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How do younger people feel about voting?
This May is the first time that 16 and 17 year olds can vote in the local elections and young people from 14 year olds can now register to vote ...
One month until the local elections!
Today there is exactly one month until the Scottish local elections. Are you registered to vote? If not, there's no need to worry. You can still register to vote up ...
“The many faces of dementia” Free online course
What do you know about dementia? Before I started working for Outside the Box, I could barely have told you anything about it beyond knowing it tends to affect older ...
Reading in prisons – how can you get involved?
Most of us have heard about the low literacy rates in UK prisons. The Reading Agency argue that 51% of people in prisons have low literacy skills, compared to just 15% of the ...
Life Boost Café
This new idea is an extension of the Falkirk Food Buddies project, run by Outside the Box. Life Boost Cafe consists of drop in self-help sessions at the Archibald Russell ...
A nourishing day in Denny
Earlier this month we held a Nourish Yourself event for older people in Denny, outside Falkirk. The idea for the event came from conversations with older people who said that ...