Perhaps more than ever, Scotland’s young people need to be adaptable, confident, and self-aware in order to safely navigate today’s fast-moving and digitalised world. The poverty-related attainment gap remains stubborn, public services for children and young people face pressures, and employers still report a lack of meta skills in the young workforce. Families and
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Our garden team Simon and Daniel have had a busy year bringing the large kitchen plot back into use and have had huge success with fruit and veg. They have achieved this sustainably and promoted biodioversity, as well as trialling growing methods. Simon has written an update here on their
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Last month we said farewell to our funding officer Mac after seven years in his post. Mac was the media and grant writing volunteer at Wiston Lodge from September 2014 until December 2016, when he was hired as a part-time grant-writer and funding officer. He has left to devote more
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We are thrilled to have received an award from the The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland for our Path of the Little People! The fund’s Young Start grant has secured £90,000 to secure its future. Since 2017, more than 4,000 children, many with vulnerabilities, have made use of the Path.
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Visitors are now benefitting from two investments inside and out.
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Following our AGM which took place on Sunday 29 January, we’re very happy to publish our report for the year 2021-22. To read, click on the link below!
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Projects officer Alan explains what it’s taken to look after some of our key features over the past year. A lot of work goes into maintaining parts of the grounds used for our learning development with children, and 2022 saw the biggest changes for some time. At the start of
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As we step into spring 2022, we reflect on the past and look to the future. Our friends will recall bidding farewell to Jonny Sutherland last summer, as he relocated with his family including Wiston character Barney the dog; and as autumn turned into winter, we welcomed Fiona Hird as
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We’re pleased to release our latest annual report and accounts for financial year 2020-21. Like other businesses in March 2020, Wiston Lodge had no idea what would lie ahead for us during the pandemic. Work had just begun on the new-build Russell Hub facility, which promptly came to a halt.
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Our two new Community Jobs Scotland Programme grounds staff, Daniel and Struan, have spent the past month settling in. They are gaining new skills all the time, from using leaf blowers to learning how to work the biomass heating system. Grounds co-ordinator Colin Aitken and his son Shaw, who has
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