Muirhouse Youth Development Group (MYDG) is the host organisation supporting the Link Up worker in Muirhouse.
Muirhouse is a district of north Edinburgh with a population of around 5,500. Although the name refers to the original mansion built for the Davidson Family in 1832, the modern residential area of Muirhouse was built as a council estate in the 1950s. Muirhouse has undergone three significant periods of regeneration since the 1970s and the latest is on-going. As a consequence of these changes the social mix in the area is changing and there is a real need to start “connecting people”. Link Up is seen as offering real potential to help this happen: helping to re-connect long-standing residents as well as forge new social networks with and amongst new-comers to the area. Link Up is also seen as a means of re-igniting grassroots community activism.
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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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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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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