Sharing his December 'Workplace Word', our East of Scotland Regional Organiser Chic Lidstone here suggests we take another look when we first perceive a problem:
In the film Patch Adams (starring the late Robin Williams) there is a scene when so...
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Listening Post
Earlier this month, on the first day of Suicide Prevention Week, Workplace Chaplaincy Scotland, together with Chaplains from the Railway Mission and representatives from the Samaritans and Breathing, space held a "Listening Post" at Haymarket station...
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Cast all your votes for dancing!
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...
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Autumn Perspectives Lectures - Wellbeing in the Workplace
In association with WPCS, Business Matters, Oasis, St Mary's Cathedral and Palmerston Place Church - There are a series of three Perspectives Lectures on 'Wellbeing in the Workplace' taking place, in Palmerston Place Church, Palmerston Place, Edinbur...
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Introduction Day in Edinburgh on 5th October
Are you interested in finding out more about Workplace Chaplaincy Scotland and how you could perhaps become involved? If so, why not come along to our Introductory Day, in Edinburgh, on 5th October
Date : Thursday, 5th Octobe...
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New Chairman for Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland
Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland has announced David Lonsdale, Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, as successor to chairman Andrew Milligan OBE.
WPCS provides pastoral and welfare support across Scotland to employees in around 2000 workplaces s...
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WORKERS in Kirkcaldy are being offered a confidential, caring, ‘listening ear’ when they want to get something off their chest.
In Fife Central Retail Park, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Royal Mail, in the ‘Lang Toun’, our chaplain Rob Jon...
Dundee chaplain Geoff Findlay (pictured) thoroughly enjoys getting involved in the life of his home city.The weekend's Christmas Festival was as spectacular as promised, with a torchlight procession, Christmas lights switch-on, fireworks, food and a ...
Warm congratulations to WPCS Livingston chaplain Jean Thomson.Jean has just been presented with her five-year certificate recognising her years of faithful service as Chaplain to the The Centre Livingston since 2011. Jean who is now al...
Scotland’s late payment culture kills thousands of businesses and causes hundreds of millions pounds of economic damage, according to new Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) research.
A new report from the small business campaign group finds that la...
WPCS trustee David Lonsdale, Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC), described the October spike in the number of empty shops in our town centres as: ‘a cause for concern’ when commenting on the latest results of the SRC – Spr...
Thanks to all who took part in our lunchtime Workplace Wellbeing Seminar on Work/Life Balance at Edinburgh Park, in Edinburgh, courtesy of the park management yesterday.Local chaplain Kristina Herbold Ross welcomed 20 people to the manageme...
On Armistice Day as we remember our country’s war dead, our chaplains have been playing their part in services across Scotland. In Edinburgh, West of Edinburgh chaplain Kristina Herbold Ross held a service of Remembrance at Royal Mail’s main Sig...
During Dundee's popular Christmas Festival, our chaplain Allan Webster is again producing the Dundee Nativity, which played to packed houses every performance last year.
The performances bring a new slant to the Nativity story when four charac...
Congratulations to Herald Society Awards 'Unsung Hero' winner Raza Sadiq, who helped found an Active Life Club to help build community relations on the southside of Glasgow. We echo what Eamonn Connolly, director at evh which back...
