This Week in Sutherland
This
week we have news from across the county, funding opportunities for
communities, online training and webinars and consultations.
Check out our new Events Calendar at the bottom of the page. There is so much on across Sutherland this week. Please get in touch if you have
anything you would like us to share on your behalf or an event to add to the calendar.
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Recyling Week
This week is Net Zero Scotland's Recycling Week. Highland Council, in partnership with Net Zero Scotland have developed a toolkit to help any organisation that is interested in starting or further developing a community compost project. You can find it here: Community Decision Tree (highlandcompost.scot)
The Scottish LGBTI+ Rainbow MarkThe Scottish LGBTI+ Rainbow Partnership have created a new initiative; The Rainbow Mark. This can be displayed in any social space. It's aim is to: - Increase positive LGBTI+ visibility
- Provide information and tools to enable better LGBTI+ inclusion
- Reduce isolation and minority stress for LGBTI+ people
- Create more welcoming places in Scotland
- Reflect a genuine desire to recognise and respect LGBTI+ diversity and inclusion across Scotland
You can sign up here to be included: The Scottish LGBTI+ Rainbow Mark — Equality Network (equality-network.org)
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Funding
Opportunities
ASDA have launched a Cost-of-Living Grant. This grant can be used to support cost of heating, food and rent bills. Find out more information here: or speak to your local Community Champion.
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Training, Opportunities, Webinars and Consultations.
 Volunteers wanted for Our Right to Buy Food Project Nourish Scotland
are looking for volunteers to help collect local information
about the price and availability of fruit and vegetables in different shops and
locations across the Highlands in early November. This is part of
the Our Right to Food project, which is
exploring the accessibility of foods that keep us healthy and well.
Anyone can be a Community Researcher. We are looking for volunteers who are: Able to attend two online workshops (2-3pm, Thursdays 3rd and 24th
November) Able to collect information in Highland about food prices and
availability in early November (we will supply the materials!)
The workshops will
be a time to prepare for collecting the local information and to discuss the
results as a group. Each volunteer will be able to claim up to £40 in expenses
for their involvement.
How to
register: If you are
interested, please register for the first workshop here by 2nd
November.
Adults with first-hand experience of social care services in
Scotland are being invited to help design the new National Care Service (NCS) It’s likely that everyone in
Scotland will be involved in the National Care Service at some point in their
lives. You may need to use its services or have family or friends who do, or
you may work in it.
We want to have a National Care Service that best fits the needs
of everyone in Scotland. To do that we want to hear from people directly.
Applications are now open for both the Lived
Experience Experts Panel (LEEP) and Stakeholder Register.
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Local
Events in October/November
Please check in with the Sutherland Events Calendar here: Sutherland ACC | Aspiring C&S (aspiringcaithnessandsutherland.com)
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