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Dumfries Toy Library - Inspiring Scotland

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Dumfries Toy Library

Part of Organised Outdoor Community Play Fund.

Dumfries Toy Library operate play services for young children and their parents from a Family Centre in North West Dumfries. They are a gateway service delivering early intervention and prevention in partnership with other third sector organisations and the local authority.

They aim to provide an inclusive and thriving environment where children and families can access services and support that promote health and wellbeing.

They are a welcoming, friendly, homely hub where families can come together to build relationships and get support from professionals and peers.

All children’s learning is built round play, mainly free play and child led. Staff role model positive interaction and quality play opportunities to benefit the child’s all round development and wellbeing and to support parents learning.

Invitation to tender
08.07.2024

Invitation to tender

Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service

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Kinship Learning and Collaboration
27.06.2024

Kinship Learning and Collaboration

We recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive.     The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children”    Since 2016, Inspiring

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The Power of Sport and Physical Activity since the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
26.06.2024

The Power of Sport and Physical Activity since the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Earlier this month, some of the  Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners   hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to

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