This week’s guest blog comes from Craig Millard, Mediator at Cyrenians. I am privileged to have a vocation that allows me to work with people and get the chance to reflect on matters of the heart and mind, of social inequality, disputes, competition, hunger and desperation. To an extent, I get to see the increasing…
CEO blog: The real city of Edinburgh
I went out last night with my colleague Nick Harrold, one of our Homeless Navigators. Nick is part of our Outreach team, working in Edinburgh city centre. Their job is to get to know rough sleepers and through the relationships they create, see if there is a way they can support those individuals out of…
CEO Blog: Brexit, a nation scunnered
How we arrived at the mess we are in over Brexit will be debated for many years by political commentators and historians. Central to the story will be the referendum two years ago and the suggestion whether another referendum should happen before we finally decide. Just to be clear at this point; Cyrenians has…
CEO Blog: Learning to talk about love
One of the great ironies about Valentine’s Day, far from being the catalyst of romantic spontaneity, is its predictability, not least the annually produced surfeit of chocolate, Love Hearts and other such paraphernalia synonymous of a certain type of romance. At least now, for those who struggle with the soppy sentimentality of much of what…
Guest Blog: Cooking with confidence
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates (“founder of medicine”) We are all familiar with the concept of food as medicine; as a Cooking Tutor at Cyrenians’ food education programme, the health benefits of eating a balanced diet and the importance of getting our 5 a day is one of…
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