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Steve Brown - Chaplain at Ayrshire Hospice (former WPCS Intern)

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An article about inspirational hospice workers appeared in an edition of The Scottish Sun last week. One of the workers interviewed was Steve Brown, who was an Intern with WPCS before he was appointed Chaplain at Ayrshire Hospice. As chap... More

Midlothian Council - Stobhill Depot Training Event (For Information Only)

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Health and Wellbeing Poster On Thursday, 6th September, Midlothian Council are running a health and wellbeing event. This event is for the staff at Midlothian Council and Paul Hayes, Midlothian Council Chaplain and Paul Wilson, WPCS Central Scotland ... More

Passing Out Parade of Recruits at SFRS, Portlethen Training Centre

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Ron Flett, Aberdeen City Centre Chaplain, was invited to Portlethen Training Centre on 2nd August where he attended the Passing Out Parade of the newest recruits of SFRS. It's always a privilege for our chaplains to be invited to these ty... More

Bon Accord Care Bid Farewell to a Senior Carer

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Residents in Gairn Court (Bon Accord Care) gatthered earlier this week to wish one of their senior carers/support workers a happy retirement and happy birthday. Sylvia has worked as Senior carer/support for the last 10 years, and we wish her both a H... More

A “Q Tip”

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Back in the 1920s when Polish-American entrepreneur Leo Gerstenzang saw his wife putting little pieces of cotton balls on to toothpicks, he invented Q-tips®, known to us as cotton buds. He thought this was a safer way to clean his baby’s ears. Mr. Ge... More

Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland - Summer Newsletter 2018

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Meet three of our Volunteer Chaplains in our 2018 Summer Newsletter

Lunchtime Seminars

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WPCS are running 2 lunchtime seminars on 5th September and 7th November. Both seminars are free of charge and being held at: Board Room, Charles White offices Citypoint, 65 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5HD Happy People, Healt... More

A Boring Story about Water

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Six weeks ago a community in a village in southern India drank fresh water for the first time. On a warm Thursday evening from a newly drilled 500 foot borehole, flowed fresh clean cool water for the first time. You can see the delight! Other parts o... More

On a Cold and Frosty Morning

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We’ve all done it, especially at this time of year. You know what I mean: scraping the frost or snow on the windscreen and then being tempted to drive away before you can see properly. Have you ever been tempted to do that? You know what happens next... More

HOMELESS JESUS

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The sculpture outside (behind the church) is cast in bronze and was first created in Canada by artist Timothy P Schmalz. Many copies have been made. They are installed in different cities all over the world. This is the first one in... More

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Adam Plenderleith

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Thursday, 11 January 2018

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Breaking news: Our most recent volunteer chaplain in the West, Adam Plenderleith formerly a healthcare chaplain with the NHS has attracted the interest of one of our national newspapers! Adam, together with Rev Neil E Allison, has recently published ...

Wishing you a great 2018

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Tuesday, 09 January 2018

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There’s a well-known story of a chicken farmer who found an eagle’s egg. He put it in with his chickens and soon the egg hatched. The young eagle grew up with all the other chickens and whatever they did, the eagle did too, thinking it was...

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WPCS gets involved at Dundee Airport Airex 2017 exercise

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Wednesday, 27 September 2017

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Airex 2017 was a disaster exercise at Dundee Airport which tested the terminal buildings in use as a survivor and repatriation facility. WPCS worked in partnership with British Red Cross under the direction of Dundee Airport and Police Scotland...

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Cast all your votes for dancing!

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Wednesday, 20 September 2017

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Hafiz was a 14th century Persian poet who wrote this telling piece on depression. It is interesting to think that mental health and wellbeing is not necessarily a modern thing. This is particularly for the one in four of us who struggle with mental w...

A Bit Of A Let Down

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Tuesday, 15 August 2017

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As he was driving along a deserted country lane his car got a puncture. Easily sorted he thought; until he couldn’t find the jack. The evening sun was just setting and it was getting dark as he started to look for a farm where hopefully he could borr...

Alloa Firefighter recognised for his services to the community

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Monday, 17 July 2017

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Congratulations go to Alloa Firefighter, Alan Faulds BCA, who has been awarded the British Citizen Award for his services to the community. He and his local volunteer team have spearheaded a roadshow campaign for safer roads in Forth Valle...

Thermostat or Thermometer?

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Monday, 17 July 2017

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A thermostat sets the temperature while a thermometer records the temperature. “Oh, it’s hot in here”, says the thermometer, while the thermostat says it’s too hot in here and does something about it. Which are you? It’s an old question posed by a mu...

Supporting Workplace Chaplaincy Mission across the UK

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Monday, 03 July 2017

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Last month, Chic Lidstone (East Coast Area Organiser) took a trip to Derby to attend the Workplace Chaplaincy Missions UK (WCM UK) team leaders day. WCM UK has 500 members, with 22 teams, spread across the UK. There was a good representation of chapl...

A Generous Gift Appreciated

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Thursday, 22 June 2017

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Ron Flett, our Aberdeen based chaplain, received a very welcome gift on a recent visit to Marischal College, Aberdeen. He was handed an envelope containing a cash donation to WPCS. This was received from an anonymous donor so we were unable to ...

THE POWER OF THE CROSS

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Wednesday, 07 June 2017

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At our staff team meeting last week, we were privileged to enjoy a talk by Dr Larry Scrimgeour - volunteer chaplain for Dundee and Angus College. Larry is a self taught Iconographer (the study of icons) and is passionate about the subject. His ...

Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland Blog

Steve Brown - Chaplain at Ayrshire Hospice (former WPCS Intern)

Midlothian Council - Stobhill Depot Training Event (For Information Only)

Passing Out Parade of Recruits at SFRS, Portlethen Training Centre

Bon Accord Care Bid Farewell to a Senior Carer

A “Q Tip”

Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland - Summer Newsletter 2018

Lunchtime Seminars

A Boring Story about Water

On a Cold and Frosty Morning

HOMELESS JESUS

Adam Plenderleith

Wishing you a great 2018

WPCS gets involved at Dundee Airport Airex 2017 exercise

Cast all your votes for dancing!

A Bit Of A Let Down

Alloa Firefighter recognised for his services to the community

Thermostat or Thermometer?

Supporting Workplace Chaplaincy Mission across the UK

A Generous Gift Appreciated

THE POWER OF THE CROSS

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