Chris Sanderson
@chrissandy.bsky.social
Aye welcome refugees.
Solidarity with people and planet. Community.
Solidarity with people and planet. Community.
@whalesorg.bsky.social What are these please? Kilbrannan Sound, Kintyre
18 Oct
18 Oct
October 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@whalesorg.bsky.social What are these please? Kilbrannan Sound, Kintyre
18 Oct
18 Oct
A book for our times, unfortunately. Read this years ago and I’ve just read it again, although its content had always stayed with me. Because it’s chilling. And it feels too close for comfort.
It’s a very short and accessible epistolary novel.
It’s a very short and accessible epistolary novel.
August 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A book for our times, unfortunately. Read this years ago and I’ve just read it again, although its content had always stayed with me. Because it’s chilling. And it feels too close for comfort.
It’s a very short and accessible epistolary novel.
It’s a very short and accessible epistolary novel.
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We are over the moon to see this news! This SLF award matches their recent successful community share campaign.
Credit to the hard work of everyone involved, well done all! Community power in action!
Credit to the hard work of everyone involved, well done all! Community power in action!
🎉 BIG NEWS!! 🎉
We’re delighted to announce that Glenuig Community Inn has been awarded £352,800 from the Scottish Land Fund, meaning we now have the funds to secure the iconic Glenuig Inn as a vital community asset!
Thanks for helping us keep this dream alive 💚
We’re delighted to announce that Glenuig Community Inn has been awarded £352,800 from the Scottish Land Fund, meaning we now have the funds to secure the iconic Glenuig Inn as a vital community asset!
Thanks for helping us keep this dream alive 💚
July 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We are over the moon to see this news! This SLF award matches their recent successful community share campaign.
Credit to the hard work of everyone involved, well done all! Community power in action!
Credit to the hard work of everyone involved, well done all! Community power in action!
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No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU
No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees.
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
These children-killing strikes seem to be acceptable to people. I don’t know what else to say about it.
These children-killing strikes seem to be acceptable to people. I don’t know what else to say about it.
Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, emergency officials say
The Israeli military has not yet commented on the strike, which witnesses said hit a crowd queuing to get water at a refugee camp.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
These children-killing strikes seem to be acceptable to people. I don’t know what else to say about it.
These children-killing strikes seem to be acceptable to people. I don’t know what else to say about it.
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It’s the ‘but’ and the hierarchy of love that reveals everything.
Asked if shes worried the govt will be held responsible for whats happening in Gaza (because they continue exporting arms to Israel) Phillipson says shes incredibly concerned about the situation there. If that was true you'd stop exporting arms to Israel. But you wont. So it isnt
May 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It’s the ‘but’ and the hierarchy of love that reveals everything.
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Amazing news: as part of this DTAS has created a new £5 million Recovery & Resilience fund for our members over the next 2 yrs.The forward thinking of @foundationscotland.bsky.social means we can help DTAS members gain stability, build capacity & future-proof their operations/impact across Scotland
NEWS: Scotland’s Community Foundation fast tracks funding...
We have announced a £12 million ‘Response Fund’ to support organisations serving our hardest hit communities. These include @corra.scot, @dtascotland.bsky.social and @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social
Read more here: tinyurl.com/yc2u7nas
We have announced a £12 million ‘Response Fund’ to support organisations serving our hardest hit communities. These include @corra.scot, @dtascotland.bsky.social and @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social
Read more here: tinyurl.com/yc2u7nas
Scotland’s Community Foundation fast tracks funding to help most in need | Foundation Scotland
Independent funder Foundation Scotland has announced a £12 million fast-tracked ‘Response Fund’ to support organisations which serve the hardest hit communities across the country.
tinyurl.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Amazing news: as part of this DTAS has created a new £5 million Recovery & Resilience fund for our members over the next 2 yrs.The forward thinking of @foundationscotland.bsky.social means we can help DTAS members gain stability, build capacity & future-proof their operations/impact across Scotland
“The war's horrors multiply. The dead, the pieces of the dead. The dying. The starving. More and more of them now …
The urge to avert our gaze can be overpowering.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The urge to avert our gaze can be overpowering.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
May 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“The war's horrors multiply. The dead, the pieces of the dead. The dying. The starving. More and more of them now …
The urge to avert our gaze can be overpowering.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The urge to avert our gaze can be overpowering.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Such an important reminder from @davidgurteen.bsky.social. When we prioritise connection before content, we create the trust and openness needed for real collaboration. It’s easy to jump straight to tasks, but without strong relationships, the work suffers.
Work improves when relationships come first. Prioritizing tasks over connection makes collaboration harder. Building trust and engagement through connection before content creates openness and ensures meaningful work can happen. #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #connection
Connection Before Content | Conversational Leadership
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
buff.ly
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Such an important reminder from @davidgurteen.bsky.social. When we prioritise connection before content, we create the trust and openness needed for real collaboration. It’s easy to jump straight to tasks, but without strong relationships, the work suffers.
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Witnessing Labour trying to mimic Reform with migrant raid videos is sickening & will simply reinforce Reform’s messages. Just months after race riots, it also risks encouraging further animosity. We need safe & legal routes for asylum seekers, not boasts about which party can be cruellest
Labour accused of trying to mimic Reform with migrant raid videos
The government is publishing videos of raids of venues employing illegal workers as it prepares for the second reading of its Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
www.independent.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Witnessing Labour trying to mimic Reform with migrant raid videos is sickening & will simply reinforce Reform’s messages. Just months after race riots, it also risks encouraging further animosity. We need safe & legal routes for asylum seekers, not boasts about which party can be cruellest
So looking forward to #SCVOGathering tomorrow. A packed day in prospect 👍🏻
February 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So looking forward to #SCVOGathering tomorrow. A packed day in prospect 👍🏻
3000 bikes!
Donated, refurbished and given a second life.
Bike reuse is changing lives in Scotland.
Read how @bikes4refugees.bsky.social supports refugees and people seeking asylum:
Donated, refurbished and given a second life.
Bike reuse is changing lives in Scotland.
Read how @bikes4refugees.bsky.social supports refugees and people seeking asylum:
January 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
3000 bikes!
Donated, refurbished and given a second life.
Bike reuse is changing lives in Scotland.
Read how @bikes4refugees.bsky.social supports refugees and people seeking asylum:
Donated, refurbished and given a second life.
Bike reuse is changing lives in Scotland.
Read how @bikes4refugees.bsky.social supports refugees and people seeking asylum:
👏🏻 Bike reuse -refurbishing bicycles for a long life - could be so much easier with standard components.
Affordable access to bikes changes lives.
Let’s make it easier.
Affordable access to bikes changes lives.
Let’s make it easier.
We don’t talk enough about the importance of standard components in a greener economy. Engineers always say “but *our* design for battery/connector/module is 2% better than a standard one”, missing the point that it’s far worse for repair, reuse, recycling & minimising extra “stuff”. It’s maddening.
It’s time for THE charger.
Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.
It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!
#DigitalEU
Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.
It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!
#DigitalEU
January 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
👏🏻 Bike reuse -refurbishing bicycles for a long life - could be so much easier with standard components.
Affordable access to bikes changes lives.
Let’s make it easier.
Affordable access to bikes changes lives.
Let’s make it easier.
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Check that out for modal shift!
Giving wee people free access to bikes means fewer car journeys 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Giving wee people free access to bikes means fewer car journeys 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Every bike borrowed means fewer car trips, healthier families, and happier kids. That’s the power of two wheels! 🚲
Check out more about the Wee Bike Library in our Impact Report, view now on our website!
#MoreThanJustABikeShop #WeeBikeLibrary #KidsBikeLife #TheBikeStation
Check out more about the Wee Bike Library in our Impact Report, view now on our website!
#MoreThanJustABikeShop #WeeBikeLibrary #KidsBikeLife #TheBikeStation
December 30, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Check that out for modal shift!
Giving wee people free access to bikes means fewer car journeys 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Giving wee people free access to bikes means fewer car journeys 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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No alternative to flattening our green spaces for unaffordable new build homes ? But there is !
Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org
Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:46 PM
No alternative to flattening our green spaces for unaffordable new build homes ? But there is !
Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org
Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org
Pedestrianised streets are a destination, not just a route.
Multi benefits evidenced here ⬇️
Multi benefits evidenced here ⬇️
Thanks to Active Travel England for shining a light on our #PedestrianPound report with this lovely video, which includes our #Sheffield case study!
youtu.be/WdC5lYW8qgM
youtu.be/WdC5lYW8qgM
People-friendly streets make for prosperous societies
YouTube video by Active Travel England
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Pedestrianised streets are a destination, not just a route.
Multi benefits evidenced here ⬇️
Multi benefits evidenced here ⬇️
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We are looking for a learning partner for the Independent Human Rights Fund for Scotland to deliver an action learning approach. Closing date 20th December 5pm. More information on our website:
www.corra.scot/human-rights...
#research #learning #HumanRights #funding
www.corra.scot/human-rights...
#research #learning #HumanRights #funding
Independent Human Rights Fund for Scotland: Tender Opportunity
Corra Foundation seeks a learning partner to support an action learning approach for the Independent Human Rights Fund for Scotland.
www.corra.scot
December 5, 2024 at 4:16 PM
We are looking for a learning partner for the Independent Human Rights Fund for Scotland to deliver an action learning approach. Closing date 20th December 5pm. More information on our website:
www.corra.scot/human-rights...
#research #learning #HumanRights #funding
www.corra.scot/human-rights...
#research #learning #HumanRights #funding
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TBS Causewayside looking braw.
We'll be moving soon (thanks commercial landlords for your rental hikes)
Support our next adventure!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-the-b...
We'll be moving soon (thanks commercial landlords for your rental hikes)
Support our next adventure!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-the-b...
December 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM
TBS Causewayside looking braw.
We'll be moving soon (thanks commercial landlords for your rental hikes)
Support our next adventure!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-the-b...
We'll be moving soon (thanks commercial landlords for your rental hikes)
Support our next adventure!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-the-b...
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🗓️ The December newsletter from the Citizen Participation Network is now out 🗞️ Including articles, reports, events, a guide, a podcast and a video across the fields of participatory and deliberative #democracy. As ever, open access and available here 👉 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
December 2, 2024 at 9:47 AM
🗓️ The December newsletter from the Citizen Participation Network is now out 🗞️ Including articles, reports, events, a guide, a podcast and a video across the fields of participatory and deliberative #democracy. As ever, open access and available here 👉 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
November 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
With his usual good humour, DG cuts through a lot of the nonsense expressed about garden rewilding.
Some rainy afternoon musings on whether it makes sense to talk about "garden rewilding".
youtu.be/JW0goeznrH4
youtu.be/JW0goeznrH4
What is "Garden Rewilding"?
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
youtu.be
November 21, 2024 at 9:30 AM
With his usual good humour, DG cuts through a lot of the nonsense expressed about garden rewilding.
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A BIG thanks to @patrickharvie & other supporters for the parliamentary motion celebrating our milestone of #3000 refugees/asylum seekers supported with essential mobility & freedom of movement 🚴♀️💞🕊
November 20, 2024 at 7:25 PM
A BIG thanks to @patrickharvie & other supporters for the parliamentary motion celebrating our milestone of #3000 refugees/asylum seekers supported with essential mobility & freedom of movement 🚴♀️💞🕊
Pop in for your “winter ready” bike:
Hello BlueSky! We're The Bike Station, a charity in Edinburgh and Perth working to make Scotland the best place in the world to cycle.
We're #MoreThanJustABikeShop, changing lives through our community programmes like Shifting Gears and Wee Bike Library.
Find out more at www.thebikestation.org.uk
We're #MoreThanJustABikeShop, changing lives through our community programmes like Shifting Gears and Wee Bike Library.
Find out more at www.thebikestation.org.uk
Refurbished Bikes | Cycling Charity | The Bike Station | Scotland
The Bike Station is a charity bike shop selling refurbished bikes, offering training and reinvesting into local community programmes across Edinburgh and Perth.
www.thebikestation.org.uk
November 20, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Pop in for your “winter ready” bike:
This was an interesting watch for lots of reasons, not least how to work towards increasing the involvement of people with lived experience of trauma in the running of an organisation.
We recently spoke with The Welcoming, a Scottish charity dedicated to supporting asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, about how funders can best support their work and what changes they would like to see over the next five years.
Watch the full video below 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYWb...
Watch the full video below 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYWb...
Voices: The Welcoming Association
YouTube video by The Robertson Trust - Voices
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:48 PM
This was an interesting watch for lots of reasons, not least how to work towards increasing the involvement of people with lived experience of trauma in the running of an organisation.