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Our Tips and Tricks for Working From Home

In these unprecedented times, many of us are finding ourselves working from home for the very first time. We found that there are lots of tips on advice on the ...

Community Response – Keeping Well & Finding Support

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."   These challenging times have got us thinking about this quote from American civil rights ...

Connected village communities and COVID-19

Learning from connected communities during COVID-19 "There is a real show of humanity and kindness in action.” Community-building and the coronavirus As the coronavirus pandemic continues we're all thinking about ...

Staying Mobile and Connected with Reaching Out to Older Adults in Renfrewshire

'Stay Mobile Stay Connected' event The Carswell Halls in Eaglesham played host to a joint Community Connections/Reaching Out to Older Adults in Renfrewshire (ROAR) event. The event was for families, ...

People Living with Dementia Getting Outdoors with Instinctively Wild

In 2019, Outside The Box was asked by the Life Changes Trust to carry out an evaluation of their Scotland-wide Get Outdoors project, which provided funding of up to £15,000 ...

Reducing isolation through gardening

Garden Buddies is a community gardening project which helps older people to keep on gardening, and enjoying the positive effects that come along with it. As we get older, our ...