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Representation
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Information
Dumfries and Galloway Seniors Forum
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Dumfries and Galloway Seniors Forum was formed in 1988 and achieved charitable status in 1998. The organisation has a track record of working on behalf of older people, giving them a voice in the affairs of the area in which they live and especially when issues are likely to affect them directly. The Forum has always done this through its ethos of membership - that is, through older people acting and speaking on behalf of themselves and other older folk.
The Forum has been a focus for contact between the local authority and other agencies and the population of senior citizens within its area. Issues raised that have been important over the years have been transport, health, care and welfare, housing, fuel poverty and benefit maximisation.
Membership of the Forum, currently some 2000+ has always been spread geographically throughout Dumfries and Galloway. Local Groups have varied programmes of activities in Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Lockerbie and Moffat and. Click here for More details
The Forum has its central base in a small office in Dumfries that is open five days a week for information and contact (in person, by phone or email) from anyone aged over fifty in Dumfries and Galloway.
At the present time the Forum employs a Development Manager, a full-time Office Administrator and part-time Administrative Assistant. Many members of the Forum are active in taking on unpaid/volunteer roles within the organisation - both in the Forum’s overall activities, as Governing Body members, and in the Forum’s local groups spread throughout Dumfries and Galloway.
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Mr Frank Smith |
Chairman |
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Mr Hugh D Wilson* |
Vice Chair |
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Vacant |
Treasurer |
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vacant |
Secretary |
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Mr A Macdonald* |
(Moffat) |
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Mr Alan Sidaway |
(Castle Douglas) |
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Mr John White* |
(Dalbeattie) |
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Mr Frank MacGregor* |
(Lockerbie) |
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*Re-elected/elected |
AGM 2010 |
Executive Meetings
2010
Held at
Lincluden Community Centre
Wednesday 15th September
Wednesday 20th October TBC
Wednesday 17th November
Wednesday 15th December TBC