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Playwright says her show must go on during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Official trailer –https://youtu.be/Q_IiCG0WMOQ. Facebook trailer/event – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=35908551540794   Despite the current Covid pandemic, a Glasgow playwright is determined her play will continue to shine a light on pancreatic cancer.   She’s adapted her play for an online audience and in the process has also […]

Are you looking for studio space in Aberdeen?  EP Spaces – Your Space to Create    EP Spaces is a national network of affordable meanwhile spaces for creative people, groups, and communities, with 30 properties currently operating across Scotland. We work with landlords to bring disused shops, offices, and industrial units, back to life with […]

Jennifer Rubin, columnist at the Washington Post, has put up a typically blistering piece today. She seems extremely confident we are heading to a Biden presidency, and writes: Biden and Harris appear to have won despite a right-wing media universe willing to distort, deny and lie about verifiable facts and despite a mainstream media that was […]

George Kerevan, The National – 12th October 2020 WHAT is Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark? What is the Old Cause without the Young Pretender? And what is the direction of Scottish politics without a certain Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond? Currently, the normally ebullient Mr Salmond is keeping his own counsel while various public inquiries […]

We are pleased to announce that SENScot will be building on the success of the Pockets & Prospects model previously developed in partnership with Glasgow SEN, having received additional funding from Scottish Community Alliance (SCA). We will be further developing this collaborative approach to tackling important issues within local communities and are delighted to be […]

The Irish Times, 5th October 2020 Covid-19 reveals the great weakness of authoritarianism: the leader’s body   “There are some who would have thought him mad. His followers felt that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and touch him to be sure he was not.” – Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque […]

  “It seems to me something like this: every so often, perhaps once in a century, there’s a sort of act of faith. A well of faith fills up, and there’s an enormous heave forward in one country or another; and that’s a forward movement for the whole world – because it’s an act of imagination […]

You’re invited to join us at an ALL SEN session: DWP Kickstart scheme (Thursday 24th Sept, 10-11am) DWP recently launched their Kickstart scheme, funding the creation of high quality 6-month work placements for young people (initially prioritising those aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit and are deemed to be at risk […]

Because the Brexiteers cannot articulate the force that drives them, they cannot set its boundaries Fintan O’Toole Irish Times, 15th September 2020 What has brought the UK to the point of openly declaring its intention to break international law is not just English nationalism. It is the strangely contradictory nature of that nationalism. It is […]

Criminal Record is a record label and for ex-offenders and artists who’re prepared to give of their time to help those who are in, or have come through, the criminal justice system. The label will develop and give a platform to talented musicians, most of whom would never get the opportunity to be heard owing […]

GSEN Director Appointed The GSEN Board are delighted to announce that the new Director for the network has been appointed.  Jennifer Robertson is the current Social Enterprise officer for the three TSI’s which form the Forth Valley SEN. She has worked for CTSI for 7 years, and works across Falkirk, Stirling, and Clackmannanshire.  She has […]

  September 2020   Welcome to the September newsletter. We are in the process of developing a new website and want to fill it with wonderful images from social enterprises across Scotland- if you have high quality images you can share please get in touch. Please remember to send me updates for the next Newsletter and […]