The Cyrenians OPAL (Older People, Active Lives) service aims to maintain or increase older people’s independence and well-being across the West Lothian Council area. This week’s blog comes from Peter MacLeod, who discusses how building up digital skills has helped older people stay socially connected. How many of you can remember your first experience using…
Guest Blog: ‘I didn’t feel inferior and was treated like a regular staff member’
Angelina, who joined us for 4 weeks through a Career Ready Internship, shares her view on how expectations met reality during her time here! So it’s my first day at Cyrenians office – I wake up at 8 am and I find the most casual-looking yet serious-about-this-internship outfit. I get there really early, like half…
CEO Blog: A National Tragedy
The statistics out this week which show Scotland having the worst rate of drug related deaths in Europe should shock us to the core. It is a tragedy of epic proportions. 1187 of our fellow citizens dying due to the use and abuse of drugs in one year in 21st century Scotland. 27% higher than…
Guest Blog: ‘to bring the community together, and to be part of that’
This week’s guest blog is from Oliver Goulden, our Marketing and Communications Officer, who had some time out of the office to go and enjoy lunch with our Meadowbank Church Community Cook Club group… ‘Heya, howr yer doin?’ So began my venture to Meadowbank Community Cook Club today, from a particularly friendly and cheerful chap…
CEO Blog: Hard Edges Scotland
Possibly one of the most challenging Cyrenians moments was not a crisis but a conversation with someone who went to the same school as me – which was, for the record, Woodmill High School, Dunfermline. What made the conversation significant was that this individual was someone with whom our outreach team had been on a…
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