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Boost for Befrienders in Berwickshire
We're delighted to be able to congratulate BeFriend (formerly Seton Care Befrienders) who have received £325,336 over five years from the Big Lottery's Investing in Communities fund. Having worked with BeFriend to ...
Buddying Support in Communities
Outside the Box are currently exploring ways to demonstrate and identify the scope and impact of enhanced befriending support or buddying support, from people who have life experience for people ...
Lights, Camera, Co-production: 3 great things to watch
To conclude co-production week, here’s three great wee videos to watch about what co-production means and, how it can work and why it’s such an important model to follow in ...
#coproweek – Older People & Effective Co-production
It’s national co-production week – hosted by The Social Care Institute for Excellence - a time to celebrate effective co-production work which truly engages, involves and respects all participating parties. At ...
The difference a year can make – what happed to us as a consequence of U Lab
Last summer I went along to the first ‘find out about U Lab’ session in Edinburgh. It sounded like the sort of thing that Outside the Box wanted to do. ...
Intergenerations in the Gardens
On a very Scottish June afternoon where the weather doesn’t quite know what to do with itself, we joined a stimulating group of people, all loosely connected by an interest ...