of support and interest, and clear
commitments of future usage from possible partners and groups.
− To form an official charitable status using the constitution and group structure already
established.
− Prepare a presentation and proposal to take to neighbourhood partnership and community
council meetings regarding BIG and the renovation project.
The Plan:
Action: Contact The Link, The Evening News and the Craigmillar Chronicle to create greater
awareness and to try to gather support and more potential users.
Action: Making connections with the Inch Park Pavilion project and Community Sports Club
Action: Find out more from about who and how cookery classes could run. i.e. what the kitchen
would need incorporated and what extra running costs there would be, and who would run and
come to the classes.
Action: Need to identify a commitment of possible usage for different groups or people, so we
have a rough idea of the use and function and financial sustainability of the property if renovation
was to take place.
Action: Collect together and document different quotations and testimonies of what people would
like to see and why.
Action: Write up comments from membership form into documentation of people's views and
preferences.
Action: Meet with the Inch Community Council and Liberton Community Council, and with the
Liberton/Gilmerton Neighbourhood Partnership and the Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership to
present proposals and work out ways they could best work with the local people and council
services in that area, addressing those needs.
Action: Try to attain more information and statistics on local needs and councils reports on this
and services provided.
− Local groups and organisations needs (and how they've been identified):
− Enable have suggested they need more space, the Inch is always full and that this could
help with their work and having a base to connect the know how with the practice
− Bridgend Growing Communities would still lke to see their original ideas developed.
− Richmond cafe would like to work in collaboration.
− Contacted (on top of those expressing interest); Gilmerton Community Centre, Nelson
Hall Community Centre, Cameron House Community Centre, Gracemount Youth and
Community Centre, Inch Community Centre, Moredun Community Centre, Liberton
Kirk, South Edinburgh Development Initiative, Craigmillar Community Arts, Transition
Edinburgh South, Adult Learning Link, Good Trees neighbourhood centre.
Action: Collate together different official 'notes of support/interest' as appendices for plan and
funding applications.
− How we will deal with the roof and security in the meantime:
− Ask all members to donate and raise funds whilst following up if they are able.
− Contact security companies to work out costs of cctv.
Action: Find out costs of fixing the roof in the meantime as a temporary fix.
Action: Form as an official charity – setup our bank account and structure and check over
constitution again.
Action: Contact Norma Hart to ask about preferred formal structure and setup in regards to the
Liberton Bank House project and how that was set up.
Action: All who were not on this membership list would fill one in and also send on to others who
would like to be members.
Action: People were to distribute posters as appropriate in different places near to them and around
Gilmerton, Liberton, the Inch and Craigmillar.
− Community events/activities and programs during the design and build process.
− Christmas fayre and Hibernation Festival (December 4th) – Including artistic visioning
and design for the renovation.
− Conservation and Landscaping volunteer days (fortnightly/weekly from January)
− Providing free info heritage pack on the building and its connection to the area
(February 2011)
− Trailer workshop and recycling awareness. (March 2011)
− The Hive outdoor education weekend (more info avalable if anyone wants) (easter 2011)
− Food grower's market day (spring-summer 2011)
Action: More work and planning to take place to prepare a stall and artistic visioning of the
farmhouse for the christmas fayre event on December 4th.
Next Meeting: To be arranged following on from our meeting with the estates department on
October 29th.