Coalfields Regeneration School makes plans for business future

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust has announced the launch of a new term of its Coalfields Regeneration School in Clackmannanshire.

The school helps community and voluntary groups to plan for the future, and develop the skills, capacity, and new revenue sources they need to ensure their own long-term viability.

It is part of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust’s strategy of tackling unemployment and skills shortages in Scotland’s former mining areas.

Head of operations for the CRT in Scotland, Pauline Douglas, said: “This is a great opportunity for smaller organisations to learn how to move to the next level and make a bigger and more effective contribution to their local communities.

“The curriculum will include subjects like planning, product development, creativity and innovation, business models and legal structure, marketing, finance and funding, communications and social media, employment issues and planning.

‘These are all serious subjects but we intend to ensure that the delegates will find the learning process highly enjoyable, as well as rewarding”.

The 2015/16 Clackmannan School will take place on every second Wednesday in May and June starting with an awareness session at 10.30am on May 6, in the E-Centre, Cooperage Way, Alloa.

Participating organisations will be expected to commit to sending two representatives to each of five day-long workshops, culminating in a half day graduation event.

For more information please contact David Wright, The Coalfields Regeneration Trust on 01259 272127.