For #VolunteersWeek, our volunteer Helen generously shared her story: I knew that I needed help but the help I needed could only come from me. I had reached a stage in my life where I was stuck and had slowly, by degrees, crept into a deep rabbit hole of self-doubt and lack of confidence…
CEO Blog: On Jean Vanier
I was saddened to hear of the death earlier this month of Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arche Communities. I had the honour and privilege of meeting Jean Vanier once when I introduced him at an event he was speaking at. He was one of those people around whom there seemed to be a real…
Guest Blog: Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
SMHAF – what’s that I hear you ask? No, it’s not a revival of a series about little blue men with white hats in the 1980s. Instead it is the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF), a Scotland-wide festival of art, drama, music, theatre and lots, lots more. This annual festival, now replicated across the…
CEO Blog: On Housing First
I am not big on being told what to do. I will listen and learn; I will discuss and discover; I will converse, be curious and when necessary revise my understanding – or as John Maynard Keynes (or maybe Winston Churchill) allegedly put it – ‘when the events change my mind changes’. But I dislike…
CEO Blog: Five years on
Kudzidza hakuperi is a Shona proverb meaning learning is never finished. The Shona people are indigenous to Zimbabwe and some of the neighbouring countries like South Africa, Mozambique and Zambia. Today, May 1st, is the 5th anniversary of my first day with Cyrenians. If anything described these last five years it is Kudzidza hakuperi –…
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