Recycling and climate action Recycling For the last couple of months, we have been looking for responses to a survey to gauge people’s knowledge and habits around climate action.  To date 40 people have responded to the survey from Moray down to Dumfries & Galloway and many areas in between. All age groups over 16…

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LINKS Eyemouth: Christmas for less The LINKS Eyemouth project addresses issues around waste or surplus food, uses local produce and low-carbon transport for local shopping and delivery via an e-cargo bike.  This winter LINKS has been delivering community cooking sessions in Eyemouth and in December four families in the Eyemouth area took part in our…

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East Renfrewshire Equalities Forum Planning Days We have been working with community groups, organisations, and service providers across East Renfrewshire to encourage and support local people to participate in the new Equalities Forum. We held 3 community events in East Renfrewshire in November and December to bring people together to discuss how a forum could…

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Case Study: a recipe for LINKS   The LINKS project began in the coastal town of Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders. It started as a small NHS-based project to support families to learn ways of eating healthily with the challenges of busy family life, low budgets and reduced access to facilities. Local families soon embraced the…

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Connecting Equalities and Human Rights The 10th December 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. We support the joint letter from Human Rights Consortium Scotland, and other civil society organisations, to urge the Scottish Government to make the upcoming Scottish…

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Connecting Equalities – North Ayrshire Working in partnership with The Ayrshire Community Trust (TACT) we delivered two Connecting Equalities training sessions in North Ayrshire in September. The first session asked, ‘what does a good life look like in North Ayrshire to support good mental health and wellbeing?’ and was attended by 24 participants who lived,…

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Last week we were pleased to join the Intergenerational National Network (INN) meeting in Civic House, Glasgow. The meeting was hosted by Public Health Scotland and had a focus on food. INN hosts regular meet-ups for members of the network and members come from the community, voluntary, arts, academic, private and statutory sectors; individual members…

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East Renfrewshire Equalities Open Days Feedback from our Open Day events  We have been working with community groups, organisations, and service providers across East Renfrewshire to encourage and support local people to participate in the new Equalities forum. This community-led group will bring people together from diverse communities across East Renfrewshire, sharing their perspectives and…

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LINKS Friday after school club LINKS Eyemouth is a project for families in the Eyemouth area in the Borders. The focus is round healthy, lower budget eating and wider wellbeing as a means of promoting social connections. The project has helped strengthen community partnerships between different organisations, groups and small businesses, while sometimes making use…

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Climate Chat – A new project We are excited to announce that we have received funding from the Scottish Government’s Climate Engagement Fund for a new project, Climate Chat. The project aims to have conversations with communities of interest, focussing on equalities groups, in engagement activities around climate action. We will be hosting community sessions,…

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