Read what the Highland team have been up to in the six months to September 2021 using the link below. Highland Newsletter Sept 2021
Apex Highland Newsletter March 2021
Read what the Highland team have been up to in the six months to March 2021 using the link below. Highland Newsletter March 2021
Time to Stop Talking and Start Shoving
One of the things about being an activist or campaigner and ‘having a cause’ that motivates you and, in many ways, shapes your life, is that you can easily be tagged as a complainer or moaner and, in some cases, the more you moan the less you get heard. As one good friend once told…
A Kind of Justice
November 13th has the wonderful label of World Kindness Day. I guess everyone would agree that if there is one thing we all could do with today, it’s a bit of kindness. Not just now and then, as in “random acts of”, but kindness as an attitude. Being kind is often trivialised to mean moments…
Apex Scotland Annual Report 2021
Our Annual Report for 2021 is now available here. (Please click on the heading) Read about the exciting developments and achievements that have taken place over 2020-21 and gain an insight into what we are doing this year.
Recruiting New Board Members
Apex Scotland is now recruiting new trustees to help set strategy and enable Apex to achieve its aims and objectives through 2021-22 and beyond. For information, and to apply, please go to our board recruitment page here. (Please click on the heading)
Apex Awarded Partners in Change Funding
Apex Scotland is thrilled to become a ‘Partner in Change’ having been awarded Partners in Change funding from the Robertson Trust which will help us to develop, in partnership with the Resilience Learning Partnership and others, a model for trauma informed working. We will trial this with the aim of demonstrating the benefits of a…
What Does International Youth Day Have To Do With Stranraer?
International Youth Day is on 12 August and its theme for 2021 is Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health. This is a wide and varied theme which will spark different interests of young people across the UN countries. With the world’s every increasing population, it is recognised that simply producing a…
What’s In It For Me?
This week we have been celebrating Volunteers Week, a chance to say thank you to everyone who volunteers, and remind ourselves how important volunteers are to so many aspects of our community. In Apex I am constantly reminded of the impact of volunteers because of the way in which the value of volunteering runs through…
People Are Not Widgets
In what seems like a very long time ago when I trained as a nurse, and later nurse tutor and nurse director, I experienced the extraordinary change in the NHS which the introduction of market economics and business models to NHS management created. I well remember the arguments between clinicians and economists, and the inevitable…
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