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Queen's Award

Easter Monday brings great news of www.merlinerd.com a company for which our Edinburgh West Chaplain Rev Grant Maclaughlan provides chaplaincy. We send hearty congratulations to Merlin ERD Ltd on being awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Intern...
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Stuck in a rut?

Chaplain at work: Grant has encouragement for anyone feeling ‘stuck’. WPCS Edinburgh West chaplain, Rev Grant Maclaughlan’s latest newsletter, reproduced here, is sure to strike a chord with many people: Hi everyone Some of you reading this may be as...
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Spitfire honour

Rev Grant Maclaughlan WPCS Edinburgh West Chaplain Rev Grant Maclaughlan, chaplain to Edinburgh Airport, is delighted that another company where he provides chaplaincy, Merlin ERD is to take on the care and maintenance of the airport’s Spitfire Gate ...
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Play well

Next time you are clearing up the children’s toys, here’s a word from WPCS East of Scotland Regional Organiser Chic Lidstone to make you think: We all love or hate LEGO bricks. Either building amazing imaginative creations at whatever age, or steppin...
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People behind the figures

WPCS Chief Executive Rev Iain McFadzean has responded to a new report on the rate of closing stores in Scotland: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-29540864 “Behind these figures are real people with families to support and rent ...
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Chaplaincy at The Centre

AWARENESS is growing of the cost, not only in human terms but also in hard economics, of stress in the workplace. Doesn’t it make sense, then, to have someone around who is independent of management who is able to listen, in confidence and care about...
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Retail picture

WPCS trustee and head of the Scottish Retail Consortium David Lonsdale (pictured) comments on October retail sales: http://www.brc.org.uk/src_news_detail.asp?id=2719

WPCS' morning call

Our CEO Rev Iain McFadzean (pictured) took part in BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Morning Call’ phone-in on church membership and Christianity today following the Moderator of the Church of Scotland’s challenge to the kirk to find 100,000 new members by 2025....
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Reflecting on a promise

On this last day of 2014, with all its highs and lows, we wish you a very happy, healthy New Year and take the opportunity, here, to share something of Chief Executive Iain McFadzean’s inspiring seasonal message to WPCS chaplains and staff. “At the e...
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Labour market

OUR Trustee Grahame Smith (pictured) who is General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) today commented on the latest official labour market data for Scotland just published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). We publish h...
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