East Renfrewshire Equalities Forum Planning Days We have been working with community groups, organisations, and service providers across East Renfrewshire to encourage and support local people to participate in the new Equalities Forum. We held 3 community events in East Renfrewshire in November and December to bring people together to discuss how a forum could…

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Climate Chat – A new project We are excited to announce that we have received funding from the Scottish Government’s Climate Engagement Fund for a new project, Climate Chat. The project aims to have conversations with communities of interest, focussing on equalities groups, in engagement activities around climate action. We will be hosting community sessions,…

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Borders Buddies: H and N Case study  Borders Buddies supports people to return to doing things they enjoyed before but which, either due to the pandemic, ill health or other factors, they have stopped doing. It enables them to reconnect with other people in the community, reducing isolation and building individual and community resilience. A…

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Drone Hill Community Benefit Fund success

Drone Hill Community Benefit Fund success  We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in receiving a grant from the Drone Hill Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund, administered by Foundation Scotland for our LINKS project. This grant is to support the delivery of a community health and well-being programme in and around Eyemouth…

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Outside the Box and Spike Wheat Scots North Ayrshire

Spike Wheat Scots Outside the Box is excited to start working with Spike Wheat Scots. They are a community group of Syrian New Scots who have resettled in North Ayrshire. Over the next year we will be working alongside the women from the group to explore meaningful integration, their valuable contributions to community life, shared…

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Community Solutions. Two community solutions learning reports on Finding the right support, and Showing the Impact. "Understanding what community services achieve leads to more people getting support from them. Everyone benefits when there is more choice."

Community Solutions: Finding the Right Support, Showing the Impact Community Solutions partnership work Community Solutions is a series of projects working towards increasing the learning and options around community solutions to social care in Scotland. Together they support people in communities and public sector teams, to develop social care services and community supports that work…

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