Resources

Community Connections Practical Guides, Hints and Tips

Published 2020. These guides bring together the project’s learning from the communities it has worked alongside before, during and after the COVID-19 lockdown. The guides, hints and tips can support people to stay in touch with their communities through lots of different challenges they might face in the future such as COVID-related restrictions or situations where community groups can’t meet up, like bad winter weather or lack of access to meeting spaces.

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Community Connections Highlights and Learning: Strengthening social connections and improving access to information

Published 2020. This publication describes the activities and learning from the Community Connections project. We hope it encourages people in other places to develop activities that lead to more social connections between people in their communities.

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Food Buddies Tips for You & Friendly Neighbours During Times When we Can’t Get Out

Published 2020. It is lovely that during challenging times we are seeing communities come together to help each other in many ways including to share food with neighbours and others in the community. This guide has been brought together with older people and their families and friends who are sharing their experiences to help other people.

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Tips for getting Conversations Going

Published 2019. Tips to help people in communities who want to get activities or groups started or develop what you are doing already.

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Keeping Connected in Winter

Published 2019. Tips to help people and community groups in rural or isolated communities to think about how to keep connected and carry on during winter.

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Highland Perthshire Mobile Library Van

Published 2018. The Rural Wisdom Project arranged to go out on the Mobile Library Van in Highland Perthshire. Jill Davies, Rural Wisdom Development Worker spent two days on the Keltneyburn Route and the Kinloch Rannoch route speaking to people about housing, social opportunities and the 'Beast from the East'.

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