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The loneliness epidemic

Can loneliness really ever be compared to cancer? On BBC Radio Scotland today there was a focus on the 'loneliness epidemic’. It was encouraging to know that the issue of loneliness ...

How to keep it local

Locality have created a brilliant five step guide called How to Keep it Local. The guide has been designed to help with the growing demand for authorities to provide good ...

Creating safer spaces in Scotland

As part of this week’s Firestarter festival, we were glad to be part of the conversation sparked by COPE Scotland and The Alliance around creating safe spaces. At Outside the ...

What is the elephant in the room for people in prison?

A few months ago I shared how co-production can be used to help people who have been in prison so it was great to be at an event hearing about this in ...

Start a Fire with Flourishing Borders

At Outside the Box you could say that building little fires in local communities is one of the things we do best. We love nothing more than getting together groups ...

Vote and make your voice heard

At the moment we are getting ourselves organised for the elections in May when we will be doing some work on making sure everyone feels able to vote. To get ...