Agenda Item

Action

1. Welcome, Apologies, Introductions

2. Minutes of the last meeting

The minutes were taken as read and accepted as a correct record.

Mattes arising:

‘Go For it Grant’: Sarah informed the partners that the grant is currently suspended and under review. No further update on arrangements for support infrastructure organisations,as the meeting between Caroline, Sadhia and Sarah has not yet taken place to put together a response to the Council covering outstanding issues, in particular questions around ‘acting as banker’ and ‘support to groups’ before meeting with Steve Collins and/or Tom Connor.

Funders Fair: As no partners volunteered, the ChangeUp stall was integrated with the NVSC stall.

SR/SW/
CR

3. Co-ordinators Report

Renate presented the report and the budget. There was a discussion around the item ‘Partners costs’ and on whether this should be allocated to overall partner facilitation costs for March 2007. VB & GB wanted it to be left in. RRG was asked to remind partners to claim partners costs towards the end of next financial year.

RRG

4. Process for Delivery of ChangeUp Projects

Renate gave an outline of the projects which are to be delivered jointly by the partners and outlined the proposed process for delivery of ChangeUp Projects:

Projects will be delivered in partnership. All those interested in delivering projects will form working groups to decide how partners can contribute, decide what can be delivered for the budget and to bring a work schedule proposal back to the partners.

This was agreed by partners.

Action Note: It was agreed that where partners are not directly involved in delivery that they nominate a dedicated member of their staff with expertise in the area and spare capacity to be part of the working groups.  Renate will arrange initial working group meetings in January 2007.

RRG / partners

 5. Compact Implementation Group

Partners stated that information regarding the current state and the new process for ‘grants to commissioning’ needs to be communicated to the sector. They requested that Miranda asks Tom to communicate with partners and to ensure that information is publicised widely, i.e. in the Newham Recorder and Newham Magazine, as the sector is largely unaware of the changed situation.

MM / TC

6. Olympics

Partners reported back from local and pan-London meetings they had attended. There will be a public meeting on Monday, 11 December, targeted at Community Fora.

A request was made by the partners that Sir Robin Wales withdraw the statement that ‘residents are idle’.

7. Feedback from Reference Group, Pilot Reform Corporation

Pilot Reform Corporation:

Following Sahdia’s  suggestion to form a reference group to support Jo in reworking his project, Paul and Guardial met with Jo.

Paul and Guardial reported that they did not believe the report met the needs of the sector, as outlined in the specification. They extended completion of the project to 19 January 2007, to include correction of spelling errors, written feedback from the event and appendices outlining the current situation.

 Paul and Guardial were asked to prepare and circulate written notes of this meeting to partners.

Partners

JU/PL/GB/SW/

PL / GB

8. Any other Business

Paul informed the partners that, following on from the last meeting, where Jo had made unsubstantiated accusations against Renate, he had written to Jo asking him to withdraw these and earlier e-mailed statements. He has not yet had a response to this letter.

 Paul sought agreement from the steering group that personal attacks will not be tolerated; anyone who breaches this rule will be asked to withdraw the statement or withdraw from the meeting until an apology is given. The partners agreed to this. 

3 Examples of Conduct ‘How to talk constructively in meetings’ (prepared by Conflict & Change) ‘The seven principles of public life’ (circulated by Community Links) and ‘Code of Conduct’ (prepared from NCVO’s publication) were circulated.

The partners agreed that we need to find a suitable code of conduct for the partnership. Ian and Mike offered to run a workshop on ‘conduct’, either at the next meeting or at the next away-day.

9. Date of next meeting:

Tuesday, 30^th January 2007 15.00 – 17.00