This year TIS will provide delegates with the opportunity to pre-book their choice of study visit and workshops in advance of the event. Half of the amount of study visit and workshop tickets are available to pre-book, and the remaining half will be available at registration each day.
Workshop: Brighter Futures Barrhead
Bryan Dando – Community Investment Manager at Barrhead Housing Association
Brighter Futures is an innovative approach, led by Barrhead Housing Association’s community investment team focused on delivering projects that support its tenants and communities.
The team aims to tackle poverty and inequality for local families with its coordinated partners and community volunteering approach. Across the area, they have supported the delivery of cooking, exercise, and craft workshops, employability workshops, and supported people through the cost-of-living crisis, to work towards a brighter future.
Bryan Dando is the Community Investment Manager at Barrhead Housing, which provides over 1,000 homes in East Renfrewshire. He oversees Barrhead’s Community Investment Strategy, including community services, hubs, and projects, securing external funding, and delivering advisory support on money, energy, and welfare. He also leads community engagement and stakeholder consultation with tenants.
Workshop: The benefits of a trauma-informed approach
Colette Lowe – Service Delivery Manager at Link Living
In these unprecedented times, the pressures facing individuals and communities are immense. The word crisis is now commonly used to describe many aspects of life – the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis and the sustainability crisis, to name a few. The complex nature of challenge within communities requires the need for responsive organisational approaches that best support the needs of community and which reduces barriers for people to access support. The workshop will explore the trauma-informed approach and how it can be implemented across organisations and services for the benefit of tenants and organisational staff.
Colette has over 15 years of experience in the third sector, primarily in Learning and Development. For the past seven years, she has managed LinkLiving’s Skills Academy and is a qualified SQA Assessor, Internal Verifier, and Centre Co-ordinator. Colette is passionate about leadership and trauma-informed approaches, contributing to the creation of an SQA-accredited qualification in Trauma-Informed Approaches. She also leads trauma-informed audits at LinkLiving and participates in Link Group’s Employee Engagement Forum and Wellbeing Group. Outside of work, Colette has held various voluntary roles and is currently focused on raising her young family.
To pre-book your workshop and study visit options, please complete the form found here with as much information as you can. On receiving your booking a member of the TIS team will be in touch to confirm your selection. You can also call us or email us using the contact details below.
Call 0141 248 1242
Email info@tis.org.uk