Health and wellbeing

First Minister John Swinney has announced a £5 million package for Scotland’s island communities. 

The funding package will support Island communities to tackle local issues and invest in new opportunities that will help deliver a more prosperous future. This funding reflects the First Minister’s four priorities of eradicating child poverty, growing Scotland’s economy, investing in green energy and infrastructure and improving public services. 

The Touring Network are hosting a series of events connecting professional touring performers and producers with community venues. They’ll be chatting through the highs and lows of making, promoting and presenting live performances, in and for geographically remote parts of Scotland.

Farmers attending NSA Scotsheep at the start of next month are being offered the opportunity to benefit from a post-lambing “MOT”, courtesy of Scottish agricultural charity, RSABI. 

RSABI’s Health Hut will be set up at the event on June 5th at Aikengall Farm, near Dunbar, offering attendees the opportunity to have a health check and haircut. 

Change Mental Health (CMH) has free funded mental health training places for rural individuals and rural small businesses.

The Rural Connections training aims to support businesses to implement and strengthen workplace wellbeing policies and activities.

CMH are working in partnership with Mental Health UK and Neptune Energy to deliver the Rural Connections project.

The Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund launched today (Wednesday 22^nd May 2023) to enable community-led project groups in Scotland to design and deliver local nature restoration projects.

The aim of the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund is to help communities develop their ideas for nature restoration into a pipeline of deliverable projects with a whole ecosystem approach.

Funding for unique environmental projects designed by young people for young people has been announced by NatureScot during this year’s Green Health Week.

Three former Royal Marines have spent an afternoon on a farm in Angus as part of an RSABI mental health first aid training initiative. The former Marines, with 86 years of service between them, were put through their paces in the lambing shed by the Jackson family who farm at Southtown of Melgund near Brechin.

As summer approaches and the weather improves, more and more people will head to the countryside to take advantage of Scotland's wonderful natural heritage. With the increased risk of of interaction with ticks and the risk of catching Lyme disease, NHS Scotland have higlighted how to identify the syptoms and take appropriate action.