Enhancing Wellbeing in Our Island Communities Delivery Plan September 2019 Papay Community Council A Community‐Led Partnership Enhancing Wellbeing in Our Island Communities: Delivery Plan Authors: Sarah Foulds Denize Lace Magda MacDonald Alison Meason Sarah Powers BSN, RN Project Manager: Rosalind Aitken Project Evaluator: Rosie Alexander An Aspiring Communities Fund Project Date: September 2019 Contents 1 Delivery Planning ............................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Project Background ................................................................................................................. 1 1.3 Project Outcomes.................................................................................................................... 2 2 Current island community care landscapes .................................................................................... 4 2.1 Island of Hoy ........................................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre ..................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Sanday ................................................................................................................................... 19 2.4 Shapinsay .............................................................................................................................. 25 2.5 Stronsay ................................................................................................................................ 32 3 Communication, Engagement and Promotion Plan ..................................................................... 38 3.1 Communication Objectives ................................................................................................... 38 3.2 Internal Project Communications ......................................................................................... 38 3.3 External Communications ..................................................................................................... 39 3.4 Communication and engagement in an island context ........................................................ 40 4 Island Promotions Plans ................................................................................................................ 51 5 Evaluation Framework .................................................................................................................. 53 5.1 Background to the Project .................................................................................................... 53 5.2 Rationale for the Evaluation Approach ................................................................................. 56 5.3 Theory of change .................................................................................................................. 59 5.4 Logic models ......................................................................................................................... 60 5.5 Evaluation questions ............................................................................................................. 63 5.6 Evaluation and Monitoring Plan ........................................................................................... 65 5.7 Data collection plan .............................................................................................................. 71 5.8 Ethical considerations ........................................................................................................... 75 5.9 Stakeholder Engagement ...................................................................................................... 76 5.10 Timeline ................................................................................................................................. 78 6 Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 79 7 Bibliography .................................................................................................................................. 79 i Appendix 1 Project Structure ................................................................................................................ 80 Appendix 2 Memorandum of Understanding ....................................................................................... 81 Appendix 3 Project Monthly Reporting Form template/ Evaluation Contact Form ............................. 82 Appendix 4 Island survey ...................................................................................................................... 85 Appendix 5 Participant Information Sheet ........................................................................................... 92 Appendix 6 Evaluation Consent Form ................................................................................................... 94 Table of Figures Figure 1 Common themes in Island Information flows ........................................................................ 39 Figure 2 Island Event considerations .................................................................................................... 51 Figure 3 Enhancement of events .......................................................................................................... 51 Figure 4 Benefits of logic Models: reproduced courtesy of the Strategy Unit (2016) .......................... 57 ii 1 Delivery Planning 1.1 Introduction This project is a result of a partnership between Voluntary Action Orkney, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Robert Gordon University, and the island Development Trusts of Hoy, Sanday, Shapinsay, Stronsay, Rousay Egilsay and Wyre, and the Community Council of Papa Westray, through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by all parties (HIE 2019, See Appendix 2). This project was funded through the Aspiring Communities Fund, a Scottish Government fund delivered with European Social Funds, as such the basis for this project was identified through robust Stage 1 ACF preparatory research work (Ref: ACF/R1/S1/HI/0004) and in itself forms a Stage 2 Delivery project (Ref: ACF/R2/D2/Hl/006). 1.2 Project Background The current project is a response to the research undertaken on the Islands of Eday, Hoy, Sanday, Shapinsay, Stronsay, Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre, Papa Westray between May 2017‐ May 2018 (ACF Stage 1 Preparatory work, Alexander 2019). The Aspiring Communities Stage One Report, ‘Implementing Community Led Care in the Non‐linked Isles of Orkney’ was based on comprehensive research carried out within these nine island communities. During the research work the following methods were utilised: a desk‐based literature review, meetings with key service providers and stakeholders in Orkney, and research visits to each of the isles. A workshop (based on nominative group technique) was held in each island group, alongside interviews with individuals who had experience of care as service users or providers, and informal meetings with other members of the community (Alexander, 2018). In that work it was seen that there was a real need for island‐based representatives to help co‐ ordinate, develop and facilitate non‐regulated community led care initiatives. The report also flagged up the need for the local Health and Care services on Orkney to work closely with the Island communities in order to deliver Community‐led support. In conclusion the report suggested two recommendations: Recommendation 1: The Isles communities to continue to build and extend existing community services, including identifying the potential for the development of further services. The isles to also consider the potential for bringing services together into one community led care service. Recommendation 2: Orkney Health and Care to identify potentials for closer partnership working with communities, including co‐production. The first recommendation addresses the importance of supporting existing community led services in areas such as transportation and lunch clubs, alongside areas for innovation such as community led 1 befriending and information services. As such this project is a means of taking forward the first recommendation. The Islands involved in this pilot project include Hoy, Sanday, Stronsay, Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre, funded though the Aspiring Communities Fund, with a fifth island participating through joint funding from those other islands Development Trusts‐ Shapinsay. All of these communities were engaged and involved in shaping and contributing to the research and to this, subsequent project and they continue to be involved through membership of the Steering Group. The project has been developed with and for those communities in response to their identified needs. 1.3 Project Outcomes The project will focus on older people in four of Orkney’s accessed deprived islands with the emphasis being to address the barrier of access to health and social care services through the development of new and enhanced wellbeing services and the creation of employment opportunities. Typically these communities suffer from fuel poverty, distance from services and demographic decline coupled with challenging transport links. These islands also record lower household incomes that the Orkney mainland,