Glenkens Community Spaces Network Annual Report 2023

Executive Summary

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The Glenkens Community Spaces Network (GCSN) began with a 0.2 FTE Facilitator in January 2023 thanks to funding from the Glenkens and District Community Fund through Foundation Scotland.

The Community Spaces Network is a Glenkens Community and Arts Trust project. Following an initial round of fact-finding interviews with representatives of 20 community spaces in order to set priorities for the network, it has hosted 7 Network meetings to date, four of which have featured guest speakers to speak on a topic proposed by committee members. These meetings have been attended by members of 14 Town Hall, Village Hall and other community space committees across the Glenkens. Those who have been unable to attend have been kept up to date by email and invited to join in with projects and share updates.

The Network’s purpose is to bring these voluntary committees together for peer support, to encourage partnership working across the Glenkens and to amplify their efforts by further work by the Facilitator over one day per week. The GCSN has been very well received by the voluntary committees (see Appendix 1) and it has also become clear that its effective function is a strategic underpin to many of the Glenkens & District Community Action Plan priorities.

This report summarises the work done to date on these priorities, and sets out plans for the final year of the currently-funded delivery phase.