National Leadership Network (NLN) which Staf are lead hosts of alongside our partners at CYCJ, Columba 1400, Resilience Learning Partnership and Who Cares? Scotland.
Steering Group
A few of the Steering Group have been busy with the recruitment process for more members! Through the month the team have been reading and giving individual feedback on the many applications received. They have also been shortlisting and planning the interview stages. The group have asked the fulltime NLN staff to phone all individuals who won’t be going through to the next stage and talk to them personally.
From information gathered at the #TeamNLN gathering in Glasgow in December the Steering Group have been discussing the project’s priorities for the year ahead. Looking at all things funding related is top of the list, so the team are going to meet in person in February to discuss this further.
Consultants
The consultants are as busy as ever working on different projects. Look out for a couple of things hopefully appearing on our new website soon which have been produced by one of the Consultants.
Roadshows – the NLN will be going to Kibble in late February. They will be visiting two classes and talking about leadership, NLN opportunities and much more.
Cutting Aboot - NLN’s Active Travel Project
The Cutting Aboot team met in Stirling this month to talk through next stages of the project. The Stirling Champs kindly gave us their amazing space to meet which was really appreciated. As phase 1 is finished the team are now constructing the questionnaire for phase 2. If you would like to talk to the Cutting Aboot team about engaging in this research project on travel in the care experience community, please get in touch.
NLN Website
Although we have just launched our website, we have been making tweaks to it as we get more feedback from partners and allies. January has seen us add a ‘NLN funded projects’ section. This page details all of the seven projects the NLN funded last year. It also includes a 6-month update from Intandem’s Invoice project. The group made a short film to update the Steering Group on how they have spent their funding. If you have a look at our website and want to give us any feedback, we would really appreciate that.
Partnership Working
The NLN continue to be involved with a language project with our friends at Each and Every Child and Our Hearings Our Voice. The project is now titled Our Lives, Our Language. NLN staff attended a meeting this month to take stock of where things are and will be attending a meeting in person in Stirling soon to look at next steps.
NLN staff met up with staff from Aberlour this month to talk about all things relating to participation and leadership and how both projects can support each other.
NLN staff attended this month’s Participation Practitioners’ Forum which is hosted by Staf. The session focused on the health and wellbeing of people involved in participation work. As always it was great to listen to colleagues from all over Scotland and share learning from the NLN’s participation journey.
As always this is a bit of snapshot of some of the things #teamNLN are working on. If you would like more information on anything mentioned here, please contact gary@thenln.org
