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1 DDG Directors Meeting, Thursday 14 January 2016, 2.00 pm at 49 Sangomore 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Mike Fitch, Neil Fuller (LDO), Martina Macleod, Helen McCormack (visiting volunteer) 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sheila and seconded by Sarah. All are covered in the items below. 5 Loch Eriboll Harbour SKS work has been received. In early December Neil and Sheila visited Charles Marsham to discuss the distillery site which we wanted to purchase (to compensate the crofters). Charles does not want to sell it, though he would consider selling any other site. He suggested building a basin rather than a harbour. Neil has contacted R J Macleods regarding a basin. Ward discretionary fund of 2k is to come from Highland Council. A total of 6k should cover initial design work and feasibility for a basin. Awards for All application has been cancelled. Visit to Strathearn has been postponed. Neil will Wallace Stone and R J Macleod. 6 Eriboll Craft Distillery, Brewery, Smokehouse and Community Café Neil will contact Harris Distillery regarding visiting there. Neil has spoken to Andrew Elliott about a site on the Balnakeil road. Based on the Eriboll site, Fraser Stuart has provided ballpark figures of 1.106M excluding VAT. 7 Health Hub and Village Hall According to Tony Jackson the Village Hall will hopefully become a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) soon. 8 Cape Wrath Neil is setting up Mail Chimp. To respond to letter from Northern Lighthouse Board we need to speak to the Mull of Galloway trust. Art competition will be set up online to raise funds for Cape Wrath buyout. A physical gallery would probably need to be in the Hall or one of the pubs. Suggested dates for a Hall event are Friday 18 to Monday 21 March. Mr and Mrs competition with raffle will be on Saturday 13 February. 9 Durness Youth Club Henry Duncan application has gone in. Other possible sources are Robertsons Trust and Children in Need (we have special needs). According to Tony Jackson, High Life Highland are advertising for youth workers covering our area we have heard nothing directly. Tony is to talk with the Youth Development Worker in Kinlochbervie. Sheila has been asked by the Youth Club how much money we have got for them. A line management meeting will take place in the Hall next Wednesday. 10 Any other competent business (a) Strategic planning for HIE. Neil will order software. (b) Project management course will be given by Lindsey Kelly of Social Enterprise Academy at Durness Village Hall on 3 4 February. (c) Mike will write a letter of thanks to Iris Wallace for the donation from the Durness Superquarry Opposition Group. 11 Next meeting Next board meeting will be Thursday 11 February 2pm at 49 Sangomore.

3 DDG Directors Meeting, Thursday 11 February 2016, 2.00 pm at 49 Sangomore 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Mike Fitch, Neil Fuller (LDO). Apologies from Martina Macleod. 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sarah and seconded by Sheila, with the following amendments: Item 5. A total of 6k should cover test drillings for a basin should read A total of 6k should cover initial design work and feasibility for a basin. Item 9. Henry Ducan should read Henry Duncan. Item 10b. The Social Enterprise Academy course was led by Lindsey Kelly. All are covered in the items below. 5 Cape Wrath Neil has written to Christine Clyde of the NLB, repeating the questions asked in October and requesting a response before the end of next6 week (when Neil and Sarah go on holiday) Neil has contacted the Mull of Galloway Trust and is now in receipt of their business plan ( 3700 pa insurance cost through NFU). Neil has contacted Stuart Hartill of the Register of Community Interests in Land (RCIL) team regarding the Cape CRTB. Sophie Macleod is doing a great job on social media: 160 Twitter followers (rising daily), 421 Facebook likes. The art competition has 36 entries. Total reach on Facebook is 18,122 people. We have used the boost feature on Facebook to promote the campaign. We must start logging hours of volunteer and LDO time being put into this project. We have prepared a first Cape Wrath newsletter to be available at the Mr & Mrs event. It now needs to be reworked into Mailchimp template. Sophie has been asked to embed the subscription link to the social media sites to drive up the number of subscribers. Fundraising via Virgin Money Giving is currently at 1268 (of which 698 is the offline donation from the Durness Superquarry Opposition Group) which with Gift Aid gives a total of Neil has been in contact with photographer Alex Boyd who would like to help us by spending time on the Capeside and taking atmospheric pictures perhaps he can stay at Kearvaig and we can provide other accommodation as necessary. Alex s partner is a fiddler who should be able to perform to raise funds. 6 Loch Eriboll Harbour Neil has had discussions with Garry Cameron, the ward manager, regarding funding. Wallace Stone has been instructed to complete the work in the current financial year invoices must be paid by the end of March. 7 Brewery, Smokehouse and Community Café Valuation and survey data have been received on Caberfaidh it is for sale for 22k, with the building plots behind at 30k each. Neil has contacted the RBS Repossessions Team to enquire about the original bookshop building it is not currently on their books. Speaking with Kevin Crowe revealed it will be with RBS in a couple of months so we need to keep checking. Response from SSE to an expression of interest in the Rural Sustainable Development Fund is that we have been invited to make a full bid. Closing date is 22 February. Work has continued on business case plan will approach Business Gateway when a body of information has been gathered together. Three buildings in the Craft Village are under consideration, though there are queries over accessibility for this use. 8 Health Hub and Village Hall Nothing to report, except that Kevin Arrowsmith suggests that HIE are holding up the change of the constitution. 9 Durness Youth Club Robertson Trust has made a conditional offer of 30k for youth work spread over 3 years subject to match funding. Years 2 and 3 are subject to meeting targets and adequate reporting. Lloyds TSB Henry Duncan will be interviewing Neil on Friday for final assessment of application. They have

4 been informed of the Robertson award. Children in Need have been informed of the Robertson award. 10 Any other competent business (a) Peter Guthrie has been in touch with Neil. Angela Simpson is new head of Strengthening Communities in Caithness and Sutherland. Also, replacement for Liz Howard (SLF) will be Eilidh Todd. (b) Sheila has been in contact with Fraser Newhouse of New Start Highland and Nicola Poole regarding the future of the collection point in Balnakeil Craft Village. She is currently waiting for a response from him. (c) Neil has had a meeting in Brora with Karla Sam-Sin of HIE. He has made a project proposal: there is the possibility of a graduate working for us on a business plan. (d) After conclusion of the main meeting we discussed details of the Mr & Mrs event on Saturday, which will be chaired by Scott Macpherson. 11 Next meeting Next board meeting will be on Thursday 17 March.

5 DDG Directors Meeting, Thursday 17 March 2016, 2.00 pm at 49 Sangomore 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Michael Fitch, Neil Fuller (LDO), Martina Macleod, Angela Simpson (Head of Strengthening Communities, HIE). Apologies from Dawn Mackenzie, Iain Morrison and Andrew Marsham. 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sarah and seconded by Sheila, with the correction of the spelling of the name of the Ward Manager to Garry Cameron in item 6. All are covered in the items below. Sarah expressed thanks for all the help for the Mr & Mrs event, particularly Scott and Mischa, to John and Martin for the music, and to all who donated food and prizes. 4 Statement from Angela Simpson Angela Simpson has been in post for four weeks as HIE s Head of Strengthening Communities in effect Peter Guthrie s old role. There has been a change in HIE s funding procedure: there will no longer be funding specifically for LDOs but on a project-by-project basis. Angela asked Neil for a critical path analysis of our work and offered the assistance of a facilitator to the board in producing it. Sarah suggested HISEZ and Angela said she would organize that. She asked that we address questions to HIE via her. 5 Treasurer s report 6 Cape Wrath Neil has continued to ask Christine Clyde of the NLB, repeating the questions asked in October. We cannot yet access the lighthouse she needs to speak to the Director of Engineering. Drawings will come in due course. Sophie Macleod is doing a great job on social media: 230 Twitter followers (160 last month), 496 Facebook likes (421 last month). The art competition has 61 entries (36 last month). We must start logging hours of volunteer and LDO time being put into this project. Volunteer and employee time should be logged for all projects. We have prepared a second Cape Wrath newsletter thanks to Sophie. Fundraising via Virgin Money Giving is currently at 1587 (of which 862 is offline) which with Gift Aid gives a total of Cape Wrath Community Land Purchase is to benefit from both Mike Conlon running the White Peak Marathon and Chris Pilgrim the Cape Wrath Trail. Alex Boyd and his partner should be here in May to start the arts project, and he is looking for a publisher online. Planning for future dyking project needs to start now. Initial contact has been made with Local Energy Scotland regarding offgrid solutions at Cape Wrath up to 100% funding available. 7 Brewery/Bistro Valuation and survey data have been received on Caberfaidh, with a reduced price for purchase of the complete package. SSE Rural Sustainable Development Fund application has been submitted ( 138k). Results expected in April. Work has continued on business case plan will approach Business Gateway when a body of information has been gathered together. Neil contacted BIG lottery, seeking referral to Scottish Land Fund. Response from Stirling School of Management re Making the Most of Masters: they are interested and students are being contacted by them. We will contact one interested student next week. 8 Loch Eriboll Harbour Wallace Stone visited the site on Thursday 10 March to assess the location prior to working on the cheapest solution for a community harbour with pontoon berths instructed to complete the work in this financial year. Invoices must be paid by the end of March. 9 Health Hub and Village Hall Process has been started to make Village Hall into a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) they could approach HIE to help this project directly. 10 Durness Youth Club Lloyds TSB Henry Duncan rejected us but commended us for getting to the last round of the application.

6 Children in Need has awarded us Thus a further 1900 needs to be found for 2016/ Any other competent business (a) Insurance at Cape Wrath would be included in our Bard Terrace payment through Zurich Insurance via Highland Council without further payment. (b) Cheque for 120 has been received from Spar from carrier bag sales. (c) A subcommittee for the pensioners Christmas party is being formed, to be chaired by Scott MacPherson. 12 Next meeting Our next meeting will be our AGM in April, followed by a board meeting date to be confirmed.

7 DDG Directors Meeting, Tuesday 26 April 2016, after the AGM at the Village Hall 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Michael Fitch, Neil Fuller (LDO). Apologies from Martina Macleod, Dawn Mackenzie and Andrew Marsham. 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sarah and seconded by Sheila, with the following correction. In item 4 the sentence Angela asked Neil for a critical path analysis of our work should be replaced by Angela asked Neil for a critical path analysis of our work and offered the assistance of a facilitator to the board in producing it. Sarah suggested HISEZ and Angela said she would organize that. Item 4 Statement from Angela Simpson. In fact, no help came from HIE and we were referred to Just Enterprise. Item 10 Durness Youth Club. No money has come through from Robertsons Trust or Children in Need. This needs to be followed up. Item 11b Spar money. This is to be shared with the Over-60s Party Committee. 5 Cape Wrath Solarization, when completed, should allow the opening up of the lighthouse to visitors. Stage 1 application to Scottish Land Fund should include: toilets, feasibility of Lloyds Building for accommodation, feasibility of stables for bunkhouse, feasibility of pods, renewable energy, water, dykes, interpretation, lighthouse visits. Neil will speak to Kevin Arrowsmith about printing photos on glossy paper for panel to judge on morning of Sunday 1 May. Neil will take Sheila and Mike for site visit to Cape Wrath on afternoon of Sunday weather permitting. We need to get a definite date for the visit of photographer Alex Boyd. 6 Brewery/Bistro There was a note back from Fraser Stewart on the feasibility of Caberfaidh. Karla Sam Sin of the Stirling School of Management has set up a conference call at 3 pm next Monday. A student named Melinda Gallagher is interested and may be coming to us. 7 Loch Eriboll Harbour We have now received the Wallace Stone report. Sarah will Simon Lee to get contact details for Anders Povlsen the Danish business man and landowner in the Tongue area, who could be a useful contact. If the HISEZ report is updated it should be suitable to use. 8 Village Hall Neil has asked Tony Jackson: can we use the Village Hall as our office address? Tony will raise this with Lucy Mackay. 9 Youth Club A meeting with the Youth Club will be organized. 10 Any other competent business Sarah wrote to HIE to express our disappointment on the ending of Community Account Management (CAM) funding. There was a reply from Roy Kirk. 11 Next meeting Our next meeting will be at 2 pm on Thursday 26 May 2016 at Puffin Cottage (Sheila s house).

9 DDG Directors Meeting, Tuesday 26 May 2016, 2 pm at Martina s house 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Michael Fitch, Neil Fuller (LDO), Martina Macleod. 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sarah and seconded by Sheila, with the deletion of the first sentence of item 9. None not covered below. Albyn Trust have reported that the tenant owes 900. Neil will go to see him. The payment to Sophie of 1000 for her work is going ahead. She will be asked if she can continue to monitor the incoming data. 5 LDO report Neil has resigned with a long notice. Money should be spent on specialist help. 6 Cape Wrath Sheila and Mike visited the compost toilet at Stoer lighthouse on the 24th. It is open from Easter to the end of September and is manned by someone who operates a food outlet at the site. Details of the unit are available from the supplier at natsol.co.uk. Manning a toilet at Cape Wrath could be a summer job. Neil will contact Brian Weaver of HISEZ for contacts for doing such work. The calendar is being checked and will come to us soon. The cost is 1578 for 500 copies from Speedprint of Inverness. It is A3, folding to A4 with the picture at the top. For distribution we will contact John and Donnie, offering them percentages on sales. Application to Scottish Land Fund has not yet gone in. Alex Boyd will not come until July when he has finished a job on Orkney. Board site visit to Cape Wrath will be arranged in two weeks time may be an evening visit. 7 Brewery/Bistro Angela will be our student help from Stirling School of Management (SSM). 8 Loch Eriboll Harbour No progress to report. 9 Village Hall Mike has changed our address at Companies House to: Durness Village Hall, Smoo, Durness, Sutherland IV27 4QA 10 Youth Club Sarah and Sheila will organize a meeting with the Youth Club. 11 Any other competent business Nothing to report. 12 Next meeting Our next meeting will be in about 4 weeks Sarah will round nearer the time.

10 DDG Directors Meeting, Wednesday 13 July 2016, 10 am at Martina s house 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Michael Fitch, Neil Fuller, Martina Macleod. 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sheila and seconded by Sarah. None not covered below. 5 LDO Due to the ending of HIE CAM support, Neil was co-opted onto the board proposed by Mike and seconded by Martina. 6 Cape Wrath There has been progress on the Scottish Land Fund application. Neil has approached Annie Tunnicliffe. She does not have time to help us, but has recommended Kerrien Grant. Kerrien is able to do the SLF application in 3 to 5 days for 1000 to Neil will give her the go-ahead. Calendars have been delivered and are now available from local shops for 10. Other customers should send cheques and pay for postage. Neil and Sheila will set up a PayPal account today. The board site visit to the Cape will take place later in the season. There is no word from Alex Boyd. 7 Brewery/Bistro Angela Zhao was our student help from Stirling School of Management (SSM). She will give her presentation in Stirling on Friday 26 August Neil and Sheila will attend. 8 Loch Eriboll Harbour No progress to report. 9 Village Hall Village hall charges are being increased this does not affect ours as it is a pre-agreed sum. They are no longer pursuing the Health Hub. 10 Youth Club Sarah and Sheila will organize a meeting with the Youth Club. A suggested activity is pony trekking. 11 Any other competent business (a) Wulf Boie of Flensburg (Germany) wants to run a Wild land and renewables project in Durness. He would come with students in February or March. Neil suggested they stay at the SYHA hostel. (b) There is a bill for 36 for the delivery of the calendars. 12 Next meeting Our next meeting will be in early September to be arranged nearer the time.

11 DDG Directors Meeting, Tuesday 20 September 2016, 2 pm at Martina s house 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Michael Fitch, Neil Fuller, Martina Macleod. 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sarah and seconded by Sheila, with the following amendments. Item 5. Should read: Due to the ending of HIE CAM support, Neil was co-opted onto the board proposed by Mike and seconded by Martina. Item 9. First sentence should read: Village hall charges are being increased this does not affect ours as it is a pre-agreed sum. None not covered below. 5 Cape Wrath We need to have calendars available at the Durness Christmas Fair. They are continuing to go. Sheila will take some to the Northwest Training open day. The date for submission of tenders is 3 October; we have two responses, from HISEZ and SKS Scotland. The SLF application will cover toilets, off-grid solutions etc. 6 Brewery/Bistro Angela Zhao s document has been received by Neil he will forward copies to board members. We will need to work on it improving the English. She does not include the housing aspect in her work we can approach this through the Highland Small Communities Housing Trust (HSCHT). The Scottish Rural Development Trust (SRDT) for food and drink reopens in March Jim Bennett of SKS is keen to work on this project. Six funding streams are possible: Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP); Coastal Communities Fund; Scottish Land Fund; Growing Community Assets; HIE; Social Investment Scotland. We could now do an application to Big Lottery Awards for All, based on Angela s work. 7 Loch Eriboll Harbour No progress to report. 8 Village Hall This item is no longer relevant and will be dropped from future agendas. 9 Youth Club Youth Club has had the planned riding trip; they are going to see Flashdance in November. Nicola has resigned. Sarah will now advertise for additional youth workers. 10 Any other competent business (a) Wild Land and Renewables project Wulf Boie is coming next week (27th and 28th) he will meet us for dinner at the Fullers on the 27th. He has sent a project outline. We will look for renewables data in the filing cabinet. (b) Senior Citizens Christmas Party We agreed to the request to hold the funds for this event. We will hold a fundraising soup and sweet on an evening in November Sarah will check hall availability for Friday 4 November (NB Christmas Fair is on the 12th). (c) Andrew Marsham Andrew has resigned from the Board as he is no longer resident in Durness. He will continue as an associate member. 11 Next meeting Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 25 October at 2 pm at Martina s house.

13 DDG Directors Meeting, Tuesday 25 October 2016, 2 pm at Martina s house 1 Those present: Sarah Fuller, Sheila Frazer, Michael Fitch, Neil Fuller, Martina Macleod. 2 Minutes of the last meeting. Acceptance of the minutes was proposed by Sarah and seconded by Sheila, with the following amendment. Item 9. Delete the reference to Tony Jackson. Item 10(a). We have still to find the renewables data in the filing cabinet. Item 10(b). Sarah went to see Frances Morrison. The soup and sweet will now be on Friday 25 November the hall is booked for 6-9 pm. The date for the Christmas party is Monday 12 December. Neil will chase up the late rent from the Kaljustes. 5 Cape Wrath Scottish Land Fund application needs to be updated with HISEZ. We need to notify the applicants (references have already been thanked). There was an from the Northern Lighthouse Board today Neil has responded. Mike Merrett phoned today Neil has updated him. Sheila will give Neil figures for calendar sales. Martina will ask Sophie if she can do some more work for us. We need to search for arts funding for 3-month project. Mike will set a quiz on Cape Wrath for January for the Village Hall. 6 Brewery/Bistro We are moving towards a Scottish Land Fund application on this. 7 Loch Eriboll Harbour Neil has contacted the EU New Blue Deal Initiative. They are having a meeting in November and want a short movie deadline is 10 November. Katja Riek is to make the movie. 8 Youth Club Three people have applied as assistant youth workers: Tracy Mackay, Chris Anderson and Katja Riek. Katja is keen to work for us when she finishes her contract in Germany in April. We are waiting for disclosure forms and have to arrange a meeting between the three and Tony and Jill Jackson. We need to think about new sources of funding for next year. 9 Any other competent business (a) Directors. We need more directors. We ll take membership forms to the Christmas Fair to sign people up. The forms can be printed off the website. (b) Website. We can try commercialization of the website for a trial period up to Christmas. 10 Next meeting Our next meeting will be on Thursday 24 November at 2 pm at Martina s house.

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