Sign up to attend the new webinar series from @socinvestscot -'Talking Heads: Leaders Driving Social Change' - bit.ly/2Tng3dS. Today at 4pm you can hear from Aileen Campbell MSP. More details below ⬇️ twitter.com/socinves…
Huge well done to Folk at the Salmon Bothy, who donated a four figure sum to the Folk in Crisis Support Fund to assist musicians across the north east affected by loss of income due to current restrictions. Find out more about the band and the fund here: bothyfolk.org
One of the early interventions of the Social Enterprise Action Plan includes a series of Social Innovation Masterclasses which will be delivered by Scottish Enterprise. Senscot is working with Scottis…
Dear members and friends,
In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero reflects on his retirement: ‘where every third thought shall be my grave’. While I don’t count the frequency &…
Scotland Your Scotland
Bella Caledonia, by Andrew O Hagan
16.08.17
“The Union hasn’t been saved, it’s over” argues Andrew O’Hagan in his Scotland Your Scotland key…
When the President Is Un-American
The New York Times, by Paul Krugman
14.08.17
Remember back in 2008, when Sarah Palin used to talk about the “real America”? She meant rural and small-town…
Scottish government urged to review drugs policy as drug-related fatalities double in a decade
The Independent, by Emma Goddard
16.08.17
The Scottish government must do more to end “the avoidabl…
The Sutherland Clearances: Scotland's tragedy brought brilliantly to life
The Herald, by James Hunter
07.11.2015
A 10ft bronze statue, depicting a family of four leaving their Highland home stands in …
Reversing the Clearances bit by bit
BBC News, by Jackie O'Brien
14.08.17
A new phase of Highland history is unfolding in Sutherland as land still owned by the family of the man blamed for the H…
The collapse of the local press: a disaster facing local democracy
Byline.com. by David Hencke
06.08.17
I recently wrote a piecefor the National Union of Journalists campaign,Local News Matters…
The Big Interview: Edel Harris, chief of Cornerstone
The Scotsman, by Emma Newlands
12.08.17
When she was named EY Scotland Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 overall winner at a glittering awards c…
If/when the day comes when I require practical assistance to continue living in this cottage – I would much prefer that it was provided by a social enterprise co-operative than a for-profit comp…
Urban Lyric
The gaunt lady of the service wash
stands on the threshold and blinks in the sunlight.
Her face is yellow in its frizz of hair
and yet she smiles as if she were fortunate. …
Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein (b.1930) is from Bootle, Lancashire and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She has worked as an editor, a university lecturer and a journalist. From 1…
