Ahead of strike ballot, GMB calls on Dundee City Council to step back from ‘horror show’ home care cuts
On International Women’s Day, GMB Scotland is calling on Dundee City Council to step-back from an ‘absolute horror show’ plan to cut the pay of local home carers by up to £4,500 a year. Continue reading IWD Horror Show: “Is this how you value women’s work in 21st Century Scotland”?
Our next Wardie Bay Beachwatch, providing citizen science data to Marine Conservation Society, will also be a general litter pick of land-based litter for those keen to clean up the whole shore.
Please join us!
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Saturday 30 March, 11:30am – 2pm
Please come and encourage friends and family to come along too.
Gloves and litter picking equipment are provided.
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Please also visit our twitter page @wardiebaybeach for regular tweets or find the event on the MCS website, register and sign up there! https://www.mcsuk.org/…/b…/wardie-bay-beach/event/2019-03-30
Email Karen at wardiebaybeachwatch@gmail.com for further information.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Miles Briggs MSP has lent his support to Marie Curie’s big fundraising appeal month, the Great Daffodil Appeal, at an event at Scottish Parliament recently.
Meeting with staff and volunteers from Marie Curie, the Conservative health spokesman was interested to hear about care and support provided to people living with terminal illness in Scotland.
Marie Curie supported over 8,600 people in Scotland last year through their hospices, nursing care and support services. In Miles’ Lothian constituency in addition to care provided at the Marie Curie Hospice, Edinburgh, Marie Curie Nurses made nearly 3,000 visits to people in their own homes in 2017/18.
Supporting the Great Daffodil Appeal by donating and wearing a daffodil pin in March helps Marie Curie provide vital care for people living with a terminal illness and support for their families.Generous Scots donate around £700,000 each year to the appeal.
Miles Briggs MSP said: “Marie Curie is an exceptional charity that supports thousands of Scots every year who have a terminal illness.
“This support would not be possible without all the generous donations to Marie Curie, a big proportion of which are given during the Great Daffodil Appeal in March every year.
“If you are able, please donate so that thousands of Scots who are living with a terminal illness can continue to be supported by Marie Curie.”
Susan Brown from Marie Curie said: “Thank you to Miles for his support. Behind every daffodil, there’s a story and by donating and wearing your daffodil today you’re helping us be there for more people at the end of their lives,uniting with millions who believe dying people should get the care and support they deserve.”
To find out more about the Great Daffodil Appeal visit
or call free on 0800 304 7025.
To donate £5 to Marie Curie, text DAFF to 70111
Picture: Warren Media
A new digital exhibit that celebrates the lives and achievements of one hundred women across the country has gone on display at the Scottish Parliament. Continue reading New Holyrood exhibition celebrates inspirational women across Scotland
PCHP Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 26th March, 2 – 3pm
Pilton Community Health Project, Boswall Parkway
STUDENTS have been encouraged to “push each and every boundary” that makes up a typical home, in a tie up between a leading Scottish university and major UK homebuilder CALA Homes. Continue reading Think Outside the Box: Uni Students Design Homes of the Future
This International Women’s Day breast cancer charity, Walk the Walk, is celebrating the achievements of some of the inspirational Walkers who are taking on The MoonWalk Scotland later this year. Continue reading International Women’s Day: an inspiring woman takes on The MoonWalk Scotland
Contracts have been approved for the two contractors for the potential Trams to Newhaven project, subject to the scheme being approved by the City of Edinburgh Council next week. Continue reading Trams to Newhaven: first contracts approved
Open to all levels but you must be library members, you can join online here – https://bit.ly/2vwmOim
Please email your entries to stockbridge.library.edin@g
A group of women working at Port of Leith Housing Association are celebrating International Women’s Day by sharing their experiences of the workplace and reflecting on gender equality. Continue reading Celebrating the women of Port of Leith Housing Association
