Issue - meetings

To receive any announcements that the Chair of the Council may desire to lay before the meeting.

The Chair reported that he had recently represented the Council at the Showman’s Guild Luncheon and at a Derbyshire Schools Music Service Concert.

The Chair had been delighted to attend an iVenture Celebration event where nineteen young people from across 4 schools in the District had spent 4 weeks in South Africa.  Two of these weeks were helping with the schools’ education programme and the last 2 weeks were spent on safari, which included a lot of education on the conservation of species at risk in South Africa.  The Chair hoped to organise for some representatives from iVenture to attend a future Council meeting to talk about their work.

Along with the Strategic Director – People, the Chair had also attended the Active Derbyshire Awards, where 2 of the winners had been from the District.  Rhubarb Farm in Langwith had won an award for outstanding community ventures and also Joe Mason from Whitwell, who had for the last 25 years coordinated a sponsored 40 mile plus challenge walk, which had raised over £200k for local charities.  The Chair and the Strategic Director – People had been immensely proud of these achievements and to have attended the awards on behalf of the Council.

Modern.Gov had now been live for a couple of weeks and Members would have been receiving notifications of their agendas being available on the Modern.Gov App.  There were still a few Members who had not yet had the App installed on their iPads and these Members were requested to contact Governance to make an appointment with the Members ICT and Training Officer to arrange for this to be carried out.