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What are your rights in sheltered housing?

Throughout our Local People Linking project we have had very interesting discussions about what rights are important for people, especially older people. However, at our joint Rural Wisdom and Local ...

Access to digital technology – tackling the barriers for older people living in rural areas.

The Centre for Ageing Better and the Good Things Foundation have published a new report on digital access. It shows that we need to think differently about digital inclusion policy ...

How do you make friends?

Loneliness is a huge problem around the UK, as has been shown recently by the first Minister for Loneliness being appointed to try to tackle the problem. The problem of ...

Families, mental health and summer stress

As the summer holidays approach, it can feel like everyone is excited about sunny days and trips to the beach, but if you are struggling with your mental health it ...

Riverside International Food Taster Session

Food Buddies were pleased to be invited to Riverside House in Peebles to host an international food taster session. We took our dozen willing tasters all around the world, many ...

Local People Linking and Rural Wisdom event – what we learnt

We recently held a joint event for our Rural Wisdom and Local People Linking projects. In both projects we speak to people about the things they experience and what could ...