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Does this distinction make sense from a community perspective? Are they too big?

Who might be good to approach in these areas?

We’d be looking for a diverse range of groups, and can include organisations you are involved with or you think we would approach

Where & who else might be missing?

Where and who is often overlooked?

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Including:

Uphall Station, Pumpherston, Mid Calder, East Calder, Kirknewton, Wilkieston and Harburn.

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Including :

Armadale, Blackridge, Westrigg, Westfield and Torphichen.

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Who might be good to approach in these areas?

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Who might be good to approach in these areas?

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We’d be looking for a diverse range of groups, and can include organisations you are involved with or you think we would approach

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Including

Whitburn, Blackburn, East Whitburn, Greenrigg and Seafield.

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Who might be good to approach in these areas?

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Who might be good to approach in these areas?

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We’d be looking for a diverse range of groups, and can include organisations you are involved with or you think we would approach

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Including:

Fauldhouse, Longridge, Bents, Stoneyburn, Loganlea, Addiewell, Breich, West Calder and Polbeth

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Providing aims and background to the review and programme

Introduction

Who the interviewee is, their relationship and experience of community development and wider

Understanding the aims of the programmes

What is the interviewee’s understanding and have these been met, are there any unexpected outcomes

What’s the impact been of the programmes

Capturing the impact of the programmes, who has benefitted and how?

How does this fit with other public and third sector interventions

Do the programmes complement each other? How could this be developed? Are there any gaps in support?

Challenges and opportunities

For those delivering, what has been challenging and where has there been opportunities?

What could be further developed in the future

What could the support look like? What other aims could be developed? How could impact be measured in the future?

Opportunity for other reflections or comments and questions

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Where and who is often overlooked in terms of community development activity?	

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Where and who is often overlooked in terms of community development activity?	

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Winchburgh received CLLD funding in 2024, should they be an area to be included?

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Things are coming in too last minute from the ScotGov

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Things are coming in too last minute from the ScotGov

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Don't know what the criteria is

Things are last minute so impossible to work with the community

Responding to the funding rather than the needs of the communtiy

Pat has been involved in the last few meetings

Not funding staff time

Anything that involves community needs staff time, beyond volunteers

This really frustrating.

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Themes that have been discussed:

Understaffed - lack of people who can participate in the execution of the projects

Isolation and loneliness

Young people disconnected from education

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Themes makes more sense than places.

e.g. Winchburgh - it needed staff/time professionals which could enable to the activity

Lots of nature

Transport

All these places are so differences. Cultural differences.

Thematic is important. There is no one size fits all

Kat has done a great job with the tight turnarounds. Paperwork/system has been very challenging

Reducing social isolation/

Groups linking into communities.

Young people disconnected from education

Best groups - who are working right in the communtiy, working with groups on a daily basis. e.g. Winchburgh basin? Trying to bring people together.

West Lothian is a very peculiar area - being close to urban, lots of movement, losing that community feel that rural places can have.

Population growth.

West Calder and Livingstone - expected to have 2X as many 10-15 years

Housing

Talking to the community hubs.

Is this looking back

Them

COVID and cost of living crisis - themes for the first two rounds.

urban/rural interdependency

countryside and farming

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Areas are very diffirent culturally even when thy are geographically very close

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Transportation is an important issue in West Lothian

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Transportation is an important issue in West Lothian

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Rural Gentrification is a growing issue, explosive growth of population that might not understand or reflect the rurality of the area

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Rural Gentrification is a growing issue, explosive growth of population that might not understand or reflect the rurality of the area

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Given the limited amount of funds available we spent a significant amount of time looking for the best price for every individual thing we wanted to buy during our refurbishment project. However this meant even more time spent chasing quotes and trying to tease out cost categories compared to invoices & matching against bank transactions.

The fund is obviously aimed at financing one big project which can be quoted for by 3 companies, choose the cheapest, wait for the invoice and pay the company. Especially as the amounts available have reduced this is becoming increasing less cost effective, especially if there are multiple related but distinct aspects to the project.

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Who might be good to approach in these areas?

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Who might be good to approach in these areas?

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We’d be looking for a diverse range of groups, and can include organisations you are involved with or you think we would approach