Sponsored Editorial Carers Week 2021 focuses on making caring visible and valued. There are thousands of unpaid carers in West Dunbartonshire providing essential care and support. It is likely you know someone supporting a family member, friend, or neighbour who lives with … [Read more...] about Make Caring Visible & Valued
Peer Support and Me
By Emily Fraser Something brilliant happens when a person with mental health challenges, who has spent a lot of time fearing or hearing that they are different, inadequate, or a problem, discovers that all their exact life experiences – the inner struggles they work hard to … [Read more...] about Peer Support and Me
A Book and Two Tins of Food
Words & Photos by Sarah Ann Dillon The time: a Saturday at the beginning of lockdown. The place: my kitchen. I have always been a great lover of books and read every day. Something. A novel, a magazine article, a poem, the back of the cornflakes packet. Anything, you … [Read more...] about A Book and Two Tins of Food
Mental Health Arts Festival Launch
Levengrove Park made the perfect setting for the launch of West Dunbartonshire's local programme for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. The annual arts festival which runs from May 3 - 23 aims to challenge preconceived ideas about mental health. This year's theme is … [Read more...] about Mental Health Arts Festival Launch
Y Hut It
Words by Amanda Eleftheriades Photos by Charlie Sherry The midges are starting to bite as we head along the footpath taking us deep into the heart of Carbeth and by the time we have walked about ¼ mile to the newly built hut belonging to Y Sort It the pesky insects are out … [Read more...] about Y Hut It