This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year the focus is on relationships. We have asked people to tell us about relationships that are important to them, and ...

Encouraging people with poor mental health to dream People with poor mental health can sometimes find it hard to think about a positive future.  During the Spring of 2016, over ...

Encouraging people with poor mental health to dream People with poor mental health can sometimes find it hard to think about a positive future. During the Spring of 2016, over 60 people came together in Kintore and Inverurie in  Aberdeenshire, Clydebank, Dumbarton, Wishaw and East Kilbride and shared their dreams. They supported and encouraged each other to think about a positive future and   ways to make the dreams become real. We are sharing the dreams to inspire and encourage everyone to dream. We want to encourage people to flourish and develop their capacity to make choices and lead good, active and meaningful lives. These are a few of the dreams: “It’s all about our health not our wealth” “I would like someone besides my dog to listen to me and try to understand “I would like to be part of a group of people and do things” 

Our family news is that we have found a bench - on the sea front walk at Largs that my parents loved - where we can get a dedication to ...

Clare Swann, Outside the Box Development Worker Borders Food Buddies is a new project which gives practical support to people living with dementia and their carers around food.  There is ...

(By Muriel Young, a former Outside the Box Community Development Worker) My plans for the weekend had fallen through and I was facing a long empty weekend on my own. ...