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A charity which relieves social isolation for older people has enjoyed its busiest year to date. Contact the Elderly has 85 groups throughout Scotland, 2 in Paisley, which support 764 people aged 75 and over through its network of 1,035 volunteers. Each group holds monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties in volunteer hosts’ homes with assigned
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People who live or work in Renfrewshire have begun to nominate those special people in our communities for a Provost’s Community Award. The awards, which opened to nominations on Monday 27 October, are a chance to recognise those people who devote much of their time to others for little or nothing in return. Taking the
food train
Since Food Train launched in Renfrewshire in October 2013, over 40 local volunteers have donated 4,708 hours of their time to make up shopping orders and delivering to over 140 older people. Our customers frequently refer to the service as a life line. The majority use the service on a weekly/fortnightly basis, others on an
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Over 40 local baton bearers and athletes from the Commonwealth Games were praised by Renfrewshire’s Provost Anne Hall at a special ceremony. Paisley born athletes, Cara Kennedy, Christopher Nelson and Iain Scholefield, joined the dozens of baton bearers in the special celebration event at Linwood’s Tweedie Hall. The Renfrewshire leg of the Queen’s Baton Relay
FREE DELIVERY SERVICE FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS Kind hearted bosses at a local taxi firm are offering all schools in Johnstone a free delivery service for donations made to Renfrewshire Foodbank. Johnstone TOA, a private-hire taxi firm based at Johnstone railway station, has been working closely with Renfrewshire Foodbank since March and offers a number of
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EVENT: Community Action Day - Durrockstock Park LNR DATE:1st November 2014 TIME:10:30am start VENUE: Durrockstock Park, Foxbar, “Community Action Day - Durrockstock Park LNR” Renfrewshire Environmental And Restoration Group (R.E.R.G) is calling on everyone to lend a hand to improve their local environment. It wants to prise people free of their armchairs and get them
Renfrewshire Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 2013
On World Mental Health Day, the Renfrewshire Mental Health Arts & Film Festival had a special event launching a unique art exhibition in 5 train stations between Paisley and Port Glasgow. Gina McKie from Radio Clyde hosted the event and was supported by drumming from Buddy Beat and singing from Rockus Community choir. Forty people,
18-25 year olds up for the CHALLENGE! Renfrewshire's school leavers, graduates and 18-25 year olds are invited to make a positive difference in the lives of others in third world commonwealth countries whilst adding travel, business fun and employability to their CV's! Ghana, Zambia and Uganda are three target destinations for successful applicants to Challenges
Renfrewshire’s Provost Anne Hall and seventeen big-hearted locals have been flying high in a special charity event. The wing-walk, which is raising awareness of armed forces charity Help for Heroes, took place on Strathaven Airfield on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 August. Provost Hall, who took part in the wing-walk on the second day, started
paisley fire
Paisley Buddies Rally Round for Social Good. The people of Paisley have once again rallied round to help others in need this weekend and what an eventful couple of days it has been.. We have had the disappearance of a young 8 year old in Gallowhill, and when notified, the community rallied round on Facebook
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Facebay Fundraising donate £1000.00 to MacMillan Cancer Support Pictured below is Karen Mathie from MacMillan cancer support, Irene McDonald, Carly McMenemy, Kevin Jones, Teresa Martin and Carly and Kevin's daughter Karmela. A big thank-you 2 Every1 who helped raise this fantastic amount, the admins from Facebay fundraising Teresa Martin, Genevieve Watt, Carly McMenemy, Ian McDonald and all
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Facebay Fundraising donate £1492.50 to Alzheimers Scotland. This money was raised with people donating their unwanted items to the admins on www.facebook.com/groups/FacebayFundraising/ on Facebook and also via a Car boot sale which was held at the Storage Vault, Clark St, Paisley. (The Storage Vault sponsor Facebay Fundraising) When sold the money goes to the various