Abercrombie Ideas

 

On 20th March Vivien joined seven Abercrombie Court tenants for our second planning session. We recapped on our last meeting and people reported back on what they had found out.

Vivien, Peter and Margaret had attended the Community Council meeting and shared information about Plan P and our project. The Council was supportive and made some suggestions including, linking with a local group supporting young mothers and considering contacting the local High School, Waid Academy, to encourage inter-generational links.

Sandra and Vivien had attended the Autumn club and spoken to the organiser and some of the club members. Feedback from this group included that older people particularly valued somewhere to meet up ‘just for a cup of tea and a chat’ and felt that the village didn’t have much opportunity for this at the moment.

Roddy had searched online and provided details about local support organisations, in particular he had been in contact with Wayne Mathieson, the Local Area Co-ordinator from  Fife Elderly Forum. Gayle had also been in touch with Wayne through enquiries at Fife Council. Wayne was keen to support the group and plans to attend our next meeting in May.

We used a local map of St Monans to think about what activities and resources are already available. We will explore the use of ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) and have set up an account. However, we need internet access in our meeting room before we can use this. Sam, from Bield Housing called in and agreed to explore this for the group.

Here is our map so far

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After some discussion we decided to create an ‘ideas bank’ to capture our ideas for activities and to think about what we would need to make them happen.

Screen Shot 2015-04-19 at 17.48.51The group were so keen on the coffee morning idea, that they decided to try it out on 20th April, in the Abercrombie Court Lounge. As well as providing an opportunity for people to meet and chat, the group felt that this would be another chance to find out from local people about what activities would be most welcomed.

Marion came up with the slogan ‘Fancy a cup? Come in for a sup?’. The group decided to use this for a flyer to advertise the coffee morning.

Here is the flyer that Gayle designed.

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Before our next meeting on 1st May, Vivien will make enquiries at Waid Academy about possible links with the group’s plan for a local history group. Peter will find out about local historians and resources. The whole group will work together to run the coffee morning on 20 April.