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Scottish Rural Equality Network (SREN) SREN Registration Guide Word Doc Visit the SREN Online Discussion Forum http://www.scvo.org.uk/srenonline/ SREN Seminars and Conference: Thanks to all who took part in our series of seminars across rural Scotland in 2009/10. The Report submitted to the EHRC by HIEF was published in August 2010 - access it from the link at the top of this page. What is the SREN? The SREN is a multi-dimensional network in which rural equality stakeholders can interact with others to share common concerns, issues, interests, ideas etc, thereby building capacity to tackle the barriers to equality in rural areas and effect positive change on the ground in their own areas. It is more than just a database of contacts, more a live organism of those who have a keen interest in dismantling barriers to equal opportunity and quality of life in rural Scotland. The SREN has online and face-to-face dimensions to facilitate the balance between enabling anonymous and more personal networking, as well as to make the SREN as accessible as possible. Seminars, conferences, workshops and conferences on emerging issues provide necessary human contact and relationship building. SREN Online Discussion Forum In response to what stakeholders told us they would welcome in a SREN, we have published an online discussion forum webite with membership available to public and voluntary sector equality stakeholder organisations who would find the SREN useful to their day-to-day work. It comprises: · Public Bulletin Discussion Forums on key themes · Option for SREN members to communicate anonymously if preferred · Option to create private discussion forums on subjects of choice · Basic resources such as ‘Key Documents’ Non members are also able to view the public discussions and access key resources from the website. Discussion boards featured are: News and Hot Topics - what's happening in the world of Rural Equality - discussions on emerging news stories, updates and key issues Shared Resources - requests for help, support, advice and expertise; sharing and signposting of key resources (includes link to HIEF Equality Toolkit) Events and Training - Adverts, requests, discussions, reviews on anything and everything to do with events and training Top Tips - Sharing Best Practice; news stories, case studies, shared experiences (good and bad) that will help others. Handy tips and advice from members Public
Duties - all issues around public sector duties This Online Forum has been created because
people across rural Scotland have told HIEF that it would be a useful tool to support their local work in equalities. Marginalised
groups and individuals in rural areas face challenges to inclusion which are often caused or made worse by living in a rural
environment and the SREN network is being developed to allow shared learning on common issues. The Forum can only succeed
as a support network if folks from across rural Scotland contribute regularly to the sharing of learning and information. The
SREN will be strengthened by numbers - no one person holds the answers to all questions but collectively we do have a
lot of knowledge, it's just a matter of linking up and exchanging those pearls of wisdom! So members should be prepared
to contribute as well as to learn - taking pride in and sharing their local case studies as they will be an inspiration
to others. We hope, therefore, that the
SREN will be well used and prove a useful tool in local equality work. We have stripped the website down to functional
basics in a bid to make it easier to access by a diversity of busy people. However, we are always keen to learn how we can
do better, so constructive criticism is always welcome. Feel free to use the online link to SREN Administrator to pass
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