Generations Working Together

Events & Training

• International Certificate in Intergenerational Learning - Edition 5

  Tuesday 28th Apr 2020 at 7 week online course (£160 member / £185 non-member)

• Intergenerational Training For Trainers and Practitioners (Caithness & Sutherland) Online

  Thursday 21st May 2020 at MS Therapy Centre, Community Room, 37 Smith Terrace, Wick, KW1 5HP (£75 Full / £50 Concession)

• Intergenerational Training For Trainers and Practitioners (Tayside) - Rescheduled

  Wednesday 26th Aug 2020 at North Inch Community Campus, Gowans Terrace, Perth, PH1 5BF (£75 Full / £50 Concession))

• Intergenerational Training For Trainers and Practitioners (Scottish Borders) - Rescheduled

  Thursday 3rd Sep 2020 at Berwickshire Association for Voluntary Services (BAVS), 55 Newtown Street, Duns, TD11 3AU (£75 Full / £50 Concession)

• Intergenerational Training For Trainers and Practitioners (Argyll & Bute)

  Tuesday 22nd Sep 2020 at The Three Villages Community Hall, Arrochar G83 7AB

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• Home working - Stay safe online

  This toolkit provides top tips for Staying Safe Online, shares advice and guidance on how to reduce the impact of cybercrime during the COVID-19 outbreak.

• Age Scotland creates signposting database

  Focus will be on providing advice, information and friendship calls for older people in Scotland, via the Helpline. Send details of your services and support for their database.

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Popular Resources

• Challenge Fund

  The Spirit of 2012 Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) launches a *new Challenge Fund,* calling for applications from organisations working in coastal communities to improve wellbeing, reduce loneliness and create *intergenerational connections through arts activities.

• Costs - Piecing it Together

  This paper aims to share what we currently know about funding and financing intergenerational shared sites, their potential cost-savings, and recommendations to guide our work and that of the field to pave the way to increase shared site development around the country.

• Future Schooling, Education and Learning: 2030 and Beyond

  What could schooling, education and learning look like in 2030 and beyond? Starting with this question, the Goodison Group in Scotland and Scotland’s Futures Forum have been exploring education, schooling and learning in 2030 and beyond.

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Case Studies

• Childminders, a solution for intergenerational co-location

  Having seen many intergenerational programmes in the USA specifically target vulnerable children because of the beneficial impact it has upon their well-being, confidence, speech and language we decided to look at increasing the time and opportunities for the young children and the older adults to spend together.

• We Love Our Grandmas!

  The project in Sandfield Close Primary School, Leicester involved a group of ladies who met at the school regularly. With Food for Life Funding and The Big Lottery, an intergenerational project was developed around healthy eating and food.

• Spanning the Ages by Brighter Bervie

  In Autumn 2018 children and older people came together to plant bulbs in Bervie, creating intergenerational friendships and linking the community in the process.

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