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Community Resilience Briefing 04/11/22

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Dear Community Resilience Group/Community Council/Colleagues,

Welcome to The Highland Council’s fortnightly briefing for groups with an interest in local community resilience. 

Winter Vaccination Programme

  • Public Health Scotland colleagues have recently translated information on the Covid and Flu vaccinations being offered as part of the Winter Vaccination Programme. This includes 36 community languages and British Sign Language versions, accessible here: Other languages – winter vaccines | NHS inform

Covid related information 

Funding  

SCVO  is a key source of funding information for the third sector. Funds that may be of interest include:

  • National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
    This funds focus is on projects that either bring people together, improve important spaces to communities, enable people by addressing issues early, or involve the arts. Applications can be submitted at any time.
  • Edge Fund
    Supports small grassroots organisations that struggle to get funding elsewhere that are focused on creating a just, equitable, and sustainable world. Opens applications twice a year, next deadline 6 November.
  • Warburtons Community Funding
    Provides small grants to support charities which improve health, place, or skills for families in their communities. Next deadline 8 November.
  • Reaching New Scots Fund – This funding opportunity is designed and managed by refugees in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund. Groups can apply for grants of up to £30,000 for projects that support New Scots. 

Welfare, poverty reduction and resilience

  • Money Counts Courses – These courses aim to build staff confidence to offer income maximisation help to individuals with money worries. See the attached document for more information.
  • CyberScotland October News Update
    • Malware and Viruses – It’s not just a concern for businesses!
      Read our tips to protect your computers, laptops, smartphones and tablets from the damage caused by viruses and other types of malware.
    • Charity Essentials Charity Campaign, 7th – 18th November
      CyberScotland Partner, IASME, will be offering support and guidance as well as a discount on the price of certification, to help registered charities achieve Cyber Essentials. Visit https://iasme.co.uk/cyber-essentials/cyber-essentials-for-charities/ for more information.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

  • NHS Highland Mental Wellbeing – a collection of resources and signposts to help people of all ages to look after their own mental wellbeing.
  • Cost of living crisis and your mental health
    Many people are feeling the strain as the cost of living coantinues to increase.  This resource provides information on how you can maintain your mental wellbeing at this time, alongside information on how to manage your money as bills rise.

Emergency Planning 

Douglas Crawford
Business Analyst

Community Support and Engagement

Highland Council

Our Future Highland Survey

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Community Groups and Community Councils – we need your advice!

Dear Community Groups and Community Councils,

We would like communities to help shape ‘Our Future Highland’ by contributing their values, views, ideas, and dreams of how they think Highland could look and feel like by 2027.

Communities and their people are our biggest asset and play a vital role in change going forward, community groups and community councils are at the heart of the Highlands, and we must ensure that as part of ‘Our Future Highland’ development process that we work collaboratively to gather insight from people and place.

As the Council under its new Administration develops priorities and inspirational change over the next 5 years, we would like to include the shared values that are most important to all generations living across Highland.

Task – Please complete the survey here: https://forms.office.com/r/63qXsjp01t where people can add their ideas on how they envisage ‘Our Future Highland’ could look like by 2027.

E.g – I’d like Our Future Highland by 2027 to have more spaces/communal gardens/parks for intergenerational use, to enable people of all ages to interact in a casual and relaxed way, share ideas and knowledge and help support each other through life.

We really appreciate your support in collating this part of the engagement process and ask that you complete the survey by 11th November.

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Yours sincerely 

Donna Manson