Rural Housing Conference 2020 at Birnam Arts and Conference Centre

By OTBMarch 12, 2020January 20, 2021 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 Ruth WrightMarch 11, 2020January 20, 2021 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;…

Scottish Borders Transport -Connecting Villages & Towns

By OTBDecember 16, 2019January 20, 2021 Active & connected, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Scottish Borders, Transport

Last month we were in Duns to talk about transport issues in the area. The Royal Voluntary Service and Living Streets came along to talk about the work they have been doing in the Borders. Four main themes came through from the discussions: Issues around connecting villages & towns through public transport Issues around pavements…

Sunshine Cafe Beats The Winter Blues

By OTBDecember 10, 2019January 20, 2021 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…

People in Angus having a voice on transport

By OTBNovember 6, 2019January 20, 2021 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…

Community Spirit in Action – Rural Wisdom in Moray

By OTBOctober 1, 2019January 20, 2021 Active & connected, Burghead, Hopeman and Cummingston, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Shared learning

Rural Wisdom is working to make rural communities work well for people as we get older and for other people who live there. It started working in Moray in 2019 and I was lucky to be appointed as Community Worker.

What Makes Rural Wisdom? Listening

By OTBJanuary 15, 2019January 20, 2021 Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Highland Perthshire, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Milford Haven, North Angus, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland

Rural Wisdom has been working on a series of films highlighting the approach taken by the project. The first film looks at how we’ve tried to put listening at the centre of what we do.

Rachel’s Blog – Rural Wisdom, Milford Haven, October / November 2018

By OTBDecember 12, 2018January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Milford Haven, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Wales

by Rachel Evans This has been another varied and busy couple of months for Rural Wisdom in Milford. As you may have read in a previous blog, October saw the start of Soup & Sarnies at a Community Centre on one of the town’s estates, a collaborative effort with some enthusiastic local residents supported by…

Milford What’s On – The Power of Community (Information)

By OTBDecember 6, 2018January 20, 2021 Active & connected, Milford Haven, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Wales, Support that older people want

by Rachel Evans, Milford When Rural Wisdom and NDTI first got together with the people of Milford, a major theme that emerged from our conversations was communication. It seemed that there were lots of folk in the town missing out on information about things to do, places to go and people to meet – we reckoned…

Eaglesham Vision for Change

By OTBDecember 14, 2017January 20, 2021 Eaglesham and Waterfoot, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland

In November, over 35 people came together to explore how the communities of Eaglesham and Waterfoot can be better places to live for older people. Village residents joined representatives from community groups, community council, local businesses, voluntary sector and local authority at The Carswell Centre in Eaglesham. Together we discussed what was working well, what…