Keeping healthy and active and making friends Access to affordable exercise classes locally is vital in allowing older women to remain active and indeed to improve their physical health by overcoming conditions such as diabetes and arthritis. Classes also combat isolation and loneliness and improve mental health. Linwood Healthy Living Group is an example of…
Improving Health and Well-being
Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from anxiety, one in four women will require treatment for depression and women spend more time experiencing ill-health then men (18.8 years). In Scotland, a woman who lives in a less deprived area can live up to 7.5 years longer than a woman who comes from a most deprived area. Improving a women’s health and general well being will make them to feel better about themselves which increases energy and concentration which will reflect in their professional and social lives.
Positive Steps Hygiene Project
Ask most woman about their period and they’ll tell you it’s an inconvenience. But for Women living on the streets, having a period is more than an inconvenience — it’s a matter of comfort, cleanliness, and dignity. With limited access to sanitary products and no comfortable place to shower, women are forced to get creative…
Fighting fear with fire; camp fire
Have you felt the fear, loneliness, confusion and loss of bullying? Imagine going through every day at school ignored by your peers or abused and insulted by them. Have you experienced the heart-stopping moment of touching your pockets or bag and not being able to find your smartphone? Imagine feeling like that every second of…
Dancetime
As Lorna’s parents looked around the local play area and found needles and syringes lying around, they questioned how child-friendly the surroundings were. It motivated them to enroll their daughter, Lorna in Dancetime – the community based dance class where she could have fun, learn a new skill, make friends and be in a safe…
Dumfries Get Together
Who fancies taking a trip to the cinema, or the theatre or even to the bingo or a quiz night? Perhaps having a dance, hitting the shops or venturing out on a day trip sounds like fun to you? Although these activities sound like great fun, many women have very few people they can ask…
Home-Start Glasgow North
How the Women’s Fund for Scotland has helped Home-Start. Home-Start Glasgow North is a voluntary organisation set up to increase the confidence and independence of families with at least one child under five years old. The organisation selects, trains and supports volunteers to visit families in their own homes offering support, friendship and practical assistance…
