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Free help in on hand to get people in Moray online and keep them connected to their families and community.
Keeping positive is proving a struggle for many people of all ages right now.
However the local social movement Moray Wellbeing Hub CIC has released a timetable with daily opportunities for folk to get connected and find mutual support.
Over the next four weeks anyone in Moray can sign up to a wide variety of events.
Here are some examples:
- The Wellbeing Hub has split Moray into four and is hosting informal chats so people can talk with others from their own area each lunchtime.
- Creative art sessions.
- Courses to help parents support their children.
- Wellbeing sessions for the under-16s, as well as anyone aged under 25.
- An introduction to 'mental health first aid' to advise volunteers who are helping others.
- A course for people anxious about looking for work.
- One-to-one support
- Help to host a new local group
- Help to let an existing group get online.
Thanks to The Gordon and Ena Baxter Foundation and the William Grant Foundation there is also help to get online for people struggling financially or who are not tech-savvy.
If you have a smart phone or a computer, then things can be met such as internet costs or buying a webcam so you can see the people you are talking to.
One user said: "Thanks to the team I was able to gain the confidence to join in with a virtual art
class. I then managed to chat to my grandchildren and see their faces – it made me
so happy."
All these activities are being supported by Moray LEADER as part of the ‘Wellbeing Connected Moray’ project.
To see the timetable about what's on when click here
For help with online costs go here
Find out more at www.moraywellbeinghub.org.uk
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