Totnes Neighbourhood Plan – Coordinator Report, May 2015

Totnes Neighbourhood Plan

Coordinators Report – May 2015

Item / Activity / Documents/outputs
Communications / Articles to Reconnect & TTT Newsletter + Totnes Directory / News articles
Task groups / ·  Task Group Lead Meeting
·  New members recruited / See minutes of meeting
Funding applications / ·  Funding applications made to Locality (£8000) decision due May 29th approx
·  Peoples Lottery (£2000) decision due mid June
·  Paige Adams Fund - £200 ∫
·  Other potential sources of funding – Awards for All. Town Council, County Council / NA
Events Calendar / Event’s calendar started and potential for stalls at the following events
·  Dartington Community Day
·  Longboat Festival
·  Totnes Agricultural Show
·  Totnes Carnival
Volunteers needed to staff these / NA
Community Groups data base / Stakeholder analysis/community engagement:
Creating database of groups in the community that represent different needs/interests so we can see who we need to reach and look at different methods for reaching them / Database in progress, to be shared by email later this month and added to/amended by Steering Group
Students / ·  Briefs written for Chris Students
·  Brief written for Schumacher Students / NA
Item / Activity / Documents
Job Spec / ·  Job spec written for project assistant. Job spec to be signed off by Steering Group and sent to Helen Nathenson to be advertised this month / See job spec
General project planning and budgets / Full project plan written with support/advise from Mary, Chris and Frances / See project plan in excel
Other meetings / ·  Ruth Potts (Schumacher College) follow up meeting in relation to student placements
·  Anne Marie Meyer – from TTT Housing and Energy Group. Agreed to be member of Housing Task Group
·  Nicola & Mary – Transition Homes
·  Vaughn Barclay – Meeting about different community groups to engage and improving website
·  Ian Franklin – induction to Neighbourhood Planning process and agreement to join Steering Group
·  Tatianna – files/folders and monitoring of neighbourhood planning data and process
·  Frances Northrop – Project planning support
·  Chris Balch – Project Planning support
·  Mary Cloughland-Clarke– Project planning support
·  Charlotte Grosvenor – DHC
·  Richard Townsend – potential volunteer found via Totnes Times article
·  Chantelle Norton – (local scientist) support/advise on data gathering for Task Groups / NA

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