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Putting human rights and equalities at the heart of what we do…

10 May 2022 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

Putting human rights and equalities at the heart of what we do… by Alice Tucker, Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities Development Officer (East region)  Earlier this month, I embarked on the 6-hour journey from my parent’s home in Cambridgeshire to Edinburgh to begin my role as a Human Rights and Equalities Development Officer with EVOC. My move-in day marked only the second time I had been […]

The world stopped breathing…

27 April 2022 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

The world stopped breathing… by Olga Wojciechowska (EVOC Development Worker) A little over a month ago the world stopped breathing… hoping that what they were hearing and seeing wasn’t real. Poland (where I live) began welcoming people from Ukraine almost as soon as the war started. My friends and family were rushing to help people at the border, taking […]

Social Prescribing – it’s a no brainer!

8 March 2022 By Craig Mundie Leave a Comment

Social Prescribing – it’s a no brainer!by Alison Leitch (Community Link Worker Network Area Lead (North Edinburgh)) on social prescribing in Scotland. Social prescribing, is an approach (or range of approaches) for connecting people to non-medical sources of support or resources in the community which are likely to help with the health problems they are experiencing.  There are various different models […]

Tagged With: CLW, community, community link worker, social prescribing, social prescribing day

A Leap of Faith…

7 March 2022 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

A Leap of Faith… by Marion Findlay (Director of Services, Volunteer Edinburgh) on the new community commissioning process for the Communities Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund in Edinburgh. It is exactly four months since our colleague Maria Arnold posted her blog “Put the Money Where Our Mouth Is…” on the EVOC website. On 2nd November she reflected on the […]

Tagged With: communities, Edinburgh, Funding, marion_findlay, mental_health, volunteer_edinburgh

A Community Vaccine?

22 February 2022 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

A Community Vaccine? by Bridie Ashrowan (Chief Executive) In recent weeks, while many people and communities have been facing an array of additional pressures, I was asked to attend meetings with the Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Humza Yousaf, The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. Sitting (virtually) alongside senior colleagues from the Integrated Joint Board, […]

Tagged With: community, COVID-19, thriving

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 […]

Tagged With: community, cyrenians, Edinburgh, era, recovery

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 […]

Tagged With: public sector transformation

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