Minutes: February 2006
Wednesday 14 February 2007
1. Present
Paul, Kenneth, Chris, James, Chloe, Martin, Jemma, Sam, Toni Robinson, Robin Stannard - Wilts Police, Kati Wood – SBC, Kathleen Daley - SBC
1. Apologies
Sharon, Martin, Helen
2. Minutes of last meeting and Minutes of the Annual General Meeting
These were both agreed as true records.
3. Matters arising
No matters arising
4. PRIDE
Paul introduced Toni Robinson from ‘No Added Sugar’ who explained that she worked with all ages and had been working with Pride Youth for over a year and recently became a Director and hoped to be doing more work with them. Though most of her work was in fine art she did do work for festivals and was willing to help if a PRIDE event in Swindon was arranged.
Paul said Swindon Borough Council agreed that Swindon needed a Festival of this sort but felt it was too late to get something organised in a major way for this year but hoped something could be done on a small scale.
It was generally felt that it would be best to start small this year and do it well and then gradually build the event up. After a general discussion Paul suggested that a Sub Group should be set up to look into the possibility of organising a Pride Event for this year and report back to the next Coalition meeting.
Members of Sub Group - Chris, James, Chloe, Martin, Jemma, Sam, Robin and Kati and the first meeting will be on Wednesday 7 March at 7pm. Kati will book a room.
5. Terms of Reference and Application Forms
The Terms of Reference are generic for the five equality Coalitions.
It was agreed that:
3.1 First bullet point put in ‘and work’ after live.
There was discussion about whether the Local Area Agreement should be included in the aims and also in 2.2.
Robin explained that the Local Area Agreement was all about funding streams and said money was being sent direct to the area where services were being delivered. It was also about having control over objectives according to local needs. Chris said in some areas Services were going to amalgamate. Social Services were amalgamating with Primary Care Trust.
Paul suggested that at the next meeting we should decide whether the Terms of Reference are relevant and also what we are going to do with them.
Kati felt it was important everyone knew why the LGBT Coalition existed, why we were here and what we were doing.
Paul asked everyone to complete Membership Application forms and these were circulated.
6. Report on Hate Crime – Robin Stannard
This report was circulated with the minutes as agreed. Robin had included a comparison table and will leave this in if everyone if happy with it. It was also agreed that Transphobic incidents should be included.
Robin went through his report
Chloe, Martin, Jemma and Sam left the meeting.
Chris asked if there were instances where people get hit and may be gay but the incident was not reported as homophobic because there was no homophobic motive?
Robin said if the victim thought it was homophobic, it was homophobic. If people don’t tell the Police they cannot record it.
7. Dates of future meetings
6-8pm Wednesday 13 June CR2, Civic Offices
6-8pm Wednesday 8 August CR2, Civic Offices
6-8pm Wednesday 10 October CR2, Civic Offices
6-8pm Wednesday 12 December CR2, Civic Offices
