Category: Contributing to age-friendly communities

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…

Sunshine Cafe Beats The Winter Blues
By Categories: Contributing to age-friendly communities, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, 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…
Camp fire lighting

Multigenerational Activities in Borders – Session 1
By Categories: Active & connected, Contributing to age-friendly communities, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Scottish Borders

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 Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, 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…