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…
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…
Written by Shereen Devine You might remember earlier this year, Kath from the allotment group joined me to plant pumpkins with the Eco-Hero group from Ysgol Dwerenfa. We chose to plant pumpkins as we thought it would be a good idea to have a Community Pumpkin Soup event at the end of autumn. We began…
Last week, those involved in the Rural Wisdom project – from Outside the Box, Volunteering Matters Cymru and NDTi got together for our second big gathering. We were fortunate to be joined by active members of the local community, council workers and Steve from Ageing Well in Wales. It was a brilliant chance to get together to discuss the future of…
Time to Connect is a partnership project by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) and Timebanking UK (TBUK), which aims to improve the lives of older people and people with learning disabilities who live in care. Below Carol Robinson from NDTI shares some fantastic examples of links between care homes and the community in rural places….
by Rachel Evans Crikey, what a busy month! It didn’t seem to be about meeting loads of new people, more about building on existing relationships. Carers Ever keen to press on with initiatives which keep the library relevant to the local community in 2018, Tracey, site manager of Milford Library, asked if I could help…
May has been so busy I am not sure where to begin; I will start with the Cafe that I have been talking about for some time. I am delighted to inform that you that the cafe is now open, only once a week, however, it is a start for now. We have had 3…
The Centre for Ageing Better and the Good Things Foundation have published a new report on digital access. It shows that we need to think differently about digital inclusion policy and practise if we are going to reach those older people who most need practical help and encouragement around digital access. Across the UK there…
The development of the Community cafe continues here in Leeswood, these things often take longer than planned; however, I am confident that we are making progress. The Public Protection Team, have been out to give us some advice, so we now have a clear understanding of what we need to do to become an operational…
March was a busy month in Milford. I had spent some of February preparing for an important and much-needed event and wanted to be sure that as many people as possible had a chance to come. The purpose of this Community Planning Meeting was to give me a steer for this current 12 month period…