Category: Rural Wisdom Scotland

Rural Wisdom Evaluation Key findings, January 2020
By Categories: National policies, 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…

Scottish Borders Transport – Transport & Medical Appointments
By Categories: Active & connected, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Support that older people want, Transport

The final area we looked at during the event in Duns was issues around transport to and from medical appointments.   Issues raised Travel time and/or access to transport is not taken into account when appointments are being scheduled. It also feels like those who are making the appointments have limited local knowledge of how…

Scottish Borders Transport – Bus Connections & Timetabling
By Categories: Active & connected, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Transport

This is the 2nd blog from the Duns Transport event back in November, which looks at the Bus Connections and timetabling issues discussed. Issues raised The group had experienced many issues around bus connections and timetabling.  Below is what we heard. It is common for the buses not to connect for onward journeys to destinations….
Borders Bus

Scottish Borders Transport -Connecting Villages & Towns
By Categories: Active & connected, Older people having a voice & leading change, Rural Wisdom Scotland, 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…
Camp fire lighting

Multigenerational Activities in Borders – Session 1
By Categories: 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 Categories: 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…