Resources

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.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

Human Rights – How To Run Your Own Training Session

Published 2019. By working with different community groups, we learned how to run successful learning sessions about human rights. We are sharing what we did so people can hold similar sessions in their communities.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

Grandparents’ top tips

Published 2018. These tips were put together after we had discussions with grandparents as we know many grandparents now spend a lot of time caring for their grandchildren. These tips were created as a part of our Families Project.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

Surviving Christmas and New Year

Published 2017. Christmas can be a difficult time for lots of people for a variety of reasons. In this booklet we share some hints and tips for getting through the festive season.

Creating Inclusive Communities

Food Buddies café checklist

Published 2017. If you work in a café or restaurant you can use this handy guide to see how accessible your place of work is for people with dementia.

Creating Inclusive Communities

We’re Here Too 2016 Report

Published 2017. In the autumn and winter of 2016 we held three We're Here Too events looking at how older people can have better links with their communities. We looked at this idea, alongside how to stay active and well as we get older and how black and minority ethnic (BME) older people can be more included in the decisions that affect them. This is the report we wrote up following the three events.

Creating Inclusive Communities