Inverness Men’s Health Talks
Please find some information in the link below relating to a series of talks put together by the Men’s Health Forum Highland covering a range of subjects and conditions. They are free and open to all, not just men. Members of the public can just turn up on the day.
If organisations want to attend then please get in touch (Contact Us) and we will pass on details.
Inverness Men’s Health Forum – Series of Talks
Issues With Website Contact Page
Due to some technical difficulties on the website, we have been unable to respond to some recent messages left on the contact page. If you have recently left a message which had not had a response, please re-contact us by another method either directly by project email address (Contact Us) or telephone on 01463 729997. We apologise for any difficulty or delay this may cause.
New Opening Hours
Partnerships for Wellbeing Ltd is pleased to announce an increase in the opening hours of their offices in Inverness. As of 4th January 2012 our new opening hours will be Monday to Friday 10am until 3pm.
Chairman John Fotheringham said, “Our aim is to expand the services our charity delivers. By opening for longer we hope to provide better telephone contact for clients who require Inverness Voluntary Transport services or for our volunteer walk leaders working with Step It Up Highland to speak to our staff.”
Changes in management roles will also take place with Ian Arnott moving from his role as Team Leader to an expanded Managers post, job sharing with our Current Manager, Michelle Cowie. Michelle will be working Monday to Wednesday and Ian Wednesday to Friday. This change will provide wider support for staff and clients.
All contact details remain the same and can be found on our Contact page.
A Warm Welcom To Joanne McCoy
Joanne has joined Partnerships for Wellbeing as the Lets Get On With It Together Co-ordinator. She has both professional and personal experience of the health and social care field, following a varied career in this sector and living with MS. Self management, independence, choice and control are rights that Joanne believes everyone should be entitled to. Joanne also works part-time for the MS Society as Regional Programme Co-ordinator for the Highlands and Islands, co-ordinating the self management programme in this area. Prior to joining the MS Society Joanne was the Chief Executive Officer of Direct Payments Caledonia, where she was responsible for running the charity which provided a comprehensive service to support people living with disabilities.
Attention all Step It Up Highland Members!
Walk Leader Announcement – Paths For All will be changing their walker contact details form shortly, streamlining it and taking off the information they previously asked on ethnicity, specific conditions, age and so on. However to apply for other funding SIUH still has a need to collect this type of information as most grant givers require it. So, the change for you will be that the same information will be gathered but split between Paths For All’s form and SIUH’s form.
Walk Leader Announcement – There is now core path information on the Highland Council website http://www.highland.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/what-to-see/countrysideaccess/corepathplans.htm with good maps of local area walks for Inverness, Lochaber, Lochalsh & Skye, Ross & Cromarty and links to the Cairngorms National Park site. It is a bit tricky to find hence the link above. The Core Paths cater for all types of users – walkers, cyclists, horse riders, canoeists, people with disabilities, etc. and are a key part of outdoor access provision.
Walk Leader Announcement– Many walk leaders have asked about accessing other walk area information and we have been wondering how best to achieve this. Rather than reinvent the wheel and doing walk routes ourselves it may make better sense to link into other schemes, perhaps from the 2 below:
- There is a website called http://www.walk4life.info/ which is busy encouraging people to register to either log on their local walks or to search for a walk they can join in with. I will be looking at logging on main contacts in some way but would encourage you as individuals to both put on walks and encourage others to make use of the site.
- Lastly there is an initiative called Medal routes project which was in the recent Paths For All (PFA) e-bulletin. It is funded (from October 2011) by PFA, Scottish Natural Heritage and Ramblers Holidays Charitable Trust and aims to create a legacy for Scotland from the 2012 Olympic and 2014 Commonwealth games, establishing ‘medal routes’ around local communities using existing paths. I shall be finding out more about this project and how SIUH may link in. Crucially these walks will differ from SIUH’s in that they will not be led walks, so the aspiration is to have simply participatory walks which could complement ours and offer a local extra. Please do contact me with any thoughts you may have on this.
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