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LintelTrust News
LintelTrust 14th Charity Golf Tournament Friday 13th June 2008, Forrester Park Resort, Fife
Unbelievably, LintelTrust has just held its' 14th Charity Golf Tournament, to raise funds for our projects.
We were really fortunate with the weather, which stayed dry for the day. We had 21 teams of three take part, being a
mixture of housing associations and commercial companies competing.
Our sponsors this year were Dunedin Canmore Housing Association (team cup); Carillion
Property Services (individual cup); and IT First Associates (Nearest the Pin).
Our winners were:
Team Cup - one of the Link Group teams, Link Drivers, comprising John Hay, Ernie
Collumbine and Maureen Middleton, who scored a magnificent 50 points.
David Baptie of Dunedin Canmore presented the
cup. The Individual Trophy this year went to Neil Robinson of Civica UK Limited with 40 points. The prize was presented by
Gordon Smith Commercial Manager with sponsor Carillion Property Services.
Iain Grubb, of ISS Waterers Landscapes was
the scratch prize winner, with 77 points; Lynn Gowrie of Perthshire Housing Association scooped the Ladies Prize, with 33
points; Paul Lawson of IT First Associates won the longest drive, and Robert McDowall of DTZ Consulting and Research won the
Nearest the Pin prize.
Venue is again Forrester Park for 2009, and date for your diaries is Friday 12th June 2009 with
a 10am shotgun start - see you there!
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| DGHP receive HBJ Gateley Wareing Cup from Paul Minto of HBJ |
HBJ Gateley Wareing Charity Tennis Tournament 07 March 2008
Nest Generation Club, Anniesland, Glasgow
This year's charity tennis tournament was again a well-attended and close fought contest, with
6 teams taking part:
New Gorbals Housing Association
Scott-Moncrieff
Maryhill
Housing Association
Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership
Scottish Executive/Communities Scotland
Scottish Enterprise Glasgow
All the teams played really well, and would have given Andy Murray
a run for his money! Our finalists this year were again New Gorbals Housing AssociatIon, and Dumfries and Galloway Housing
Partnership, with the winners on the day being DGHP.
Much banter ensued over the buffet and prizegiving, and the
raffle again proved to be a big hit.
Why not come along next year - date set is Friday 13th March
2009 1.30pm-around 7pm?
LintelTrust Launches its Governance and Understanding Reports
LintelTrust is pleased to launch its two reports: 'From Rhetoric to Reality' and the user-friendly 'You Can Do It If
You Really Want...'. We held two launch events in late April - one in Edinburgh City Chambers Business Centre,
and one in the Satinwood Suite of Glasgow City Chambers to launch the reports formally.
The Edinburgh event was launched by Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP who provided guests with information
on Scottish Goverment initiatives on inclusion issues, and in Glasgow, Bill Kidd MSP, kindly launched our
event there.
Our guest speakers included two members of the BME community (Fred Danquah, Committee Member, Cadder Housing
Association, and Innocent Jakisa) with different tales to tell about involvement with housing associations.
All guest appreciated the openness with which the two presenters spoke, and of their experiences in housing association governance
to date.
LintelTrust looks forward to receiving your comments on the reports in due course!
LintelTrust's Glasgow Corporate Lunch 08 November 2007
LintelTrust held another successful Corporate Lunch in the Boardroom of TC Young
Solicitors in Glasgow on Thursday November 8th. Attendees were able to meet some of the Trustees of LintelTrust, and
hear about some of the projects we support, directly from the projects themselves. We hope to host another such event
next year, at a venue yet to be decided, but if you are keen to come along, please contact Pauline at LintelTrust, to register
initial interest.
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| Robert McDowall welcomes guests to 2007's Annual Launch |
LintelTrust Annual
Launch and Review 2007
LintelTrust hosted another very successful Annual Launch and Review at St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life in Glasgow
on Friday October 5th 2007. Over 70 people attended, ranging from housing association staff and committee members, to
other Trusts, funders and projects.
Attendees heard about some of the projects LintelTrust has supported over the last year, including Tenant's First Housing
Co-operative in Aberdeen, Down to Earth Scottish Sustainable Housing Association in Forres; and the Doorstep Project based
in Glasgow. All explained how support from LintelTrust had helped their project either start up, or develop.
We again held our 'Housing Question Time' session, this year with the theme of Governance being our main topic for discussion.
We were fortunate in having a very illustrious panel taking part, including Des McNulty, MSP; Anna Evans, DTZ Consulting and
Research'; Mark Ewing, TC Young Solicitors; Mairi Brown of East Kilbride and District Housing Association and SFHA Board member;
and John Ferguson from SCVO.
Robert McDowall, LintelTrust's Vice-Convener, chaired the event, with Andrew Robertson, Convener, chairing the 'Housing
Question Time' session.
As well as people enjoying the event, the food (as usual!) went down a storm, and we were also blessed with having wonderful
weather.
Roll on next year - see you all on the first Friday in October at St Mungo's!
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| panel at LintelTrust's Annual Launch 2007 |
LintelTrust's Annual Review 2006-07
LintelTrust and the Glasgow Half-Marathon and 10k - 02 September 2007
We were very pleased to again have individuals and teams being sponsored for LintelTrust in the Fresh 'n' Lo Half-Marathon
and 10k in September.
We again had the use of GAMH offices right on Glasgow Green, and Anna Barclay from GAMH again helped us out
during the day.
This year's Half marathon was won by Jillian Gordon (1 hour, 30 mins 29 secs) and LintelTrust's own David Chalmers
ran the best time in the 10k (53 minutes, 25 seconds) and received the Armour and Partners Cup - congratulations
to them both. This event raised well over £1000 for LintelTrust, so our projects will benefit.
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| David Chalmers presenting Jillian Gordon with her Half Marathon Cup |
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| Tom Mitchell, Armour & Partners presenting David Chalmers with the 10k Cup |
LintelTrust Welcomes New Partners!
LintelTrust is delighted to welcome a number of new partners on board to support our work. These are:
Connaught Partnerships Ltd;
FLAIR
ISS Waterers Landscape
Kypera Ltd
Lochaber Housing Association
Saltire Facilities Management Ltd
TC Young Solicitors
Thanks to them all for joining our other partners:
Albyn Housing Society; Bield Housing Association; Eildon Housing Association; Fife Special Housing Association; Key Housing
Association; Kingdom Housing Association; Link Group; Wates Living Space
To find out more abour becoming a partner, please e-mail Pauline at linteltrust@sfha.co.uk or call 0141 567 6235!
LintelTrust Successful in 'Investing in Ideas' Lottery Bid!
LintelTrust has made a succesful bid for 'Investing in Ideas' grant from the Big
Lottery in Scotland. The 'Governance and Understanding' Project aims to
both identify and help develop new projects seeking to encourage Black and Minority Ethnic communities and migrant workers
in the governance of housing associations in Scotland. It also aims to help associations understand the housing
needs of those communities better.
The first meeting of the initial steering group took place in May 2007 with
experts/specialists and/or consultants being brought in as required. We met again in August, and our third meeting takes
place in November.
LintelTrust is very grateful to the Big Lottery in Scotland for this development
grant, and looks forward to developing this new project over the coming year.
To find out more about the project, please contact Pauline at LintelTrust on 0141 567 6235 or e-mail
linteltrust@sfha.co.uk
New Partner Organisation for LintelTrust! (September 2006)
LintelTrust is delighted to welcome Wates Living Space as a new Partner of the Trust. Wates Living Space is one of the UK’s largest affordable housing contractors, delivering around
20,000 new build and refurbished homes every year and delivers homes for RSLs, ALMOs and Local Authorities throughout England and Scotland. LintelTrust is very pleased that Wates Living Space has decided to make a commitment
to supporting the work of LintelTrust and they will be joining our other Partners: Albyn Housing Society; Bield Housing Association; Eildon Housing Association; Fife Special
Housing Association; Key Housing Association; Kingdom Housing Association; and last but definitely not least, Link Group. To find out more about becoming a Partner of the Trust, please contact Pauline
Barbour.
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Dunfermline Building Society and LintelTrust enter New Managing Agreement
Dunfermline Building Society and LintelTrust are very pleased to announce a new working
relationship to benefit all. In securing private finance arrangements, Dunfermline have, from time to time, agreed to contribute
to a community project, providing the RSL they are working with 'match funds' that project. Over a period of time, some outstanding
commitments remain unused. Rather than writing off the funds, outstanding commitments will be allocated to LintelTrust to
manage the take-up of funds with the RSL direct. Gordon Campbell, Senior Manager, Social Housing at the Dunfermline Building
Society said, " We're very pleased to enter in to this new arrangement with LintelTrust, so we can all work together to get
projects off the ground". Pauline Barbour, Director of LintelTrust added, "This is a great opportunity for the Trust to get
involved in helping associations find suitable local projects via their current relationship with the Dunfermline Building
Society. We might even put in some funding ourselves!"
To find out more about this new initiative, please contact Pauline Barbour at LintelTrust
on 0142 567 6235, or e-mail linteltrust@sfha.co.uk
LintelTrust will keep everyone up-to-date on any interesting aspect of its work under this heading. Please continue
to check for more LintelTrust news!
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