Still standing: sector strength in uncertain times
In a landscape filled with uncertainty, this special Community Health and Wellbeing Forum offers a space for the sector to pause, reflect and regroup.
Whether you’re facing commissioning challenges, navigating rising demand, or simply doing your best to keep vital services running — you’re not alone.
Join us for a supportive and practical afternoon exploring:
- What commissioning really means (and what happens next)
- Funding alternatives beyond contracts
- Simple, meaningful ways to evaluate your impact
- Collective models like DG Collective that offer new possibilitiesYou’ll hear from local voices, share your own experiences, and shape the support you need to stay standing — and move forward.
AGENDA
- 1pm – Arrivals, welcome and networking
- 1:15pm – Welcome and opening talk
- 1:35pm – Understanding commissioning and contracting: A Sector Snapshot
- 2:05pm – Table Talks
- 2:30pm – BREAK
- 2:50pm – Getting To Know You
- 3:05pm – Funding in a changing landscape
- 3:30pm – Table Talks
- 3:50pm – Showing your impact – Whatever your funding model
- 4:15pm – DGCollectives
- 4:25pm – Interactive feedback
- 4:35pm – Final reflections
By attending this forum, you will:
- Gain clarity on what commissioning means, how it works, and what’s next
- Learn about alternative ways to fund and sustain your work
- Build confidence in evaluating and demonstrating your impact
- Connect with peer organisations and share lived experience
- Explore emerging models like DG Collectives
- Shape future support by identifying what your organisation needs most
- Leave with a sense of community, possibility and practical direction
This forum is for third sector organisations working in or around community health and wellbeing across Dumfries and Galloway.
It’s especially relevant for:
- Organisations affected by or curious about the commissioning prioritisation process
- Groups exploring new funding models or income streams
- Staff or volunteers who feel under pressure and unsure where to turn
- Anyone who wants to connect, share, and co-create future support
Whether you’re commissioned, grant-funded, volunteer-led or somewhere in between — if you’re holding space for community health and wellbeing, this event is for you.