Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Today I went to the Watford Community Housing Trust to attend the latest meeting of One Watford, the Local Strategic Partnership. WCHT are a very good organisation with excellent accommodation but for their tea cups they use the thickest china I have ever encountered.

The LSP is reviewing the Watford Community Strategy and is setting down a comprehensive series of local consultations. Consultation events I am involved in include a community networking lunch, an evening consultation, a meeting of the Watford Community Development network, and a meeting of the Chief Officers’ Information Network. At today’s One Watford meeting I was confirmed as Vice Chair of the LSP so it is perhaps just as well that I am being so industrious.

In the WCVS office, I have had to support staff who are dealing with some thorny little problems. In the afternoon I took calls from local groups seeking trustees and visited a local group that is facing a significant drop in income and possible closure. More pleasantly, I spoke with a charming young lady called Kyungae Kim who is studying marketing and is doing a marketing project on Watford CVS: I fear we will make a very challenging case study!