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.
volunteering in Angus
Sophie from Angus shares how she volunteered for Social Supermarket Angus during the pandemic, and how she’d like to see Scotland support local communities going forward.
weel kent faces in Ayshire
Colin, ACES development worker, shares his experience of helping during the pandemic. Delivering food and essential supplies to folk, he tells us how important supporting our citizens is, now and going forward.
young people are strong, capable and will create change
Ethan from Govan shares his experience of supporting youth action in his community through food support and socially distanced football. He tells us “young people are strong, capable and we will create change”
distributing shopping, medicines and hot meals in the Scottish Borders
This is Jamie’s story of volunteering — distributing shopping, medicines and hot meals in the Scottish Borders — during Covid19.
helping in Milton
Linda from Love Milton shares why she got involved to help and what she did, sharing “everybody who could help, did”
communities have huge resources, but need support
Parish Minister Christopher Rowe from Milton shares a video of how he helped during the pandemic, and what Scotland can learn going forward.
collective responsibility and empowering communities: Darkwood Crew
Darkwood Crew in Ferguslie Park supported their community during COVID-19; Terry tells us “our communities hold the solutions to many of our larger global problems including the pandemic, climate change and collective well being. Collective responsibility and empowering communities is vital to any suggested well being recovery.”
Roots of Linwood
Roots responded to the crisis by distributing more than 12,000 boxes to households across Renfrewshire who weren’t able to access food. This included the elderly, folk who were shielding, front line workers and vulnerable families.