A Positive Future
Apex Scotland’s Aberdeen Unit is celebrating being named as a finalist in the 2015 Scottish Charity Awards for their partnership work with the Scottish Prison Service on a Family Videolink project to prisons across Scotland. Organised by Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), the Awards celebrate the amazing work of charities, community groups and people…
U Turn clients have come to the rescue of a local garden that had been vandalized. The group had already been in doing some work at the garden in preparation for an open day when the following weekend it was badly vandalized.
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.
Apex Stranraer’s Moving In project has been awarded £4600 by tenants of Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP) who are on the the organisations District Management Committee. The money will help DGHP tenants by providing them starter packs to get up and running when they get the keys to their new properties.
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…
Last year Apex Dumfries created a Facebook page in order to spread word of our services to the public and to allow people and other services to see what we have been up to, as it is now one of the most common methods of communication. While visiting our page today, one of our client…
Stranraer’s Apex U Turn group of volunteers have completed another community project. The volunteers have been at Rephad primary in Stranraer building a hen enclosure.
(L-R) Joe Tole, Larissa Karpa, Gayle Kaufmann and Cate Gallows (ACVO) A massive WELL DONE to Larissa Karpa, who has earned the Saltire Summit Award for outstanding contribution to volunteering. There is a maximum of 12 Summit awards each year in Aberdeen, and each nomination is rigorously assessed by a panel of peers known as…
Apex Stranraer’s U Turn service was presented with a cheque for £500 from Stranraer YMCA this week. This was from the Santa float fundraising event which takes place every year in Stranraer.
The Apex Forth Valley team attended an award ceremony at the Falkirk Wheel for our clients that participated in the Green Action Outlook project 2014, a 12-week course that started on 9 September 2014. The day gave a good opportunity to try out the public nature trail path that they had helped to create. As…