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June 2020
Health Leaders Check In: VHS & ACOSVO Zoom Event
Being the leader of a health charity in the current climate has never been more of a challenge. Join Animate Consulting and VHS on June 3rd for this jointly facilitated, health sector specific meeting hosted by VHS and ACOSVO, and discuss the leadership challenges you face as you steer your organisation through COVID-19. The discussion will be held online via Zoom and facilitated by Claire Stevens, VHS and Joette Thomas, Animate Consulting. Book your place here. In order to facilitate…
Rising Food Insecurity in times of COVID-19
Join the Public Health Scotland Food Insecurity Working Group and Voluntary Health Scotland for our partnership event. Book your place here. Food insecurity has been an issue for a significant proportion of Scotland’s population for many years and now COVID-19 has caused the issue to become further entrenched. We understand that food insecurity under COVID-19 is firstly rooted in poverty and secondly is an issue of poor access to food. Public Health Scotland (PHS) has been working to identify how…
Digitally Healthy: Health Literacy and Health Inequalities
NHS NES Digital Service (NDS) and VHS are partnering to run this joint event exploring health inequalities in the context of the development of digital health. The event will provide the opportunity for voluntary health organisations to engage with NDS and to explore issues and approaches regarding digital health inequalities. The event is particularly relevant in light of COVID-19 driving more health and care services online. Book your place here. Aims/objectives of the event: To explore the ways in which…
Ageing Well: 2nd Virtual Talk with the Open University
Join VHS and the Open University for the second in series of joint online events exploring ageing, health and wellbeing. The title of the second talk is: The Ageing Brain. Led by Dr Jitka Všetečková who currently works at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University. Jitka undertakes research in Public Health with special interest in Ageing, Dementia, Exercise and Mental Health. In this series we are exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to…
July 2020
Keeping the Conversation Going: All the lonely people
Arts, Culture, Health & Wellbeing Scotland- Keeping the Conversation Going: All the lonely people: creative renewal and practice beyond the lock-down A free online event exploring loneliness and social isolation beyond the COVID-19 lock-down, with the focus on the essential role arts and culture organisations and practitioners have been playing during the pandemic and will continue to play. With inputs from a range of practitioners and plenty of scope for discussion, join us to explore creative responses to the surge…
November 2020
VHS Annual Conference & AGM 2020
Join us on 4th November for #WeArePublicHealth: Creating Health and Wellbeing for All. So far, the approach to tackling Scotland’s health inequalities and other public health challenges has not delivered the significant changes we need. With the advent of Public Health Scotland and a national set of public health priorities, is Scotland now set to re-focus its approach on prevention, protection and improvement of the nation’s health? What does ‘public health’ mean for the third sector and what is our…