Dogs Trust free event: Local dog rescue needs your help

Volunteer recruitment event at Dogs Trust in West Lothian

Dogs Trust West Calder is hosting a volunteer recruitment event on Sunday 19th May 2019 open to anyone wishing to help make a difference to the lives and welfare of dogs. Continue reading Dogs Trust free event: Local dog rescue needs your help

Can you believe it? Olympic find during beach cleanup

Volunteer beach cleaners collected over 400 items of rubbish at the Marine Conservation Society’s spring beach clean and litter survey at Cramond beach on April 6th – and among them was a 31 year old Coke can advertising the 1988 Olympics. Continue reading Can you believe it? Olympic find during beach cleanup

Survey water voles to help save Scotland’s riverside residents

In 2015, wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) launched the first ever National Water Vole Monitoring Programme (NWVMP) to help save water voles – the UK’s fastest declining mammal. Now, four years on, PTES is calling for volunteers to take part in its annual survey of these riverside residents, in order to find out where water voles are living and where they are most in need of conservation action. Continue reading Survey water voles to help save Scotland’s riverside residents

Edinburgh Napier technician wins ‘I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here!’ competition

James Munro wins funding to put towards further STEM activities

An Edinburgh Napier science technician has come out on top in a UK-wide online competition in which school students vote for their favourite scientist. Continue reading Edinburgh Napier technician wins ‘I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here!’ competition

‘Unjustifiable’ benefits freeze means another tough year ahead for low income families

Families in poverty face another year of frozen benefits amid the uncertainty of Brexit, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

More are likely to be pulled into poverty following the Government’s decision to continue the freeze on working-age benefits and tax credits until 2020, despite declaring austerity over. Continue reading ‘Unjustifiable’ benefits freeze means another tough year ahead for low income families