Rural Wisdom Evaluation – What we are hearing from Scotland?

By OTBJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Evaluation, Rural Wisdom Scotland Evaluation, Older People, Rural Communities Leave a comment

As part of the evaluation in Scotland, we have gathered people’s experiences and impacts from local areas. These are some of the things we have been hearing around the impacts for people

Creating a butterfly garden

By OTBSeptember 29, 2020January 18, 2021 Active & connected, Contributing to age-friendly communities, Living well, Rural Wisdom Wales

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…

Care Homes and Communities – our recent experience and what has helped

By OTBJuly 30, 2020December 22, 2020 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Living well, Rural Wisdom Scotland

The role of care homes has been so important over the past few months, and many communities have realised that they can help people who live there and staff who work in care homes. These are some of the things that we have been hearing about – both where the community helps the care home…

Our Journey so far in the Scottish Borders.

By OTBJuly 29, 2020December 22, 2020 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Living well, Rural Wisdom Scotland

Rural Wisdom is working to make rural communities work well for people as we get older and for other people who live there. We started working in the Scottish Borders in late 2018, and this video celebrates some of what we have achieved so far. For more information about our work in…

Sunshine Cafe Beats The Winter Blues

By OTBDecember 10, 2019December 22, 2020 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Living well, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Wales

by Shereen Devine Sunshine Cafe is the little Community Cafe that Rural Wisdom helped to develop in May 2018. During this time, we have grown from strength to strength and gained some very loyal customers and priceless volunteers. We have also welcomed many visitors including, Warmer Wales; Age Connects, and a doctor seconded to falls…

An Intergenerational Lunch Club – in a School!

By OTBNovember 26, 2019December 22, 2020 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Living well, Rural Wisdom Wales

by Shereen Devine My favourite season has arrived, I love autumn, the colours here in North Wales are beautiful as I am sure they are we you are too, The nights are drawing in, but I appreciate not everyone enjoys the darkness at 16:00. We are mindful at this time of year to plan as…

Multigenerational Activities in Borders – Session 1

By OTBNovember 14, 2019December 22, 2020 Active & connected, Contributing to age-friendly communities, Rural Wisdom Scotland

Rural Wisdom started working in the Scottish Borders earlier this year, finding ways to make rural communities work better for everyone that lives there. The weather gods were obviously listening this weekend. Saturday afternoon was a beautiful autumnal, although very chilly day here in the Borders for the first of our multigenerational activity sessions. Glenkinnon,…

The Ripple Effect

By OTBOctober 31, 2019December 22, 2020 Contributing to age-friendly communities, National policies, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Shared learning

by Fi Thomson – Rural Wisdom community worker in Moray I recently had the opportunity to attend the first Ageing Research Network meeting at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. This was a well attended and interesting day. I was asked to contribute with my experience of the third sector. Initially I explained that I could only…

Spreading Rural Wisdom in Wales

By OTBOctober 8, 2019December 22, 2020 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Rural Wisdom Wales

by Shereen Devine – working with communities in rural Flintshire Over the last couple of months, I have had the opportunity to get out and about to spread the word of Rural Wisdom to other communities across Wales. Here in Wales, we are fortunate to have an Older People’s Commissioner. Helena and her team do…

Community Gardening in Peebles & Innerleithen

By OTBSeptember 12, 2019December 22, 2020 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Living well, Rural Wisdom Scotland

We have been working closely with 3 community gardens, Peebles CAN, St Ronan’s Well & The Secret Garden in the Peebles and Innerleithen area of the Borders to make small areas of the gardens more dementia friendly with safer walkways, more stable furniture, high raised beds and clear signage. It is well researched and documented…