Western Isles Roadshow

2. Western Isles Roadshow Presenters are: • Barbara Love, Sheila Fraser, Bev MacLean and Norman MacAskill - SCVO • Matt Tyrer - HIEF, SCVO • Kathlene MacDonald- LEADER • Kenny MacLeod and David Macleay - CNES • Jane MacIntosh and John MacDonald HIE • Lori Kika – Heritage Lottery Fund Scotland • Third Sector Hebrides – Alasdair Nicholson

3. Part One: Short presentations • Introduction to Rural Direct • Rural funding opportunities • Planning, management and procurement • Equalities and your funding application • Building quality in rural Scotland: the KeyStone Quality Awards • What next for Rural Development Funding?  2014 and beyond

4. Part Two: Rural development funding surgery • Your chance to follow up any rural funding and development issues on a one-to-one basis with the Rural Direct experts and others • Close

5. Communities, Development Fundingand Rural Direct

6. Rural Direct • A free service, launched in 2008 • Contracted by, but independent of, the Scottish Government • Available to constituted community groups • Delivered across rural Scotland • Helpline, website, email, surgeries and one-to-one support

7. Rural Direct • Supports communities to access funding • Provides information, assistance and support – not advice • Adds value, specific expertise and breadth of knowledge to other regional and sectoral support agencies • Can provide support, mentoring and training in relevant processes and procedures

8. SRDP: Rural priorities • You will need a constitution and bank account • Funds a range of different ‘options’ • Supports projects that will contribute to strategic outcomes for the region and enhance community development • Various rates of support available • Needs match funding (not from other Scottish Government or EC budgets)

9. SRDP Rural Priorities Options still available to community groups: • Support for renewable energy • Information and awareness raising • Area access management • Management of archaeological or historical sites • Management and repair of vernacular buildings • Enjoyment of rural landscapes • Development and creation of microenterprises

10. Rural Direct and Rural Priorities We can help you: • Understand the mysteries of the application processes • Decide whether to go for LEADER or Rural Priorities • Get a Business Reference Number • Submit your outline and full proposal • Work more closely with RPAC Case Officers and LAG Co-ordinators

11. Other funding • Help groups understand the range of other funding opportunities available • Assist in developing and writing the best possible funding applications • Signpost to other sources of help, such as the Voluntary Action Scotland network –Third Sector Hebrides and Voluntary Action Barra and Vatersay and Open4community pages on the CnES website • Extensive expertise on Rural Funding issues – see the Rural Funding pages on the Rural Network website

12. Planning, Management and Procurement • In any funding application you will need to show need, demand and an ability to deliver • To deliver your project you will need a plan (but be flexible) • There may be a number of time hurdles outside your control. You need to allow for these • If you are seeking public money you will probably need to go to tender

13. Rural Direct staff support community organisations Highland and the Western Isles Barbara Love Forth and Borders Sheila Fraser Clyde, Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Argyll and Tayside Ian Mathieson Grampian and Moray Sandra Hogg who also co-ordinates rural policy & information Northern Isles Edwina Cook of Voluntary Action Orkney Wendy Hand of Voluntary Action Shetland   Rural Direct Administrator Terry Ruitenburg keeps the team right and Norman MacAskill is responsible for overall management of the service Andy Stewart is ably standing in for Eleanor Morris – who is currently on maternity leave - with responsibility for arranging this series of roadshows

14. Get in touch 0845 838 8598 or 01463 251735 www.ruraldirect.org.uk info@ruraldirect.org.uk Rural Direct, Fairways House, Fairways Business Park, Inverness IV2 6AA

15. Land Reform (Scotland) Act Community Right to Buy The Community Right to Buy provides the opportunity for community bodies representing rural areas in Scotland, with less than 10,000 head of population, to register an interest in land and buy that registered land when it comes on the market. Registration of land may include land and/or buildings.

16. The Community Ownership Support Service is an adviser led service funded by the Scottish Government to support communities across Scotland take ownership of previously publicly held land and buildings.   For more information, please contact : Lauren Leeman - 0131 225 2080 www.dtascommunityownership.org.uk

17. LEADER Innse Gall Aimed primarily at small and medium sized community driven projects that are pilot and innovative in nature and are based within the Outer Hebrides. Local Objectives - Revitalising Communities geographical handicap, remoteness and peripherality economic fragility and job creation population decline, out-migration of young people empowering women inadequate community infrastructure and facilities Gaelic language and culture a sustainable natural environment, Agriculture and Crofting social inclusion and supporting vulnerable groups

18. LEADERInnse Gall currently: Committed over £2.5m Limited funding remaining Currently accepting enquiries however no guarantee of funding – Reserve List for projects with other match funding in place Continuing to support the development of existing and completed LEADER Innse Gall projects, provide networking opportunities. Delivering the Rural Broadband Challenge Funding in the Outer Hebrides Contributing to the preparation of the next Rural Development programme (2014-2020) Local Contacts: Kathlene MacDonald – Lewis & Harris: 0845 6007090 Donna Matheson – Uist & Barra: 01870 604936

19. Melanie Newdick Our members want us to support projects in local communities. Ask us how we can helpyour community group. Or visit our website. www.co-operative.coop/ 07748 703912 Melanie.newdick@co-operative.coop

20. The Co-operative Membership Community Fund can make a real difference to your community.

21. In 2010, we awarded £203,636 to 198 local groups in Scotland.

22. Community Food Discount Card • A community organisation can obtain a Community Food Discount Card which provides a 10% discount for purchases from Co-operative Group retail store

23. Third Sector Hebrides 30 Francis Street Stornoway Isle of Lewis HS1 2ND Tel: 01851 702632 Fax: 01851 703035 www.thirdsectorhebrides.org.uk enquiries@thirdsectorhebrides.org.uk

24. Third Sector Hebrides Uist 41 Airport Road Balivanich Isle of Benbecula Western Isles HS7 5LA Tel: 01870 602117

25. Voluntary Action Barra and Vatersay Voluntary Action Barra and Vatersay provides the following services •           Training •           Community Newspaper – Guth Bharraidh •           Community Web site – isleofbarra.com •           Community Transport – Bus Bharraigh •           Community Radio – Barra community Radio …… •           Support and advice for new and existing community groups Castlebay Isle of Barra HS9 5XDTel: 01871 810 401 Fax: 01871 810 933Email: jessie.macneil@vabv.org.uk Web: www.isleofbarra.com

26. Community Gateway –Case officers for Comhairle Capital Funding Community Co-ordinators: Based in main Council Offices Stornoway and Balivanich and Barra Work with a wide range of community groups to help get Constituted, signposting and accessing project funding Part of Development Departmental Funding Unit Ensuring that Comhairle community development services are aligned with community aspirations Development Department COMHAIRLE NAN EILEAN SIAR

27. Community Gateway –Contact Details: Lewis and Harris: 01851 822693 North Uist and Benbecula: 01870 604993 South Uist and Eriskay: 01870 604987 or 01870 603653 Barra: 01871 817215 David Macleay, Community Support Officer, 01851 822693 dmacleay@cne-siar.gov.uk Development Department COMHAIRLE NAN EILEAN SIAR

29. Our Purpose “to generate sustainable economic growth in every part of the Highlands and Islands” Our Vision For the Highlands and Islands to be a highly successful and competitive region in which increasing numbers of people choose to live, work, study and invest. Our Priorities • Supporting businesses and social enterprises to shape and realise their growth aspirations • Strengthening communities and fragile areas • Developing key sectors, particularly distinctive regional opportunities • Creating the conditions for a competitive and low-carbon region

30. Support for Communities Focus • Social Enterprise • Fragile Areas Account Management Approach • How we work with social enterprises • How we work with whole communities (CAM) Community Funding • Fragile Areas • Non Fragile Areas

31. HIE Support for Communities & Key Partners Community Assets Support – support in acquisition and development of assets and interface activity, with, for example Scottish Gov. & Lottery Crofting development – supporting crofting communities and partnership work with, e.g. Scottish Crofting Foundation Gaelic Development - Sub contract and partnership work with for example Comunn na Gàidhlig (CnaG)

32. HIE Support for Communities & Key Partners (Cont.) • Sustainable Energy - Sub-contract and partnering activity, with, e.g. Community Energy Scotland (CES) • Cultural Enterprise - Sub-contract support, e.g. Hi Arts

33. HIE Support for Communities & Key Partners (Cont.) • General Social Enterprise Support & Training – e.g through Just Enterprise Partnership • HISEZ - Development Planning • Social Enterprise Academy - Training • Firstport - Individuals / Small / Start Up Ideas • CEIS – Procurement • CNES/ Business Gateway & other Rural Gateway partners

34. www.hie.co.ukHIE Innse GallJames Square, 9 James Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, HS1 2QN01851 703703

35. Community Spaces Scotland Investing in Ideas

36. One of four lottery funders in Scotland Funding from £3,000 + Priority to not-for-profit orgs Need to be constituted

37. What is heritage?

38. Heritage is… “….everything tangible and intangible that we have inherited from the past, and value enough to want to share and sustain for the future.”

39. Built heritage Historic buildings Archaeological sites Historic cemeteries Bridges Monuments Churches Harbours Townscapes

40. Natural Heritage Woodland and forests Mountains Coasts and rivers Bogs and wetlands Species and habitats Historic parks and gardens

41. Museums, archives and collections Museums Archives and records Libraries (special collections) Old photographs

42. Industrial Maritime and Transport Heritage Industries: mining, fishing, agriculture Maritime Transport – railways, trams, bicycles

43. Cultural Heritage – Histories of people, communities, places and events Memories and traditions Oral/ spoken history History of language and dialects Place names Cultural traditions (festivals, stories, crafts) Heritage skills History of traditional music and dance

44. HLF priorities To help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage; To conserve the UK’s heritage for present and future generations to experience and enjoy; To help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about heritage of existing projects

45. Get in touch!www.hlf.org.uk

46. Equality and Human Rights and your funding Your planning, policies, practices and services should consider, and make provision for, a full diversity of people and their rights Funders are increasingly asking for evidence of good equality and human rights practice in funding applications

47. HIEF can help you to: Assess, and evidence, the impact your work and activities have on improving equality and human rights Align your activities and reporting to the equality and human rights responsibilities of public sector funders And to provide additional support to your fundraising activities: Challenge public sector decisions using equality and human rights law (Equality Act 2010, Human Rights Act 1998) Strengthen your own organisation’s equality and human rights practices and culture

48. A quality award for the people who manage village halls and community buildings

49. KeyStone: • Will help you understand what you are doing and help you do it better • Is a guide to best practice • Is a comprehensive information resource • Is also a management tool that can be used to help you keep files, documents and information organised

50. Brigadoon Village Hall Committee 21 May 2014 • Focuses on keeping legal and looking after volunteers, staff and users • Sets the minimum requirements for your organisation and will help you meet your legal obligations and organisational objectives • Celebrates the achievements of hall committees! 0