Community Solutions

Collaborative Commissioning Resources The Independent Review of Adult Social Care 2021 recently published recommendations for the reform of commissioning and procurement of social care and the Improvement Service also published a briefing report on participatory budgeting.   These new published resources contain lots of information about commissioning that community and third sectors organisations could find useful;…

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Rural Wisdom Scotland evaluation 2021 - learning from the Rural Wisdom communities in Scotland

Rural Wisdom Scotland evaluation 2021 Download the Rural Wisdom Scotland evaluation 2021 You can read and download the Rural Wisdom Scotland evaluation 2021 here. Find all the Rural Wisdom resources on NDTi’s website. What Rural Wisdom’s about Rural Wisdom is about improving the lives of older people living in rural communities by listening and helping…

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Cartoon of a woman at a desk, video calling

In the Scottish Borders, we have the exciting role of coordinating the sharing of learning among the various Creating Better Lives projects funded by the Life Changes Trust in the Scottish Borders. Each of these groups is unique and has a different model, but all share in common the fact they are supporting people living with…

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The (virtual) Scottish Rural Parliamnet: ural and island digital accessibility

Scottish Rural Parliament: Digital access in Rural and Island places We have been enjoying the Virtual Scottish Rural Parliament’s inspiring programme – read our blog on the Advancing Equalities event. This event on all things digital in island and rural communities also caught our attention! We heard from three speakers: Digital Place and Space Dr…

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Digital Buddies

We are now delighted to share that we have been successful in securing additional funding to continue supporting our existing digital buddies and get more older people connected in the Borders .  The additional funding will also allow us to produce resources with the help of our existing digital buddies who are  sharing what they…

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Digital Buddies - smiling people using their new tablets

Digital Buddies is a project funded by Independent Age to get older people in the Scottish Borders connected digitally to friends, family, groups, their communities & the wider world. We thought other groups may be interested in how this is working, to help you with your plans for older people to become more digitally connected.…

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