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Supporting Women’s Rights and Well-being in the Workplace – event from Outside the Box

By on November 19, 2020 in Community activity and Inclusion, Employment, Events, Mental wellbeing

We’re losing the skills and experience of women in the workplace. We need to get it right for women, their families and employers- now more than ever. This is the impetus behind a free online event, hosted by Outside the Box, for everyone interested in how to support equalities practice in the workplace. The event […]

Everyone welcome to new Thursday storytelling sessions from Refuweegee and The Village Storytelling Centre

By on November 4, 2020 in Arts and creativity, Community activity and Inclusion, Events, Organisations and groups

Information on forthcoming events from Refuweegee and The Village Storytelling Centre. Refuweegee are hosting a series of free Facebook Live storytelling events in partnership with The Village Storytelling Centre. Thursday mornings are set to be filled with family-friendly adventures, read and explored by expert teller of stories Sarah Rankin. Join them to explore some beautiful […]

Emerge – Can planning help us build resilience? Reflections from @verbisan

By on October 20, 2020 in Stories

We are always delighted to receive another beautiful contribution from Ayrshire-based writer Lynn Blair. This isn’t over. We’re not past the worst. Whatever this is we’re emerging from we’re not coming out to a world of safety and clarity. Full lockdown may be over, but it’s been replaced by a tangle of rules, the constant […]

Together We Can – five steps to fairness, equality and an end to poverty

By on October 9, 2020 in Events, Mental wellbeing, Organisations and groups

For post no. 5 of our current ‘Emerge’ theme we are sharing a powerful animation created for Challenge Poverty Week 2020, which has been produced by Media Co-op, in collaboration with Poverty Alliance, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and CPW. This sets out a clear manifesto for eradicating the inequalities which lead to poverty. Who wouldn’t want […]

Emerge – Community Correspondent Robert on creating a fairer society post-lockdown through a universal basic income

By on October 7, 2020 in Mental wellbeing, Stories

A re-post by Community Correspondent Robert Terry as part of our Mind Waves ‘Emerge’ theme, and to mark Challenge Poverty Week 2020. Pre-coronavirus, austerity killed people. More than 130 000 people in five years, according to the office of national statistics. Every life is precious. At the moment we are reminded of this several times […]