Fiesta is changing to Block Parties So when folk in the movement told us they’d prefer local gatherings to a big national fiesta this year, it sounded like Block Parties were a great way to make this happen and so the Fiesta is no more….! Coming to a street near you soon could be a […]
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Camerados on the Streets – the tour
Now is a great time to hear about Camerados. The way we connect and develop relationships with people has changed. People are really feeling what difference it makes when they are met with humanness- so more people are listening. We are going to create a beautiful space that people find through trails, activity already happening […]
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Royal Society Of Edinburgh Report
The Camerados Movement has featured in a new report commissioned by the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Post-Covid Futures Commission and published in partnership with Support in Mind Scotland (SiMS). The report looks at ways that alternatives to services, like Public Living Rooms, can be used so folk draw less on traditional services and seek other […]
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It’s a Spoon-iversary, happy birthday SpoonRooms
#Spoonrooms are celebrating their first birthday this month! SpoonRooms were created as our virtual online Public Living Room when the Covid-19 pandemic meant we had to close all our face to face Public Living Rooms in March 2020. Many folk have joined us on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings, to get together with strangers for […]
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Mental Health in Rural Scotland
On Wednesday 17 February, Maff Potts spoke at the National Rural Mental Health Forum in Scotland, telling them about the Camerados movement and how some folk have stayed connected through the Covid-19 pandemic. Also at this same event the findings of a research report on marginalised communities was shared, Frances Simpson, CEO of SiMS, […]
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Camerados in Schools Pilot Project
The Association of Camerados is launching it’s pilot of Camerados in Schools, if you are a primary school that would like to be one of our 10 innovating partners, then please do watch the video and take a look at the document explaining more about how you can take part.
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#SpoonRoom
#SpoonRoom a way to connect with other camerados. Check out our Saturday #SpoonRoom and register to take part on our What’s Live page.
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Camerados Alternative Christmas Message
Christmas can be tough for some people, with all the cheeriness around it can be hard to remember that, so be a camerado this Christmas, look out for each other and maybe give this a watch?
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Happy 1st Birthday Bristol SU Living Room
This week saw our camerados in Bristol University celebrating the 1st birthday of their Public Living Room, around 700 students a day use this space and our caps are doffed to the wonderful folk in the Student Union who have worked so hard to make this a success.
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World mental health day
Here at the Association of Camerados we were chuffed to hear that folk did pop up public living rooms for World Mental Health Day, here’s a shout out to Cedarwood Trust, Horncastle School, Bristol University, Sheffield Hallam University and Love Grays….. for highlighting this important issue,
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