REDP involvement event: Leasingham

Today we have the third of the Regional Equality and Diversity Partnership's "Involvement Events" spread across the East Midlands over seven weeks. We're in the village hall at Leasingham (pictured above) just outside Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Good turn out, with eight attendees from relevant local organisations. For the third time of asking, I'm chairing the event as well as making a presentation on the Equality Bill. We've been promised a speaker from the Government Equalities Office  but they're not able to delive in the endr, so I do that bit too. There's rather too much of me in this one; I'm not happy about this and feel that I'm stretched a bit thin. I don't feel I give my best to this event and actually make an embarrassing gaffe. I announce that I wouldn't be reading the PowerPoint slides, "You're all adults, you can all read, printouts of the slideds are in your packs" etc. A few minutes later, I'm passed a note from Dee, reminding me that one of the attendees is blind. So I start reading the text of the PowerPoint slides. After the presentation, I apologise to the fellow in question, who takes it in good heart.

debrief

At Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living (LCIL) this morning, to meet with Carolyn, Kelly and Laura to debrief on REDP's first two involvement events last week, in Nottingham and Oakham and to prepare for the next two this week, in Leasingham and Market Harborough. On the whole, we're happy with how it's going, though there's always room for improvement. We rejig timings of some parts of the day. Later on, the Market Harborough event is cancelled when we decide that those who have registered can be better distributed among some of the other dates and venues. We're breaking new ground with these meetings in many ways and thinking out of the box.