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PPP NEWS
All the latest news for PPP now goes on to the PPP web site.
1 October 09
Wick Training Centre
Target
Pulteneytown Peoples Project has secured Leader Funding to set up a
new project called TARGET which has the objective of running a
course targeting young adults who are currently seeking employment.
Courses will also target young adults who are ready to leave school
and need experience and information as to what they want to do in
the future. The aim of the project is to provide a personal centred
plan to help young unemployed gain employment.
The course will run
four mornings a week for a minimum of 12 weeks and allow
participants to develop skills that will assist them to gain
employment. These will include – first aid, time management, team
building, confidence skills as well as ‘hands on’ skills, where the
first intake will gain dry stone dyking and gardening experience.
The co-ordinator will work with each individual participant to
assist them into a work placement to match their ability and
interest. They will also build up a CV and learn how to complete job
searches as well as gain experience in interview skills. The project
will increase their confidence and communication levels through
training and provide them with a clear pathway for their future. By
participating on TARGET they will also attend certified courses at
T3UK which might include Manual Handling, Abrasive Wheels, Power
Tools or Health and Safety in the workplace. These courses will
ensure they are ‘work site’ ready. The programme will work in
partnership with partner agencies who will maximise the potential of
young people. The participants will also be registered for the
Millennium Volunteering Award.
The course starts on
26th October and places are limited. All courses run are free of
charge to the participants. Childcare and transport costs can be
arranged if required.
SVQ in Business
Administration Level 2
In partnership with ITP Solutions, the TARGET project has secured 8
places for anyone under 20 to receive a recognised qualification and
give them a better chance of gaining employment. This course will
run for 26 weeks and will include a mix of work placement and study
time.
The course will
start on 2nd November and depending on the young person’s
circumstances they may be able to get funding for participating on
this course. Any interested people seeking further information
please contact Sandy on 01955 605028 or email
[email protected]
Pulteneytown
People’s Project – Hobbies Groups
Computer Courses
Names are now being taken for the next 10 week sessions. These run
throughout the year in Basic Computing, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint
and Excel. People do not need to have any previous computer
experience to undertake the Basic Computing course. The courses
focus on working with a small group of people on a one to one basis
at a pace that suits them. People who attended the courses are now
able to make cards, calendars, keep workbooks, and easily complete
internet shopping and banking. These courses include night time
sessions as well as day courses.
Hobbies Groups
There is a small amount of places on our stitch-craft group which
meets every Tuesday morning. There is also a card making and hobbies
class on a Tuesday Afternoon and both Thursday morning and
afternoon. Classes cost £1.50 with refreshments included. These
classes allow people to meet new friends and learn new skills from
each other.
Art Classes
Community art classes run by Karyn Fraser MA, are currently being
held in our premises as well as Clyth Hall and Lybster Outdoor
Bowling Hall. These classes offer a step by step approach in which
students learn about line, shading, tone, form, texture, pattern and
composition using mediums including pencil, ink, charcoal,
watercolours, acrylics and water-based oils and a variety of
brushes. Participants can apply for their Individual Learning
Account which will pay the annual course fees for these sessions.
Highland Council have also contributed to the costs.
Mixed Media and
Fibre Classes
This group run by Bettine Bain meets at PPP on Tuesday evenings with
a further day time group due to start at Caberfeidh Court. The
course teaches students how to dye and prepare yarns and fabrics for
using in both experimental work and to make finished art pieces.
Anyone wanting more information or to participate in any of the
courses offered should contact Pulteneytown People’s Project on
01955 606950 or
[email protected]
Over 70 people a week attend our hobbies classes and it is a great
way to meet new friends and spend time over the winter months.
Holiday Club
The October holiday club will run from Monday 12th – Friday 16th
October in Wick High School. Cost will be £7.50 per full day and
£4.50 per half day session. The club is open to children from P1 –
S2. The club offers extremely cost effective childcare with
qualified staff. Transport is provided for town children to take
them to and from the club.
MAASK (Morning
and After School Club)
The club operates from Wick South School is open to children from
p1-p7 from any primary school. Children can be picked up from
Hillhead, North or Pulteneytown Academy schools and taken to MAASK
and be dropped off at home between 5.15-5.30pm.
If anyone requires more information or registration forms for the
holiday club or MAASK please call PPP or email
[email protected]
Coffee Morning
The computer classes have organised a coffee morning with
entertainment in the Back Bridge Street Club on Saturday 7th
November from 10 – 12. There will be coffee/tea and a selection of
home baking as well as a bottle stall, raffle and entertainment.
Entry is £2.00 per adult. Any donations of home baking or a raffle
prize would be much appreciated.
Coach Trip
Pulteneytown Peoples Project uses their money from their fundraising
efforts to subsidise bus trips to the community so they are
affordable. After the success of Annie during the summer a trip has
been organised to Eden Court to see ‘The Steamie’ - Written by Tony
Roper
Music by David Anderson - It’s Hogmanay in a Glasgow washhouse, and
the girls need to get their washing done before the bells. Join
Dolly, Magrit, Doreen and Mrs Culfeathers as they sing, laugh and
cry their way through the last day of the year - with a little help
from the not so handy Andy. The Steamie is one of Scotland’s most
popular plays; 2008 was the 21st anniversary of the hugely popular
and much-loved television adaptation. The trip to see this is on
Thursday 19th November, to view the afternoon show. The cost for the
trip will be £30 per person which includes travel, ticket and a two
course meal at the Shandwick Inn. Bookings are limited. To book
contact 01955 606950.
8 August 09
New Web Site For Pulteneytown People's Project
Pulteneytown People’s Project has recently launched its new website,
www.pulteneytownpeoplesproject.com
PPP Chairperson, Grant Ramsay explained, “PPP Directors and staff
hosted a series of open days and presentations over the last year
and it came to light that there were still areas of the community
who were unaware of the services offered by PPP, or that these
services extend to areas outside Wick. Many people are not aware of
the full extent of our activities and that the project is used by
over 600 users per week, ranging in age from babies to pensioners in
their 80’s. We have also made major developments with our ambitions
to provide a Community and Training Facility within the town in
recent months and we expect to hear by the end of the month whether
our £1 million application to the Big Lottery was successful. We
hope that the new website will help us to keep people informed of
our progress and allow local people to give feedback to the
project.”
The website provides a range of information on PPP’s projects, which
include the after-school and holiday clubs, HomeLink housing support
service and a variety of courses at Wick Training Centre. It also
provides details of other services available to the public, such as
faxing and photocopying facilities, assistance with creating CVs,
providing benefits advice and taking rent payments for Pentland
Housing Association tenants.
16 May 09
Pulteneytown People Project
Learning Centre Summer Schedule
Run by Colin Stewart - Tel 01955 606950
Excel Course - Tuesday Morning - 10 .30 – 12.30
10 week course Commencing on Tuesday 26th May 2009 until Tuesday
28th July 2009
Course will guide you from the basics of Excel up to where you can
do spreadsheets.
Ideal for business use or for home budgeting
Web Site Building for Beginners – Monday Mornings
10.30 – 12.30pm
10 week course Commencing on Monday 25th May 2009 until Monday 27th
July 2009
Course will provide you with the necessary knowledge to develop your
own website either for business or personal use.
Job Club –
Wednesday Mornings
9.30 -1.00
Commencing on Wednesday 27th May 2009
Unemployed? Why not drop in on a Wednesday morning and use our
facilities to help you obtain or return to employment. (CV
preparation, Job search, Application completion)
Open to all age groups.
For above courses
contact Julie or Tracey
On 01955 606950 To book your place
Community Crafts
Project
Pulteneytown People’s Project has a new community crafts project,
designing and constructing a community signboard and making
birdbaths using mosaic glass, among other things. This new project
runs on Tuesday mornings with Bettine Bain, who has already run
several popular classes with PPP. This fun, creative project is
free of charge and we have places available for anyone who would
be interested in getting involved.
More Course From
Pulteneytown People's Project, Wick
PPP and Springboard are looking to work in conjunction to offer
introductory courses in Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism,
including Food Hygiene and Health & Safety certificates. Please
contact Tracey or Julie at PPP to register your interest.
For more details or to reserve a place on any of these courses
contact Tracey or Julie at PPP on 01955 606950.
April 2007
 The latest issue of PPP news is now
here on the web site. It contains lots of information about
what the group get up to. PPP has been expanding over the past
couple of years and now runs groups for many section of the
community offering service not just to people in Pultneytown but
across Wick and beyond into the rest of Caithness in some cases.
The newsletter contains items on classes and groups, summer school
for youngsters and an update on the £100,000 they have spent on the
Rosebank park in Wick upgrading the facilities for the first time in
many years.
7 July 06
Pulteneytown People’s Project Summer School
Pulteneytown People’s Project Summer School will be running for
three weeks from the 3rd – 21st of July at Wick High School from
9.00am – 5.00pm . The Summer School is open to children aged 5 – 14
years and offers affordable child care for working parents as well
as fun filled days for any children who are looking for activities
during the summer holidays.
Activities include a
football tournament, pool competitions, skateboarding sessions,
African drumming, circus skills, rugby, dance workshops, arts and
crafts and many more. Geordie Splash spray painting workshops will
take place on Monday afternoon 3rd and Tuesday morning 4th July.
These workshops are delivered working in partnership with Casper
Club, Castletown.
We have outings
arranged around Caithness to Camster Cairns, Dunnet Forrest, a visit
to Casper Club Castletown and an outing to Treats Club, Thurso, for
the annual Out of School Clubs It’s a Knockout competition.
The summer school
finishes on the 21st July with a full fun day trip to the Landmark
activity centre at Carrbridge. There is an extra 50p charge for this
outing.
Amalie Cormack MAASK
team leader says that this is the fourth year of running our summer
school and that all the kids have a great time meeting up with their
friends as well as making new friends and learning new activities.
In the past we have children attend from outlying areas as well as
within the town.
The summer school
costs £6.50 for a full day and £4.00 for a half day session. This
cost includes all outings and a snack morning and afternoon but
children must provide their own packed lunch.
If anyone requires
further information or a copy of the programme, call Pulteneytown
People’s Project on 606950 or Amalie Cormack on 07717001761 or email
[email protected] alternatively pop into PPP
offices at 41 Murchison street to pick up a registration form and
copy of a programme.
3 July 06
Community Centre At Pulteneytown Gets Go Ahead From Caithness Planning
Committee
The Community centre which was described as partly a regeneration centre
was given the go ahead after site inspection today in Wick. 8
councillors attended and there were no dissenting voices. Councillor
MacNab who is also the manager of the Pulteneytown People's Project and the
applicant for the new centre did not take part in the proceedings as she had
an interest in the result. Councillor Mowat was not available for the
meeting. Despite being set up a hearing following objections none of
the objectors appeared to make their case against the new centre. If
funding applications now in the pipeline are successful Wick will have a new
centre costing in excess of £2million to continue local people's drive to
turn round the area that is listed along with another area of Wick in the
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Chairman of the PPP David Dunnet
hoped that the centre would be open within two years. The centre will
provide On the ground floor the building will provide a sports and function
hall with adjacent store, a plant room, a youth project room, two
classrooms, a cafeteria with internet access, a kitchen, a soft play area
and a nursery crèche with adjacent rooms. On the upper floor there will be
an office for the Pultneytown Peoples Project with adjacent committee room,
office and reception room, a meeting/function room, 6 social economy office
units, a kitchen, a recording studio and 3 IT suites. Education and
training are a large part of what the new centre will be about to try to
take Pulteneytown people out of the category of one of the highest
unemployment black spots in the north.
The Former PPP Office
The office is now on the opposite side of the
street
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Fun Day -
Saturday 1 July 2006
Pulteneytown People's Project Fun Day
Another of the many events on in Caithness on Saturday. The PPP Fun
Day is getting bigger each year. Here are few photos from the early
part of the day. 13
October 05
Pulteneytown People Pick Up Tools
For Prospective Employment In Retail Developments
 A new fund aimed at assisting
regeneration of the Pulteneytown area of Wick will help see fifteen local
people trained over the next three months (October to December) in the
'Principles of Retail'. A ten week course has been set up by
North Highland College with Scottish Executive Community Regeneration
Funding, and targeted primarily at unemployed people living in the
Pulteneytown area of Wick. Having completed the course, the students will
be better equipped to gain work in the new retail developments coming to
Wick - Argos, Homebase and Tesco. The course is also being supported by
Jobcentre Plus.
PPP - AGM 2005 - Building For More Success
 The Pultneytown People’s Project goes from strength to strength as was
shown at their AGM held in South School on 28 September 2005. Indeed the
very name should be plural now. The Pultneytown People’s Project
is fast producing projects that are getting things done that show what
can be achieved once you begin to use the resources of local people to
improve and regenerate their area. 1 August 05
Prince Charles Opens Pulteneytown People's Centre In
Wick
 Prince
Charles arrived by helicopter at wick airport this morning and went to
open the Pultneytown People's Centre in the former Old Man's Rest.
The centre is used for meetings and some of the overflow groups from the
offices in Murchison Street. Prince Charles was shown round by
Councillor Katrina MacNab who is also the PPP manager. she introduce
the Prince to members of a ladies group that use the centre and others
involved in the project. At one point there were roars of laughter
as the prince heard about some of the activities. Prince Charles
then headed to the Old Pulteney distillery. He is in Caithness for more
than a week and will attend the Mey highland Games on Saturday amongst
other events. 12 July 05
Pulteneytown Peoples Project - Fun Day
 A
BUSY programme of team games and dancing displays along with various
stalls ensured there was something for everyone at the Pulteneytown
People's Project fun day. The event, held in the grounds of Wick
South Primary School on Sunday afternoon, raised £682.49. The money will
be used to subsidise PPP's popular bus trips, making them as affordable
as possible for local families. David Dunnett, the PPP chairman,
said: "It was great to see so many people from the community turning up
and playing their part in ensuring that our fourth annual fun day was
such a success. Once again it was a real family day out." After a
dull start with a few spots of light rain, the weather brightened up
considerably and the sun shone for most of the afternoon. There
were displays by majorettes and dancers and a series of team games along
with a trampoline and an assortment of stalls. The barbecue proved as
popular as ever, with locally-produced burgers, steak rolls and hot dogs
on offer.
A junior five-a-side football tournament took place throughout the
afternoon, with three teams each in two sections.
The winners of the older age group were the "All-Stars" - Grant MacNab,
Graham MacNab, Jack Henry, Craig Nicolson and Bryan Reid. Victory in the
younger age group went to the "Superstars". Their squad comprised Daniel
Budge, Bradley Thomson, Saleem Ahmed, John Budge, James Mackay, Paul
Cameron and Alan Hughes. Afterwards there was a penalty-kick
competition, with all the players taking part, and the winner was
10-year-old Richard Budge.
9 May 05
Storage Solution of Morning And After School Club
Run By Pulteneytown People's Project
 Morning
and After School Klub (MAASK) run by Pultneytown Peoples Project now have
the solution to their storage problem. The club which is based at South
School, Wick received the donation of a storage container from UKAEA
Dounreay to store their outdoor equipment. Katrina MacNab,
PultneytownPeoples Project said "Pultneytown People's Project is very
grateful to UKAEA for donating the storage container. This has allowed
MAASK to buy new equipment for the children which has had a positive
impact at the club with the children enjoying learning and joining in new
activities." Children and staff of MAASK are pictured here outside
their store with Katrina MacNab (2nd right) and Lynn Stewart (right) of
Pultneytown Peoples Project.
3 July 04
Fun Day At Pulteneytown People's Project
  PULTENEYTOWN People's Project held its annual fun day on Saturday
afternoon - and it all went thunderfully well after earlier fears that the
event might be a washout. Torrential rain and a few rumbles of thunder
around lunchtime threatened to undermine the efforts of the community
regeneration group but the PPP staff and volunteers decided to carry on as
planned.
Activity Outing To Thurso
16 April 03
Mums and kids made a day out to Thurso with
visits to Viking Bowl, Ormlie Skateboard Park and Thurso Swimming Pool all
on a lovely sunny day.
Holiday Club
5 August 02
A very succesful holiday club was run by mums in Pulteneytown using
the South School hall and playground. John Thurso the local member
of parliament visited the club and was delighted to see the range of
activities organised to occupy the children.
Barbecue, Clean Up & Fun Day
6 July 2002
The group had support from many residents and a local contractor to
clean up the area of grassland round about the burn, A huge
quantity of rubbish including concrete and old beds and all manner of
glass and other rubbish was removed. This was followed
by the barbecue and games and races for the children. South
School loaned their games equipment and other items to the group.
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