As part of our place theme, Project Manager Kenny from Carr Gomm’s Rosebank Gardens explains how place is important to a wide mix of community groups. In Rosebank we have 38 large plots these are shared between Carr Gomm Rosebank Garden project and community plot holders, the site is set in view of the beautiful […]
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Minibuses filled with our volunteers and older members, chatting, smiling and enjoying being together #journeys
A guest post from @FoodTrainScot Chief Executive Michelle McCrindle MBE At Food Train we’re on a perpetual journey, traveling together alongside hundreds of fantastic volunteers and older members as they make their way each day through life. Some journeys are long; like the food we deliver to our customers can take months from seed to […]
Life in the ward
A guest post from @bobbymanflu Paul Graham . This is an edited excerpt from Paul’s blog, which takes a light-hearted and honest look at the time he spent as an in-patient in a psychiatric unit. Things moved on day to day, the Fife Circle maintaining some sort of order. I lay in bed a […]
“A madman who knows how to use a camera? Whatever next?” – John tells us about his experience of making his film Simon Says PSYCHOSIS
A guest post from John Richardson of @SiSaysPSYCHOSIS Considering my first stint of abrasive reality arrived whilst studying film production; making a documentary on psychosis was naturally, inevitable. It was the Early Intervention in Psychosis service, which I’d recently been discharged from, that gave me ‘the prod’ to do so. I joined filmmaking forces with a psychologist in […]