As a group, we decided to narrow down our research area to a locality in Fife: Dunfermline and the West Fife Villages. My part of the research looks at the area of Abbeyview, which is within Dunfermline town.
Read Morel have realised that supporting community organisations and social action approaches has significant potential to achieve better changes.
Read MoreI learned by going to see our local MSP at parliament and asking questions which were of importance to our holiday hunger project.
Read MoreThe big ideas for all persons regarding health, the importance of our NHS, and then reading the news that the Tories are slowly privatising it off is soul destroying.
Read MoreThere are 17 mental health services in Dundee alone and the lack of knowledge about these services, within communities is shocking.
Read MoreAfter doing some research and many discussions within our group, we realised that mental health and suicide was the path that we would take to concentrate on.
Read MoreI feel that if the same statistics (on average one a week) where a person is committing suicide was happening in Morningside in Edinburgh or any “affluent” area, the authorities would quickly look for the reasons why..
Read MoreWe decided to look at what was most relevant in our City of Dundee in relation to health and inequalities.
Read MoreThe cumulative effect of these different forms of poverty sometimes creates the most damaging outcome of generational poverty - and the constant presence of hopelessness.
Read MoreThe other issue raised was that it was difficult to gain the correct financial information or to know where to get help in the first place.
Read MoreAs part of our overall research, I wanted to ask members of my community whether the benefit system has helped them or made things worse In their lives.
Read MoreYoung people facing poverty often suffer from mental health issues. This could be stress, anxiety or even depression.
Read MoreHearing from older children in my community and from parents who have heard children say cruel things when they were kids too..
Read MoreSome families in certain circumstances cannot find the cost of having a young person attending school.
Read More'Holiday hunger' was a subject that came up as an important issue.
Read MoreAs a parent with three children, I know how difficult it can be during school holidays, whether it be by paying for activities…
Read MoreWhen reading through the returned questionnaires, it was clear that it was mainly agency structures that were being used to refer service users to food banks .
Read MoreWe wanted to know if there was a limit to how many times a person can claim a food parcel and if so within what timescale.
Read MoreThe first method of research was to look up online to find out where our nearest 'food bank' was and to see what information was available to us.
Read MoreMy experience of walking into the food bank in Dunfermline, if I am being honest was daunting…
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