Towns Tea Party featuring TCAP2 Roadshow: East Lothian Focus

Get your tea and cakes (or G&T!) at the ready! Our Tea Party is once again coming to a small screen near you. Following a welcome and AGM business with Scotland’s Towns Partnership Chair, Professor Leigh Sparks, we are delighted to welcome Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth, Tom Arthur MSP for a Ministerial Address and announcement of this year’s Scotland Loves Local Awards.

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2022

This event will incorporate the third event in the TCAP2 Roadshow series, focusing on East Lothian.

Introduction and Welcome: Event Chair, Peter Duncan, Director, Message Matters

(14:30 – 14:55 covers STP AGM business matters).

Policy Framework

14:55 – 15:05    Ministerial Address: Tom Arthur MSP, Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth

(incorporating announcement of SLL Awards)

15:05 – 15:15    Introducing TCAP2 – Overview of Main Objectives and Actions: Professor Leigh Sparks

Policy in Practice: East Lothian Exemplars

15:15 – 15:25    Digital Towns and Opportunities: Phil Prentice, Chief Officer, Scotland’s Towns Partnership and Kirsty McIntosh, Head of Partnerships at Scottish Tech Army

15:25 – 15:35    People, Planet, Place: Jo McNamara, Chair, Sustaining Dunbar (for thriving people, flourishing nature)

15:35 – 15:45    Enterprising Communities: Emma Bouglet, Manager, East Lothian Food and Drink BID

15:45 – 15:55    Q & A

15:55 – 16:00    Closing Remarks – Peter Duncan

Dates for the diary:

TCAP2 Roadshow: Highlands and Islands

24^th August, 10:00 – 12:00, Livestreamed from Inverness

TCAP2 Roadshow: Central

31^st August, 10:00 – 12:00, Livestreamed from Stirling

TCAP2 Roadshow: Southwest

14^th September, 10:00 – 12:00, Livestreamed from Ayrshire

All of these events can be joined online but some will have an in-person event, attendance at which will be by invitation only.