We are delighted to announce the communities that have been
shortlisted for The Truacanta Project.
The Truacanta Project Manager will work closely with each of
these eleven communities to develop their vision, and put together a more
detailed application to be a part of the project.
The deadline for those applications is 6 December 2019. From
those, selected communities will be invited to join the project and receive dedicated community
development and advice over a two year period, as they build on their ideas to
improve their own community’s experiences of death, dying, loss and care.
The shortlisted communities are as follows, you can also
look at them on a map HERE. We will be bringing you more on each community's ideas as we go along!
- Highland. Main contact Anne McDonald at Highland
Senior Citizens Network: anne-hscn@outlook.com
- Angus. Main contacts Elaine Colville at Whitehills Health and Community Care
Centre and Dr. Hamish Greig at Brechin Health Care Group: elaine.colville@nhs.net , brechinhealthcaregroup@gmail.com
- Dumfries & Galloway. Main contact Liz
Forsyth at Mountainhall Treatment Centre: elizabethforsyth@nhs.net
- Fife. Main contact Theresa Keicher: keicher3@msn.com
- Perth & Kinross. Main contact Emma Oram at
Perth & Kinross Council: eoram@pkc.gov.uk
- Glasgow/Govanhill. Main contacts Stephanie Hutchinson at
Caledonia Cremation and Ruth Forsythe at Finn’s Place: ruth@finnsplace.org,
stephanie.hutchinson@caledoniacremation.org.uk
- Dundee. Main contacts Nicola Mitchell at Dundee
Voluntary Action, Linda Sterry at Funeral Link and Linda McSwiggan at School of
Nursing, University of Dundee: nicolamitchell@dva.scot, linda@dfss.org.uk,
l.c.mcswiggan@dundee.ac.uk
- North Berwick. Main contact Carol Stobie at North Berwick Health & Wellbeing
Association: nbc-communityconnections@outlook.com
- Ayrshire. Main contacts Phil White at South
Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership and Josaleen Connolly at Eglinton
House: phil.white@aapct.scot.nhs.uk, josaleen.connolly@aapct.scot.nhs.uk
- Glasgow. Main contact Elaine Rae at The
Alliance: elainerae43@googlemail.com
- Borders. Main contact Gerry Finnan at the
Margaret Kerr Unit, Melrose: geraldine.finnan@borders.scot.nhs.uk
If you live or work in any of these areas, and would like to
get involved in developing ideas and activities to improve how your community
deals with death, dying, loss and care, please get in touch with the named
contact, or with the Truacanta Project Manager, Caroline, on caroline@palliativecarescotland.org.uk