Daniel

Dundee Fighting For Fairness (DFFF) at its core is a community activist group. They try to identify  issues of poverty and inequality within the city and work towards coming up with solutions to  these issues.

DFFF has built working relationships with strategic partners across the city. It has taken the last 7 years to  build relationships with key decision makers such as the council, housing association, and in the past, health care.

All the members of DFFF are connected with our communities, be it through the community centres or  other local work. We help build relationships within the community and continue to give our support. The  main way we currently help build these connections is through the leadership panel, which is comprised of  key decision making individuals in Dundee. 

One of the key things that help this work and its impact is time.  Over time we can help build the working relationships with the decision makers of Dundee, and help  strengthen that bond that allows us to work alongside each other.

It's only over the past couple of years that people have started to really recognise who the  DFFF and DFLP are. Mainly because we’ve spent little time advertising ourselves and focused on our aims  to help create change around the issues for people in Dundee.

We have completed a number of successful projects including a research survey during covid to find out  the challenges facing local people. The main feedback was with people were struggling with affording to  fuel their home. Craig Mason, leader of council advice services, reached out to

the DFFF to see if we could come up with a solution to this problem.

After the Scottish Government allocated some funding we went through many meetings and worked  together and Fuel Well was born, to help support those in Dundee.

I’ve been a member of the DFFF and DFLP for just under a year. In this time I've developed a better  understanding of all of the work and planning that goes into the many projects and decisions in Dundee,  and I couldn’t be prouder of the work we are doing and what I can contribute.

I've been working alongside a few other members of the DFFF and DFLP to try and develop a better, well  taken care of, and nicer environment for volunteers and staff within the 3rd sector. 

From meeting volunteers, to staff members to funders, it has been an amazing experience to be able to work alongside some  wonderful people, and to learn about some of the inner workings of what goes into the big decisions which  affect people in Dundee.