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Palliative care in rural communities

We met Highland Hospice Helping Hands at our Rural Wisdom Inverness Get-Together and are always enthused to hear about organisations adapting their services in response to communities. We recognise the ...

Older people and bereavement

Last year we did a project with Scottish Care talking to older people about their mental health as they have grown older. We spoke to people in care homes, sheltered ...

When We Were Young

I was lucky enough to have a few minutes spare between an Outside the Box meeting and the train I was scheduled to catch back to sunny Berwick upon Tweed. ...

Community Bonds: Creating ‘Citizen Investors’ across Scotland’s communities.

Community Bonds are a new initiative that allows people to pool their financial resources into a community loan fund which will then benefit local, social and community enterprises. Outside the ...

Angus McFlourish, our award and preventing loneliness

We were recently in Arbroath showing our new Innovations award to our friends at Angus Voice. It was great to catch up and hear how things were going since our ...

Intergenerational National Network session

It was great to be part of the Intergenerational National Network session in Dumfries last week.  We had interesting conversations around how town centres work well for everyone including older ...