Our publications and media articles:
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The Story of BIG 2010-Present: An Ongoing Journey
This piece is the long story of our unique journey up until 2020 will be a constant work in progress as we will update it periodically… You can read and download the full document here. |
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Strengthening our communities in times of a pandemic: the longer term impacts of an emergency response
A community-led emergency response to food precarity A long thoughtful piece written by Will Golding a Bridgend Farmhouse Trustee You can read and download the full document here. |
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Our Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
We were very pleased to have won this award in 2021, it is the highest awarded to charitable organisations in the UK. You can read the full text of the award here: |
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Media coverage of our response to the COVID-19 crisis - Senscot
We are pleased to see the media coverage our current work is getting. Below is an example, in this case an article in Senscot which references the piece about our work in a longer piece in Bella Caledonia. Read the full Senscot text reproduced here |
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Charities’ vital role in covid ‘must be recognised’ If health charities don’t survive the COVID-19 pandemic there will be significant gaps in services in future, VHS’s Chief Executive has warned, in an interview published by healthandcare.scot the online health and care news channel. Read the full article reproduced here |
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Leadership from Below
A Bella Caledonia article that looks at the flourishing of mutual aid groups across Scotland and the potential for sustaining and nurturing these groups beyond the immediate crisis. It includes a section on Bridgend Farmhouse, our initial emergency response and how we are making as much of our services available in appropriate ways for this crisis. We have reproduced the part about our response to the current crisis here |
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Some of our older pieces ...
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'All’s Well Down On The Farm' A piece featured in the June 2018 edition of the Scots Magazine telling the story of our first 8 years and our future plans. |
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'Our Journey' where Hilary Lowson squeezes so much of our first 7 years into one poster. 
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Over many years we worked hard to carry out various projects which embody the kind of activities and spirit we wanted to see in the renovated farmhouse. From Storytelling to Place-based education and architectural and design workshops we have involved many members of the local community, gathering their visions, ideas and memories along the way. You can see some of the documents produced through this work as well as some of our more 'official' documents here |
