Minutes of Meeting January 25

Date: 2025-01-17
Attendees: Suzie McCheyne — Development Officer, Diane Whateley — Secretary, James Ledgerwood — Scotrail, Victoria Moore — Chair, Nigel Wunsch — deputy chair, Rose Hewitt — volunteer Newton station, Alex Bray — Cross Country, Jim Bolton — Healthy and Happy, Arlene Dickson — Samaritans.

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Updates

Suzie McCheyne: Rail 74 CRP

1. Reminded the group that a new treasurer was required. She was happy to do the accounts, but a Treasurer was required for governance purposes. Please share any interested people for a chat.
2. Rail safety live learning had been funded by us and has engaged with over 5000 school children in S Lanarkshire, within a 10-mile radius of the rail stations.
3. Finalised feedback report for Scotrail for travelling classroom phase 2 and sounds like a volunteer.
4. Looking at rail74 account possible to maybe fund some local orgs with small projects under to £7k in the pot.
5. CRN awards – submitted hope in Hamilton however not shortlisted.
6. Looking for support from ScotRail media team potentially to volunteer with Rail74 CRP to help comms and awareness.
7. Updating mural at Rutherglen station linked to Rutherglen 900 and upcoming repairs to station infrastructure.
   1. AP1 – Discuss detail of breathing space bench in Rutherglen or newton with Arlene

Rose H: Newton  

1. Workshops arranged with herbal homestead and to be advertised. Looking for as many volunteers as possible to join in.
2. Carol singing on 16 December, at garden was a great success and over 30 people attended.

Arlene: Samaritans

1. Brew Monday on 20th January encouraged all to take part 
2. Small talks Saves lives campaign – will be going to Motherwell / agreed happy to support just waiting on dates
3. Good intro to Marc from healthy n happy regarding hope in community project looking at raising awareness of suicide prevention, capacity building in communities through peer support and more open talk. 

Alex: Cross Country

1. Looking at another service leaving from Glasgow advised happy to share from rail74
2. Still funding available for CRP and other projects in the communities
3. Committed to securing core funding for CRPs in the future.
4. Continuing to receive update for nature at newton project – thank you to Suzie

James Ledgerwood: ScotRail

1. Continuing to work with chosen charity of Age Scotland
2. Ticketless travel project 2022 8% now in 2024 up to 54%
3. New way of recording footfall on the trains moving away from ORR
4. Rail 200 campaign involved in promotion for reduced ticket costs and also educational train museum in oct 2025.

AOB – Social Bite homeless village in Rutherglen

DGW continuing to get in touch with josh

AP2: DGW to contact the CEO, Josh Littlejohn

Next meeting:

Friday 11am – 28th Feb 2025,
hybrid@ Healthy and Happy number 18 venue Farmeloan Rd

Cross Country Newton Samaritans SocialBite