Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Forum

The Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Forum is open to representatives from third sector organisations in Falkirk, to share good practice, information, skills, experience and resources in order to tackle Poverty locally.

This includes tackling financial exclusion and building financial capability, tackling food poverty and increasing access to affordable food and tackling low skills and raising aspirations.

We want to hear from you! We’ve launched an online survey to gather your feedback, and ensure the Falkirk third sector forums are relevant and useful to our sector.

We’re looking to hear from all members of the sector, particularly those who have attended forums before, on what you would like to achieve and learn from them. The survey should only take 5 minutes to complete, and is open until 11:59pm on Sunday 31^st March.

To submit your response, please visit the SurveyMonkey page.

If you have any questions regarding this survey, or any of the forums, please contact Scott Malcolm by email: scott.malcolm@cvsfalkirk.org.uk

As a thematic mirror forum, issues arising from the Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Forum are taken forward by the forum representative to the Community Planning Partnership via the Poverty theme meetings, supported by CVS Falkirk staff.

Tackling Poverty – Our Area Will be a Fairer & More Equal Place to Live

Terms of Reference

Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Forum Terms of Reference

Online Discussion Boards

Alongside the 4 forum meetings a year, we now facilitate an Online Discussion Board to support the work of the forum. The purpose of this discussion board is to allow colleagues to share information, raise issues and ask questions between the quarterly meetings. These discussions will be used to help to influence the agendas of upcoming meetings, with outcomes of conversations being fed back to the discussion boards. You can access the discussion board for this forum by clicking on the following link: Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Forum Online Discussion Board.

The Online Discussion Boards are publicly accessible, but you will need to register, and be logged in to be able to contribute to the discussions.

The forum continues to support “virtual” membership through the Online Discussion Boards. We realise it is not always possible to attend a meeting in person. As a virtual member of the forum you will have the opportunity to access the agendas and minutes of meetings through this page, engage with other forum members and take part in the discussion boards, raise issues and influence the work of the forum.

We hope you enjoy using the online discussion boards. If you do have any queries, or have any issues accessing or using the discussion boards, please contact Laura Jamieson by phone: 01324 692003, or email: laura@cvsfalkirk.org.uk

Dates of future meetings

Thursday 21^st March 2019
Thursday 27^th June 2019
Thursday 19^th September 2019
Thursday 12^th December 2019

All meetings will be held from 10am-12pm and unless stated above, will be held at the CVS Falkirk office, Unit 6 The Courtyard, Callendar Business Park, Callendar Road, Falkirk, FK1 1XR.

Upcoming Agenda

Agenda for next meeting: Thursday 21^st March 2019.

If there are any issues, speakers or areas of interest you would like added to the agenda of future meetings, please contact Scott Malcolm, Development Officer – Championing the Sector and Volunteering at CVS Falkirk by email: Scott.Malcolm@cvsfalkirk.org.uk

Minutes and Agendas of Previous Meetings