Do you want to help create safer, more vibrant streets and spaces in your local community? Enrol your group now for the Winter 2012 programme. Voluntary Health Scotland member Living Streets is running free events with community groups across Scotland to help them take action to improve their … [Read more...] about Walkable Communites Project

Living Streets are also members of the Responsible Parking Alliance, which is working with other voluntary organisations such as RNIB, Quarriers and Age Scotland to end the inconsiderate parking that stops people getting around their streets. To join the Responsible Parking Alliance or  find out … [Read more...] about Responsible Parking Alliance

A feasibility study that provided parents who smoke with tailored information about smoke levels in their own homes has produced positive results. The new approach has the potential to help parents who want to protect their children from tobacco smoke. The study is part of the REFRESH project, a … [Read more...] about New study helps parents to protect children from cigarette smoke in the home

ASH Scotland is the leading charity campaigning for effective tobacco control legislation in Scotland. One of our organisational aims is to work closely with partners in the voluntary and community sector, to address issues of inequality that relate to tobacco use. To help progress work in this … [Read more...] about What do you know about tobacco and how it affects your community?

Proposal for a bill to promote public health and reduce alcohol-related offending through: restrictions on the retailing and advertising of alcoholic drinks changes to licensing laws obligations on Scottish Ministers to issue guidance and report directing offenders towards treatment or … [Read more...] about Proposed Alcohol (Public Health and Criminal Justice) (Scotland) Bill