Bridgend Minutes 20 – 02 – 2011

Apologies: Chris and Matina Action Points

Present: Jade, Will, John, Cass, Ros, Soraya and Anna

 Forth Sector will help to fill out the investing in ideas grant
application to receive up to £10 000 to carry out a more
detailed feasibility study. Also possibility of applying to Big
Lottery and looking into match funding possibilities

Building and Design

 Jades research suggests that for a good quality rebuild costs
would be around £1800 - £2000 per square meter this
agrees with the figures Malcolm Fraser previously gave for
build costs
 Jade has done a sketch of the outside of the building which Jade to do some similar sketches
we were all very pleased with but for the interior
 Still the possibility of Glasshouse Design running some
courses with us in community design
 Napier University eager to get some students involved with Will to find out more details
project about background of Napier
 Want to do more research about the types of ‘green’ students
features we could incorporate into the build e.g. rammed
earth to avoid concrete, using traditional building materials
such as straw. Could make the building a beacon for green
design in Edinburgh/Scotland by doing something that has
not been done in the area before?
 Need to get an Environ report completed. We have been
offered it at cost price and with a small bit of extra time to
find the money which would be roughly £450 so need to
fundraise to get this.
Anna to research numbers for
 Community Services Team: Still willing to work on building
skip hire places, Jade to call and
clearance but we need to hire the skip for them so need to
inquire
fundraise to pay for this or speak to companies to see if they
would be willing to donate one for free/cheap

Fundraising
 Potential ideas for fundraising are:
o Ceilidh – possibly with ceilidh collective or
Soraya’s friend Michael who plays in a
ceilidh band
o Combine ceilidh with an talk about the
history of the farmhouse
o Donations through website – would want to
do it so that donations were recognised and
people thanked for their contribution. Also
would want a newsletter to keep donors up
to date. Napier journalism student could
potentially help with this.
Sponsor a ‘something’ scheme – perhaps to
be an art piece, e.g. Sculptor Tree, where
people could have their name engraved on a
leaf or other shape to be a feature at the
farmhouse.
Will to inquire about celeidh
collective and potential venue
and Soraya to ask her friend
John to contact someone who
used to work at farmhouse
about this
Napier student to be put in
contact with Cass to develop a
template which can be updated
every month or so
Cass to investigate other
sponsor themes and bring/send
‘how to fill in funding
application’ notes to next
meeting

Everyone to keep thinking about

other fundraising ideas!
  Active Citizenship training at Inch which needs 5 – 6 people
to attend in order for 2 people to go on the trip to Nepal on
the 20th March – circumstances for this may have changed
since meeting? Speak to Will if still interested.

 Soraya’s Wildlife gardens plans are looking excellent.

Soraya to email poster and

 Possibility of having a stand a voluntary arts week during May leaflet to everyone and it is to
which would enable us to promote project and run an arty be included in the information
activity which people would pay to do. pack

Cass to keep us updated on this

Business Plan

 Need to develop and further improve Business Plan. Need a

graph/visual analysis of what people say the ‘need’ in the Will to get some questionnaires
area is. i.e. what the farmhouse should be used for. filled in to get data so we can
make this visual representation

Anna to send existing business

plan to her dad for advice

Jade and Cass to develop a

template so all our documents
can look the same

 Aiming to have a launch of the finalised vision for the

farmhouse in April/May possibly combined with the
fundraising ceilidh.

Next meeting: Monday 14th March, 6.30pm at The Inch