Dundee Partnership E-Bulletin Issue 5 - January 2017

Editors Introduction

Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to our fifth Dundee Partnership E-Bulletin.

Here, at the start of 2017, I can look forward and see a number of developments that will take place this year across the Partnership. Probably the biggest of these is the development of a new Local Outcome Improvement Plan (LOIP) that will cover 2017-2022. This Plan will take over

where our current Single Outcome Agreement leaves off and involves the whole Partnership putting into action a huge range of ideas and activities to keep Dundee moving forward positively.

Four key areas which will be at the core of the LOIP are; Work & Enterprise Children & Families

Health, Social Care & Wellbeing Community Safety & Justice

In addition, activity for several other themes will be included to make sure that our plans for Dundee, while focusing on key items, includes the range of action needed to continue improving

our city. Development priorities are tackling inequalities, community empowerment, joint resourcing, and prevention. In addition, items such as substance misuse, protecting the public, sustainability and cultural development have an impact across all four key areas and will be

included to ensure that Partners work together effectively on them. Many of you will (I hope) have participated in ‘Engage Dundee’. This consultation programme

started early last summer and was open until the end of October, with well over 1,000 people providing individual feedback either online or in writing. In addition to this, a large number of focus groups and feedback sessions have been held to get the views of groups of people, including

school pupils and young people. At present the results are being collated and analysed, and they will then be used to help inform not only the LOIP, but also a new set of Local Community Plans (one per Ward).

While creation of ‘another plan’ might not seem too exciting, the development of the LOIP will have an ongoing impact on everyone within Dundee for the next five years, and so it is important

that we (the Partnership) get it right. Paul Davies

Senior Community Planning Officer Dundee Partnership Team

Contents (Ctrl-Click on an entry below to take you to that article)

Editor’s Introduction

Upcoming Events Think Big Awards Evening Dundee Smart Care Convention

Enterprise Dragons

Recent Events Safe Drive Stay Alive 2016 Pop-Up Student Enterprises

16 Days of Action Against Gender Based Violence Challenging Stigma The Dundee Way, Health & Social Care Partnership Event

Physical Activity Leadership Event Coldside Christmas Tree Light Switch On

Success Stories Cashback Academy Big Win for Dundee & Angus Businesses

Articles

Jobcentre Plus Sees Innovation at D&A College

Money Worries / Crisis Help App Promoting Smoking Cessation Across NHS Tayside Hospitals Power of Attorney Campaign

Spectacular Gift on Show at The McManus Reducing Fire Risk for Older & Vulnerable People Children & Families Partnership

Growth and Development Continues at Leisure & Culture Dundee Action for Children – Dundee Youth Housing Service Trips Dundee Social Enterprise Network – New Developments

Dundee Ice Arena & Leisure & Culture Dundee New CD Celebrates ‘The Sound of Dundee’ Making History in 2017 - VisitScotland

Services

DD4 Network – North/North East Employability Pilot Projects

Leisure & Culture Dundee – Sport & Physical Activities Citizen’s Advice Bureau – Big Energy Saving Network Development of a Health & Well-Being Referral Hub

Dundee’s ‘My Life’ Portal Dial-Op Information Helpline Community Companions

Lochee Community Hub Food Connections Volunteering – Department of Spiritual Care

Good Governance Award

Funding Integrated Care Small Grants Fund Recent Community Regeneration Fund Grants

Links

Submission Dates Feedback

Mailing List

Upcoming Events

Come Along - Think Big Awards Evening

Preparations are underway for D&A College

Think Big awards evening on Thursday,

January 19.

Think Big is an annual competition with a

prize fund totalling £15,000.

Radio Tay doyen Ally Bally will act as host to

the event in the Incubator space at D&A

Gardyne Campus, announcing the winners in

the two competition categories of New

Business and Business Growth.

Guest speaker for the evening is Kim Gall

from the Gin Bothy. There will also be an

opportunity to browse our small business

marketplace to find out about the range of

businesses the College and local sponsors are supporting.

Think Big is supported by the following sponsors

Enterprise@D&A provides a one-stop-shop to support new business start-ups and fledgling businesses

in the region by providing incubator space, workshops, events, mentoring and free advice from

business experts.

Anyone keen join in this celebration please click here to make a booking.

For more information on how Enterprise@D&A can support business contact

enterprise@dundeeandangus.ac.uk

Dundee Voluntary Action - Dundee Smart Care Convention

Save the Date: Wednesday 15 February 2017

Dundee’s first Smart Care Convention in 2016 was a big

success. Exhibitors from telecare and telehealth companies

joined social work and health organisations to show off their

wares. Dundee University’s Product Design course came, as did

the Digital Health Institute. The audience was healthcare and

social care professionals, commissioning managers from the

health and social care partnership and leading local politicians.

Disabled people and carers also came to see how technology

could enhance their care. Altogether around 250 people attended. On 15 February 2017 we’ll do it all

again in a bigger venue. Dundee’s Caird Hall will host the 2017 Smart Care Convention. Come and

join us!

Exhibitors

The main action at the Convention will be in the dedicated exhibition space, beside the Caird Hall’s

catering outlet. We expect this to be a busy area with plenty of hubbub. Wi-Fi and power will be

available. There is wheelchair access and entry is free. We are asking commercial exhibitors to pay

£100. Informal feedback from last year’s exhibitors was very positive.

Some of the exhibitors at Dundee’s Smart Care Convention 2016.

More information will appear soon on the Dundee Technology Enabled Care Facebook page. Meantime,

email jimmyblack@number10.org or call 01382 305702.

Enterprise Dragons are back!

Thanks to the huge success of last year’s Enterprise Dragons event held at D&A

College, local entrepreneurs, people with nascent businesses and folk with just an

idea, are being invited to sign up to a Dragons Den type challenge.

Entrants from all over Dundee and Angus faced

a panel of experts comprising: Andrew Stirling, Stirfresh (growers,

processors and packers of fresh produce); Liz Jackson, Fairways

Business Support and Recruitment Service; Julie Howe,

Journeycall; and Richard Nessitt, Zudu (web design and app

development).

Each of the contestants had just two minutes to convince the panel that they had a viable business

idea. A total of 20 people took part at the event at Enterprise@D&A Gardyne Campus with seven

winners each receiving £1000! A place in Enterprise@D&A Incubator facility was also on offer to one

of the participants.

Due to the positive feedback from the event the college and local sponsors have decided to run another

competition at the Arbroath campus next year. Applications will be accepted from Monday, March 27,

the closing date will be Saturday, April 29.

Participants will be invited to make their pitch on Thursday, May 18 – for a share in the prize fund.

Anyone interested in finding out more information about entering the competition or sponsoring please

contact enterprise@dundeeandangus.ac.uk

Recent Events Safe Drive Stay Alive 2016

Firefighters in Dundee are helping make young people aware of dangers on the roads. More than

1,100 young adults from schools and colleges across Dundee were given a clear insight to the potential

consequences that follows serious road collisions. The multi-award winning safety event - Safe Drive

Stay Alive arrived in Dundee on 15th November.

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service officers alongside Police Scotland, Scottish Ambulance Service and

the Accident and Emergency Trauma Team from Ninewells Hospital left no-one in any doubt of the

horrors they face at the scene of road crashes.

During the event a film was shown illustrating a typical road collision where young people are involved,

including driver distraction, bad driving practices and peer pressure. Incorporated into the film are

talks from emergency responders who describe the personal impact of attending this type of incident.

They also explained how they approach informing the next of kin and how families react when told a

loved one has been killed.

This was followed by real life family members of people who have had their lives dramatically changed

by a road traffic collision. Their testimonies were hard hitting and very emotive to the audience sharing

their very serious and long lasting experiences of irresponsible driving.

This year's event which was organised by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and supported by

partner agencies including; Scottish Ambulance Service, Police Scotland, Tayside Trauma Team, St.

Andrews First Aid and the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.

Along with the Dundee City Council’s pledge this year’s show was funded by; NHS, Tayside and Central

Scotland Transport Partnership. External sponsorship was also welcomed from Scottish and Southern

Electricity Networks and Cash for Kids.

Student enterprises pop up

D&A College students showed off their

business acumen in the run-up to Christmas

when more than 100 students, from a raft of

courses, were involved in pop-up

enterprises.

City centre shoppers will remember the D&A

College pop-up shop in the Overgate from

the beginning of November, till December

23.

Offering an outstanding retail experience,

Tempus involved more than 90 students, not

only gaining hands-on experience buying

stock from about 20 different suppliers,

reordering, analysing sales figures, and

anticipating sales, as well as serving the

public.

And it wasn’t only retail students or business

students involved, as part of their course a

group of HND events management students

organised a red-carpet event for the official

opening.

A total of 50 invited guests, including college

principal Grant Ritchie, lecturers and

Overgate management staff, enjoyed

refreshments, prepared by hospitality and

catering students.

The organising group also roped in students from the acting and performance programme at college

who took the role of 1940s photographers, snapping the guests as they arrived.

Shoppers were able to browse

around a selection of scarves,

purses, bags, jewellery, kids’

jigsaws, products with animal prints

including cushions, mugs, aprons,

oven gloves, Christmas decorations,

books, bath products including bath

bombs, soaps, and hand lotions.

A second pop-up enterprise involved

the art of the chocolatier with 16

patisserie and confectionery

students rolling out an enterprise

project entitled ChocolaTay.

As part of the SVQ (level 3)

professional cookery programme, the students launched a retail initiative which invited the public to

indulge in artisan products such as salt caramels, fruit and nut bars and pralines – at appealing prices.

With the support of Mathew Trust

funding for ingredients and

packaging, the students utilised the

chocolate craft skills they learned at

Kingsway Campus and captured the

pre-Christmas market with pop-up

sales across all three D&A College

campuses.

Under the direction of course leader

Albert Close, a prize-winning

chocolatier, the students sold hand-

made, high-class confectionery to

staff, students and the public.

Dundee Violence Against Women Partnership (VAWP) 16-Days of Action Against All Forms of Gender-Based Violence

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence is a global campaign set up in 1991 calling

for the elimination of all forms of violence against women. The campaign takes place annually between

25th November (International day of No Violence Against Women) and 10th December (Human Rights

day).

This year throughout the 16 days in Dundee there

was a social media campaign in which people, in

particular men, had the opportunity to show their support for campaigns against sexual harassment.

Using the hashtag #notinourlockerroom those taking part sent the message that it is simply not

acceptable for men to talk about women in derogatory ways or to harass them. This campaign was

supported by both Dundee United and Dundee Football teams, Dundee and Abertay Universities, and

Dundee City Council Chief Executive’s Department.

In addition, this year’s 16-days campaign

included a Choir Night organised by Dundee

Women’s Aid to raise awareness about domestic

abuse issues and raising funds for local services.

The CONSENT seminar was held to discuss and

highlight issues of rape and sexual assaults.

There was a very well supported Reclaim the

Night March to promote a safer environment for

women to be able to walk safely in the streets of

Dundee after dark. A national conference on

Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution

was held focusing on how we could reduce the

demand for prostitution in the City. The film

ROOM was screened at the DCA to highlight the

links between domestic abuse and child

protection.

Chief Officer (Public Protection) Event—Challenging Stigma

Sixty-one managers from across a wide variety of services and sectors took part in the most recent

Chief Officer Engagement Event on 8th November looking at Stigma and their role in challenging this

in themselves, their workers and their service structures.

Colin McCashey, Independent Chair of the Adult Support and Protection Committee and Ann Hamilton,

Independent Chair of the Violence Against Women Partnership in Dundee shared the chairing of the

event.

The excellent key speakers were Professor

Nick Hopkins and Professor Stephen Reicher

who, between them, covered the history of

stigma noting it is a social process within

individuals and organisations. They also

considered how history is taught, who we

celebrate -’dead white men’- and how this

influences who is seen as the ‘in’ group and

those we put in the ‘out’ group.

Stephen also considered how the structures of

institutions affect the behaviour and

commitment of workers and service users,

often through small, subtle messages which

say ‘you are one of us’ or ‘you are not one of

us’. The main message was that we need to change ourselves, not other people.

The Dundee Way Health and Social Care Partnership Event December 2016 The Dundee Way Event, held on

Wednesday 30th November 2016 was

jointly organised by Dundee Voluntary

Action, Dundee Carers Centre and

Dundee City Council. The event

celebrated the work of the Health and

Social Care Partnership and our shared

values as well as looking at plans for the

future. There were presentations from

Diane McCulloch (Head of Service,

Health and Community Care), Ken Lynn

(Chair of the Integrated Joint Board),

Eric Knox (Director, Tayside Council on

Alcohol) as well as workshops on

Capacity Building, Short Breaks for

Carers and Welfare Rights advice in GP's

Surgeries.

Dundee & Angus Chamber of Commerce Christmas Social

Over 60 business from across the region came together

for the annual Dundee & Angus Chamber of Commerce

(DACC) Xmas Social – Cocktails at the Quay, sponsored

this year by Chamber Platinum Partners, MacRoberts.

In the beautiful surroundings of the recently opened

venue, The Quay and with stunning views across the

silvery Tay to the evening lights of Fife members came

together to celebrate the end of another year in

business.

This year, as an alternative to Secret Santa, the

team at DACC took the opportunity to assist two

of their members’ charities with their Christmas

Appeals and asked guests to do the same.

On the night their Secret Santa table was

overwhelmed with donations to both the Help for

Kids Christmas Toy Appeal and Cash for Kids

Mission Christmas. More than 50 presents were

donated on the night with both charities

benefitting from the generosity of Chamber

members.

Stacey Wallace from Help for Kids said “We were

delighted the Chamber of Commerce decided to

help our charity, this year in Dundee there have

been so many more referrals so every present

really counts. We have had roughly 870 referrals

this year and they still coming in. Thanks to

everyone who donated.”

l-r Alison Henderson, CEO of DACC and Alison Carr from Cash for Kids

l-r Stacey Wallace from Help for Kids and Sarah Young from DACC

Secret Santa Table

Alison Carr from Cash for Kids said “To date we

will be assisting over 4,000 disadvantaged

children living in Tayside and Northeast Fife

and our Mission is to assist every child and

through the help of businesses like yourselves

coming on board we are well on our way to

being able to assist all the referrals.”

For more information on DACC please visit our website:

http://www.dundeeandanguschamber.co.uk/index.php

Physical Activity Leadership Event Aims to Get Taysiders Moving

A ‘Leadership for Physical Activity’ event was hosted in Dundee on Friday, 2nd December to discuss

the consequences of physical inactivity on the health and wellbeing of Taysiders, and how increasing

physical activity can improve the health of the population.

The event brought together representatives from health and social care from across Tayside,

academics, and local and national government representatives with a specific interest in physical

activity. The aim of the event was to embed physical activity for health improvement and disease

prevention firmly in the forefront of public sector decision-making.

Chair of the event, Dr Drew Walker, Director of Public Health with NHS Tayside said, “Many of the

presentations from the guest speakers demonstrate the evidence for physical activity to tackle the

burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes, stroke, heart attack and respiratory

diseases.

“NCDs are the leading global causes of

death, causing more deaths than all other

causes combined, and they strike hardest

at the world’s low- and middle-income

populations. These diseases have reached

epidemic proportions, yet they could be

significantly reduced, with millions of lives

saved and untold suffering avoided,

through reduction of their risk factors, early

detection and timely treatments.

“Increased levels of physical activity can

also make a tangible impact on wider social

issues like education, employment and poor wellbeing. Active travel contributes to building activity

into people’s everyday lives as well as helping to reduce the growing burden of pollution and

greenhouse gases.”

Guest speaker Dr William Bird said, “Physical activity must be a priority with inactivity linked to many

dangerous, preventable long-term conditions. The UK is one of the least active countries in the world

and councils and leaders are in a powerful position to change this. Leaders who have taken steps to

tackle inactivity have not only seen huge benefits for public health in their communities, but

improvements in transport, environment and social cohesion.”

Mary Colvin, Senior Health Improvement Practitioner with NHS Tayside said, “The opportunities for

people of all ages were outlined by the speakers. Many of the programmes in our schools, leisure

centres, community halls, and sports clubs are well-attended and popular. The greenspaces, parks,

cycle paths and walking routes are expanding, and planning and transport are contributing to making

our towns and cities pleasant places to move about which is contributing to better health outcomes

for people across Tayside.” Stewart Murdoch, Director of Leisure & Culture spoke about the Physical

Activity Strategy for the city and the actions we need to grasp as a Partnership to make Dundee an

active city with active people.

Coldside Christmas Tree

The Coldside community came together in

November 2016 to organise a Christmas tree for

the local area situated across from the Hilltown

Clock. This venture was led by local people

involved in Coldside Forum and Coldside

Community Regeneration Forum, who came

together with the Events Group to plan an event

and get local businesses involved. Thanks to

funding from the Community Regeneration Fund

the group were able to get a 30ft tree installed

on the junction of Hill Street and Strathmartine

Road, next to Yorkes Butchers.

Kind donations of decorations were gratefully

received from B&Q Dundee, Maplin Dundee, and

Peco Electricals Hilltown, and many of these were

customised by local young people and local craft

groups. On the night of December 8th 2016 the

community came together to celebrate the lights

being switched on.

Yorkes the Butchers gave away free pies and

arranged for music to be played at the event; St

Peter and Paul’s Primary School brought a group

of singers; Lesley's and Iannetta's provided free

refreshments and sweets; Tesco provided goody

bags; and Santa Claus came and switched on the

lights.

It was a lovely evening with over 200 people

attending. Other local businesses were keen to

be involved but due to the short time frame they

had to organise everything, the group decided to

keep the event relatively small. Hopefully next

year the group can improve on this year and host

a larger event for the local community.

Success Stories Cashback Academy stars at awards

D&A College’s highly-successful Cashback Academy won a prestigious SQA

(Scottish Qualifications Authority) Star Award for inclusion.

Operating over 18 months

this project was funded by

Creative Scotland which

invested nearly £200,000

through the Cash Back for

Creativity programme which

sees the proceeds of crime

invested into worthwhile

projects throughout Scotland.

More than 60 people

benefitted from a range of

programmes including: digital media and design with participants helping develop websites and

company branding for small local businesses; digital media editing involving working with the Trussel

Trust food bank charity to develop on-line recipes and recipe cards for inclusion with food bank parcels;

advanced digital media production which included making “Can’t Cook Won’t Cook” style on-line films

aimed at food bank users; and graphic and web design, once again doing website and logo design,

this time for start-up companies.

Fiona Muhsin, who conceived the idea for the Cashback Academy and successfully bid for the funding,

accepted the award on behalf of the college, along with tutor Jim McAvoy.

Big Win for Dundee & Angus Businesses

VisitScotland brought exciting news of businesses in Dundee & Angus nominated for the 2016/17

Regional Scottish Thistle Award in the previous e-Bulletin, and are happy to report that deserving

businesses had real reason to celebrate as the region seized five top titles.

Scotland's Jute Museum @ Verdant Works, operated by Dundee Heritage Trust, was awarded Best

Visitor Attraction, the accolade came as Verdant Works celebrated its 20th birthday as a museum.

Agritourism business, Newton Farm

Holidays in Angus was named Most

Hospitable B&B/Guest House.

Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa, Dundee also

had reason to cheer claiming the Most

Hospitable Hotel title, while Broughty Ferry

neighbours The Royal Arch took the title of

Friendliest Pub/Bar.

This year, the title of Regional Rising Star

was given to Adam Newth, of The Tayberry

Restaurant in Broughty Ferry. This award

recognises young people aged 30 and

under who have shown real passion for

tourism.

The next step for all our worthy winners is

the Scottish Thistle Awards National final in March. the region will go head-to-head with business from

across Scotland, to claim that Thistle Award crown in their respective categories.

The 2016/17 Scottish Thistle Awards, in association with Fishers, recognises hotels, restaurants, B&Bs,

visitor attractions and individuals who go the extra mile to provide customers with exceptional service.

This year the Scottish Thistle Awards received a record-breaking number of entries, totalling 715

across the 15 regional categories, amounting to a 16% increase on last year.

The Scottish Thistle Awards are led by a panel of industry experts from several organisations including

VisitScotland, Aberdeen City and Shire Tourism Awards, Highlands & Islands Tourism Awards, the

Hospitality Industry Trust Scotland, Scotland Food and Drink, Scottish Tourism Alliance, the Scottish

Licensed Trade Association, Sportscotland and Wild Scotland.

Visit scottishthistleawards.com to see a full list of winners and for more information about the

Scottish Thistle Awards themselves.

(l-r) Presenter Scott Inglis, Commercial Director at Fishers; Brett Davidge, General Manager of Apex City Quay; host Jennifer Reoch

Articles

Jobcentre Plus sees innovation at D&A College

Jobcentre Plus are recognising D&A College as innovators and experts who are

deriving results when working with some of the most marginalised and disengaged

members of the community. Using techniques to help change the mind-set of long-

term unemployed people D&A College staff aim to restore self-esteem, and instil

self-belief.

The college’s Supporting Employability Programme, uses a range of techniques to

help long-term unemployed people turn their lives around.

As part of the Jobcentre Plus LTU (Long Term Unemployed) pilot programme, the four-week course at

the college, which is part of the longer 12-week initiative, helps people combat issues which contribute

to unemployment including mental health problems or addiction. While the programme goal is to get

people into work, for many the course and subsequent mentoring is a first step as tutor Jim McEvoy

explains:

“A lot of people have given up hope of finding work, believing they are too old or have been out of

work too long. Using cognitive behavioural strategies to install self-confidence and effect a change in

mind-set, this course makes them examine these beliefs and discover the opportunities that do exist,

it also shows how they can, by their own efforts, influence their circumstances.”

To recognise the achievements of those who have taken part, college staff organised an informal event

at Kingsway Campus, on Friday, November 18, when 20 participants were presented with certificates.

Tutor Dr Del Gallacher also takes this forward with the groups and develops positive strategies aimed

at producing more effective job applications, greater personal belief and confidence.

“Resilience and self-belief are central to approaching the job market,” explains Del. “Throughout the

course, changing behaviour is the key, either on a personal basis or with respect to applications.

Attendees have left the course with enhanced confidence, motivation, resilience and effective

strategies in place to make their applications work better for them.”

Although the last course was just completed in November, this pilot programme has already seen 17%

of participants gain employment, and 66% going on to positive outcomes, with one of those taking

part commenting that the course “had changed his life”. The group will be supported and tracked for

the next six months with the expectation that the employment rate will increase during this period.

“The work coaches working with the customers completing this provision have commented on how

much more engaged they have become in their search for work and that their motivation and optimism

is catching!” said Jane McEwan, of Dundee City Jobcentre.

NHS – Money Worries / Crisis Help App

NHS Tayside’s mobile device app, launched in 2015, was

developed as a signposting tool for frontline staff in NHS

Tayside and partner organisations to enable them to direct

those in financial crisis, possibly as a result of changes to their

income due to welfare benefit reform, towards appropriate

sources of support and advice. The app is intended both as a

resource for professionals and as a direct source of help for

members of the public.

The app is available for mobile phones and tablets on both

Apple and Android platforms and can be downloaded free from

the app stores – search for ‘Money worries’ Find the right help

in a crisis’ or scan the relevant QR code.

In the first 18 months the app has been downloaded 1,834

times in the UK.

The top ten screens viewed over that period were:

Welfare Advice

Health problems or disabilities and work

Citizens Advice Bureaux

Foodbanks

Housing benefits and discretionary payments

Other debt advice agencies

Local homeless services

Financial harm

Winter fuel and cold weather payments

Shelter

Direct links to websites and phone numbers are available in the

app – when these are used it is recorded as an Action. Indirect

actions (using a different device to access a website or phone

number) cannot be recorded.Over the first 18 months the top

ten in-app actions were:

Benefits calculator

Shelter

Dundee City/My Wellbeing

Hillcrest/Craigowl

Dundee Foodbanks

Perth & Kinross Welfare Rights

Financial Conduct Authority (Report a loan shark)

Advice Guide (CAB)

Claverhouse

Perth & Kinross Association of Voluntary Service

For any further details contact aileen.tait@nhs.net or deborah.gray@nhs.net

Promoting Smoking Cessation practice across NHS Tayside’s hospitals.

Very Brief Advice

30 seconds to save a life

It only takes 30 seconds to ask, if a patient is still smoking, advise that, they are 4 times more likely

to stop if they get support and Nicotine Replacement Therapy and act, by offering an outpatient card

and other stop smoking leaflets.

‘I notice you’re a smoker’...

Very Brief Advice (VBA) can be used in a range of hospital settings including outpatient clinics. Offering

smokers the outpatient cards and NHS Tayside’s Stop Smoking in 12 weeks leaflets provides the

opportunity to share the therapeutic benefits to patients from abstaining from smoking. VBA has been

rolled out during the past year to ward staff, non-clinical colleagues and students as part of our

bespoke learning.

NHS Tayside’s Hospital Smoke Free Service colleagues have also worked with staff to create

educational training videos on how the No Smoking Policy it is being put into everyday practice in

patient care. Six training videos were designed with staff from Ninewells Hospital, Perth Royal

Infirmary and Stracathro Hospital.

Each educational video highlights areas of

best practice and the contributions made by

colleagues to create an environment that

delivers the best health outcomes for

patients. The teams involved in the making

of the videos were pre-assessment at Perth

Royal Infirmary, vascular and renal wards

at Ninewells, and endoscopy unit at

Stracathro. A former smoker also shared

her experience of stopping smoking.

This education approach is continuing in

2017 through the use of the National Centre

for Smoking Cessation Training, NCSCT,

educational videos. These ‘How To’ clips

demonstrate how staff explain

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)

products to patients and colleagues.

‘Prescribing NRT is an important aid that

helps patients stop smoking while in our

care. This abstinence increases recovery

rates and ensures the best outcomes for

patients. For more information please

contact: A. Burns. Smoking Cessation Co-

ordinator, Hospital Smoke Free Service

Ninewells.

Image showing NCSCT videos to: Lynne Gray Colorectal Nurse Specialist, Ninewells Hospital.

The Power of Attorney Campaign is starting to gear up! Did you know that if you become unable to make decisions for yourself - because of illness

or injury for example - no-one else can make those decisions for you, unless you have given them legal powers to do so? This means that your next of kin does not have the legal right

or responsibility to make decisions on your behalf if you are unable to make decisions for yourself, they must be grated legal powers to do so via a Power of Attorney.

Since the initial campaign in 2014, we have saw an increase in the number of people in Tayside applying for a

Power of Attorney. All these individuals now have peace of mind regarding decisions about their future, should a time come when they lose capacity. For example having a

Power of Attorney will prevent the need for a lengthy Guardianship process if you are in Hospital.

The Power of Attorney campaign is contributing to a positive culture shift by encouraging conversations and

more openness about people’s future health needs and wishes.

The campaign has a dedicated website, www.mypowerofattorney.org.uk, which provides valuable

help and information including costs involved in setting up a POA and how to check if you are eligible for Legal Aid.

Don’t put things off until you are older.

Prepare for the future, starting NOW!

Consider a Power of Attorney

Spectacular Gift on Show at The McManus

The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum has a new

display 'The Artists' Screen' that forms their annual Winter

Works in their Victoria Gallery. The display features twelve

small-scale paintings reunited for the first time in 90 years

since being part of a wooden folding screen that unfortunately

no longer survives. The artworks were given by eminent artist

friends to Mrs J.G. Orchar, the wife of local art collector James

Guthrie Orchar around 1892.

As a free-standing piece of furniture, the screen stood in the Orchar's home in Broughty Ferry and

would have acted as a very intimate, private art gallery. As such, the screen can be understood as

symbolic of the high esteem in which these artists held these Mr and Mrs Orchar. The artists were

some of the leading painters of the Victorian era and comprised John Pettie, William McTaggart, Hugh

Cameron, Colin Hunter, John Smart, George Hay,

John MacWhirter, William Quiller Orchardson and

Thomas Graham. The screen remained with Mrs

Orchar throughout her life and was inherited by

her niece Ann Douglas in 1916. The paintings are

now in the City’s permanent fine art collection.

The artworks form part of the Orchar Collection. The collection is a significant collection of Victorian

Scottish art. It was assembled by James Guthrie Orchar (1825-1898), a local industrialist and patron

of the arts. During his lifetime, Orchar collected over 300 works. He focussed particularly on artists of

the Scott Lauder Group. Unlike the other large collections built up by Dundee’s jute barons, Orchar’s

private collection remains intact. Bequeathed to the people of Broughty Ferry, and shown in the

independent Orchar Gallery from 1923 until 1979, it was donated by the Orchar Trustees to the City

of Dundee in 1987.

Kirsty MacNab, Curatorial Assistant - Fine and Applied Art said; “In reuniting these works, we aim to

give our visitors a greater understanding of how the screen may have appeared and want to highlight

the great esteem in which this local art collector was held by the great Scottish artists of the day. The

screen would have been a truly spectacular gift and we are delighted to have it on show in this

exhibition.”

The Artists’ Screen will be shown in McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum until Sunday January

29, 2017.

Reducing Fire Risk for Older and Vulnerable People

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) is working in partnership with gas distribution company SGN

and multi-agency partners to offer a device which aims to protect older and vulnerable people in

Dundee from fire.

SGN are leading a partnership, which

involves SFRS, NHS Tayside’s Community

Mental Health Occupational Therapy

Department for Older People, and DCC

Housing.

The partnership has been looking at ways to

reduce the risk to vulnerable and older people

(particularly those with Alzheimer’s and

dementia) from the dangers of fire in their

homes.

The partners focused on scenarios involving either leaving a cooker on when the person does not have

capacity to cook, or by accidentally turning on the gas ring valve on the cooker, allowing the gas to

escape un-ignited. The consequences of either occurrence could be devastating.

Following discussions between the agencies involved, SGN proposed to run a pilot scheme which

involved fitting a locking valve device on cooker pipework to make vulnerable customers or those with

dementia and Alzheimer’s disease safer in their own homes.

This is a small valve which has a huge impact on safeguarding the most vulnerable lives and will be

provided free of charge by SGN.

SFRS’s Local Authority Liaison Officer in Dundee, John Wade, said: “On referral from the Scottish Fire

and Rescue Service, Community Mental Health Occupational Therapy Department for Older People or

Housing officers, SGN will make an arrangement for an engineer to visit the customer’s home and fit

the locking valve to the cooker.

“A carer or relative is needed to be present during this visit and they would agree the position of the

valve with the engineer. The key for the lockable valve will be given to the carer or relative or placed

in a key safe (if provided) for safekeeping.”

He added: “It will ensure that the vulnerable customer cannot turn on the cooker. It prevents gas

escapes from cookers being turned on and not lit, prevents fires from burnt out saucepans and kettles

and provides reassurance to the family and neighbours.”

Now that the pilot scheme has finished and proved to be a success, SGN have decided to launch the

initiative nationwide. As a result of this, the partners have been involved in making a short educational

and informative film about the Gas Cooker Locking Valve. This is the quick link to the film: Gas Cooker

Locking Valve Video .

Watch Manager John Wade would encourage all people who are providing as service to persons who

are most vulnerable to watch the video and consider if this item would benefit their clients. “We would

like to extend our sincere gratitude to SGN and all partners who have come together for this truly

worthwhile initiative.”

Children & Families Partnership – Integrated Working and Service Planning

2016 saw big changes for the Children and Families Partnership as we make strides towards a fully

integrated partnership approach to planning, delivery and self-evaluation.

Driven by recommendations from the Care Inspectorate report into Children’s Services in Dundee a

Strategy & Performance team for the partnership was established. This team incorporates a wide

range of disciplines from within DCC but in 2017 will also have Third Sector and NHS representation

on the team to ensure that the widest range of partners are involved in contributing towards improved

outcomes for Dundee’s children.

The main work of the team at the moment is supporting partners to pull together a Single Children’s

Services Plan that will ensure all partners are working towards a common set of outcomes that matter

most to Dundee’s children and families.

The priority areas for this plan will be:

Early Social and Emotional Development

Child Healthy Weight

Engagement with School

Early Initiation of Substance Misuse

Looked After Children

Children with Additional and Complex Support Needs

Child Protection

To ensure full integration with Dundee’s community planning process the Single Children’s Services

Plan will form the Children and Families theme section of the Dundee LOIP.

As well as planning at a strategic level the Children and Families Partnership are working to take

partnership approaches at a delivery level. One example of this will be the relaunch of Local Learning

Partnerships in 2017 to build on the fantastic partnership work currently going on in many areas of

the city. LLPs will deliver on a locality basis for children and families and ensure that children and

families in Dundee’s communities get the right support at the right time for their specific needs. The

LLPs will report in to Local Community Planning Partnerships and use Local Community Plans to inform

their work plans meaning for the first time there is a formal link between children’s service planning

and local community planning.

Other innovative partnership approaches to delivering for children and families include the continued

roll out of the Attainment Challenge, Team Around the Child, Family, Fun & Food Holiday Programme

and Lochee Community HUB.

To find out more or to be added to the weekly Children and Families Bulletin please contact

pamela.blacklaws@dundeecity.gov.uk.

Growth and Development Continues at Leisure & Culture Dundee

The fifth annual report from Leisure & Culture

Dundee, who operate Leisure, Sports, Cultural and

Library Services, on behalf of Dundee City Council

shows another positive year of growth and

development with over 3 million visits to facilities

across the City and increased turnover in the financial

year 2015-16. The release of the report has also

brought praise for the contribution made in securing

UNESCO City of Design status for Dundee.

There were 3,023,411 visits across the organisation

with highlights including Caird Hall where total

attendances were almost 150,000, a rise of 11% on the previous year and 1.41 million paying

customers through the doors at Leisure & Sports venues. Creative Learning figures also saw a 23%

increase with 19,793 participating in inspiring activities delivered at The McManus, Mills Observatory,

Broughty Castle Museum and The Old Steeple. Financial turnover at the Scottish Charitable

Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) also increased slightly in results to end of March 2016 to £14.2m.

In each of the last 5 years, the trustees have made investments

from Leisure & Culture Dundee’s trading surplus including

upgrades at Lochee Swim & Sport Centre. This year they have

set aside £100k for apprenticeships and graduate internships,

£92K for ICT enhancements. Funds for infrastructure upgrades

at Lochee Library, Caird Hall and for a project to improve

community facilities at Broughty Ferry Library have also been

made.

Service innovation and development includes a partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support to deliver

Move More Dundee, an exercise referral programme for people living with and beyond cancer. This

partnership will continue to develop and there are plans for further enhancement of support for those

affected by cancer through the City's public library network. The Library service already has a track

record of successfully supporting those with specific needs, particularly those experiencing the impact

of welfare reform. Additionally, the organisation is also working closely with Coca Cola and Dundee

City Council to deliver ‘ParkLives', a free health and fitness programme in public parks that will

continue until 2019.

Stewart Murdoch, Managing Director at Leisure & Culture Dundee said; “A huge amount has been

accomplished over the last 5 years. Performance of all services has improved and costs to the local

tax payer have been cut by 30% over this period. So, of course, we are very proud of what has been

achieved.”

David Martin, Chief Executive at Dundee City Council said; “Leisure & Culture Dundee was the first

SCIO in Scotland and reflected the City’s ambition to be innovative in the way its services are

modernised. We have not been disappointed. In particular we want to pay tribute to the volunteers

who serve as Trustees on its board. The SCIO also deserves recognition for the key role played in

securing UNESCO City of Design designation for Dundee, working closely with V&A Dundee and other

cultural partners in the City.”

Copies of the full report are available at http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/annual-report-

2016 and can also be accessed at the 14 public libraries across Dundee.

Action for Children – Dundee Youth Housing Service Trips Blackpool Trip 2016

As part of the 25th Birthday celebrations Action for Children, Dundee Youth Housing Service decided

to take the young people on a day trip. Staff wanted it to be a fun filled day that would let the young

people travel somewhere they may not have been before and to allow them to step out of their comfort

zones.

It was decided that we would visit Blackpool pleasure beach, preparations started a few months prior.

Making sure the theme park tickets were purchased, coach was booked, young people were aware of

the date and plans and travel food and snacks were purchased.

On the day 20 excited young people

and 6 sleepy staff boarded the coach

at 5.30am to start the 5 hour journey

to Blackpool. For the journey there

was rolls, snacks and drinks and all

were given £10 spending money for

their day in the park.

We arrived at the pleasure beach at

11am and queued up for our

wristbands, once in the park the

young people had freedom to explore

the park independently and were

asked to meet back at 4.30pm at

front gate.

Some of the young people chose to

stay with staff whilst others went off

to do their own thing. Throughout the

day some of the young people gained confidence and decided to go off on their own whilst others who

had originally went off came back to spend time with staff.

In all the group were on every rollercoaster and ride the park had to offer, the lack of queues meant

that loads could be crammed into the day. Staff and young people decided to make most of the sunny

weather and went on the water ride together. However the first boat got stuck and all the water filled

the boat leaving them soaking wet, much to the amusement of the second boat.

Staff and young people took pictures together and purchased ride photos to capture the fun memories

of the day. At the end of the day young people got the chance to go into the Pasaje Del Terror a horror

attraction, which was also a source of amusement for the others who did not take part.

On the journey home we stopped into a service station where everyone enjoyed a McDonald’s meal

for dinner before arriving home exhausted around 11pm.

Poland, a Cultural Experience

Dundee Youth Housing Service has for several years now, encouraged Young People who are using

the service to undertake an educational visit to Krakow, Poland. The 4 day trip serves many purposes,

but not least that of providing the Young People accessing Action for Children services a chance to

widen their cultural understanding and world view.

2016 has proven to be no different with preparations for the journey beginning in May of this year.

This involved interested Young People and staff having an initial meeting in order to begin preparation

for application of passports and to discuss the purpose of the Poland visit. Once it had been established

which staff and Young People were to partake in the trip, a pizza evening was set up so as to allow

everyone to get to know one another and learn more about what the annual trip entails.

After much excitement and preparation, the 22nd of August arrived and the group set off together on

the journey. Upon arriving in Krakow, the apartments were located and, after offloading the luggage,

everyone went sightseeing for a few hours and became acquainted with the city centre. A quick rest

break back in the apartments was needed before the group came together again to eat dinner. After

the meal, everyone decided that an early night was advisable as a trip to Auschwitz was planned for

the following day.

Tuesday morning came round and

everyone arose early to catch the

bus to Auschwitz. This particular

trip had been much discussed

beforehand and although the day

was long and emotionally charged,

everyone involved found it a very

moving and humbling experience

which subsequently meant a lot of

time on the return bus journey was

spent discussing the horrors that

had been committed upon

humanity. After arriving back in

Krakow, everyone returned to the

apartments to change before

heading out for dinner at a local

Italian restaurant. The group then

spent some time in the city centre

before retiring to the apartments for

the remainder of the evening.

Wednesday was spent at the Wieliczka Salt Mine. As was the case with Auschwitz, travel was

undertaken by bus and the destination was reached around midday. Upon entering, the group began

to descend the 350 stairs required to reach the depths of the mine. While navigating the winding

stairs, an English speaking tour guide provided an explanation of the history of the mine. Once we

had reached the depths of the mine, we were treated to a dazzling display of salt figurines, carvings

and, most magnificent of all, the Cathedral made entirely out of salt. Staff and Young People alike

were amazed at the sight and more than one young person expressed disbelief that such a beautiful

place could be created out of salt.

Thursday was a more relaxed and less structured day. Staff and Young People separated in the

morning to do some shopping and have lunch in a restaurant of their choice before reconvening in the

early afternoon to visit the castle and go on a boat ride. After this, a unanimous decision was made

to go for dinner at the Italian Restaurant which everyone had enjoyed on the first night in Krakow.

During the meal, the Young People were presented with a souvenir from their time in Poland and spent

a lot of time laughing and chatting about how much they enjoyed the trip.

Overall, the Young People involved felt that they benefitted greatly from the experience. Aside from

the educational aspect, some of the Young People had never been outside the United Kingdom and

sites such as Auschwitz and the Salt Mine were eye opening experiences that encouraged them to

think about the world around them. Further to this, it gave the Young People a wonderful opportunity

to interact with one another and learn how to work as a group.

New Developments from Dundee Social Enterprise Network

Dundee Futures Fund

People with an idea to start up a Social Enterprise and in need of initial funding

e.g. a Feasibility grant to help try and test their ideas. A new social enterprise at

the start of trading, where a grant would reduce a barrier to operating. Next Main

Grant deadline 20th March 2017.

Want to know more? More information on Dundee Futures Fund HERE

Social Enterprise Dundee 2016 Post - Conference Report

The Social Enterprise Conference Dundee 2016 brought together a diverse group of professionals

working in fields from research to business development. Speakers of the day came from: The Scottish

Parliament Social Bite, Yunus Centre / Glasgow Caledonian University, V&A Dundee, Glasgow Women's

Library and Centre for Local Economic Strategies.

Want to know more or relive that day? See our post-conference report HERE

Boost by Design

Boost by Design is a new project for Dundee’s social enterprises who are keen to develop their

understanding of design, innovation and digital skills. If you are a social enterprise based locally and

interested in taking part in it early 2017, then

it’s FREE and open for application – the

deadline to apply is 5pm, Thursday 12th January 2017 – to read click HERE

Dundee Ice Arena

Leisure and Sport have been working on a number of methods to engage with and encourage local

youths to participate in sport & recreational activities. Dundee Ice Arena have taken the approach of

working in partnership with Community Safety Wardens and members of CLD Youth teams to assess

their needs and wishes. From this, a number of free public skating passes were distributed within the

community with the aim to capture those who may never have had the opportunity to come skating

before.

The majority of passes have now been distributed and so far we have had a 50% return in the past

12 weeks. We feel this is proving to be very positive as it has given young people a chance to spend

time socialising in a safe environment, whilst also having the potential to develop an interest in

physical activity. This will further provide them with tools for communicating and improving both

physical and mental wellbeing.

There has also never been a better time to participate in Ice Skating at Dundee Ice Arena as we

currently have the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed women from the British Figure Skating Championships all

currently training with us at the Arena. Congratulations to Natasha MacKay, Karly Robertson and

Danielle Harrison who we are sure will be providing inspiration to all.

New CD Celebrates ‘The Sound of Dundee’

A free compilation CD of original work from various artists working within the City has been released

and is available to pick up at The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum and Verdant Works. The

Sound of Dundee: Volume 2 is a follow up to last year’s successful compilation and it features an

eclectic mix of artists from a variety of genres.

The artists are:

Courtney Elena

Marley Davidson

STOOR

Jonny Jewel

The Mnemonics

Pilgrims

Also on the CD:

Sinderins

Art Of The Memory Palace

Paul Lefty Wright

The Onion Club

Nicola Madill

Esperi

Vladimir

Gillian Dee

Kaddish

Broken Stories

Sonny Carntyne

Making history in 2017 - VisitScotland

Launched on the 7th December by Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop, Scotland’s Year of History, Heritage

and Archaeology 2017 will aim to inspire visitors to #facethepast, in new and innovative ways.

The launch featured the announcement of some of the events lined up to make history in 2017. So

far, a total of nine events supported by a £300,000 Signature Year of History, Heritage and

Archaeology Events Fund have been announced with more set to be revealed.

VisitScotland also coordinates a

Year of History, Heritage and

Archaeology Partner Programme of

events, which can benefit from

marketing and media activity.

With over one third of visitors drawn

to Scotland for its history and

culture, the Year of History,

Heritage and Archaeology is set to

be an exciting opportunity to relive

Scotland’s fascinating past through

a range of events and activities.

Get involved!

It couldn’t be easier to get involved

online and anyone can… all you

have to do is take a selfie with a

building, object or a location –

something that presents Scotland’s

history, heritage or archaeology,

making sure you use #facethepast

and #HHA2017.

Businesses can:

Make the most of the Year of History Heritage and Archaeology toolkit and ebrochure.

The EventScotland Partner Programme, part of VisitScotland’s Events Directorate. is now open;

sign up your event or festival at eventscotland.org.

Be innovative in how we promote and involve visitors in our heritage; download VisitScotland’s

ancestral toolkit and become part of the Ancestral Welcome Scheme.

Continue to embody our country’s #ScotSpirit, part of VisitScotland’s global campaign and

champion our country and your region through our ScotSpirit toolkit.

Services DD4 Network – North/North East Pilot Projects

A review of the employability services across Dundee City by Rocket Science has taken place recently.

One of the main things to come out of this is that people were saying they wanted to be able to access

services in their local communities.

With this in mind and with information from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation it was agreed

to establish two pilot sites in the North and North East of the city that with a multi-agency co-ordinated

approach could improve people’s employability journey.

Following a number of local events involving a large number of agencies, projects and local people

and with support from DCC Organisational Development team the DD4 Network was established.

These events were crucial to understand roles and responsibilities and to take forward collective ideas

and actions agreed by the working group. Action plans have been agreed by the local teams that will

be taken forward in the New Year.

Sharing people’s stories and their employability journey has been crucial in understanding the barriers

people face and these will continue to be important to capture and learn from as the pilots’ progress.

Brooksbank Centre and The Crescent were chosen as initial local community venues. The multi-

disciplinary teams work from Brooksbank on a Monday from 1-3pm and in the Crescent on a Tuesday

from 1-3pm.

Publicity and marketing ideas agreed by the group with the input of local people are to be taken

forward to raise awareness of this multi agency offering within these local communities. Already we

are seeing more cross referrals between agencies involved in these pilots.

Leisure & Culture Dundee – Sport and Physical Activities Bounce Back to Netball

Bounce Back to Netball is a Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy initiative encouraging people

of all ages and abilities to participate in regular fun, safe and affordable netball sessions which will

have a positive impact of health and well-being. The programme provides the opportunity for people

to ignite or rekindle their passion for netball in a fun and sociable environment.

Leisure & Culture Dundee 'Bounce Back into Netball' sessions are available for ages 16+ and our

current sessions incorporate 46 women between the ages of 22-50 years. These women have now

started to take further steps into long term participation with 25 of them already affiliated to Netball

Scotland.

We will be starting new classes in the New Year and anyone interested in receiving information should

email Alex Knight at alex.knight@leisureandculturedundee.com.

Leisure & Sport Winter Offers

Leisure & Sport organised a wide range of Festive Offers and Activities this winter with some of them

still available now. Our main promotion was as a thank you to all of our valued customers by offering

discounted access to Olympia, Dundee Ice Arena, Camperdown Wildlife Centre and Lochee Leisure

Centre with our 5 for a Fiver promotion. This gave access to any 5 customers for only £5.00.

Santa’s Winter Nights at Camperdown was hugely successful this year with almost 4000 customers

enjoying our spectacular lights display whilst visiting Santa in his Grotto.

We also had a selection of Christmas Parties and Disco’s available across 6 of our facilities, including

visits from Santa Claus which were thoroughly enjoyed by all involved.

Our offers are continuing into the New Year with an amazing Leisureactive Membership offer, providing

the second month FREE OF CHARGE to anyone who signs up between 9th January and 14th February

2017. Or why not get set for the slopes with a block of Ski Lessons on our Dry Ski Slope at Ancrum

Outdoor Centre with lessons continuing through March. For more information, go to our website at

www.leisureandculturedundee.com

Leisure and Culture Dundee – Play Rangers

Play Rangers has been running in Dundee since September 2015 in partnership with Inspiring Scotland

and Aberlour – Scotland’s Children’s Charity.

Play Rangers are staff and volunteers supporting children to play out in their own streets and parks.

Play Rangers run loose parts freeplay in local schools at lunchtimes and local parks 3:30-4:30pm in

local greenspaces.

Play rangers facilitate free play and provide

resources and ideas to encourage exciting,

imaginative and creative play opportunities for

pre-school to 13 year olds. It is not childcare

provision, but offer parents’ reassurance and

children an environment within their local

community where they can be physically

active, learn, develop and grow. Children

under 9 must be accompanied by an adult or

only left unattended if they would normally

play out without parental supervision.

Sessions are open access; children are free to come and go as they please, and take place outdoors

in all weathers.

Play Rangers work in a person centred free play way, meaning activities undertaken are child led and

variable, for example:

Den building using natural resources and recycled materials – tarpaulin, rope, cardboard, pegs,

sticks, branches

Art & Crafts using the natural environment – bar/leaf rubbing, drawings

Creative play – cardboard boxes, tyres etc to make boats, cars, anything

Challenging play – making obstacle courses, balance games

Water Play – guttering, pipes, slides, tarpaulin

Traditional Games – parachute games, dodgeball, hula hoops

Play Rangers is funded through Go2Play from Inspiring Scotland and run by

Leisure & Culture Dundee.

Currently we are running sessions in the North East and East End areas,

running school lunchtime sessions on the Wednesday and Thursday followed

by community sessions:

Wednesday – East End – Mid Craigie Park, 3:30-4:30pm

Thursday – North East – Ballumbie Park, 3:30-4:30pm

For more information pleas contact Averil Anderson on 01382 438866 or

averil.anderson@leisureandculturedundee.com There is also a Dundee Play

Rangers facebook page https://www.facebook.com/#!/Dundee-Play-Rangers-

1039214556129437/

If you are interested in volunteering or working with Play Rangers, please get in touch.

Citizen’s Advice Bureau – Big Energy Saving Network

Dundee Citizens Advice Bureau has recently received funding from the

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to deliver the Big

Energy Saving Network. This is a national project designed to help vulnerable

customers save money on their energy bills by checking their tariffs, switching

suppliers and applying for energy efficiency grants.

One-to-one advice sessions at the bureau are free, confidential and

impartial, and we are able to visit community groups for presentations

or informal talks. We also hold awareness sessions for staff and

volunteers. The project is open to volunteers who may wish to take part

in any of the above activities.

For more information, please contact Sam Walters at the Dundee

Citizens Advice Bureau on 01382 431581 or

samwalters@dundeecab.casonline.org.uk.

Development of the Health & Well-Being Referral Hub

Leisure & Culture Dundee is expanding its reach to create more opportunities for people to engage in

physical activity. Positive discussions with the Dundee Carers Centre, Children and Families Service,

Scottish Prison Service and the Equally Well team have seen plans being put in place to ensure that

supported access to our facilities is a priority into the new year.

We currently have a number of successful referral programmes including Active for Life, Move More

and Family Active. Using these models, plans are being put in place to ensure that those people who

face multiple barriers to access are supported. Initiatives to support looked after and accommodated

children, young people with a caring responsibility or in offsite education and prison leavers will all be

developed in 2017. Leisure & Culture Dundee will then continue to expand its reach further.

For more information on our Referral Programmes please contact Chris Baily on 01382 436930.

Dundee’s ‘My Life’ Portal

Dial-OP Information Helpline

Dial-OP, the Dundee Information Helpline and Telephone Befriending service, has been operating since August 2012

providing a local, reliable and easily accessible platform which meets a wide range of information needs, including social activities and community groups, support needs, issues with

money, assistance at home, transport, care and volunteering.

In 2015 we had the opportunity to expand our services and help alleviate the battle against loneliness and social isolation, linking people who would

benefit from a friendly phone call with a trained volunteer befriender.

Today we are delighted to incorporate the Morning Call to our service provision, a 5

minute telephone call between 9am and 10am, Monday to Friday, to isolated and/or vulnerable adults in Dundee, as a way of

providing reassurance, connectivity and safety. The service will offer, in addition to the basic health and wellbeing call, a reminder service for medical or social appointments, repeat prescriptions, or any events of relevance to the service user.

Referral forms are available on request and can also be found on the Volunteer Dundee

website. For further information on the Morning Call or any of our other services, please contact Dial-OP on 01382 305757.

This project is funded by the Integrated Care Fund through the Dundee Health & Social Care Partnership. Dial-OP is a confidential

telephone service provided by local volunteers in Dundee, delivered by Volunteer Dundee.

Volunteer Centre Dundee, operating as Volunteer Dundee, is registered in Scotland as a charitable company limited by guarantee, Scottish Company No: SC257436, Scottish Charity No: SC027529, Registered address: Gateway West, 7 Luna Place, Dundee DD2 1XF

Information Helpline Telephone Befriending Morning Call

Community Companions

The Community Companions project welcomes a new

Engagement Worker Liz Gordon who will be organising

and running the Community Cafes within care homes and sheltered complexes throughout Dundee.

The project is always looking for volunteers and helpers

for the Community Cafes. If you are interested in

getting involved contact clarecockburn@number10.org or tel: 01382 305736.

Lochee Community Hub Now Open

The HUB is a collaborative approach by the Lochee

Pathfinder, Communities, the Alcohol and Drugs

Partnership and Dundee Voluntary Action. The concept of

this hub is to have a highly visible, one stop shop in the

heart of the community that can serve as an information

point for families and communities, a co-location centre for

services and workers and a community facility for the

people of Lochee. DVA will take responsibility for the

development of the hub to meet the aspirations of and

involve local people, in its development, management,

delivery and evaluation.

For more information about the programme of activities

visit:

https://www.facebook.com/LocheeCommunityHub.co.uk/

or drop in to Lochee Community Hub, Lochee High Street.

Food Connections - Tayside Nutrition Managed Clinical Network

The Network endeavours to ensure that NHS Tayside provides quality and cost-effective clinical

nutrition services. A regular ‘Food Connections’ newsletter is produced that helps to share information

and good practice in key nutrition areas and assist personnel from a wide variety of agencies and the

public to access up-to-date nutrition information.

The Network is an accredited Managed Clinical Network (MCN) within NHS

Tayside and works across organisational boundaries with a range of staff and

public to improve nutrition in Tayside. It uses the nine MCN principles in its

Quality Assurance Programme (QAP). A Toolkit has also been developed to

assist the implementation of this QAP.

Previous issues of Food Connections are held here along with a range of useful

information on nutrition. For more information please contact

sue.smart@nhs.net

Department of Spiritual Care

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BECOMING A VOLUNTEER LISTENER?

“Helping people (re)discover hope and inner strength in times of illness, change and loss”

Can you be a good listener?

Can you help someone explore what they are going through?

Spiritual Care Listener

Listening to people’s concerns can help them feel less isolated and anxious while helping them feel

more hopeful and valued.

Volunteers can play a vital role supporting the work of the Department of

Spiritual Care in their work often being the initial point of contact.

Volunteering opportunities are available in

Bereavement

Community

Hospital

Members of the Department provide ongoing support.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer with the Department of Spiritual Care an information

afternoon is being held on Wednesday 15th February, 2017.

If you wish to attend please contact Lynne Downie on 01382 423110 or email

lynne.downie@nhs.net

Links

Over time, we aim to develop this section of the bulletin to include useful links to a range of

organisations and information.

Partner Links

Department for Work & Pensions

Dundee & Angus Chamber of Commerce

Dundee & Angus College

Dundee City Council

Dundee Partnership

Dundee Social Enterprise Network

Dundee University

Dundee Voluntary Action

Job Centre Plus

Leisure & Culture Dundee

NHS Tayside

My Wellbeing

Protecting People Dundee

Police Scotland

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Fire & Rescue Service

Scottish Government

Skills Development Scotland

TACTRAN

Tayside Criminal Justice Authority

University of Abertay Dundee

Volunteer Centre Dundee

Local Links

Citizen’s Advice Bureau

Craigowl Communities

Discovery Credit Union

Dundee Access Group

Dundee Carers Centre

Dundee International Women’s Centre

Dundee ‘My Life’ Portal

Dundee Social Enterprise Network

Volunteer Dundee

Penumbra

Positive Steps

Protecting People in Dundee (multi-agency)

Salvation Army

Shelter Scotland

Transform Furniture

Yusuf Youth Initiative

National Links

Action for Children

Parklives

Princes Trust

Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum (SURF)

Funding Integrated Care Small Grants Fund The Small Grants Fund aims to build the capacity of

communities to deliver services which ensure people are able to

look after and improve their own health and wellbeing and live

in good health for longer. Funding is available to support the

delivery of projects across all adult services.

For more information and deadline dates for applications visit:

http://www.d-v-a.org.uk/support-and-development/funding/

Dundee Partnership Community Regeneration Fund

Allocations in November & December 2016

These grants are awarded at the monthly Building Stronger Communities meeting, based on the

recommendations of the Community Regeneration Forums (CRF) in Coldside, East End, Lochee,

Maryfield, North East and Strathmartine Wards or the Local Community Planning Partnerships in The

Ferry and West End Wards.

The CRFs are made up of up to 15 local residents from across the Ward who are elected to the group

by local residents. LCPP members include a range of public and voluntary sector officers and

representation from 4-6 local community members.

DP Ref. Applicant Ward Description of Project Grant

Awarded

CP1602 St. Peter & St Paul’s Primary

School

Coldside

To purchase a resource called “Play in a Pod” which is a playground based container of various recycled items that encourages children to use their imagination and problem solving skills. The

resource will also include some training for teachers and volunteers to enable start-up of an adventure club for P1-3 after school.

£2,000

CP1603 Coldside

Events Group Coldside

In partnership with local business, funding will enable installation of a Christmas tree in the Hilltown area. The funds will pay for the tree’s installation, maintenance, removal, lighting, and a small light switch on event.

£3,439

EEP1605

Craigiebarns

Nursery School

East End

Refurbishment of existing outdoor play equipment

to enable continued use by nursery school children. Approximately fifty children will benefit each year.

£3,778

F1606 Friends of Broughty Ferry Library

The Ferry

To purchase additional IT equipment for use in the youth wing of the library. This will complement approximately £4,000 work already carried out through funds raised by the group.

£1,565

DP Ref. Applicant Ward Description of Project Grant

Awarded

L1632 Lochee Community

Group

Lochee

To provide the costs for start-up equipment for a Men’s Shed. This will benefit both direct participants (expecting this to be 7-10 people) and

the wider community through work done for other projects and individuals.

£2,384

L1634 Mulligan Court Social Club

Lochee

To provide a ten week block of two hour reflexology sessions that will benefit approximately twelve older residents. Participants will not only receive reflexology, but also have an additional opportunity

for socialising, helping to reduce isolation.

£550

L1635

Women’s Group – Menzieshill Church

Lochee

To purchase an additional indoor curling kit for use by the group on a weekly basis. 18 people regularly attend and having this second curling kit will enable all to participate more fully.

£305

LY1610 Charleston Community

Centre

Lochee To take the twelve youth group members on a Christmas outing in December to the cinema and

for a meal afterwards.

£131

M1617 Clepington Parent Partnership

Maryfield A whole school event that will enable all 520 children at the school to come together to visit the cinema in the run up to Christmas.

£2,700

M1618

Dundee

International Women’s Centre

Maryfield

Contribution towards the delivery of the Flourishing

Families group. This aims to improve learning, health and the social and developmental strength of families through a range of activities.

£2,500

MY1607 Glebelands Primary Parent Council

Maryfield Contribution towards the costs associated with transport and a four day residential at the Dalguise Outdoor Centre for the entire P7 class.

£3,544

NE1620 Active Schools North East

Tor provide free Basic Moves and Dance sessions

to all P1-3 pupils attending St. Luke’s & St. Matthew’s Primary School on a six week rotational basis over the lunch and pre/post school time. Approximately 100 children will benefit from participation.

£800

NE1621 Adult Learning Team

North East

To purchase materials to enable a drystone dyking project to take place. The project will reinstate the dyke within Middleton Wood and help to enhance participants’ employability through helping them develop a number of transferrable skills.

£756

NEP1607 Dunbar Park Owners Association

North East

To provide matched funding towards a new

pathway for residents of Dunbar Park that will provide a safe access route to The Crescent and Balumbie Primary School.

£3,660

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Issue # Submissions Deadline Issue Date

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9 18th August September 2017

DP Ref. Applicant Ward Description of Project Grant

Awarded

S1625 Dundee West Youth Work

Team

Strathmartine

To hold two Christmas events for young people from Ardler, Kirkton and St Mary’s. These will be held on 21st December in the Kirkton Community

Centre with approximately fifty young people attending each event.

£500

SY1608 FMGM Monarchs Hockey Club

Strathmartine

To fund coaching costs to deliver three fun and inclusive hockey sessions each week at Primary Schools across the Ward. Approximately 36 children aged 7-12 are expected to participate.

£1,273

SY1609 West Youth Work Team

Strathmartine

To purchase portable floodlights so that the football drop-in can run through the winter months. This project has approximately 150 young people registered with it, and the whole community benefits from reduced anti-social behaviour.

£3,924

WE1605

Harris

Academy Community Garden

West End

To purchase gardening equipment for use at a new community garden space that is being constructed

at the school. The aim is to bring together community members and pupils, and also use local church contacts to pass on fresh produce to local people in need.

£557

WE1606 West End Kurling Group

West End

To replace the groups indoor curling equipment, including pushing sticks and stone ball bearings to enable continued activity. This will benefit approximately sixteen group members.

£345

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