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LOOPs Blog – How you can help make a difference

10 August 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

LOOPs Blog – How you can help make a differenceHow the LOOPs phoneline project connects people, projects and offers an improved quality of life. An Edinburgh Timebank had a phone call from a project called LOOPS. They wanted someone to accompany someone to look at sheltered housing options. They said the woman, Mary, needed some support as she could be a bit unsteady on […]

Compact: A New Era

13 July 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

Compact: A New EraThe end is in sight. There’s only two weeks to go of the Compact 10 year, and what a year it has been! The Compact 10 project started off in July 2014 by reviewing 10 years of the Edinburgh Compact Partnership – looking at the amazing organisations that work tirelessly to support communities across the City, […]

Edinburgh’s Third Sector in line with Government Economic Approach

12 June 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

Edinburgh’s Third Sector in line with Government Economic ApproachThe Scottish Government laid out economic planning earlier this year in Scotland’s Economic Strategy March 2015, promising a core & central purpose to create a “more successful country, with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish, through increasing sustainable economic growth.“ The ScotGov economic strategy, outlined in the diagram below, is based on two key pillars: increasing competitiveness and tackling inequality. It is important to note […]

Feedback Engage, Create – UPDATE

1 June 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

Feedback Engage, Create – UPDATEAt three different events this spring, EVOC has brought together interested people from across the Third Sector to look at the direction of the new Health & Social Care Integrated Joint Board. Hopefully everyone who would want to be involved has had chance, but as you’ll read elsewhere there is one more opportunity to engage […]

A Note from Elaine – Recovery Essentials

29 May 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

A Note from Elaine – Recovery EssentialsI have been working as a Financial Inclusion Worker with Recovery Essentials Project for over a year now. I am soon leaving to relocate to my home town and start a new job. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with Recovery Essentials, as it has given me the opportunity to continue working with the most […]

The Queen’s Speech

28 May 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

The Queen’s SpeechOn Wednesday 27th May, The Queen issued her first Conservative Speech in nearly two decades. The speech, which can be read in full at www.gov.uk, outlines new proposed legislation, which (among other proposed policies) includes: An ”In/Out” EU Referendum Bill by 2017, which will decide whether Britain remains part of the European Union A National […]

Who You Gonna Call? EVOC Redbook Directory

13 May 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

Who You Gonna Call? EVOC Redbook DirectorySince the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act was granted royal assent on April 1, 2014, the Integration of Health and Social Care has been snowballing into action. This ambitious programme of reform to ‘join up’ & improve services for service users will help ensure that health and social care provision across Scotland is joined-up and seamless – especially for people […]

Join EVOC, save the world

29 April 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

Join EVOC, save the worldAs Bob Dylan once wrote, the times they are a-changing. With austerity cuts continuing to clamp down with devastating effect across the Third Sector and beyond, it is hard to gain clear advice and support in order to continue to develop sustainable, resilient organisations and build Social Value. EVOC is a helping hand for Voluntary Organisations, an oasis […]

An update from Jo Northedge, GreenSpace|ArtSpace Development Worker

22 April 2015 By EVOC Communications Team 1 Comment

An update from Jo Northedge, GreenSpace|ArtSpace Development WorkerHello, I’m the development worker for the The GreenSpace|ArtSpace PSP which is part of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Campus redevelopment. Public Social Partnerships (PSPs) are strategic partnering arrangements, based on a co-planning, and co delivery approach, through which the public sector can connect with people, third sector organisations (voluntary organisations, community groups, charities, social enterprises […]

Shifting times

13 April 2015 By EVOC Communications Team Leave a Comment

Shifting timesAfter four years, we are approaching the end of the Reshaping Care for Older People Change Fund and it’s maybe time to reflect. Lots of things haven’t changed. Many of them negative like delayed discharge issues, or pressure on care at home. But at the same time It certainly feels that other things have changed, […]