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Home Is Where My Heart Is
Home Is Where My Heart Is is a simple concept really: A photography-come-calendar project for homeless young people aged between 12 and 25 years of age. It’s run by the Perth based YACWA (Youth Affairs Council for Western Australia) with the sales from the calendar helping to fund its next year’s activities. YAWCA CEO Craig […]
Shabby 2 Chic
Shabby2Chic helps marginalised people – and old bits of furniture for that matter – to play a useful role in society. Danielle Aumord reports
Furniture Resource Centre
Times are tough and furniture expensive. Figen Gunes discovers a way forward for low income households
Glasgow Credit Union
Figen Gunes speaks to an organisation flying the flag for responsible lending
The Engine Shed
Jenny McBain visits The Engine Shed, an Edinburgh ‘training’ café with a special place in the community
Co-wheels Car Club
Co-wheels is a car club reconnecting people, saving the environment, and winning awards! By Figen Gunes
Build On Belief
Danielle Aumord visits Build On Belief to find staff and clients helping each other to move away from addiction.
Highland Home Carers
Home caring for the frail or those with disabilities is a commendable enough undertaking, but one unconventional company has taken their commitment to the community to new levels. By Charles Howgego “I would be totally lost without them,” says Helen Henderson from her home in Inverness. The 70-year-old has had mobility issues for some time […]
Highland Blindcraft
Jenny McBain visits a social firm with a long history and finds herself becoming a customer.// After a quick lie down to put a mattress to the test in the Highland Blindcraft showroom, I was soon happily completing a purchase in anticipation of comfortable nights to come. This is the way the very best social […]
Wild Things
Getting troubled youngsters into the great outdoors can do wonders for their behaviour, finds Jenny McBain. // The environmental factors negatively impacting on teenagers are well documented. But what happens when those who may be young and disaffected are transplanted from concrete surroundings and constant digital hook-up to a wild setting? Jennie Martin is founder […]
