THE STORY SO FAR
January
The launch of Celebrating Communities and our first conversation
We spoke to everyone about what is needed and what will help the project to be a success..
February
A celebration of Scottish song with our wonderful friend Bruce Davies. Watch the full concert below or here.
Granted an award of digital devices from Connecting Scotland
Our community drop in conversations continue...
March
Seaside Singers is launched! Find the first performance and what to look forward to here!
Celebrating: Walking in East Lothian continued our conversation about everything walking, paths, and benches. Another conversation to follow..
CC joined forces with Outside the Box to bring their digital buddies project to Dunbar Grammar School - the beginning of DGS Digital Buddies
april
DGS Digital Buddies participants take part in Digital Champion and Dementia Awareness training to build confidence for their new roles as digital buddies
After high demand...we got Elvis in the building for the Seaside Singers performance
CC conversation welcomed Dementia Friendly Community guests from outwith East Lothian, for a digital holiday
may
● DGS DB project kicks off with devices distributed and buddies meeting for the first time!
● Digital inclusion pop up conversation sparks an idea for a Digital Stories project..
● Seaside Singers releases a VE day special performance
● Physical Activity was the theme for May - a conversation around social prescribing
june
It's Carers Week. Our friends at Open Arm Carers were out and about raising awareness and chatting to people about the peer-to-peer support available to unpaid carers.
SS Variety Show is released, dedicated to unpaid carers.
DGS Digital Buddies continues successfully with 10 pupils supporting 10 older friends to become digitally confident. Siri is a big hit!
We are joined by James McKillop MBE to share his experiences of living with dementia. Watch the conversation here.
july
The Pennypit Computer Club have shared their digital stories to help encourage others to start their digital journey. Watch the video here.
People are wanting to get out and about more than ever! We held a gathering with Parvine from Aging Well to talk about Buddy Walks and offered support and training to organisations wanting to set up their own.
Seaside Singers July performance with local boyband Bluetile! Watch here.
We had a conversation to look at how far we have come, we heard from various projects, and learnt about what next for Dementia Friendly East Lothian.
Contact us:
Celebrating Communities | Dementia Friendly East Lothian CIC