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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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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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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