Chance to do positive work for other people
Festival at Dewars
A day dedicated to volunteering is to take place next week in Perth.
Taking place from 2-7pm on Thursday at the Dewars Centre and hosted by the Tay Landscape Partnership, the ‘Making It Happen’ festival is designed to help people get involved with local groups.
Among the talks scheduled is DATA (Disadvantage to Advantage) on its work and for the future at 2.30pm, followed by a demonstration on in-built accessible software in an iPad by Lead Scotland at 3pm.
At 3.30pm Home-Start Perth will give a talk about its work, focusing on breast feeding, infant massage and family support, with a demonstration on running a wassail workshop by Tayside Biodiversity Partnership at 4pm.
Afterwards, there will be a workshop on stroke experience at 4.30pm by Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland, with an interactive session featuring some of the difficulties a person may face following a stroke.
To round off the festival, there will be a talk by the staff at Scone Palace Gardens on the work they do.
Some of the other organisations at next week’s event include CATH (Churches Action for The Homeless), Giraffe, Perth and Kinross Council’s community greenspace team, Macmillan Move More Perth and Kinross, Perth and District Beekeepers Association, Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, PKAVS’s volunteering hub, mental health charity PLUS Perth, Perthshire Society of Natural Science, PUSH Community Inclusion Perth, Remake:Scotland, South Perth Greenspace Group, Tayside Council on Alcohol, and VisionPK.
Under 16s will be able to take part in a range of fun activities at the ‘Muirhead Mash-up’ in Dewars Centre’s Muirhead Room with the team from Live Active Leisure. Care organisers, speakers and delegates at a previous Dewars Centre conference