This week’s blog is from Hazel Gray, a key worker supporting young people to reach their potential: These are uncertain times for everyone, but especially perhaps for young people at the start of their journey in life. Key to Potential helps young people about to leave school access college, training, or employment. It has understandably…
CEO Blog: On the Programme for Government
It’s been 6 months since we went into lockdown and like many other people, I have found having to isolate myself from family, friends and colleagues challenging. Rationally I knew it was the right thing to do. I had no objection to be asked to do it and wanted everyone else to do the same….
CEO Blog: #ScotCharityAwards
One of the weirder and most delightful moments of my time with Cyrenians was in 2018 when I was awarded the “Leading Light” award at the SCVO Scottish charity awards. Weird because I genuinely didn’t think I would win. I was chuffed to be shortlisted, (thought given the nomination had been done without my knowledge…
What’s in a name?
I think that words, particularly the names we choose for things, can be fascinating in a social context. Words and names shape our perceptions and attitudes and, in society at large, this can have very real and material consequences. This may seem at first inconsequential in the current context, but at a time when there…
Guest blog: The Butterfly Border
A year on from starting a big project at the Royal Edinburgh Community Gardens, volunteer Mairi writes on how the butterfly border has progressed, how it has helped her personally, and her hopes for the future On returning to the community gardens I was really pleased to see so much fresh growth on the plants that…
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