Last month, the Highland Unit took part in their annual Staff Team Challenge. It took place at the Horses In Clover Sanctuary near Cromarty. Over the space of 2 days, the team knuckled down and managed to clean and decorate their new Welfare Station, build some new chicken coops, clean the kitchen inside the main…
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Highland Welcomes New First Aiders
Further to our last piece of news on how successful the Emergency First Aid at Work course has been, we are happy to report that some of our own Unit members are newly qualified in the role of First Aid. Brian Beattie and Harry Ward completed the one day course and are now qualified for…
Emergency First Aid at Work Success
Apex Highland recently held a pilot course in Emergency First Aid at Work (SCQF Level 5) which was a success. David McNulty, PDM for Apex Highland, was recently trained to deliver this course and will be continuing to do so on a regular basis. This qualification covers the person for 3 years and will allow…
Helping to Build Better Lives
The Northern CJA and partners have come together to produce a 35 minute film which provides a fascinating insight into the world of ‘community justice’ in the Northern CJA area. The film includes contributions from a wide range of partners/partnerships including Apex Highland, some of the people they have been working with, and beneficiaries of…
Joining Forces
Alistair McDonald, Kirsty Bateson and Scott Colgan (Back left) with Ian McGregor – Chief Executive of Poppyscotland and other workshop presenters at the Poppyscotland Joining Forces Conference in Stirling.
Heart Start in the Highlands
Apex Highland started off its year with service users completing Heartstart training. This gives service users a high level of understanding in how to potentially save a life with skills such as identifying suspected heart attacks, dealing with serious bleeding, how to help someone who is choking, how to put an unconscious person in…
Scottish Mentoring Network Awards
Apex Scotland is a member of the Scottish Mentoring Network (SMN). SMN holds a number of thematic networking events throughout the year as well as providing accredited training in the field of Mentoring and the Quality Award which is a Scotland specific quality assurance tool. Every year SMN holds a well attended national event where…
Apex in Clover
Horses in Clover sits in 30 acres of land and is a private animal sanctuary for numerous horses, dogs, chickens, geese and ducks run solely by the professionally retired husband and wife team. Whilst the animals were quite happy, running the place with no external help meant that Winona and Bill were in need of some assistance to give the sanctuary a facelift and some TLC.
Well done Katrina!
Congratulations to Katrina Beattie from the Highland team who received a special award at this year’s staff conference for outstanding contribution in recognition of the extra mile that she has gone to ensure that our qualifications process is robust and beneficial to our service users. The photograph shows Katrina on the left with Silvana Watson…
High Life Highland Award for Apex
Staff and volunteers of Apex Highland have received the High Life Highland award for Exceptional Staff contribution for work completed at the Abriachan Forest. This was for Apex’s ongoing development of the Literacy Trail in partnership with Highland Adult Literacies and Abriachan Forest Trust.