Information Event on Generations Working Together (North Berwick)

Health & Wellbeing Association of the North Berwick Area Partnership is holding an event on Friday 27th April 2018 – 10.30am to 1.30pm at St Andrew Blackadder Church, High Street, North Berwick to promote the benefits of generations coming together.

We Believe

Generations can work together to make life better and fairer for all. It can reduce social isolation and loneliness. It’s what families have always done. We can do it in our community too.

Our Aims for the day

  • To learn how intergenerational working can help people understand and support each other, be more respected and included in their communities, reduce social isolation, and enjoy enhanced health and wellbeing.
  • To encourage local organisations to work together to create positive change, so that the resources that the different generations have to offer each other, and their community, can be recognised and combined.
  • To help organisations access on going training and support in working together.

Why?

  • Our community is made up of people of different generations, but changes in society, eg greater geographic mobility, change in family structure and a shift towards an ageing population, have meant that many of our community activities have become age segregated.
  • Negative media images can lead to fewer positive exchanges between older and younger people.
  • People can feel isolated and lonely within their communities and uninvolved in the decisions that are taken that directly affect their lives.

PLAN FOR THE EVENT

Keynote speaker Alison Clyde – Generation Working Together. GWT is the nationally recognised centre of excellence, supporting the integration of intergenerational work across Scotland http://generationsworkingtogether.org

  • Input from groups and organisations already working this way.
  • Opportunity to make connections with organisations that you might work with.
  • Information about, and planning of, on-going training and support.

(Hosted by North Berwick Health & Wellbeing Association – part of the NB Area Partnership)

FREE EVENT- LUNCH PROVIDE

HELP US TO HELP YOU

This is an opportunity for your organisation to explore new collaborative ways of working.

We’d like to know how you feel about this possible approach.

1. What would you like to get out of this?

2. Have you already got ideas about how you could work, or are you already working this way? If so, what are your ideas or what information can you share with others?

3. Have you any concerns about collaborative working and, if so, what are they and how can they be addressed?

WILL YOU BE ATTENDING?
Yes / No
(Name of your organisation/number attending)

Please email your reponse by 30th March to Tillie Baird (Co-chair H&WB).