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...
Work Place Chaplaincy Scotland Blog
Tap Tap Tapping
Adan Abokor tapped out the book, Anna Karenina, using his finger and wrist to keep his neighbouring cell mates sane.
After 7 months in solitary confinement Adan realised he could communicate with his fellow prisoners who were also in solitary confine...
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Introduction Afternoon in Dundee
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 Afternoon, in Dundee, on Monday, 7th May
Date : Monday, 7th M...
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A Boring Story about Water
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...
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On a Cold and Frosty Morning
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...
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HOMELESS JESUS
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...
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Adam Plenderleith
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 ...
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East Coast Team Day
Chic Lidstone and his East Coast Team spent an enjoyable, and extremely valuable, day of team building at Compass Ski Centre, Glenshee earlier this month. Everyone enjoyed the activities on offer - especially the Archery! Geoff was determ...
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WPCS gets involved at Dundee Airport Airex 2017 exercise
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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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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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...
Bank branches are closing at a faster rate in Scotland than in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, figures unearthed by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) show.
Statistics from the Competition and Market Authority show that, between 2013 and 2...
In his Workplace Word, this month, East of Scotland Regional Organiser Chic Lidstone asks, 'Have you ever felt like this?'
On holiday I saw a basket in a kitchen cupboard of the house we were staying in which read: “Load Shedding Kit”. I had no idea ...
We are excited to have some eight potential new volunteer chaplains entering our interview and induction process following our recent Introduction Day in Edinburgh.The all-day event was hosted by our partner Palmerston Place Church. More than 20 chap...
Our recent free lunchtime Workplace Wellbeing Seminar, in conjunction with Edinburgh Park Management, prompted some insightful questions and comments from attendees involved in financial services.
Ten people attended the session on the subject of sup...
