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Glendale News – Spring 2017

 

GLENDALE TRUST AGM

Glendale Community Hall

8^th April at 3pm

 

The Trust would like to invite the community to our AGM where we will discuss the trusts ongoing activities along with holding a focused discussion on Borrodale School and Meanish Pier.

We will also be looking to recruit additional volunteer directors.

We look forward to seeing you at the AGM and to continuing to work together for the benefit of Glendale.

The Trust would be grateful if you could please spare 5 minutes to complete this short survey, thank you

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Q7LR272

OPEN DAYGLENDALE COMMUNITY HALL (1)

The Glendale Trust is to hold a housing open day on the 21st of January between 1-4pm at the Community Hall.

We look forward to seeing you at the open day and hearing your views.  There will also be the opportunity to register your interest in the various affordable housing options that the trust may consider.

Thank you to everyone who came along or was involved in arranging this fantastic event.  Click on the link below for more information.

Christmas Quiz 2016

A huge thank you to everyone that helped out on Friday!!

Click on the link to hear about what we achieved

 

borrodale-2nd-dec-2016

 

The Glendale Trust is holding a Christmas Quiz at the Red Roof Cafe on the 9th of December at 7pm.  Tickets cost £5.00 and are available from The Glendale Shop and Post Office.  Raffle tickets will be sold on the night and there will be delicious Mulled Wine and Mince Pies on offer.

We look forward to seeing you there 🙂

GLENDALE TRUST MEETING 

Glendale Community Hall

29^th November at 7pm

All welcome

 

Borrodale School

Clear out of items remaining in the School

If you donated any item to Borrodale School and believe it still to be on the premises and would like it returned please contact

elizabeth.macleod@theglendaletrust.org  or call 01478 611235/07902093608

Before the 29^th November

Any items not collected will be disposed of or sold with the proceeds going to the Glendale Trusts funds

The trusts IT project coordinator Catriona Canning has today (25^th October) received funds from The Allen Lane Foundation to see the continuation of the popular IT project.  The Trust was instrumental in sourcing the original funding for the IT project when it started.  The project employs one part time member of staff and delivers twice weekly IT drop in sessions.  Over 60 adult members of the community have benefited from the assistance of the IT project.  The project also provides free WIFI at the Glendale Community Hall which has been secured until 2017.  The project has also included a schools outreach programme covering internet safety and coding and has held events such as digital treasure hunts for local and visiting children.

The trust had some disappointing news today. We have been unsuccessful at being accepted onto the second stage of the Coastal Communities Funding (CCF) programme. We were applying to this fund to repair and extend the slipway at Meanish Pier along with installing a pontoon.
I have spoken with a CCF funding officer and the reasons are that it was extremely oversubscribed. They had over 80 applications and of these 63 projects were deemed as fundable. Our application was deemed as fundable and he highlighted that it was also seen as a worthwhile project. Unfortunately they could only take 20 of these applications forward to stage two and 10 or less of these are likely to receive funding. Priority was given to applicants who had been knocked back for CCF previously due to oversubscription and this was our first application for the pier. Priority was also given to areas that have not received CCF before and a number of projects in Skye and Lochalsh have received CCF.
They have recommended other funding streams and I am now looking into this.
I’m dissapointed but not dispondent.