Community Gardening in Peebles & Innerleithen

By OTBSeptember 12, 2019January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Living well, Rural Wisdom Scotland, Scottish Borders

We have been working closely with 3 community gardens, Peebles CAN, St Ronan’s Well & The Secret Garden in the Peebles and Innerleithen area of the Borders to make small areas of the gardens more dementia friendly with safer walkways, more stable furniture, high raised beds and clear signage. It is well researched and documented…

Small Acts of Kindness – Flintshire July Blog

By OTBAugust 8, 2019January 20, 2021 Active & connected, Contributing to age-friendly communities, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Rural Wisdom Wales

by Shereen Devine Last month, I told you about bus ride to promote a coffee morning. Well the morning was successful; some people in attendance had been encouraged to attend by the bus driver. I think the bus is going to be a great way to connect with people. We talked about what is and…

Leeswood Sunshine Cafe Celebrates its 1st Birthday

By OTBJuly 16, 2019January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Living well, Rural Wisdom Wales

by Shereen Devine, When I talk about Leeswood, I often refer to Sunshine Café, and I wonder if I do this too much; however, it is a big part of the community and the Rural Wisdom project. On the 9th May, the Café celebrated its 1st birthday, and I feel it could not go by…

Edzell Intergen Project Makes The News

By OTBMarch 7, 2019January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland

We were thrilled by the response to our Edzell Intergen Project. Read more about it here. It shows the interest in intergenerational works and shows the impact that a project can have.

A January Update From Rural Wisdom, Flintshire

By OTBFebruary 7, 2019January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Rural Wisdom Wales

by Shereen Devine I am wondering if the end of the month it is far too late to wish people a happy New year; however as it is my first Blog of the year, I do feel it is appropriate, so Happy New Year. The Leeswood & Pontlbyddyn Age – Friendly Steering group have recently…

Living Well with Dementia

By OTBJanuary 30, 2019January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Highland Perthshire, Living well, Rural Wisdom Scotland

As part of the Rural Wisdom project, Outside the Box is holding a ‘Living Well with Dementia’ event on Tuesday 12 March 2019. The event will take place from 10.30am to 2.30pm in the Birnam Arts Centre and will include information sessions and Q&A’s with Agnes Houston and Support Choices. Agnes campaigns for better understanding…

Watch our Intergen film!

By Nicky BollardJanuary 7, 2019January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland

We can finally share the films we put together with Edzell Primary School, Edzell Bowling Club and other individuals from the Edzell area celebrating friendships across generations! You can read more about the intergen project here.

Sharing ‘Intergen’: a film project bringing generations together in Edzell

By Nicky BollardDecember 21, 2018January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, North Angus, Rural Wisdom Scotland

On Sunday the 9th of December we got together with members of the community in Edzell to share our film ‘Intergen’: a film made with people from different generations in Edzell. It was great to have the opportunity to share the film with friends and family, and to reflect on the importance and benefits of making…

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…

Eco Heroes & an Intergenerational Community Soup in Flintshire

By OTBNovember 30, 2018January 20, 2021 Contributing to age-friendly communities, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Living well, Rural Wisdom Wales

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…