The City of Edinburgh Council and Good Thinking to launch first Edinburgh Wellbeing Festival
In January 2018 the Assembly Rooms in George Street will play host to some of the biggest names in health, fitness and wellbeing, with an exciting programme of events from yoga classes and meditation sessions, to talks and workshops on nutrition, sleep, gut health, mindfulness and emotional wellbeing. Continue reading Oh no, not another Festival! First Edinburgh Wellbeing Festival to be held in January
Over the past 10 years, the number of Scots taking part in sporting activities in Scotland has remained static, according to a new Parliamentary report. The Health and Sport Committee has found no evidence £500 million of public funding in the last year has increased the number of people getting active.
Currently, statutory support is awarded by sportscotland (£100m) and through local authorities (£400m).
These figures were revealed during phase two of the Committee’s inquiry which looks at reasons preventing people from taking part in sport and physical activities.
Convener of the Health and Sport Committee, Neil Findlay MSP said: “The variety of sports and physical activity on offer in communities is a real testament to the efforts and dedication of sport and community groups. We recognise the hard work that is going on to try and improve and expand participation rates.
“However, we are disappointed that overall participation figures have remained fairly stagnant over the past decade. In fact, we found that many of the issues raised during this inquiry have been raised before.
“The Committee believes these findings show how wide ranging decisions and initiatives across different portfolios taken at both governmental and local level can have wider impacts.
“We look forward to a response from the Scottish Government to tell us what its plans are to increase participation rates and to hear what lessons have been learned over the past decade”.
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Thousands more people across Scotland will benefit from the roll-out of a new and easier screening test to detect symptoms of bowel cancer. The Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) requires participants to collect one bowel motion sample, rather than the current test which requires samples over three days. Continue reading FIT for purpose: Bowel cancer test simplified to encourage take-up
The Scottish Cancer Conference has held it’s twelfth event for a range of organisation and people who are involved with cancer to come together and share information, network, learn and discuss the latest developments in the fight to beat cancer. Yesterday’s event was hosted by Cancer Research UK and the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Cancer and held at the Royal College of Surgeons. Continue reading Briggs chairs national cancer conference
According to the NSPCC, there were over 12,000 counselling sessions with young people who talked to Childline about online issues last year, with an 87% increase in sessions over the past three years. Enigma Digital Limited works with families all across the UK to restore peace of mind to parents that are worried about their children being bullied by providing Enigma Recovery, the number one smartphone data recovery solution provider that allows users to retrieve stolen or deleted data. Continue reading Data recovery tool for parents in fight against cyberbullies
… and Lottery success for Granton Community Gardeners
A mother who lost her son in the most tragic of circumstances has today welcomed a National Lottery cash boost that will allow the Scottish Cot Death Trust to support many more bereaved parents to come together to share their experiences. Local project Granton Community Gardeners also received some welcome news this morning – the project is to receive over £78,000 to support and expand it’s programme of activities. Continue reading Bereaved families to benefit from National Lottery investment
Lothian MSP Miles Briggs has agreed to become a Hepatitis C Parliamentary Champion. Continue reading Miles Briggs Becomes Hepatitis C Parliamentary Champion
An app developer has won the prestigious £30,000 Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs, run in conjunction with Leonard Cheshire Disability, after creating a video diary app that supports people managing their mental health. Continue reading Mental Health app wins national Stelios Award
