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Put the Money Where Our Mouth Is…

2 November 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Put the Money Where Our Mouth Is… by Maria Arnold (Senior Development Officer – Adult Health and Wellbeing). How to best spend public money is a topic fraught with tension, and for good reason. Too often the processes used to decide how to use precious funds seem so bureaucratic that they feel like they are missing the point. The various qualities of […]

The Future of Older People’s Day Care Services in Edinburgh

25 October 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

The Future of Older People’s Day Care Services in Edinburghby Stefan Milenkovic (Senior Development Officer, Older People’s Health and Wellbeing at EVOC). As we publish a new report that explores the The Future of Older People’s Day Care Services in Edinburgh, Stef reflects on his experiences in the sector and how he hopes this report can inform the future. On the 18th October 2021, […]

A Reflection on the Past Year

8 October 2021 By Esther Currie 1 Comment

A Reflection on the Past Year To mark the publication of the Edinburgh Community Link Worker 2020-21 Review, Julie Roxburgh – Deep End Community Link Worker, Wester Hailes (The Health Agency) – share’s her reflections on the past year. I came back to work in October 2020, after a year of maternity leave. Never in my wildest dreams could I have […]

ERA is Moving On

31 August 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

ERA is Moving On by Michael McCarron, Senior Development Officer… After nearly 3 years with EVOC, the time has come for Edinburgh Recovery Activities (ERA) to move on to pastures new. For those of you unaware of the ERA story, the project began as a response to the closure of a much loved and much needed recovery project in […]

A Transformation is Happening

10 August 2021 By Esther Currie 2 Comments

A Transformation is Happening by Ian Brooke, Deputy Chief Executive… Welcome to a blog about the voluntary sector and the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership’s Transformation Programme. No, don’t click to another page or wander off to see if the paint is dry, this is something worth spending five minutes thinking about! The ‘transformation’ work began in 2020 […]

Learning From Lockdown in Edinburgh: Sharing Your Experiences

8 July 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Learning From Lockdown in Edinburgh: Sharing Your Experiences by Hugo Whitaker (Development Worker – Disability and Carers)… A lot of us are getting more than a little tired of the current restrictions and wanting to get back to being in buildings and outdoor spaces with others again – in the ways we used to. Recently some of us at EVOC took a few […]

A New ERA For Edinburgh Recovery Activities

21 April 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

A New ERA For Edinburgh Recovery ActivitiesA guest blog by the team at Edinburgh Recovery Activities (ERA): Michael McCarron (Senior Development Officer) & Jemma Eveleigh (Community Development Worker) From the outset, we wanted ERA to be fresh, innovative and community led. We were both very excited about how the steering group was set up – full of members of the community […]

Oh no… not another blog!

24 March 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Oh no… not another blog!A response to the Feeley Report by Ian Brooke (EVOC Deputy Chief Executive). People often talk about circles ‘coming back around’. Or maybe sometimes we see patterns where it’s simply random. What I do know is that there are a lot of well-meaning official think tank (Scottish or UK Government) infrastructure bodies reports cascading out […]

Scottish Charity Law Consultation

27 January 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Scottish Charity Law ConsultationIn 2019 OSCR began a process of reviewing the powers that they have and consulting with charities and other stakeholders on their views. As OSCR was established in 2003, it was a good time to look at what administrative efficiencies the regulator has as well as looking at what powers required reviewing and strengthening in […]

Looking Back at 2020 by Roisin Hurst

6 January 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Looking Back at 2020 by Roisin HurstI don’t think 2020 is a year that any of us will forget anytime soon, so as we start a new year, it seems like a good time to reflect on both the challenges and positives (there were some!) of the last 12 months. I started working at EVOC on the first day of lockdown, […]