Totnes Neighbourhood Plan – Coordinator Report, July/August2015

Totnes Neighbourhood Plan

Coordinators Report – July/August 2015

Item / Activity / Documents/outputs
Communications /
  • 3 articles in Totnes Times including on front page (promoting event, housing needs survey, general article on development in Totnes featuring Carol’s update at town council meeting – front page)
  • Active Facebook page set up
  • Using Town council Twitter account
  • Website updated with minutes of SG meeting and events page regularly being updated
  • New design theme created for Neighbourhood plan publicity tools
  • New leaflet created for the Neighbourhood Plan
  • Display created for the Library – up for 7 weeks, to be updated with new information when necessary
  • E-news letter designed and disseminated via mail-chimp. Newsletter to go out bimonthly
  • Totnes Directory article to be published this month
/ News articles
Project officer job /
  • Project Officer – Helen Golhesby in post
  • 10 hours per week until March 2016

Public Event /
  • Majority of June spent preparing for public event
  • 150 – 200 people came to the event
  • 8 volunteers signed up

Data from event /
  • Approximately 385 comments collected
  • Qualitative data capture/analysis spreadsheet created and populated for use by task groups
  • Data on who attended is being analysed by Environmental Sciences student. This can be used to see who we are reaching

Item / Activity / Documents/outputs
Housing needs surveys /
  • 900 surveys completed (approx.)
  • Coordinated publicity around HNS including press releases, email networks
  • Coordinating drop boxes and collecting surveys
  • Creating data entry plan and recruiting volunteers
/ See minutes of meetings
Volunteers/students

Priorities for August/September

Item / Activity
Detailed planning for next phase including fundraising / Updating project plan and looking at fundraising for producing the plan
Data / Finish data analysis from public event
Housing needs survey analysis / Inputting housing needs survey’s and working with ATMOS to publicise results
Task groups /
  • Supporting task groups with next steps
  • Supporting new task groups in starting up and setting their briefs (environment/culture & heritage)

Further engagement / Identifying and carrying out next steps in engagement. Where evidence is first hand still needed? What groups have not been reached? What are the best methods to reach them?
Schools / Meet with KEVVICs in new term to plan workshops for schools in October
Student placement / Meeting with Tim Crabtree (Schumacher College) re student placement for 4 MA students. Need to select some project options in advance of this meeting
Communications plan / Update
Stakeholder analysis / Use information from event and other evidence to look at who we’ve reached and put together stakeholder analysis document

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