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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, […]

Regional Resilience: The Big Picture

17 December 2020 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Regional Resilience: The Big PictureThis is a guest blog written by John Beresford (Senior Resilience Co-ordinator on the East of Scotland Resilience Co-ordination Team). My name is John Beresford and I am the Senior Resilience Co-ordinator on the East of Scotland Resilience Co-ordination team. The Scottish Government has three of these teams which are aligned with the East, West […]

What are the Best Actions that Organisations Can Take to Avoid Burn Out?

23 November 2020 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

What are the Best Actions that Organisations Can Take to Avoid Burn Out?This is a guest blog written by Duncan W Wallace (Facilitator, Coach, Consultant & Trainer). As we all head into winter from this unprecedented year, I have been working with multiple organisations about how to avoid Burn Out. The graphic above outlines the results from a recent survey, and – for me – the number […]

Lessons Learned: COVID-19 Food Programme

11 November 2020 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Lessons Learned: COVID-19 Food ProgrammeCOVID-19 has challenged us all in so many different ways. We’ve made new alliances, tested established partnerships and put real commitment into supporting the communities and people we care so much about. From zero to 100mph is high octane stuff and the food delivery programme was a task-intensive pressurised programme at every stage in the […]