My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. -The Dalai Lama North Berwick Coastal Community Connections started in April. It’s about drawing on our natural kindness and compassion. We aim to tackle isolation, help people connect to local activities, recruit volunteer helpers, bring about gatherings, try to meet the needs we can. It’s an … [Read more…]
North Berwick Coastal Health and Wellbeing Association (NBCHWA) is delighted to announce that the Association has won an award from the Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief project from the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care. The award, for “Contribution to Openness About Death Award”, is given to an individual or organisation for their hard work … [Read more…]
Hello, everyone – I’m delighted to have started working as the Project Officer for this organisation’s new project: North Berwick Coastal Community Connections. I’ll be working on a part-time basis, taking referrals from GPs and others as part of this new ‘Social Prescribing’ project. Social prescribing, according to NHS Scotland, “is commonly used in primary … [Read more…]
We are very disappointed to report that we have to cancel the Remembrance Lunch event on 11 May as there has been insufficient uptake. The writing workshops have been very popular so far. You can find more information on the Workshops here: Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief: Creative Writing Workshops We hope to present … [Read more…]
Alison Macdonald, who has been Interim Director of Health and Social Care in East Lothian for the past nine months, has been announced as the new permanent Director. Alison said: This is a really exciting time for the East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership. We are beginning to see the positive impact of a … [Read more…]
Peter Murray is Chair of the East Lothian Integration Joint Board for Health & Social Care (IJB). At a meeting of the IJB on 28 March 2019 he said updated the meeting on the re-provisioning project and said: We secured a grant from the Scottish Government which is enabling us to carry out the scoping … [Read more…]
Welcome to the new website for North Berwick Coastal Health & Wellbeing Association. We hope this website will become the port of call for news and updates on the various projects that the Health & Wellbeing Association is engaged with. On this website you can find the latest news about our work. There are a … [Read more…]
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