Due to the popularity of the Basic Food Hygiene Course last week, Stirling Council have organised another one on-
Thursday 26th April 2018, 9.30am–12.30 pm at the Braeport Centre, Dunblane.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-stronger-communities-201718-tickets-29606216992
Stirling Council is delighted to announce the launch of a new Community Grant initiative for 2018 funded through the Glasgow 2018 European Championships cultural programme.
You can apply for up to £2000 by deadline of 3 April 2018. The Festival 2018 Our Place Fund Stirling is about creating artistic and cultural projects which celebrate the people and talent of your area. If you have an idea for an arts activity this could be for you. The activity must take place within the Stirling Council area between 30 June – 12 August 2018.
Full details are within the attached Guidelines and Application Form. If you wish to discuss your project idea please contact Fiona McLean or Carolyn Paterson:
mcleanf@stirling.gov.uk 01786 237528 patersonc3@stirling.gov.uk 01786 274023
If you have any queries about the application process please contact Jean Cowie: cowiej@stirling.gov.uk 01786 233143
(a word version, for electronic completion, of the application form I also attached
To keep up to date with funding opportunities register on our Funding Stirling website: http://stirling.fundingscotland.com/
Our Place Fund Stirling Application Form
See attached the Waste Service Collection Calendar for April onwards, this will be distributed week beginning the 19th of March (Monday) 2018, it will be going to all households.
Also attached is a coloured spreadsheet showing the difference in the waste streams collected, you will notice the current collect system requires us to change streams on Thursday night into Friday morning and change again Sunday night into Monday morning. This requires changes to vehicle set ups, the transfer station material allocation, reduces the ability to collect missed / non presented bins due to different material in the vehicles (2 changes per week), so we are moving to the same two streams for 7 days (1 change per week). The rotation will take place over the 6th 7th & 8th of April, you will notice on the Friday, Saturday & Sunday calendars there is a note highlighting the move. This will result in the properties this weekend receiving a Grey bin collection two weeks in a row and they will also receive an additional glass collection. This is for one weekend only, extra resources have been scheduled for these collections.
In addition there is a note at the bottom of each days calendar explaining the new arrangement for the supply of Biobags for food waste. Due to operational issues we are moving away from the delivery of these on the bin collection day, this was incredibly difficult to control, we had no way of checking who was requesting the bags, whether they were actually receiving them, it was also another operation that the operatives had to deal with that slowed down the collections and so on and so on. These will now be available for collection from local libraries, waste service representatives are meeting with library staff next week to discuss the booking out and stock control etc
Apologies for the late posting but as you will see it is quite a packed agenda for this evening’s Community Council meeting and it has taken us a bit of time to finalise. Hope to see you at tonight’s meeting.
This is Scotland’s “Year of Young People” – a year of events and activities designed by young people for young people, with the aim of giving them a voice, empowering them to influence the decisions that affect them and to celebrate their talents. As part of the YoYP ,Youth Ambassadors have been appointed from across Scotland and we have a number of Ambassadors living in Bridge of Allan. You can read more about YoYP2018 here.
Year of Young People 2018 website
Bridge of Allan Community Council are excited to support the activities and achievements of the young people in our community. Our aim this year is to engage with our young people and so ensure their ideas and opinions are represented on the wide range of topics that come to the community council. Indeed, we want our young people to be shaping our agenda and our emerging community plan, bringing forward things that are important to them. We see their input to the big issues as key – issues of policy, planning and investment in infrastructure will have long reaching impacts and our young citizens are the ones who will live with the consequences. It makes ever sense that our young people should be at the heart of our planning and decision making.
Over the course of this year we will invite young members of our community to join us and to get involved actively in the community. If you have a young person in your household or family, why not speak to them about their role in shaping Bridge of Allan’s future. We would love to hear from them and to give them a platform at our Community Council Meetings. If they want to get involved, ask them to contact us at contact@ccbridgeofallan.org.uk and we will make it happen!
