Fires, Fishbowls and Faith – A Week of Leading Dangerously Guest blog from Clare Armstrong, Academy Project Manager, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland. The Health and Social Care Academy is a programme of the Health and Social Care Alliance (the ALLIANCE)…
As part of Fire Starter Festival, the Scottish Health Council held Voices Scotland workshops across the country. Today’s guest blog is from Gerd Peters, Local Officer at Scottish Health Council Orkney. Under an angry grey sky on an icy January morning…
Guest post by Open Change Intern Barbara Mertlova. Originally posted at http://www.openchange.co.uk The Scotland-wide Fire Starter Festival kicked off on Monday 29 January with a speech made by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in…
Guest blog from Cat Tabbner, Glasgow Centre for Population Health. This blog was originally published on http://www.gcph.co.uk Cat Tabbner reflects on the launch of Fire Starter Festival 2018 and how it has set her up for the year ahead. It…
Guest blog by Martin Crewe, Director of Barnardo’s Scotland This morning I was lucky enough to attend the launch of Scotland’s Fire Starter Festival: ‘a series of collaborative learning events, illuminating creative, disruptive and innovative ways in which we…
The first of our series of speakers at The Silent Launch has been revealed! We are proud to announce that we will be joined by Jo Horton, Program Manager at Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program & Director of Go Jo. Currently…
The Fire Starter Festival 2017 drew to a close last month after 35 events which attracted around 1500 participants. Over the coming months we’ll reflect on the evaluations, and have many conversations about what went well, what could have been better, what…
“If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new.” Philip Glass “It’s basically about trust” “What is?” “Well, everything. Strip out the buzz words - ‘transforming public service’, ‘open government’, ‘co-production’ – it basically…
As winter arrives, many of us are drawn to the magic of making fires. Personally I love this time of year. There is something about the stark beauty of the landscape, stripped back and illuminated by winter sun, with breath…
As you may now know, between 23rd and 30th January 2017, Workforce Scotland will be hosting and supporting the Fire Starter Festival, a week-long festival of collaborative learning events, illuminating creative, disruptive and innovative ways in which we can all…
