Engage Update - 26 August

20th ROCCO Awards 2024 Now Open for Entry!

The ROCCOs are Renfrewshire’s premier business event now in their 20th year and will take place on Friday 15 November at the Normandy Hotel. 

The ROCCO’s are free to enter for members based anywhere plus non-members that are based in Renfrewshire. The 17 categories this year are:

ROCCO Award for Environmental Sustainability 
ROCCO Award for Innovation & Technology 
ROCCO Award for Excellence in Manufacturing 
ROCCO Award for International Trade 
ROCCO Award for Community Wealth Building 
ROCCO Award for Excellence in Tourism 
ROCCO Award for Most Promising New Business 
ROCCO Award for Family Business of the Year
ROCCO Award for Journey to Net-Zero  
ROCCO Award for Young Business Person of the Year 
ROCCO Award for Employer of the Year 
ROCCO Award for Community Champion 
ROCCO Award for Outstanding Performing Business 5 or fewer employees 
ROCCO Award for Outstanding Performing Business >5<25 employees 
ROCCO Award for Outstanding Performing Business >25 employees 
ROCCO Award for Business Leader of the Year 
ROCCO Award for Renfrewshire’s Favourite Business 
 
Download your entry forms on the website here.
  
The awards are open for entry until Friday 13 September. Shortlist will be announced early October and the winners announced at our awards ceremony on Friday 15 November at The Normandy Hotel hosted by Fred MacAulay.

Reporting on Digital Exclusion

Digital technology plays an essential role in people’s lives – for working and learning, accessing public services, shopping, playing, leisure, and connecting with others. It also brings benefits to both public and private organisations with the efficiencies it can create. 

Digital exclusion is strongly associated with poverty and people with certain protected characteristics. This means that it is critical that those most at risk from digital exclusion are not further disadvantaged by Digital Technology refers to digital devices, systems and services that generate, store and process data. Examples include computers, smartphones, tablets, websites and mobile applications.Introduction 8 barriers to accessing online services or a lack of non-digital alternatives. Digital exclusion can also make it difficult for people to fully realise their human and legal rights. 

Read full report here


 

Scottish Recovery Network

Be part of The Big Scottish Peer Support Survey!
Are you or do you know a group, service or activity that hosts one-to-one or group mental health peer support?
 
Scottish Recovery Network want to work with you to make sure mental health peer support gets the positive recognition it deserves.
 
It’s an exciting time as the Scottish Government and COSLA Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan includes a commitment to champion peer support. To feed into this and to inform our work we would like to get a fuller picture of what peer support looks like in Scotland – where it’s happening, who’s doing it and what’s needed to help it grow.
 
Help us to share your innovation, hard work and the realities around what is needed to drive peer support forward as a key part of our mental health system by taking part in the survey via this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/peer-support-service-survey


Peer Connects: 60-minute webinars to kick start your day!
Are you a local or national policy lead, service lead or manager working in mental health and wellbeing? Are you a strategic thinker or someone driving forward the implementation of mental health and wellbeing strategy and delivery? Join Scottish Recovery Network and special guests for 60 minutes of peer support insight and inspiration to kick start your day!
Info and booking https://heyzine.com/flip-book/73cb7669c4.html

Full newsletter: https://bit.ly/AugSept24News

 

OSCR's Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24

We have published our Annual Report and Accounts for the year 2023-24.
The report explains more about the work we have done during the past year, highlights our achievements and progress against our corporate objectives, and shows how we have spent our budget.
Some of the key facts and figures for 2023-24 include:

• We removed 400 inactive charities from the Scottish Charity Register who failed to submit their accounts to us.
• We launched a new online annual return to provide more tailored support and guidance to help charities get it right first time.
• We refreshed our inquiry policy and launched a new online form for concerns. The number of concerns received which were not appropriate for OSCR to deal with reduced by 5% compared to the previous year.
• 100% of applications from charities to make certain changes (such as changing their name or purposes) were completed within 28 days.

 Read the Annual Report & Accounts