The Grampian Engagement Network and the Community Empowerment Network (of Community Planning Aberdeen) would like to invite you to a twilight session on July 03rd from 5.30-7.30pm at the beautiful Trinity Hall (home of Aberdeen’s Seven Incorporated Trades).
We are bringing together some local funders and community members to discuss ideas of how to influence and shape where and how local funding is delivered, and we would love to hear your views on this, whether you are a local funder, a community member looking for funding, or having received funding, or someone with an interest in how we give more influence, control and power to our communities.
Funders, in the last few years you must have been inundated with applications! Do you feel that you know enough about what needs funding in the City and meets your charitable purpose? What would you like to know more about?
Community members, there are more ways to get involved with how funding decisions are made, such as Participatory Budgeting. Does it feel like you are involved? What action could be taken by Funders to hear more from a community about what is needed to really show an impact?
Programme
5.30pm – 7.30pm on 03rd July 2025 at Trinity Hall, 164 Holburn Street; Aberdeen; AB10 6DA
Tea and coffee provided
Introduction and welcome from Maggie Hepburn Chief Executive ACVO
Overview and plan for the session
Professor Oliver Escobar, Chair of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation, University of Edinburgh, interviewed by Dave Black Community Manager, Shmu
Panel discussion – 30 minutes
How do we currently incorporate community voices into funds?
Attendees will hear from local funders. Each funder will talk for 2 minutes about the fund/s they manage and then take questions from the floor.
Group discussion - 30 minutes
How do we get more money into community led action?
You have £10,000 to invest in a local community. How would you get local people involved?
Plenary and thanks for participating
This event can be joined online too and the joining details are below.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81864280299
Meeting ID: 818 6428 0299
