Creating space for rural voices

By OTBAugust 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Active & connected, Housing & fuel poverty, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Rural Wisdom Wales, Shared learning, Uncategorised Leave a comment

Earlier this year we designed and hosted a series of online webinars that brought together individuals and organisations from across Scotland and Wales. Shared learning has always been an important part of Rural Wisdom and we’ve been learning new ways of doing this since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the lockdowns and…

Rural Wisdom driving policy change

By OTBAugust 18, 2021 Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Wales driving policy change, having a say, Rural Wisdom Wales Leave a comment

Rural Wisdom driving policy change Having a say about policies that affect us One of our aims is giving older people in Wales and Scotland more opportunities to influence policies affecting them. Rural Wisdom made strides in this direction before the pandemic, building connections with the Scottish Parliament, Older People’s Commission in Wales Office, and…

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…