News  &  Events

 

NPP Staff will be providing presentations and distributing information on the project at the following events

November 2007

Friday 23 November 2007

Highland Voluntary Sector Conference

Inches Church, Inverness

Further information contact

Barbara.love@scvo.org.uk

Tel 01463 251725

15 November 2007

Cairngorm National Park Conference

Covering tranport and equalities issues

further information to follow

contact  john.thorne@cairngorms.co.uk

 

Thursday 8th November 2007

Community Transport Annual event - the largest community and accessible transport event in the UK.  In Manchester Central (formerly GMEX) from 5th to 8th November 2007.

DESERVE event will be unit 62 - on Thursday 8th November 2007 from 10.30 to 12.30

Further information available from the CTA website

http://www.communitytransport.com/index.aspx?id=130

 

October 2007

Wednesday 3rd October 2007

Building an Economically Sustainable Highlands & Islands  - Could Social Enterprises be the link between private and public sectors?

The Green House Inverness

To book a place contact jan.macpherson@sdrc.uhi.ac.uk

Tel   01309 678111

 

September 2007

Thursday 27th September 2007

INTERNATIONAL DESERVE FInal Finnish Seminar  in Sotkamo, FInland on Thursday 27th September 2007   -  How do we assure services in the village  - service centre a viable solution?

The seminar will include a study trip tp the village hall of Heinamaki, Heinis and to Tipasoja village, at Hiiden Torppa.

There area range of international speakers including:

Douglas Currie, from Strachur Memorial Hall, Argyll, Scotland

Lena Nygren and Hakon Lindgren from the Rusksele Village shop and service centre, Vasterbotten, Sweden

Erik Linberg from the Ovre Bygen service centre, Vastedrebotten, Sweden

Finnish speakers include

Pasi Korhonen from the Heinamaki village association

Maija Vuorinen, from Hiiden Torppa

and Jouko Sormunen from Tipasoja Village Association

further information from Andra Aldea-Partanen   E mail andra.aldea-partanen:oulu.fi   or from Barbara Love

 

Friday 21st September 2007 

in the Marriot Hotel, Inverness   - TIGHRA conference

Session Sustaining Rural Services - lessons from Abroad  presentation on the DESERVE project which examined different models for successful rural seervice delivery in Northern European countries, including Scotland

 

To book at place at the two day conference contact either Barbara Love, NPP International Co-ordinator or judith@tighra.org

 August 2007

 Cowal Area - Argyll Scotland  21 August 2007

members of the public are invited to attend a press release and demonstration of the Broadband facilities installed in the Lochgoilhead Post Office these facilities are available free to members of the public in the Lochgoilhead area.    For further information please contact Barbara Love - tel 01463 251725 or e mail barbara.love@scvo.org.uk

JULY 2007

The latest General and Regional updates are now available by clicking firstly on the link

http://www.nppdeserve.info/library.asp

and then opening "files",  "LEAFLETS" and "JULY 2007".

 22nd to 23rd May 2007

International Conference  - The final Scottish conference, whose main theme was Delivering Services in Remote and Rural Areas was held in Oban, Argyll, Scotland from 22 - 23  May 2007.  The conference presentations took place in the Corran Halls on the 23rd May 2007. 

The main speaker was John Sinclair, who works with young people using music as a means of communication. He was formerly a musician with rock groups Uriah Heep, The Cult and the Ozzie Osbourne Band.  Other speakers included Jessie MacNeil and Eric Calderwood who provided a presentation on Rural Shops and representatives from the NPP DESERVE project from Sweden, Scotland, FInland and Iceland  and the BOTTOM RULES project from Sweden and Norway, who discussed the progress of their projects and the impact of transferring service models between different Northern Periphery Programme areas.  Claire Matheson, form the NPP Joint Programme Executive  provided an update on the Northern Periphery Operational Programme 2007 - 2013.

On Tuesday 22nd May 2007 there were two seperate study trips.These featured visits to a number of local projects, the one travelled from Oban to Craignure on the local ferry and then through Mull and onto the historic Isle of Iona. In the afternoon there was  a visit to the local community hall at Craignure and presentations from members of the local Mull and Iona Community,Trust, prior to taking the ferry back to Oban.  The second group visited the internationally acclaimed Scottish Association for Marine Science.  In the evening the group were entertained by the internationally acclaimed Oban Gaelic Choir.

The event coincided with The Gathering and Civicus which is hosted by SCVO in the SECC in Glasgow and further information on this event can be found at the SCVO website - www.scvo.org.uk.

On Thursday 24th May 2007 there was a meeting in the Boisdale Room at SECC, Glasgow at which representatives of the DESERVE project were available - both to discuss the results of the current DESERVE project and to discuss possible partnerships with organisations in the new, enlarged Northern Periphery Project area, in the 2007 - 2013 programme.

For more information please  contact Barbara Love - tel 00 44 1463 251725  or e mail barbara.love@scvo.org.uk

September 2006  and March 2007

NPP partners Steering Group and Study visits were held in Kajaani in Finland from the 28th to the 30th September 2006 and in Sweden from 10th to 12th February 2007

Presentations from the  events are available in the download section of the website

Wednesday 21st June 2006

NPP DESERVE Presentation at the SECC  Glasgow Scotland

Representatives from the various partner countries were available at The Gathering held in the SECC in Glasgow on the 21st June 2006.   There was an opportunity for interested individuals to meet informally with the participants in the project and obtain general information on the implementation of the NPP DESERVE project and Northern Periphery Programme funding.  Partners from Scotland, Sweden, FInland and Iceland were present as well as a representative from the BOTTOM RULES project.  The second part of the meeting was a formal presentation on the results of the various partner’s projects to date, and a presentation on the management and administration of the Northern Periphery Programme in Scotland and its future within European Structural Funds from 2007 – 2013

In addition to the partner's presentations there was also a talk given  by two representatives from the Swedish village of Rusksele describing the ‘transfer’ of ideas from study trips to Scotland and how these trips have impacted on their rural village community.

The presentations were followed by an “Ask the Panel” session

For further information on the event please contact Barbara Love tel 00 44 1463 251725 or e mail barbara.love@scvo.org.uk