Scottish Older People's Assembly newsletter

Welcome to SOPA’s newsletter that keeps you up-to-date by email. Feel free to forward it to others who may be interested.

Message from Chair Tom Berney

All at SOPA are pleased to announce that the Office of Scottish Charities Register (OSCR) has registered SOPA as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). The new constitution is available on the website Committee page. Also an office has been rented from the Scottish Council Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), Hayweight House, Edinburgh as a base for Co-ordinator Glenda Watt and Administrator Rosa Ardia.

The Committee has completed documentation to create a register of full and associate members. Signatories to the charity application – Alan Sidaway, Diana Findlay and myself – have become SOPA’s initial trustees. Additional trustees, roles and responsibilities and further discussion of the constitution will be decided at the next Committee meeting. Actions on our campaigning issues have been progressing and are listed below. These are in parallel with the re-organisation and summer meetings now in the pipeline to promote and exchange information with local groups, such as in East Lothian, Scottish Borders, North Lanarkshire, Clackmannanshire, West Dunbartonshire, Dundee, Kintyre and Edinburgh. See the SOPA website soon for dates and locations.