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WWS Aberdeenshire multi-layered preventative partnership Capacity – Voluntary Action

A diagram consisting of the image of three people with the text “examples of voluntary action” alongside them. Surrounding this image are ten yellow boxes containing the following text: 1. Befriending Services e.g. Kincardine & Deeside Befriending Service. 2. Recovery Cafes: peer-led in Banff, identified themselves. No staff attendance (ADP holds bank account). 3. Braemar care initiative for local people, using local residents. Recognised needs of residents. Steering group from wider Aberdeenshire. 4. Inspiring Insch – community café: open to anyone – run on donations: concerned to be inclusive as some young mums hadn’t felt welcome at another activity. 5. Peterhead Drummers Corner (monthly) – themes like super Saturday: also run a café and language groups. 6. Huntly runs a street fair for traders – a public space. 7. Community Learning and Development: volunteers directly deliver ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Core Skills Training to learners (after training). 8. Volunteer-run Local Day Services for older people in Aboyne: funding from Aberdeenshire Council. 9. Development Trusts and Rural Area Partnerships (building support capacity). 10. Response to the floods (e.g. Aboyne, Ballater) – community coming together in crisis and helping e.g. setting up a foodbank: young people filling sandbags. And a legacy being generated, for instance, a form of time-banking.

Social Sciences Communications January 31, 2018
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What Works Scotland was an initiative to improve the way local areas in Scotland use evidence to make decisions about public service development and reform. It explored how public services could start to work towards the recommendations of the Christie Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services and the Scottish Government’s priorities for reform. ...

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