You are welcome to our free gathering that we are hosting on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2019 at Toryglen Community Hall and Urban Roots in Glasgow. You may come for the whole weekend or simply pop in when you can. The theme of the weekend is ‘Collective Care’. Our goal is to discuss this theme together, offer workshops to provide tools and/or food for thoughts …
**Taking Care of our Communities: Saturday 3rd August 2019, Glasgow Autonomous Space** We would like to invite you along to a free event that we are hosting on 3rd August at Glasgow Autonomous Space. We are hoping to bring together a whole load of groups and individuals that are engaged in radical social change and/or resisting through their very survival. The theme of the day is ‘Community Care’. As well as hosting a discussion on ways that we can better support each other through these difficult times we’d like to offer: – A big yummy meal, – A medicine-making session using herbs from the garden, – A bodywork session sharing techniques to ground and rest the body, – Some massage appointments, – Herbal foot baths – Kids activities. We are happy to cover bus fares to attend the event. Also just be in touch if you have any questions or accessibility issues you’d like to discuss.
Hello! We’re looking for contributors to our blog to help us explore radical herbalism in Scotland today. As a network we are aiming to take a radical approach to health and justice, this means looking at the root causes of ill health and working for a society without oppression – where people and the natural …
Legend has it that if Imbolc is a beautiful day, then spring is a long way off. Cailleach – the divine hag of Gaelic tradition – gathers her firewood for the rest of winter on Imbolc. If she wishes to draw it out, she will ensure the weather is fine so she can get a …
In December a public NHS/Edinburgh Council body called the Edinburgh Integrated Joint Board (EIJB) met to allocate funding for Health &Social Care projects within Edinburgh over the next three years.Their budget for this was a mere £14.1 million pounds, down from £35million for the previous three year period. A combination of a change in policy …
We have some money (currently £3750) that we would like to distribute to other groups in Scotland. We have applied for money to redistribute from the Seedbed Trust and decided that we didn’t want to sit on money that we didn’t have definite plans for so have decided to share it out. We particularly want …
Sometimes life is a bit of a maze. The walls are high and you can rarely see anything except the path ahead and behind you. You have a map, but it doesn’t really tell you which way to go. There are junctions: decisions to make. It is important to reach the destination on the map, …
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Since July 2015, Grass Roots Remedies Herbal Medicine Co-operative have been working on and consolidating an integrated herbal healthcare model in Wester Hailes, South West Edinburgh. We want to share the model now as an inspiring example of forward thinking, collaborative responses to health inequality by the NHS and local agencies; to encourage discussion about …
