Nick Ward

Great idea!

21 East Crosscauseway, built around 1778 on what is now a side street but was then the only paved road in the south of Edinburgh, which linked the city’s two main roads south. (The name comes an unfortunate anglicisation of the Scots word "causey", meaning "paved".)

Former residents include:

Yesterday we opened our doors to partners across the third sector, national and local government and asked them to tear our draft strategy apart.

Honest challenge, tough questions, real collaboration. This is the kind of openness we need to meet the challenges of our time.

Absolutely magnificent! Loved Oh! Mary on the west end.

Good. Europe and the United Kingdom must resist this detestable bullying. A line must be drawn in the sand, a friend, an ally, who bullies and coerces is no friend at all.

Have just completed my first ever oil painting! I’m very proud of the lemon and ashamed of the lime (which now looks like an apple)! Painting with oils gives you lovely textured and excited about how much more I have to learn!

I think… it’s time.

Literally… nothing left to lose?

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

FRASER NELSON Keir Starmer must act to avoid a future of ICE Trump's extreme deportation tactics show what happens when immigration gets out of control: there is a middle path Fraser Nelson Friday January 09 2026, 7.03pm, The Times S hortly after Donald Trump was re-elected I was in Washington at a briefing with his border force agency about their plans. They sounded like an army about to go to war. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was to be given a budget bigger than the military of most European countries. It had mobilisation issues: how to hire so many more officers? They had a moral mission: saving America from "foreign predators". And they expected plenty of local resistance in the cities they'd be deployed to. But they were ready for that battle.

🚨The President of the United States turns ICE into his own personal secret police.
🚨ICE agents invade American cities harassing and abusing those living there.
🚨ICE agent murders an innocent woman in cold blood.

📢Fraser Nelson - this is all the fault of migrants.

www.thetimes.com/article/989b...

Proud of what we have achieved and excited about what we will achieve in the future.
#ChangeMentalHealth #Leadership #ThirdSector #Scotland #Impact

None of this happened alone. It took an outstanding teams and the trust of people across Scotland.
Leadership in the third sector is tough, but it’s the greatest privilege of my career.

• Strengthened governance and systems
• Launched our Quality Improvement Framework
• Modernised salaries and HR/finance
• Boosted our national influence
• Protected vital mental health services in Edinburgh and won
• Built a culture that puts people first
• Become an open and values-led organisation

When I joined in 2021, we were a very different organisation. Since then we’ve:
• Rebranded
• Reached 10,000+ people a year
• Almost doubled income
• Grown services incl. CLWs, DBI and a full National Advice & Support Service

🎉🚨 Big soppy post alert 🚨🙏

Today marks 4 years as Chief Exec of Change Mental Health. It’s been an extraordinary journey and today I’m letting myself feel proud of what we’ve achieved.

Head of Fundraising - Change Mental Health

New role!

✨ Head of Fundraising
📍 Edinburgh
💰 £46,350 – £51,500
💁 Leading team of 4
🏖️ 37 days leave, Mental Wellbeing days & blue light card
🍯 6% Employer Pension Contribution

Really exciting new role for Change
and we are a great place to work!
Please do share!

changemh.org/vacancies/he...

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week.

It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

Reform plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants The party says scrapping the scheme and restricting migrant access to benefits will save hundreds of billions of pounds.

You know I rarely use the word 'fascism', I think it is bandied about too much ... but this... this is fascism... 

This is the destruction of the British values of tolerance, respect & multiculturalism & it is also the effective destruction of our economy. 

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to hear from @thomascarthur.bsky.social today at the @ccpscotland.bsky.social members meeting about his commitment to work in partnership with the third sector and towards community wealth building which of course charities like @changemh.org are absolutely essential to.

Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧

Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸

At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊

They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀

It’s so frustrating because I know the far right would use a ban to their advantage and yet… I still would want to! 😆

What powers does OFCOM have to regulate Twitter? because I really think it needs regulating. I also think Elon Musks rhetoric is completely unacceptable. A foreign national calling for violence and the overthrow of the British government whilst controlling a massive far right media spewing machine.

‘Allow it Sir?!’ Is one of my defining memories of being a school teacher in London and coming across this seemingly rather formal request in my very first lesson and responding…
‘No… no I will not allow it!’

We are so incredibly relieved and pleased that all our campaigning paid off, for now.

I am however furious that we were subjected to a terrible, possibly unlawful process, there is no accountability for the EIJB & the cuts still happening disproportionately affect ethnic minority and LGBT+ people.

@nicolasturgeon.bsky.social is incredibly brave to talk about seeing a therapist. For so many it can be hard to do but it is also so often transformative. The evidence is also super clear. Talking Therapies work but too often they are gate kept: too expensive, unregulated and stigmatised.

A pal in mental health services in the NHS is appalled by these cuts too - he says the NHS services won't be able to cope with the number of new referrals and will lose an important referral pathway for effective treatments

'Edinburgh mental health cuts will cost more than they save' Threatened cuts to Edinburgh's mental health services will cost more than they save, health bosses have been warned.

The proposed cuts to mental health services are not just ill thought through, they are self defeating. Early intervention & prevention services are being cut with decision makers and officers not realising that they will just make the situation worse.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...