Community Development Officer report for Full Council 17th June 25
We have now received £20K from the National Lottery Awards for All grant. We have just started the partnership working with The Footprint Trust to cross refer clients to their Service for which we will be getting £12,376 over the year. RISS is now confirmed to continue until the end of March 2026.
On 11th June RISS started outreach at Oakfield Food Pantry which is being run by a volunteer. It was well received at the first session, and we are working with the Food Pantry staff to do a questionnaire to get more information about what services people would benefit from.
RISS saw 130 people in April. Areas of need were:
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We currently have 75 members of which
17 are organisational members
We have now completed our first year of Ryde Timebank and during this time
332.5 hours of time have been exchanged.
We had our first anniversary celebrations at the beginning of June to tie in with Volunteer week. We had a beach clean in conjunction with Planet Aware and on the Friday, we had a social which was well attended and lots of exchange ideas were shared.
We now have two Timebank members doing Timebank admin. One is doing the Facebook page for which the traffic went up 443% in the first week! The other volunteer is doing the general admin of logging hours on the system.
We continue to do a drop in on Tuesday mornings in the library alongside the Living Well coffee morning which gives time for inductions. Our next coffee morning will be on Friday 25th June.
The community meeting was on 19th May at Greenmount Primary School and approximately 18 people attended. We had a session sharing ideas of what people would like the Centre to have and we ask for interest in being a trustee.
The plan is to do more community engagement as currently there isn't enough interest. A session is planned for 18th June after the school run at Greenmount
School to speak to parents and I am planning to do another session after school next week to gain more interest. We currently have 3 new trustees but there needs to be another 6 to ensure the trustee obligations are met.
As stated above, A RISS Volunteer started on 11th June. I have been speaking with the Pantry team about working out what the community would like to see at the Pantry in terms of more support, and we will be handing out questionnaires to the attendees.
We now have a representative from Ryde Academy as well as the Primary Schools to attend the FLOs meetings. At our last session we had Men Only speak about the Dads club and other support they offer. We also had the lady who does the Christmas Stockings for the primary school students talk about plans for this
Christmas.
The Community Forum continues monthly and is well attended. At our last meeting we had Community Action speak about their offering.
I continue to visit community groups and offer support as and when needed.