On Friday, Clive will review the first week of the ASD research with DEPS Dundee Educational psychology service.

Gillian, has accepted a position on the Board of Directors and will become the first young person to act as a board member since the Trust was established in 1815.

Audit of the 2004-5 Accounts is underway with Neil and Will. There may be an early AGM this year if we keep moving at this pace.

Accident in Edinburgh last week, no injury, but the car was replaced by Kevin. The 306 will now become a spare shuttle car based at the Factory, following this bump.

Andrew was 21 this week! Incredible as it seems. Apparently a Dundee cafe, made him a special cake and the customers cheered as it arrived. We are looking at a coming of age party in the next two weeks to invite family and friends.

Boat Looks really good. New volunteers recruited this week, one with PAT testers certificate to test Electrical appliances. Another Skipper (Dave) will now act to support Jim and the volunteers. Dave has several Atlantic and Pacific crossings under his belt, so a Trip on the Tay should be easy going! Engine cooling and calorifier now fitted, awful task according to Jim.. everything needs to be made to fit.

Canoeing. Clive, Stewart and Nichole out on the Tay this week. Stewart jumped in.... brave man.

Fundraising Following Courier and Wave 102 coverage. A dundee man rang Clive last weekend and offered the proceeds sponsorship of a group of friends who jumped into the Tay on Boxing Day. Fate to be set to meet the volunteers and collect same.

Training Art Therapy went very well. They spent the day making music and experimenting with Playmobile. Lots of fun and noise, so you may have missed a good event?

Hi everyone
Just to let you know that we are holding a 190th birthday celebration sponsored walk and Barbeque on 7th August. For further information contact Denise or Stewart.

G8 CHT international tried to organise a bus, but Bill was unlucky and could not find one anywhere! Speak to Bill about the CHT G6 event, and do your bit to help.

Pictures!!!!! We need some urgently what have you got?

July News!

ASD research has now been completed by Gerry to the end of the data collection stage. A diary is being completed by about 10 young people, and Gerry will collect this at the end of the summer to see what difficulties have been experienced.

Boat News

Our new part time skipper helping Jim is David. The word is that he has done some seven Atlantic crossings under sail. Does this give CHT International a new mode of transport to the west?

£335 was collected this week from a team who jumped into the Tay on New Years Day. Courier has run a nice article to cover the event, the Team are all friends and meet at the Tayview Hotel. They plan another jump in January 2006 to help fund some young people actually sailing on the river next year. Jim promised them a trip on Carolina 1815 of Dundee next year.

Boyd and volunteers are almost ready to apply special paint to the Hull. This is some high tech antifouling, wonderful stuf, but expensive and should last for years!

Cici and Liz are back on good form after holidays in the sun. (The spanish are heading to the Costa Del Fife next year, global warming is making Spain too hot) Bill will be looking to see what CHT international contacts have been made.

Denise is after more cash from Future Builders, looks like an application will go in to fund the next stage of the Impact project.... Creating employment as a priority for our young people.

Kevin is on holiday this week in the sun, so the Factory team and transport will be thin on the ground. Please double check vehicle logs. Terri has a new smaller (and neater) CHT car log and we hope to see these out soon.

Lesley is moving house, look out for the house warming invites....

Nikki may have made the TV, as she was making a personal appearance at T in the park this week.(along with one or two others who had a few days away from work) Was this a CHT social event that someone kept quite about?

We interview a new batch of Social Workers on Thursday....for three posts. Hope to fill them all this week.

ACAS have recently advised me of the outcome to the Ballot they undertook of all eligible staff working at Carolina House Trust. The results are as follows:-

No of Ballot papers issued: 91
No of Votes for Recognition: 34 (37%)
No of Votes against Recognition: 7

The TGWU needed to achieve a 40% level of support to gain automatic recognition, and as such the ballot has failed to achieve the required level. The Trust has been working with the TGWU and other unions for many years on a voluntary basis, and this ballot will have no impact upon the existing positive relations with this or other representative groups.

Friday night....

Two successfull appointments from Interviews yesterday. They should start in September. or soon after.

Usual busy day of referrals, unable to accept any as we are so busy!

Training for staff this year has cost £55,000 to date. Managers will review next week to consider the next stages to get all staff qualified by the SSSC date. More to follow.

Cici reports that every CHT full-tme Fostering Placement is occupied.

Bill is on holiday for a well earned break next week

£500,000 bid to the Scottish Executive by CHT and Fife Council was turned down. Target was to improve the educational attainment of YP who are looked after in Fife. Scottish Executive meetings planned to see where we went wrong, lots of support from Fife Council Education Department, they are impressed by our speed and flexibility. Potential for further bids in partnership.

RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) training is needed for all staff and volunteers who will use the RIB to and from Carolina 1815.

Adriannow qualified to instruct Dingy Sailing, this needs to be added to AALA Licence and Insurance cover secured.

Audit of 2004-5 Accounts. Neil is working extra hours and trying to bring this forward by one week. No significant problems reported.

Community Charge refundshave been completed by Neil for Tarvit and Cupar. This saves almost £8,000 per year.

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