@maybkath.bsky.social
We’re excited to share the #ScotlandDemandsBetter rally programme!
🕧Starts 12:30pm at the Meadows after the march
🎤Speakers incl. Darren McGarvey
🎶Music from Declan Welsh, Bemz & Colonel Mustard
🫧Kids' activities & food stalls
More info here: www.scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...
@highland.gov.uk is looking for instructors to help deliver #BikeabilityScotland cycle training to schoolchildren across the local authority area - particularly encouraging Gaelic speakers and those who may not necessarily yet have instructor qualifications to apply. Find out more 🚴👇
09.10.2025 11:18 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
screenshot of BBC news page on Palestine and commentary on Israel's genocidal activity and British complicity
Some words we put up on Facebook.
23.07.2025 07:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A cartoon of different people raising their hands together. Text says Scotland Demands Better. The march for all of us. Edinburgh 25 October. scotland-demands-better.com
📆 Thu 24 July, 7 - 8 pm
Change for the better happens when people stand together and demand it! Join this free online meeting to talk about how we can mobilise people in your community for the Scotland Demands Better march. #WeDemandBetter
www.povertyalliance.org/event/scotla...
Pilot scheme that pays artists €325 ‘basic income’ a week gets six-month extension www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
19.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 43 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
A mother and daughter smile as they cycle side by side on an off-road path.
How we get around has a big impact on the world around us – including the air we all breathe.
Whether it’s cycling to school, work or the shops, enabling more people to travel by bike helps improve the air we share, looking after our health and the places we live along the way. #CleanAirDay
Image of people travelling by bike on a protected cycle lane in a Scottish city. Overlaid text reads: "Cycling Scotland Conference 10 September 2025".
Registration is now open for the national #CyclingScotlandConf!
Join us for a day of inspiring speakers, networking and learning on supporting more people to cycle for everyday journeys:
📅 Wed 10 Sept 2025
📍 Dundee
➡️ Register for early bird tickets until 13 June: cycling.scot/about/confer...
A young girl signals with her left hand as she cycles on a residential street in Glasgow, as part of a Bikeability Scotland Level 2 on-street cycling training session.
A group of primary school pupils smile as they carry out checks on their bikes, before setting off on a Bikeability Scotland cycle training session.
Two young girls riding their bikes as part of a Bikeability Scotland Level 2 on-street cycle training session.
🚲 #BikeabilityScotland, the national cycle training programme for school children, is passing on lifelong skills to thousands of young people across the country. Giving them the cycling confidence to support transport independence and healthier, happier lifestyles for years to come: orlo.uk/j0s2E
24.04.2025 10:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dundee Botanical Gardens. Image is Creative Commons by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cyrillic
"A park makes you feel better. Those who have green close to their home are lucky” Our Lydia Murphy blogs about new research on access to green space led by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland.
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-a-park-...
If you are in and around Portobello/Edinburgh, and you'd be happy to put up a poster or two in your work/pub etc for our May Day Special at Portobello Town Hall with Mick Lynch and Zara Gladman then drop us a line and we'll get some to you!
05.04.2025 17:55 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
@glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social @Eh? Aye! Artworks of Lorna Miller climate politics independence and justice. 🌟On to April
22.03.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of a text on a notes app. It reads: The UK government is planning to slash disability support. We cannot let this happen. Email your MP now.
❗ A plan to slash disability support is cruel and risks pushing more people to the doors of food banks.
But there's still time to show the UK government that this plan is short-sighted and shameful.
Email your MP now and urge them to call on Keir Starmer to think again 👉 bit.ly/4kFR5Bj
People sitting around a table in a committee room of the Scottish Parliament. It's a joint meeting of the Cross Party Groups on disability and poverty.
📖 Weekend reading!
“I struggle just to get through the days alive and with my basic needs met..."
Karen Wylie of Glasgow Disability Alliance sets out why we have to defend disabled people's social security.
www.povertyalliance.org/guest-blog-i...
Grenfell 2017 #Tramway
14.03.2025 16:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎼📗 Katy Lironi, @creepingbent.bsky.social and the wonderful Choir 21 feature in a celebration of music and literature at the Paisley Book Festival on Sunday 27th April in Paisley Town Hall. Event is chaired by Alistair Braidwood
Secure your places here... paisleybookfestival.com/programme/mu...
Image of a group of women cycling together on a dedicated cycle path. White text reads "Let's empower more women to cycle".
All around the world, the bike has long been a symbol of women's independence. Today we celebrate all the women and girls who enjoy the freedom that cycling can bring. Let's inspire, teach & do all we can to support more girls and women in our lives to get on their bikes this #InternationalWomensDay
08.03.2025 10:35 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A cartoon of hands being raised in the air carrying placards, one of them says Rights in Action! povertyalliance.org/rights-in-action Poverty Alliance logo
📣 Tomorrow! 📆 Wed 5 Mar - 12-1pm
Come and hear how 6 different organisations from rural #Scotland worked with #RightsInAction to become stronger #HumanRights defenders. Reserve your place for our online report launch.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Into Creative are delighted to announce that @LironiKR and Choir 21 will feature alongside a fantastic line up of talent at @BookPaisley on Sunday 27 April!
Tickets can be secured here...
paisleybookfestival.com/programme/mu...
Many people on low incomes have nowhere to turn in a financial emergency. Our new project with @povertyalliance.org explores the real-life impact of being denied affordable credit.📄
Read our two-page summary https://buff.ly/3WWjtoN
👋 We're saying a fond farewell to the #BrutalGlasgow exhibition today; but don't worry if you didn't get to see it at our Bell St HQ, as it's now going on tour!
🗓️ First up it will be @thepyramid_scot from Sun 23rd to Fri 28th Feb, more info here: https://buff.ly/4hpca0P
Marischal Street, Peterhead
Annie McCormack of the Poverty Alliance
The Scottish Human Rights Commission says the human rights of people in rural and island Scotland are being undermined. In her great blog, our Annie McCormack reports that people on low incomes in #Aberdeenshire agree - and want action now. #TARP
08.01.2025 13:35 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A book that should definitely be on your Christmas list!
intocreative.co.uk/shop/intoboo...
Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, addresses delegates at the 2024 Cycling Scotland Conference.
Breakout session discussions take place at the 2024 Cycling Scotland Conference.
Cycling Scotland Conference delegates take part in a led walk of Glasgow's city centre Avenues project, showing street improvements including new active travel infrastructure.
Cross-party panel discussion at the 2024 Cycling Scotland Conference.
Take a look back at highlights from this year's #CyclingScotlandConf, which saw 250 delegates and speakers join us in Glasgow to share knowledge, celebrate progress and discuss what more needs to be done to support more everyday cycling in Scotland: orlo.uk/pkU2F
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