A day with the New Beginnings Club Human Rights and Responsibilities planning day

NBC Planning Day For the last 18 months or so Outside the Box has been providing support to New Beginnings Club (nbc) members. nbc is a member led charitable organisation, offering friendship, activities, fun and adventure to people with disabilities throughout East Lothian. The ethos of nbc has always been about using people’s talents, skills,…

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Summer sessions and Marie McNair MSP visit

Summer sessions and Marie McNair MSP visit At our latest Moments of Freedom session we met again in the fantastic Centre 81. This also happened to be last day of the summer kids camp and the centre was full of excitement and laughter. Group session The women have been working on bunting and a banner…

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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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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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Borders Buddies in Hawick and Tweeddale

Borders Buddies in Hawick and Tweeddale  Borders Buddies began life as a post-pandemic pilot in Tweeddale.   The project works by supporting people who have become isolated due to various circumstances to reconnect, with the support of a volunteer Buddy. People are paired with others with common interests.  Thanks to National Lottery Improving Lives funding, we…

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New Beginnings Club (nbc) - East Lothian

New Beginnings Club (nbc)  Nbc is a group for adults with a learning and physical disabilities but unlike most other organisations that support people with physical and learning disabilities, nbc is run entirely by disabled people.  Members are the Trustees, they make the decisions on their priorities and the activities they want to do with…

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Community Solutions

Exploring your Community Sector At Outside the Box we are sharing the Community Solutions report, showing what we have learned around how the collective efforts can reach more people and help people stay well in their own homes and communities. We used the phrase ’community sector’, and that is prompting some conversations – is this…

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Health Inequalities CPG Parliamentary Reception

Health Inequalities CPG Parliamentary Reception Freya recently attended the Health Inequalities Cross Party Group Parliamentary Reception on 27th September. The event was sponsored by Brian Whittle MSP, Co-Convenor of the CPG and took place in the Scottish Parliament Garden Lobby. The secretariat, Voluntary Health Scotland, the national intermediary and network for Scotland’s voluntary health organisations, hosted with…

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Community Solutions

How can getting together with other people for a chat make health services work better? Part 2 Over the past few years Outside the Box has been working with people in the NHS and councils, national bodies, and community groups.  The work was in partnership with  Healthcare Improvement Scotland.  All the ideas and case examples…

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Community Solutions

How can getting together with other people for a chat make health services work better?  There is a lot of attention on the pressures that the NHS and social care services are facing.  Part of the solution comes from partnerships across different parts of the services and especially with the community sector.  That starts when…

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