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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LINKS Eyemouth Project Worker We are recruiting a project worker for our LINKS Eyemouth project. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about community activity, with local links and knowledge of the areas where we are working. They will work alongside our LINKS Worker to support people of all ages to take part in…

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LINKS Multiply funding success We are very pleased to announce that Outside the Box has been successful with Multiply funding to support the delivery of adult cooking classes through our LINKS Eyemouth project. These classes will offer people who feel less confident using numbers in their lives the chance to gain more confidence with numeracy…

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Moments of Freedom visits Scots Syrian Roses We had a wonderful day yesterday in North Ayrshire with the New Scots women of Scots Syrian Roses. The women of Moments of Freedom had been invited down to meet with the group to share their experiences and learning. The women met in Centre 81 and took a…

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