Climate Wisdom Launch  Last week on World Environment Day (5th June) we launched our exciting new project ‘Climate Wisdom’ at Kirrie Connections Meeting Centre in Kirriemuir.  The team had an early start on launch day, armed with our natural resources and old magazines we headed up to J M Barrie territory for a fun morning…

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Climate Wisdom Project Announcement Thanks to National Lottery players, Outside the Box have received almost £1.5m from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK, to launch ‘Climate Wisdom’. ‘Climate Wisdom’ is an inclusive, dementia-friendly climate action project that will support people living with dementia, their care partners and their communities…

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Moments of Freedom Refugee Festival Event The women of Moments of Freedom are delighted to announce their next community gathering will take place on Tuesday 17th June 12:30-2pm in Centre 81, Clydebank in the gym hall. The event is part of Scotland’s Refugee Festival Week. The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Milestones’ and the…

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Spring Sessions with Moments of Freedom Over the last few months the women of Moments of Freedom have been focussing on wellbeing activities during, and outwith, their group sessions. The group have taken ownership of 4 garden beds in the Centre 81 community garden and have planted a variety of flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables…

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Chief Executive for Outside the Box Due to the retirement of our current Chief Executive, we are looking to recruit a new Chief Executive. Salary: £49,748 (25/26 pay rise not added on) Hours of work: Full-time 35 hours per week with occasional weekend and evening events Location: Home working/hybrid Glasgow, with travel within Scotland Annual…

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Corra Third Sector Fund Conference Our team delivered two interactive workshops on Innovation and Ideas at Corra’s recent CYPFEIF & ALEC Fund and CYPFAL Third Sector Fund Conference. With the funding environment becoming more challenging, we talked about our approaches to nurturing innovation and ideas at Outside the Box, discussing examples of recent projects, funding…

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A week with Moments of Freedom The women of Moments of Freedom had a busy week last week. Starting off in Clydebank Library they were presented their Food Hygiene certificates by Marie McNair MSP. The women showed off their new skills by cooking lots of amazing recipes for guests to enjoy for lunch. The group…

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SCVO The Gathering 2025 Our team ran an interactive workshop at SCVO’s The Gathering event on Wednesday 5th February which focussed on our Climate Chat work in communities across Scotland. Climate change affects everyone, but we don’t always know what to do or how our everyday actions stack up to make a difference. Last year,…

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Outside the Box 2024  As we near the end of 2024 we would like to reflect back on the projects and people we have worked with over the last 12 months. But before we share our 2024 project summaries, we are excited to announce that we are hosting an event at the SCVO Gathering in…

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Borders Buddies Case Study

Borders Buddies Case Study – “My life in the mills” “I was just feeling a bit fed up, I didn’t see many people and all I had was my garden”. That sums up how J was feeling 6 months ago when the NHS Wellbeing Adviser told her about Borders Buddies. At first J was sceptical,…

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