by Communications TEAM | Feb 20, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, Current Issues, News
SSRS have had a reported sighting of a sick squirrel in Bridge of Allan, and have initiated a plan to endeavour to find out more information to determine what the illness was, and hopefully to eliminate squirrelpox.
Please help us with this by following the requests as detailed on this poster.
Primarily
Take in ALL wildlife feeders for 3 weeks.
Disinfect all feeders before restarting their use – Ideally use an antiviral such as Virkon S.
If you see a sick squirrel report it on the SSRS website and try and get a picture.
If you find a dead red squirrel post it using the proper procedure to the Royal Dick in Edinburgh where we can conduct a proper post mortem.
Call SSPCA if you spot a sick squirrel.
All the details are on this poster “Sick Red Squirrels Alert”
by Communications TEAM | Feb 20, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, News, webpage
Stirling Council is developing an updated set of equality outcomes for 2025-29. An equality outcome should further one or more of the following needs:
- eliminate discrimination
- advance equality of opportunity
- foster good relations.
These needs form the general equality duty for public authorities.
In other words, equality outcomes are intended to achieve improvements in people’s life chances.
We want to involve a range of people in developing the equality outcomes for 2025-29 – particularly those who share a relevant protected characteristic and their representatives.
There are nine protected characteristics:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender Reassignment
- Marriage and Civil Partnership
- Pregnancy and Maternity
- Race
- Religion or Belief
- Sex
- Sexual Orientation
This survey enables you to contribute to the development of the 2025-29 equality outcomes.
We will take your responses, experiences and stories – and collate them with others’ responses to understand common themes. We will then turn these themes into Equality Outcomes for Stirling, and aim to improve people’s life chances over the next four years.
This survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete, and is open until 10th March 2025 at this website: Equalities Survey
by Communications TEAM | Feb 19, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, webpage
Our January 2025 meeting minutes were approved at our last meeting and are now available to read in full by clicking here
At the meeting we discussed
Police Report – Covering the period 19th November 2024 to 21st January 2025: available here
Updates from Community Organisations -A monthly agenda slot for updates from other community groups. Discover Bridge of Allan have published their Community Action Plan (CAP) – available on their website ; their AGM is on Feb 3rd; two board members are stepping down, with one new full member and an associate member joining the board, and they are adjusting their articles for charitable status. Friends of Bridge of Allan erected a large Christmas tree in the Provost’s Park ahead of the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, with wreath’s hung and sponsor plaques attached to street lights, and there were all taken down in the New Year. Ongoing work at the Memorial Park has been of clearing leaves and general tidy up; with the forthcoming closure of UCP they may lose use of a 40′ storage container for their equipment, and they made a plea if anyone knew of a suitable container and site The Dr Welsh Trust have funded replacement of the ‘Mid Wood’ signs with ‘Lower Westerton Wood’ signs, and these have now been erected. Councillor Tollemache reported for the Allotment Association on a delay with SC in renewing the Allotment’s lease.
Residents voice – Topics raised included dog mess, particularly Allan Vale road; Faulty Street Lights (attention was drawn to Stirling Councils
REPORT IT online reporting service for faults and complaints); Forthcoming Scottish Power tree works at the junction of Alexander Drive and Well Rd.
Planned Improvement Works – A forthcoming public meeting about the proposed Knockhill Bridge works was announced; It was hoped a Stirling Council officer might attend the February meeting to discuss Henderson Street traffic calming.
Council Budget Consultation – The Chair opened a discussion on the Stirling Council Budget Consultation with a plea that residents respond. She suggested the CC write to the Council to feed in a community view.
Our Bridge of Allan Planning – The working party are planning further engagement sessions. The deadline for the Local Place Plan has been extended until October.
Planning report – no new planning proposals of significance. It was noted that the planning consent for the development at Park of Kier had passed on 21st Dec 2024 with no extension requested by the developer.
Chair’s Report – The vice-chair (Anna Doeser) has resigned and we now have three community council vacancies, and welcome anyone interested to come along to a meeting or get in touch. A recruitment drive will begin soon. The chair reported writing to the owners of vacant properties and had replies from the owners of 103 and 105 Henderson Street, but not the Royal Hotel. It was felt that the sites should be tidied up. Following the vehicle accident which had knocked down the Paterson Memorial Clock the chair had received helpful reports from Stirling Council on progress to start repairs.
Secretary’s report – A round up of communications from our elected members, residents and newsletters.
Treasurer’s report – The invoice for the Christmas lights installation and removal has not yet been received . Some additional donations have been received. The only significant payment was for the rights to play recorded music at the Christmas Lights ceremony.
AOB – At a forthcoming meeting with Stirling Council about the MUGA it will be suggested that pickleball court markings are added.
Minutes for the latest February meeting will be available after their approval at the next meeting in March. However news on the progress of projects and local issues will also be shared via our website and social media accounts, so sign up to our mailing list or follow us to find out our news.
Minutes from all our past meetings can be found on our meetings page
by Communications TEAM | Feb 14, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage
If you care for someone who has dementia or live with the diagnosis yourself, you can book a free 45-minute appointment with a dementia specialist Admiral Nurse for expert, tailored support, whatever your questions or concerns. The dementia clinics are being held at selected Nationwide branches across the UK. This service is for everyone – including non-members of Nationwide Building Society. All appointments are confidential and will take place in a private space within the branch. Stirling appointments are available on the 25th, 26th and 27th February in the Port Street Branch.
Details of how to book are here: Book an appointment at a Nationwide branch
Information about Demential specialist Admiral Nurses is in this document: About Dementia Specialist Admiral Nurses
by Communications TEAM | Feb 6, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, webpage
Stirling Council Community Development Team have published the February 2025 Issue of the CDNews Bulletin.
This issue includes: Pension Age Disability Benefit, Let’s Grow Network, Stirling 900 Celebrations, Funding, Disclosure Scotland Changes, Dementia-Inclusive Singing Group and more. Please distribute to your networks. If you have any problem accessing the Bulletin or would like the material in a different format, please let us know. All past Bulletins are on our website.
If you would like an article included to promote your organisation’s activities or projects, please get in touch. Please pass to your networks and we’re happy to add anyone to our distribution list. The link to the Stirling Council page with the bulletin is https://www.stirling.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/community-development-news-bulletins/community-development-news-bulletin-february-2025/
by Communications TEAM | Feb 6, 2025 | announcement, announcementspage, webpage
R100 Poster - FinalThe Scottish Goverment’s £600+ million Reaching 100% (R100) programme is extending access to faster broadband to sub-30 Megabits per second homes and businesses who are unlikely to receive upgrades through commercial plans. You can find out more about R100 at: gov.scot/digitalconnectivity. To understand whether and how households and organisations have benefited from R100, the Scottish Government is undertaking an evaluation of the programme. As part of this, they have commissioned a survey of households and organisations who:
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- Are scheduled to receive broadband access via R100 but have not yet been connected
- Have been provided with broadband access via R100 and have taken up the connection
- Have been provided with broadband access via R100 but have not taken up the connection
The surveys are available online and can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/R100Evaluation
The surveys are only open to properties covered by the R100 programme. If a property is covered by the programme, the associated address will come up as an option when the property postcode is entered by the survey respondent.
The deadline for all survey responses is currently 3 March 2025.
