Health and wellbeing

Mental Wealth in Moray, Challenges and Ideas: Learning and Knowledge Exchange Event

All are welcome to join Moray Wellbeing Hub online on Tuesday 28th November as they share findings and dive deeper into the exploration of Mental Wealth in Moray through our Community Research Network.

This is event builds their the launch in April 2023, subsequent community roadshow events in May and partnership development this summer. 

At this event they will :

The pilot phase of a new benefit that will be paid to over 80,000 carers has begun in Scotland.

Unpaid carers in Perth and Kinross, Dundee City and Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) are the first to be able to apply for Carer Support Payment. The benefit is replacing Carer’s Allowance, currently delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions, in Scotland.

Get ready for 2024!

The  sixth round of funding of the Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme (Energy Redress Scheme) closed on 14 November 2023.   

Village halls and community hubs are often the heart of rural and island communities. They are places for people to gather, learn, access services and have fun. Making sure they are well run and maintained is an important but not always easy role, often fulfilled by committed volunteers and workers.

The Scottish Rural and Islands Parliament (SRIP) is an important opportunity for voice of rural and island communities to help reinforce the importance of local democracy and to help shape the emerging Rural Delivery Plan. The theme of this year’s SRIP was Village Halls and Community Spaces.

National Rural Mental Health Forum Seminar

11am - Welcome and Introductions

1105am - Rural Connections, Mental Health Training, Danny Dey

1120am - Amy McLuskie, Scottish Government. Update on the Scottish Government Self-Harm Strategy. Amy McLuskie: Distress Interventions Team. An opportunity to hear about the new Scottish Government Self-harm Strategy and discuss opportunities for delegates to get involved in the delivery and implementation of the Action Plan.

A new grant scheme has been created as part of the 2023 National Litter and Flytipping Strategy to aid private landowners in deterring flytipping on their land.

Zero Waste Scotland is administering the funding, on behalf of SEPA, to aid private landowners towards interventions that will prevent flytipping on private land.

 Scottish agricultural charity RSABI is working with Dyslexia Scotland to raise awareness of the challenges many people involved in farming face with dyslexia. 

The National Centre for Resilience (NCR) have announced that their ‘Community Councils Fund’ is open with applications closing on 31 January 2024.

The funding is for Community Councils to develop local resilience plans that address potential natural hazards such as heavy snow, landslides, high winds, and other disruptive events and subsequently enhance their local community preparedness and response to natural hazards.

The capital fund from The Robertson Trust is open to applications from registered charities with an annual income of between £25,000 and £2 million. Applications should support work that addresses the impacts of poverty and/or trauma under one or more of the following themes:

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