LINKS Eyemouth: the cost of living and climate crisis response Although LINKS originally began as a small NHS-led pilot project for local mums, it was soon evident that there was a demand for it to continue. Local parents wanted to learn about ways of catering for their families, even when on a low budget. They…

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LINKS Eyemouth LINKS Eyemouth is a community-led project which connects families in Eyemouth and surrounding areas around healthy cooking and eating, saving energy and reducing household costs and staying well, physically and mentally. The project employs a local worker in Eyemouth and has local volunteers of all ages, including some schoolchildren, some retired people. It…

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Spike Wheat Scots women’s well-being walk We met with the New Scots women of Spike Wheat Scots in Eglinton Park, Irvine for our latest session together. The women wanted to meet outside, in nature and show us their favourite spots. They told us that they spend a lot of their free time in the park…

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Summer sessions and Marie McNair MSP visit

Summer sessions and Marie McNair MSP visit At our latest Moments of Freedom session we met again in the fantastic Centre 81. This also happened to be last day of the summer kids camp and the centre was full of excitement and laughter. Group session The women have been working on bunting and a banner…

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It has been a great year for Coastal Connections, though we did have to adjust our plans a bit to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and Covid recovery.  We have been working closely with Zero Carbon Moray (ZCM) and their plans for community energy – they had a second great energy fair in Elgin Town Hall…

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Could you be a Borders Buddy? 

Could you be a Borders Buddy?  Do you have a few hours to spare to support someone to get out a bit more? Maybe you could be a volunteer Buddy for Borders Buddies. Borders Buddies is a project of Outside the Box, which after running a pilot project now has Lottery funding to work for…

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Drone Hill Community Benefit Fund success

Drone Hill Community Benefit Fund success  We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in receiving a grant from the Drone Hill Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund, administered by Foundation Scotland for our LINKS project. This grant is to support the delivery of a community health and well-being programme in and around Eyemouth…

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LINKS Eyemouth: Primary Outdoors Activity Day

Eyemouth Primary Outdoors Day  On Thursday 22nd June, we teamed up with local partners as part of our LINKS Eyemouth project, delivering healthy activities for children and families.   LINKS Eyemouth is a project for families in the Eyemouth area in the Borders. The focus is on healthy, lower budget eating and wider wellbeing as a…

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Outside the Box and Spike Wheat Scots North Ayrshire

Spike Wheat Scots Outside the Box is excited to start working with Spike Wheat Scots. They are a community group of Syrian New Scots who have resettled in North Ayrshire. Over the next year we will be working alongside the women from the group to explore meaningful integration, their valuable contributions to community life, shared…

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community coffee afternoon

Moments of Freedom community coffee afternoon The women of Moments of Freedom were delighted to host a community coffee afternoon on Tuesday 20 June in the amazing Centre81, Clydebank. This was also coincidentally World Refugee Day!  The women invited local elected members, council representatives, community members and representatives from other Scottish organisations.  Around 60 people…

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