Guild looks to the future at AGM

Posted on 13th Sep

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Plymouth Guild is holding its AGM on Tuesday 6th October 2008 at its main centre in Buckwell Street. The AGM is open to members and non members, community and voluntary organisations and other stakeholders in public and private sectors can be assured of a warm welcome. Refreshments will be available at the end of the meeting.

This year’s speaker is Carol Burgoyne, Director, Community Services, Plymouth City Council. Carol will be speaking about the changes taking place in the way community services will be delivered by the City Council and Partners in the future. She will also talk about the challenge of public spending cuts that will be imposed by government and how Plymouth will meet that challenge.

Nick Holman, Guild Chair, said, “We are well placed to meet the challenges that face many in our city during this time of recession and beyond. We have an experienced and high quality team of staff and volunteers supported by a Trustee Board with the same attributes. We are seeing an increase in demand as people seek increased levels of support. However, we have been able to gain additional resources, including new staff, enabling the Guild to continue the provision and development of its services to local people. Like everyone else, the Guild has to be prudent in the current financial climate and we will ensure that every penny counts in meeting the growing and diverse needs of our citizens.”

It has been a very busy year and this will be part of the reports at the AGM. George Plenderleith, Guild Chief Executive, said, When we consolidated most of our services on to our Ernest English House site in the city centre we thought we would have some breathing space before looking to future developments. Not a bit of it! We have had a very busy year where we have been developing new activities, building on our well established services. In DIAC, Care Navigation and Digital UK Outreach; HAS Insight Courses; Volunteer Centre Improving Reach and Green V; revamped Active for Life to support those with Learning Disabilities, to name but a few.