these are your stories

These are the stories of how you shopped for your neighbours, dropped off supplies to your friends who were shielding, hosted a zoom group for those you knew needed regular outreach, organised a mutual support network and offered hope and help to your communities.

Read the stories of others like you in Scotland who helped!

These stories inform a national research project. These are stories of local action across Scotland, whether that’s food drop-offs, support for neighbours, calls to older residents and more. This research will help shine a light on how local communities play a critical role in our future and how we can build forward better, creating a fairer Scotland for us all.

art can bring us together
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art can bring us together

by Michael Clark

It’s been a bizarre and thought provoking time for everyone during lockdown. As a musician all live work dried up overnight… I did a remote musical collaboration for the first time… and found that the music we’d recorded along with the clips from my phone made for a simple and hopefully positive video which I could share with people.

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