The Clyde Docks Preservation Initiative (CDPI) would like to acknowledge the immense support that the campaign to save Govan’s historic graving docks has received since it started with only a small petition four years ago. With the planning decision from Glasgow City Council imminent and exciting new proposals from Ferguson Marine to bring Govan Graving Docks back into use for ship repair, CDPI are handing over our direct role relating to Govan Graving Docks to the Govan Docks Regeneration Trust charity. The time has come for the docks to be addressed by a dedicated local organisation specific for the site and with charitable status that will enable it to maximise its scope to raise grant funding. CDPI’s core team will continue to lead the ongoing process as part of a wider group of volunteers who will form the board of Trustees of the Govan Docks Regeneration Trust. Govan Docks Regeneration Trust ---------------------------------------- Govan Docks Regeneration Trust aims to take forward proposals for the public areas of the Graving Docks site that will benefit the community and young people from the Govan area. The charity will be rolling out a broad conversation with the community and other key stakeholders on what could be done with the public areas of the site in due course. Future for CDPI ------------------- This will free up CDPI to focus on our wider strategy as a research, networking and lobbying organisation concerned with the protection of maritime heritage throughout the Clyde region. We are addressing heritage in a much broader context than history and museums, which are only a part of the picture. Heritage is a legacy from past traditions as well as what we create now and pass on to future generations. This means looking at issues of contemporary and emergent culture, activity, innovation, new technology and sustainable development. We will be looking at ways to bring all these together. Including for example by looking at ways to leverage emerging opportunities for reindustrialisation of the Clyde, as a continuation of the heritage, to support leisure and tourism in the region and build scope for social enterprise. Our research & development will continue to address Govan Docks Regeneration Trust as a case study – enabling the charity to both feed into and directly benefit from our research. The support you have given has carried us this far and we want to take this support base we’ve built forward as we develop the scope of CDPI further. Now you can support the work of CDPI by becoming an associate member. For more information visit http://cdpi.org.uk/associates.aspx You can keep up to date with the wider work of CDPI by subscribing to our mailing list at http://cdpi.org.uk/contact_us.aspx#mailing Those interested in exclusively supporting Govan Docks Regeneration Trust in its work with Govan Graving Docks can keep up to date with ways to do so on the charity’s website at www.govandocks.com