Resources

Setting Up a Digital Buddies project – What we learned

Published 2020. This resource shares our ideas, what we did what we learned along the way when we set up our Digital Buddies project. We hope it helps others who are looking to set up similar digital projects.

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Gardening Tips for Older People – Individuals

Published 2020. Tips for individuals to help them continue enjoy gardening.

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Gardening Tips for Older People – Groups

Published 2020. Tips for groups, community gardens and professionals to help them support older people they know and work with continue to enjoy gardening.

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Support Choices – booklet

Published 2019. Support Choices is a project that helps people living in Perth and Kinross to get the social care and support that they need. The project began in Highland Perthshire. The project is a partnership between Outside the Box and the Care and Wellbeing Co-op. This complements an initiative based at the Carers’ Hub at PKAVS, which is giving family carers more information about how they can use the Self-Directed Support arrangements and get more support for the person they care for. Both projects are f

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Mums Returning To Work – Good Practice Guide

Published 2019. In partnership with early years childcare providers, Outside the Box has produced this guide and online training to inform businesses on the practical steps to support mums returning to work. For more information visit: www.mumsreturningtowork.org

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A Guide To Asking Your MSP or Councillor – and other people – for support

Published 2019. Sometimes things in our community don’t work as well as they should, or we can see a gap in services that people need. In our Local People Linking project we have been talking with people about what issues affect them. All of the people we spoke to said that they wanted to make things better in their local communities, but lots of people didn’t know who to contact.

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