Rural Wisdom Evaluation – What we are hearing from Scotland? By OTBJanuary 15, 2021January 20, 2021 Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Contributing to age-friendly communities, Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Evaluation, Highland Perthshire, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Scottish Borders 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
Rural Wisdom: How older people in rural communities are responding to the pandemic By OTBMay 7, 2020January 20, 2021 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 Wisdom Evaluation Key findings, January 2020 By OTBFebruary 11, 2020January 20, 2021 Categories: Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Highland Perthshire, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Milford Haven, National policies, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Rural Wisdom Wales, Shared learning The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTI) are the appointed evaluation partners of the Rural Wisdom project. Following their visits and research, they have now published their key findings fo far, along with a number of case studies that highlight the varied and interesting work of the project: Rural Wisdom Evaluation Key findings, January 2020…
Rural Wisdom 2020 News By OTBJanuary 30, 2020January 20, 2021 Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Highland Perthshire, Holywell, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Milford Haven, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Rural Wisdom Wales, Scottish Borders, Shared learning, The Dale Peninsula In this issue, we celebrate some of the initiatives, projects, events and ideas set up with older people in rural communities. Download the PDF version here In October, community members and workers from Scotland and Wales came together to discuss Rural Wisdom. It was a chance to take stock and reflect on all the successes…
People in Angus having a voice on transport By OTBNovember 6, 2019January 20, 2021 Categories: North Angus, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Transport by Anne Connor People in Angus are continuing to have a say on how transport can be improved in their area. Rural Wisdom has been working alongside older people and others in Brechin and Edzell and that part of North Angus. Transport was an issue that came up often – both for the problems people…
Reflecting on Rural Wisdom in Angus By OTBOctober 2, 2019January 20, 2021 Categories: North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Shared learning This video reflects on some of the work that we were able to do in North Angus over two years – listening to issues and helping to give older people a voice.
So, what’s it like being a Project Worker at Outside the Box? By OTBJuly 17, 2019January 20, 2021 Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Highland Perthshire, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Rural Wisdom Wales, Scottish Borders As Project Worker for the North Team at Outside the Box, I am part of two smaller project teams. The Support Choices team is made up of 3 Community Workers all based in Dunkeld and in the community. With my support, the team help people understand the ins and outs of the Self Directed Support (SDS) process…
We are recruiting! By OTBJuly 1, 2019January 20, 2021 Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Highland Perthshire, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Scottish Borders Project Worker – North TeamMaternity Cover from early September Part-time: 20 hours each weekAnnual salary: £10,000 (pro rata on £20,000) Closing date: Noon, Monday 29th July 2019 We are recruiting maternity cover for our Project Worker to support the work we do over several projects: Support Choices in rural parts of Perth and Kinross and Rural…
A chance to reflect – in North Angus By OTBJune 25, 2019January 20, 2021 Categories: North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Transport Rural Wisdom (North Angus) held an Evaluation afternoon in June on one of the wettest days on record in Brechin. The weather did not deter the good turnout from community partners from coming along and offering their views on the impact of the project in North Angus. Carol Hayden from NDTi, one of the partners…
Rural Wisdom – Spring Gathering 2019 By OTBJune 18, 2019January 20, 2021 Categories: Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Highland Perthshire, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Rural Wisdom Wales, Scottish Borders, Shared learning “It’s important to take these events out to rural communities, to be in the communities where people live and work. At the start of the project we heard that most of the networking events happen in places such as Perth, Glasgow or Edinburgh which can create extra challenges and often means that older people from…