Refuweegee has to be the word of the year
We spend a lot of time talking to people in and around Glasgow about what makes them happy, what makes them angry. It’s given us an overwhelmingly positive idea of what it means to be part of the city. So, it didn’t come as a surprise to see the “refuweegee” project. We are all aware […]
My Dad: a heartwarming post from @hippychick1987
A post from our Community Correspondent Ann Marie Sharpe @hippychick1987 My dad is an amazing person: He is so intelligent, hard working, caring, kind, generous and loving. Although we don’t make small talk a lot, he has always been there to talk to and support me when its important, and I know he always will […]
This #humanrightsday have your say on #rightsforlife and mental health
December 10 is Human Rights Day: the anniversary of the adoption of the universal declaration on human rights. Nearly seven decades later, people with lived experience of mental health problems are still having to fight to have their human rights recognised. This year, in Scotland, we have an opportunity to contribute to an exciting means […]
Volunteering over Christmas in Glasgow
Christmas can be great fun. But it can also be tough. It can be lonely. Many of us want to reach out and do something to help other people, to remember the real meaning of Christmas. With this in mind, we had planned to find a list of good volunteering opportunities around Glasgow over the […]
Anxiety as an adventure: watch @pmusttryharder at @TEDx
Sweaty palms, racing heart, dry mouth: this could be a description of the hero in an adventure story. Or it could be a list of the symptoms of anxiety. Our newest Community Correspondent Paula McGuire decided that the two can be the same thing. She lived with anxiety for over 20 years before she decided […]
The secret world of Glasgow’s sewers #100faces
Listen to Peter’s story As part of our workshop with @gillianlambie of @100facesvoices , our Community Correspondents recorded interesting stories about their lives. We love Peter Leckie’s story about the 30 years he spent working in Glasgow’s sewers. There is a whole world beneath our feet that most people don’t know anything about. Here, he […]
Meet our Community Correspondents: Paula McGuire @pmusttryharder
Where are you from? Where do you live? I’ve always lived in the east end of Glasgow; currently in Riddrie, where the average age is pensionable. Why are you interested in mental wellbeing? Having suffered social anxiety for twenty years, I decided in 2012 to make it suffer me instead. At the time, I was […]
We’re going to be part of #100faces
This week at our Community Correspondents meeting, we did something a little bit different. We had a visit from @gillianlambie who is part of the @100facesvoices project. A hundred faces, a hundred voices wants to create a big, smiley mosaic of Scotland today. They want to tell a hundred stories about a hundred people in […]
Show me something new
A post from our Community Correspondent John Dane This week I spent an exciting morning having a guided tour and taking part in a workshop at the Turner Prize Exhibition at the Tramway. This was a great opportunity as this is the first time the exhibition has been held in Scotland and only the second […]
There is no law against hugging
There’s a popular myth, in every public service from nurseries to psychiatric hospitals, that it’s against the rules for staff to hug the people they support. It’s one of those things that makes for a good story, but this excellent piece from Anna Fowlie of the Scottish Social Service Council dispels it. Of course, touching […]
