Community Wealth Building
Argyll and Bute Council · 13 May 2025
Back to Helensburgh and Lomond Area Community Planning Group — 13 May 2025 and its agenda
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CWB update to H&L CPG November meeting This note is to update the Helensburgh and Lomond Community Planning Group (H&L CPG) partners on the activity of the short-term working group (CWB STWG) established at the August meeting of the H&L CPG. Membership of the CWB STWG: Angela Anderson (Plastic Free Helensburgh, Helensburgh Litter Pickers, A&B Climate Action Network) Fiona Baker (Rhu Community Council, Destination Helensburgh) Sarah Davies (H&L CPG chair, Helensburgh Community Council, Fun First) Fiona Howard (A&B councillor) Morevain Martin (Garelochhead Station Trust) Caryl McLean (A&B TSI) Gill Simpson (H&L CPG vice-chair, Helensburgh Community Hub) Activity Feb-May: - Learning from other parts of Argyll and Bute Members of the sub-group visited Oban in March to better understand how community groups there work together as this could potentially provide a model for Helensburgh and Lomond. The Connecting Communities Collective is a charities partnership in the Oban area that was set up in 2023. It grew out of the understanding that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; that by working together, essential sector organisations can better utilise resources, share learning, and reach to serve more people in their communities. In response to this, the Collective came together to address the challenges facing organisations regarding resources and capacity for partnership work and have started several joint projects. Connecting Communities Collective - Community benefit The group has recognised the need to better understand how the concept of community benefit works. Community benefits are commitments made by developers or public sector partners to provide social, economic or environmental value to the local community (mainly through planning and procurement processes) beyond the primary purpose of the project. There is the potential for communities in Helensburgh and Lomond to benefit more from current processes, and to have a voice in shaping how community benefits processes develop in the future.