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The role of the Caithness Partnership?

The Partnership is currently funded by the Highland Leader Programme 2007-2013 and The Highland Council. Our role is to promote community planning in Caithness to our partners and to the wider community of Caithness by advocating, promoting, facilitating, monitoring and reporting outcomes.

We do this by developing a shared vision for the area and provide greater opportunities for community participation in decision making. The partnership promotes joined up working between organisations to encourage integrated and demand responsive service delivery.

We have now developed a track record in community engagement, community empowerment and involvement ensuring that a shared vision of community planning is achieved. We are now building on the community planning work that we carried out in the past by providing the community development aspect of the Caithness regeneration programme. The Partnership's Development Officer supports Caithness Community Councils to produce community development plans and also seeks to deliver projects identified in these plans that cannot be delivered by community led organisations, business or a single agency and require a partnership vehicle to deliver. The Partnership also manages specific local development forums such as the Caithness Transport Forum, the Caithness Health Improvement Forum, the Caithness Arts Forum and the Caithness Environment Forum and oversees the delivery of projects identified by each group.

We also support community development activity locally by providing a local funding decision making body. The Partnership does this by managing a small grants scheme for environment projects: The Caithness Partnership Environmental Fund 2009-2012. Funded by Scottish Natural Heritage and Highland LEADER.

Community Planning

Community Planning is about public, private and voluntary agencies working more effectively together and, in doing so, setting the communities who use the services firmly into the decision-making processes, by genuinely engaging with them. The Caithness Partnership seeks ways of connecting community views with the agencies that are responsible for providing local services. We do this in different ways including bringing agency staff, business people and community representatives together in forums and organising planning and information events for positive purpose.

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The role of the Caithness Partnership?

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