Photos of making a butterfly garden

Creating a butterfly garden
By Categories: Active & connected, Contributing to age-friendly communities, Holywell, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Living well, Milford Haven, Rural Wisdom Wales, The Dale Peninsula

By Shereen Devine and Rachel Evans We are six months in, and the pandemic continues to highlight loneliness, isolation and the frustrations that come with the lockdown. To address these issues, local colleagues are looking into reviving the Pembrokeshire Befriending Network. In the meantime, we continue to provide support for people who are still shielding…

Pembrokeshire & Flintshire COVID-19 Response Project
By Categories: Holywell, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Living well, Milford Haven, Rural Wisdom Wales, The Dale Peninsula

We hope you are well and adapting to the current way of living. It certainly has been a challenging few months. Like many projects, Rural Wisdom delivery has been hugely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.  With the safety of community members, volunteers and staff in mind, we stopped our face-to-face activities the week before our…
Two woman standing beside a blue box

North Moray Coast’s Response to COVID-19
By Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Living well, Rural Wisdom Scotland

The North Moray Coast communities have come together and responded quickly and effectively to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first actions were taken by Burghead and Cummingston Community Council. They called for volunteers, with Chris Tuke as a focal point. The response was great with many more volunteers than tasks  to do tasks like shopping for…
Older person looking at a mobile phone

Rural Wisdom: How older people in rural communities are responding to the pandemic
By Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Highland Perthshire, Holywell, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Living well, Milford Haven, National policies, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Rural Wisdom Wales, Scottish Borders, The Dale Peninsula

Rural Wisdom is a joint project between Outside the Box, Volunteering Matters Cymru and the National Development Team for inclusion. It is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. It began in 2017 now operates in nine different communities across Scotland and Wales. We work with older people in rural communities to support community action…

Rural Housing Conference 2020 at Birnam Arts and Conference Centre
By Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Highland Perthshire, Housing & fuel poverty, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Shared learning

by Fi Thomson, Rural Wisdom Community Worker, Moray Housing in Rural Scotland is a complex problem. Key issues such as land ownership, demographics and depopulation, holiday houses and tourism, rural enterprise and affordability were all discussed at this conference in the lovely surroundings in Birnam.   The attendees included journalist and broadcaster, Lesley Riddoch whose talk was aptly named ‘Not Doomed…

Change is coming… Scottish Rural Action Conference
By Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Shared learning

By: Joan Megson, Community Activist Change is coming. How should Scotland’s rural communities, businesses, organisations and people respond? I went to the Scottish Rural Action Conference to find out more. The location of the conference, the Lanark World Heritage Centre set the tone of what we were to focus on well. The questions posed were;…