Minute: Banff Learning Communities Partnership (HLCP) Time, Date and Venue: 9:30-11am, Monday 13th January, Library,

1. Welcome and Apologies: Present: Roisin Daly, Community Development Team CLD, Martin Robertson Community Works Coord, CLD, George Rutten, Public Health Coord, AH&SCP, Alaistair Henderson, Network Librarian, Claire Christie, CAB, Marie Dare, MacDuff Aquarium , Liam Troup, Active Schools Apologies: Chris Holmes, Employability Officer, Clare Dewick SDS, Eleanor Smith SDS, Gail Slater, Working with Young People CLD, Helen Hendy, Banff Academy, Jane Verity, Adult Learning CLD, Joy Aiken NESCOL, Meriem Kayoureche AVA, Stephen Shand Foyer ACTION 2. Monitoring Update: Community Works Banff & Macduff: MR/RD Share See Appendix 1 for full update and upcoming Community Works Monitoring Form with event below: Minutes

Welfare & Self Management Networking Event, 6th February 11am-6pm, Chalmers Hospital: Partner Nertworking followed by public drop in session. See poster attached or appendix

3. Dates for Diary/Need to Knows:

ALISS ‘A Local Information System for Scotland’ could be described as an electronic directory or ‘yellow pages’ for the GR: Send Info to RD to community support network. Community Organisations & share with papers practitioners can register their activities with ALISS. Visit www.aliss.org to search for the local community network, add an organisation’ to register a community organisation to the All Partners: Consider directory. For more info or to register Visit www.aliss.org hosting, or just finding out more by attending Aberdeen Wellbeing Festival: Last call to register activities by 31st the event January for wellbeing Festival coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Week, 18th – 24th May 2020. A submission form to register your activities to be published for AWF, is attached or Appendix

Community Café network On the 16th of January members of the community café network have been invited to share experiences at a network meeting. Community cafés are operational in Macduff, Banff, Whitehills, and Cornhill, offering an opportunity for social contact and company over a flycup.

Developing the Library Service: Survey: Aberdeenshires Library Service are seeking views on future library provisions in GR: Pass info re. Banff communities around Aberdeenshire to build a better Venue understanding of how best to develop our library service. More MR: Update as progress Information and Survey Link here Macduff Venue

CAB New Outreach Service in Banff: Currently looking for appropriate local venue for a new two days a week outreach service in Banff. This could be split between Banff & MacDuff if venue could be found.

Minute: Banff Learning Communities Partnership (HLCP) Time, Date and Venue: 9:30-11am, Monday 13th January, Library, Banff Academy

4. CLD & LCPs: Brief recap of the role of Learning Communities Partnerships 5. Partners Roles: Round table briefly highlighting what the different RD: Promote partners do, how we do it and crucially why we do what we do. membership to potential Partners working in different ways but all striving to improving Partners lived experience in our communities, helping people/communities All: Suggest appropriate achieve, learn what is important to them and working towards partners. more equal society wither through directly working with volunteers, communities or advocating for communities and influencing practice. All present recognise value/need for partnership working. (Some Info for Sharing highlighted under agenda item 3.) Brief Discussion: Other Potential Partners

6. Discussion-What Next: Next Session: -Community Works Monitoring Report Lead MR -Community Planning, Locality Planning Lead RD or TBC -Partner Updates and Sharing Lead All

7. Next meeting: 9:30am-11:00am, Thursday 14th May, Board Room, Banff Library (Coffee & Cake from 9.15am)