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Sharing our Dreams – with Angus Voice

On a bit of a windy day in Arbroath, Louise and Dawn had a lovely day meeting the fabulous people at Angus Voice. We talked about our dreams as a ...

Boost for Befrienders in Berwickshire

We're delighted to be able to congratulate BeFriend (formerly Seton Care Befrienders) who have received £325,336 over five years from the Big Lottery's Investing in Communities fund. Having worked with BeFriend to ...

Buddying Support in Communities

Outside the Box are currently exploring ways to demonstrate and identify the scope and impact of enhanced befriending support or buddying support, from people who have life experience for people ...

Lights, Camera, Co-production: 3 great things to watch

To conclude co-production week, here’s three great wee videos to watch about what co-production means and, how it can work and why it’s such an important model to follow in ...

#coproweek – Older People & Effective Co-production

It’s national co-production week – hosted by The Social Care Institute for Excellence - a time to celebrate effective co-production work which truly engages, involves and respects all participating parties. At ...

The difference a year can make – what happed to us as a consequence of U Lab

Last summer I went along to the first ‘find out about U Lab’ session in Edinburgh.  It sounded like the sort of thing that Outside the Box wanted to do.  ...