It’s difficult to believe that since the last newsletter Autumn has passed usby and we are now very quickly heading towards Christmas. It has been abusy time for the LINk with the election and induction of a new Lead Groupand the establishment of several small action groups. It now feels that theERYLINk is really beginning to undertake the work that it was created for,the next challenge is to ensure that you, the member feels able to contrib-ute to the LINk agenda, is kept informed of what is happening and can seethat the LINk is able to make a real difference to health and social care inthe East Riding.Membership continues to grow and currently stands just short of 400 indi-vidual and organisational members. It is wonderful to have so many mem-bers……..until there are 400 envelopes to fill! It is also good to meet mem-bers both existing and new. The Disability Fayre at Driffield in October wasa good opportunity to meet potential new members, listen to people’s sto-ries and also catch up with existing members. We also meet members dur-ing the open part of the Lead Group meetings, all members are able to at-tend but please let us know if you would like to come along so that we canmake sure that you have a seat!Involving the membership is very important to the LINk so it was reallygood to receive so many completed questionnaires responding to the BigCare Debate. All the responses were forwarded to the Green Paper Teamand will form part of the national feedback.This newsletter tells you about the different ways that you can become in-volved in LINk activities, whether it is receiving the newsletter, respondingto questionnaires, contributing to the action groups or attending meetings,there’s something for everyone!

Best wishes, Best wishes, Best wishes, Best wishes,Susan Oliver Susan Oliver Susan Oliver Susan Oliver

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EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRELOCAL INVOLVEMENT NETWORK(ERYLINk)

November 2009

Hello and Welcome...

The ERYLINk is hostedby Humber and WoldsRural Community Council

What’s in store for this edition of the newsletter? Read on and find out!Page 3

Election Update:

Find out who you elected to the newERYLINk Lead Group!Page 4

Action Group Update:

Find out about the work that hasbeen going on in the Action Groups, created to take on theissues from the Launch Tour Page 5

Getting Involved:

New Action Groups, particular tasks…Page 6

Web Presence:

Check out our websitePage 7

ERYLINk Forums:

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Forthcoming Events

Please remember, this is your newsletter—would you like to contribute to it?Please do feel free to send us any bits of health and social care news fromyour community, to share upcoming events with other members, or perhapsto report back on an event that you have been involved in, or to see if other members are interested in working with you on a particular issue or area of interest. Do get in touch and send us anything that you would like to see in-cluded here.

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We need your email addresses!Getting information out to our members via this newsletter is slowand costly. We want to make sure that information is distributedas widely as possible, and as quickly as possible so that all mem-bers are able to make the most of all opportunities to get in-volved, have your say and find out more about local events andissues.If you have an email address and would be happy for us to sendnewsletters and other information by email instead of in the post,we would be really grateful if you could share it with us—email usat erylink@hwrcc.org.uk, telling us your name, town or village andthat you are happy to receive correspondence by email.Thankyou!

Election Update

The ERYLINk election process has finally been completed, we received atotal of 95 valid ballot papers, which have been and independently verified(with huge thanks to Clare Binnington, Driffield Town Clerk). We are there-fore very pleased to announce that we now have a formally elected LeadGroup made up as follows:

Individual Members:Eddie Brooks (42 votes)Raymond Evans (58 votes)Joan Fletcher (65 votes)Ronald Hart (41 votes)Ruth Marsden (Chair) (55 votes)Angela Novak (48 votes)Jean Turner (52 votes)Sylvia Whitton (52 votes)Organisational Members:ERVAS

(East Riding Voluntary Action Service): Sharon Clay (63 votes)

Mencap Advocacy Service East Yorkshire:

Carol Hills (66 votes)

OPCMG

(Older People’s Charter Monitoring Group): Pat Perkins (55 votes)

Age Concern East Riding of Yorkshire:

Mark Rounding (70 votes)

Headway Hull and East Riding:

Lesley Saunders (47 votes)

BCL

(Beverley Community Lift): Coun. Jim Whitfield (48 votes)

Goole & District Coalition of Physical Disabilities

: Clifford Woolass (39votes)

PAGER

(Pensioners Action Group East Riding): Jean Wormwell, MBE (72votes)The new Lead Group will continue thework already begun and will continue topush for action to improve health andsocial care services within the East Rid-ing of Yorkshire, as well as continuingto highlight and share good practise.The election of Chair and Vice Chair took place in early November and theseposts were voted for by the Lead Group itself. Our Interim Chair, Ruth Mars-den, has been elected as Chair and the post of Vice Chair remains vacant atpresent.If you would like to find out a little more about the Lead Group members, youwill find their personal statements from the nomination process on our web-site at www.erylink.org.uk. We also hope to introduce you to them less for-mally through our future newsletters, web updates and open forums.