Scotland’s Film Festival, with a twist
The Scottish Mental Health, Arts and Film Festival is in full swing. Now in its 6th year, it is a diverse event encompassing music, film, visual art, dance, literature and theatre! There are an enormous range of different groups and people involved hoping to challenge preconceived ideas about mental health through the different events. You […]
The Really Terrible Orchestra comes to Glasgow
The Really Terrible Orchestra is coming to the City Halls in Glasgow on Saturday 13th October as the first – and only – gig in this year’s world tour. The RTO brings together people who love playing music and wanted to play with other people as an orchestra, but know they aren’t good enough to […]
Finding the Community Assets in East Dunbartonshire
One of the projects which was featured in our event at Global Social Media Week was the Community Assets Mapping project form East Dunbartonshire. Our event was titled ‘Making Waves – Social Media, Empowerment and Wellbeing’. This project brings together all of these ideas and is creating practical benefits for lots of people. People who […]
Getting your Head around Brain Injury
In 2005 a group of people in West Dunbartonshire living with acquired brain injury set up a local group to help support one another. Over the past seven years the Brain Injury Experience Network (BIEN) has grown in number and scope – they are still there to help one another but they also want people […]
No More Heroes?
“If we could each bequeath one precious gift to posterity, I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for long-term sick and disabled people; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere; where needs come before means; where if years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their […]
Scotland nearer to having own respite centre
At this time of year many people are returning to work feeling the benefits of a summer holiday. From the time when paid holidays were introduced and extended to let ordinary workers enjoy a little time away, and seaside resorts on the Scottish coastline began to blossom. Taking a break away from the stresses and […]
Channel 4’s Mental Health Documentary
Kevin Gallagher shares his opinion of the recent Channel 4 documentary on the subject of mental health disclosure to potential employers and compares it with the soon-to-be released report on the subject from Employability Peer Support (EPS). Glasgow’s EPS is a development group made up of mental health service users and providers from around Glasgow. […]
Night & Day in London
Reflecting on the events surrounding his attendance of ‘The Technology 4 Good Awards’ in London, Kevin Gallagher wrote this hoping it showed an ear for radio. Night. Hunger drove me out of my hotel room following the Technology 4 Good Awards. Also the desire to photograph the newly opened Shard at night and the hope […]
Discoveries in Uncharted Territory
The beginning of July was a busy time for Professor Stephen Hawking. On Wednesday 4th July, he was losing a $100 bet with the announced discovery of the Higgs boson sub-atomic particle. On Friday the 6th, he was in receipt of the AbilityNet special award for accessibility as part of the Technology for Good event in […]
Praise and Recognition in London
I take it as a very positive sign that, within six months of appearing on the internet, the Mind Waves News project was nominated for a national award. The Technology 4 Good awards are relatively new, but they seem to be quite serious about it: the awards ceremony was hosted by Mariella Frostrup at BT’s […]
