Outdoors Activities pack

Climate Chat Outdoor Activities pack As part of our Climate Chat project we have republished and reprinted our Outdoors Activities pack. The activities were first developed as part of the Eyemouth Gateway to Good Health initiative. This community-led pilot was supported by Joint Health Improvement Team and Scottish Borders Council, involving local community members, voluntary…

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Spike Wheat Scots women’s well-being walk We met with the New Scots women of Spike Wheat Scots in Eglinton Park, Irvine for our latest session together. The women wanted to meet outside, in nature and show us their favourite spots. They told us that they spend a lot of their free time in the park…

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Could you be a Borders Buddy? 

Could you be a Borders Buddy?  Do you have a few hours to spare to support someone to get out a bit more? Maybe you could be a volunteer Buddy for Borders Buddies. Borders Buddies is a project of Outside the Box, which after running a pilot project now has Lottery funding to work for…

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LINKS Eyemouth: Primary Outdoors Activity Day

Eyemouth Primary Outdoors Day  On Thursday 22nd June, we teamed up with local partners as part of our LINKS Eyemouth project, delivering healthy activities for children and families.   LINKS Eyemouth is a project for families in the Eyemouth area in the Borders. The focus is on healthy, lower budget eating and wider wellbeing as a…

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Borders Buddies Case Study  

Borders Buddies Case Study   From Anna, who is supported by her Buddy, Jayne: “I wanted a buddy to help me do my shopping and get out a little bit more, as I’d been in the house for too long, not able to get out much by myself. I couldn’t get out much with my daughter…

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Eyemouth Gateway to Good Health: launch of outdoor resources Outside the Box have been very pleased to be part of coordinating and delivering the whole-systems Eyemouth Gateway to Good Health initiative over the past year. Our LINKS project is rooted in the Eyemouth community and, along with other community partners, we supported the delivery of…

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outdoor team day

Outside the Box Staff Outdoors Day Last week we had a wonderful outdoor team day in Peeblesshire.  Christine and Ruth led the fantastic day to show us more about the work they have been doing in the Borders.  The team learned how to carry out outdoors risk assessments, how to make hapazomes, how to make…

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Community Solutions

Paths for All – Dementia Friendly Health Walks Paths for All supports a network of over 650 health walks that take place in communities across Scotland. The majority of these walks are led by volunteers and are managed by a range of organisations including local authorities, NHS, leisure trusts and community organisations. People living with…

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Borders Buddies. A new project supporting people in the Scottish Borders to address barriers and enjoy their communities!

OTB South-East are very pleased to announce the official launch of our Borders Buddies project! Thanks to funding from Scottish Borders Council Community Fund for Tweeddale, we are able to deliver this important new project to support people to start to get back to normal activities.   We know that not everyone will feel comfortable…

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Outdoors for wellbeing - why it's good to get outside

Welcome to our first blog in the “Outdoors for Wellbeing” series. We have heard about and witnessed first hand how spending time outside can improve our wellbeing. So we thought it would be a good idea to pull together what we’ve learnt from our own experiences, the people we work with and other organisations.  …

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