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WHO WE ARE

Community Links West Dunbartonshire is a charitable status company limited by guarantee and run by a board of Directors. We act as a mechanism for 8 registered social landlords, in the West Dunbartonshire area, to help them carry out wider role activities.

Wider role activities, as described by Communities Scotland, September 2003, is activities that Registered Social Landlords ( RSL's ) are involved in that goes beyond the provision, improvement and management of housing. The aim is to improve the economic, social and environmental circumstance of the communities within which RSL's operate.

It was clear that individual housing associations found it difficult and/or lacked the capacity to develop new services within existing budgetary and resource restrictions. Natural scales of economy also meant that it was not practical for some associations to employ their own dedicated specialist staff.

Community Links West Dunbartonshire was established and designed to support individual associations' own priorities. Meaning no big projects would be imposed on individual associations.

By working in partnership through Community Links West Dunbartonshire, the Housing Associations are able to match other initiatives and structures across West Dunbartonshire .

Through the establishment of Community Links West Dunbartonshire, the associations are able to:

	avoid duplication of services with other local organisations;
	access a wide range of active supporting organisations in the public, voluntary and private sector;
	increase knowledge of and access to West Dunbartonshire schemes and opportunities;
	offer a greater diversity and breadth of services to their communities;
	improve access to funds for local activities; and
	access specialist staff

What We Do

Community Links West Dunbartonshire act as a mechanism for housing associations to enable local people to create and access improved services across West Dunbartonshire .

By doing so our aim is to:

	increase the diversity and breadth of services within West Dunbartonshire communities
	enable local people to determine and access what is on offer within their communities
	improve consultation and participation processes
	establish initiatives which meet previously identified gaps in provision
	strengthen the role of housing associations as effective regeneration players
	develop links between agencies, initiatives and local people

Our Structure

Board: The board consists of:

	three directors appointed by the Forum of Housing Associations
	one director appointed by each of the Community Forums
	one director appointed by each CVS, Communities Scotland and the SIP
	up to three directors (with full voting powers) co-opted by the board - either on the basis that they had special skills which would be of assistance to the board or on the basis that they were representatives of other organisations with which the company had close contact in any given year

To see the list of current directors refer to Management Board on our homepage.

Funding Partners

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The member Housing Associations are:

• Bellsmyre Housing Association,

• Clydebank Housing Association,

• Dalmuir Park Housing Association,

• Dunbritton Housing Association,

• Faifley Housing Association,

• Knowes Housing Association,

• Link Property Housing Association,

• Trafalgar Housing Association

Partnership Working

Since our establishment in April 2002 we have worked in partnership with the following people/organisations:

Action Team for Jobs; Alternatives; Argyll and Clyde Health Board, Building Brighter Futures, Careers; Citizens Advice Bureau; Clydebank College; Clydebank Re-built; Community Police; Community Support Workers; Credit Union; Day Oot Theatre Company; Dumbarton Area on Alcohol; Greater Glasgow Health Board; Greenlight ; Greenspace ; Healthy Living Initiative; Home Safety Action Group; Impact Arts; Onto Work; ScottishPower ; The Youth Forum; Urban II; Vision on Faifley ; West Dunbartonshire Social Inclusion Partnership; Wise Group; Y-Sort-It.

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This sections contains information on:

Who we are

What we do

Our structure

WHO WE ARE

What We Do

Our Structure

Funding Partners

Partnership Working