Social Investment Fund OFMDFM provided an update on the ongoing process. He said that he hoped that projects would be ready to go the Ministers shortly. The Chairperson gave an update on an Armagh meeting with the Chairs and OFMDFM the previous week. He raised an issue around that was raised by the Senior OFMDFM Official described as projects going of priority.” The “ahead Steering Group agreed that they did not want the priorities as outlined in our Action Plan to be altered and that no project should go to the Ministers of priority.” It “ahead was also agreed that the Chair formally e-mails OFMDFM including the Ministers outlining this position. DSD Proposals Creggan Enterprises Ltd and Dove House Community Trust have been in contact with DSD over the summer and both proposals are currently under consideration, we would hope that decisions would be made very shortly. DERRY 2020 Employment Liaison Officer has secured a number of appointments with local companies to discuss working in partnership to deliver pre-employment workshops accompanied with relevant vocational training. The DERRY 2020 project has successfully trained 50 participants with Warehousing and Storage EDI Technical Certificate (with Forklift) and additional 56 with Forklift and we want to offer companies an opportunity to recruit from a pool of job ready, trained individuals. The employment outcomes of DERRY 2020 into full time, part time and casual work has had great success Year 1 111 participants into employment (target 60) Year 2 219 participants into employment (target 100) Year 3 to date April - June 189 into employment (target 100) Summer The summer of 2013 has been a great time to be in Derry and many of the events and programmes have had a direct impact on the Triax area both from the larger City of Culture Events to the locally organised community events and summer schemes. Numerous community workers, workers, PSNI and other statutory bodies have worked hard to ensure that residents of this area were not negatively impacted by either the events or negative activity around Loyal Order Marches. It should also be noted that Dove House has come under severe and sustained attack in recent months which has resulted in a severe drain on morale and resources for this vital organisation. Overall in terms of anti community activity and street disorder this has been one of the quietest summers in this area in a number of years.
Social Investment Fund OFMDFM provided an update on the ongoing process. He said that he hoped that projects would be ready to go the Ministers shortly. The Chairperson gave an update on an Armagh meeting with the Chairs and OFMDFM the previous week. He raised an issue around that was raised by the Senior OFMDFM Official described as projects going “ahead of priority.” The Steering Group agreed that they did not want the priorities as outlined in our Action Plan to be altered and that no project should go to the Ministers “ahead of priority.” It was also agreed that the Chair formally e-mails OFMDFM including the Ministers outlining this position. DSD Proposals Creggan Enterprises Ltd and Dove House Community Trust have been in contact with DSD over the summer and both proposals are currently under consideration, we would hope that decisions would be made very shortly. DERRY 2020 Employment Liaison Officer has secured a number of appointments with local companies to discuss working in partnership to deliver pre-employment workshops accompanied with relevant vocational training. The DERRY 2020 project has successfully trained 50 participants with Warehousing and Storage EDI Technical Certificate (with Forklift) and additional 56 with Forklift and we want to offer companies an opportunity to recruit from a pool of job ready, trained individuals. The employment outcomes of DERRY 2020 into full time, part time and casual work has had great success Year 1 111 participants into employment (target 60) Year 2 219 participants into employment (target 100) Year 3 to date April - June 189 into employment (target 100) Summer The summer of 2013 has been a great time to be in Derry and many of the events and programmes have had a direct impact on the Triax area both from the larger City of Culture Events to the locally organised community events and summer schemes. Numerous community workers, workers, PSNI and other statutory bodies have worked hard to ensure that residents of this area were not negatively impacted by either the events or negative activity around Loyal Order Marches. It should also be noted that Dove House has come under severe and sustained attack in recent months which has resulted in a severe drain on morale and resources for this vital organisation. Overall in terms of anti community activity and street disorder this has been one of the quietest summers in this area in a number of years.
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