Our Place 'How-To' guide now live
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Following extensive engagement with local authorities, public bodies and communities across Scotland, we've just published our Place 'How-To' Guide.
The Guide has been produced to help public bodies make place-based working easier, with a focus on purpose, collective leadership and prioritisation.
To read the Guide, please click on the link below.
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Presentation of the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard
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At the start of November, we published a suite of documents and guides to support public bodies understand the benefits of the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard, putting them on the journey to net zero.
On Tuesday 7 December starting at 11.30am, our net zero specialists along with representatives from The Scottish Government, Zero Waste Scotland and two public bodies involved in the Standard Pathfinder programme will host a free to attend event that will help you understand:
- Where the Standard sits within the wider net zero efforts of the Scottish Government, and
- How the Standard is structured, how to apply it and how it will be developed in the future
To register, please click the link below.
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Demonstrating 5G for esports in Dundee
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Last week at the Scottish Esports League 4 grand finals at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Northern Lights Arena Europe unveiled ambitious plans for its new esports arena in Dundee.
The e-Sports competition at the DCA is one of a series of 'use cases' within the Tay Cities Region Deal 5G project and part of Scottish Government’s £2 million investment in fifth-generation mobile communications. The project has been supported by SFT Digital Infrastructure team working closely with engineering services and technology solutions provider AWTG, Abertay University and Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Speaking of the proposed plans, Bernard Dougherty from the SFT Digital team said: "The growth of e-Sports globally and with Dundee becoming a premiere destination for e-Sports will bring positive impact to the Scottish economy while at the same time eliminate the digital divide in Scotland."
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Research into Work Local Hubs launched
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To help facilitate a wider roll-out of 'work hubs' across Scotland and support the Work Local Challenge Programme, Scottish Government has asked SFT to coordinate a programme of research into work local hubs.
Main Street Consulting Ltd has now been appointed to undertake the research which will help us understand how these work hubs can be viable, sustainable as well as deliver on local needs.
The aim of the research is to define the concept of what a work local hub, anchored by workspace, is, how it can deliver on local needs and understand the different types and success factors for sustainability.
In turn, this will help us understand how to support local partners to collaborate better around emerging opportunities and see what interventions, investment and assistance may be required to support more local hubs to shape the right responses in the right places across different geographies in Scotland.
The research should be completed in early March 2022 and will be used to inform the next steps on how and where wider opportunities could be achieved.
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Progress on Aberdeenshire LEIP campus
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The design of the new Peterhead Community Campus can now get underway after the Scottish Government decided that the merger of Dales Park and Meethill schools in the town will not be called in.
The project to de delivered through the SFT-managed Learning Estate Investment Programme will include Peterhead Academy, Anna Ritchie School and a new primary with Dales Park and Meethill.
Consultation and engagement with staff, children and young people, parents and the wider community will continue as Aberdeenshire Council prepares for the planning and design stages. Members of the community can expect to have opportunities to contribute ideas and feedback during 2022 and before planning permission is sought.
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New CEO for hub South West
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Michael Ross has been appointed the new chief executive of hub South West, taking over from Michael McBrearty who announced he intended to stand down from the role earlier in the year.
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hub West launches Winter Warmer Appeal to help local children
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As Christmas fast approaches, hub West has launched its annual Winter Warner appeal to support children living in poverty in Glasgow.
Figures show that 1 in 3 children in the city live in poverty and don’t have the appropriate clothing to keep warm.
To help support these children and their families, hub West has teamed up with PEEK Project to collect warm winter jackets, wellies and Christmas gifts for children
To find out how you can help, either by buying jackets, donating money or buying gifts, please click the link below.
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hub South West launches charity appeal
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And hub South West is leading a Christmas appeal to help tackle the disturbing rise in suicides in Scotland.
The organisation is urging its partners, suppliers, and supporters to join it in providing much needed and well-deserved support for Chris’s House, “a crisis centre for help, response and intervention surrounding suicide”.
Chris’s House is the first 24-hour non-medical crisis centre in Scotland offering integrated support. It was founded by Anne Rowan, a Mum from Wishaw, in memory of her son, Chris, who took his own life in 2011 at the age of 36.
Donations can be made via the hub South West JustGiving page.
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