Marketing is vital for social enterprises — it helps promote your products, services, and social impact. But it’s not always an area of expertise, and many social enterprises struggle with capacity.

Join us for this interactive Question Time–style session with expert panellists from:

• Bold

• Passion 4 Social

• Media Coop

• Adam Piggot

This event will explore examples of measuring success in health and care with personal and rights based outcomes, including examples of good practice and ideas for the future. These ideas will be explored using the Academy’s Five Ambitions for the Future of Health and Care.

To register your attendance, please email the team at integration@alliance-scotland.org.uk. Please let them know if there is anything you need that would make it easier for you to participate. For more information Integration in Action - Measure Outcomes

Launch of Network Weaving Tools Users Group a chance to learn, share and practice tools and resources to help support networks and those who lead them.

Want to work with the construction sector but not sure where to start? Or already supplying and want to do more? Join us for a friendly, interactive session on how social enterprises can successfully connect with – and supply to – construction companies.

This year’s Digital Hub event ‘DiGiTal Get Together 2025: How to Stay Human Rights Focused in a Digital Scotland’ will take place on October 21 at the Radisson Blu, Glasgow, 10am-3pm. Guest are welcome to arrive from 9:30am for a 10am start.

Exploring where we have been with weaving networks in MAKI, where we are now and what next.

Email hildac@copescotland.com for the teams link.

An exchange of ideas around what are the essentials for life and how to bring these into your life during a cost-of-living crisis. The learning from the day shall be used to update COPE Scotland's Financial wellbeing booklet. To book a space email hildac@copescotland.com 

Join the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities in celebrating the power that social connections have in shaping our lives and communities, this international day for older people. For more information

Join movement specialist Louise Davidson either online or in person on the Isle of Lewis for a hybrid somatic yoga session, which will offer practical, take-home tools to support emotional balance, energy levels and resilience.. Ideal for those managing long term conditions, carers, and anyone feeling overwhelmed or burnt out. A gentle and restorative session to end the week!

Join Healthy Valleys in rural Clydesdale to celebrate their ‘Women living Well’ self management journey and hear about an empowering project that supports and empowers women going through the menopause and other life transitions and wellbeing challenges. Enjoy some light lunch while hearing about their work, contribute ideas for new activities, and meet with self management project staff and volunteers.

The annual Self Management Awards celebrate good practice and promote a wide range of self management activity across the country. They also provide an opportunity for nominees and winners to network with others leading the way for self management in Scotland, and to draw the attention of MSPs to the value and impact of self management. This year’s Awards ceremony will be held in central Edinburgh and will see the announcement of the winner of the Public Vote for Self Management in the Community Award, amongst others. We are looking forward to celebrating our shortlisted nominees and winners with you all, with a fantastic night of speeches, winner announcements and fun. Online streaming will be available on the night.

This event is now FULL.

This online 1-hour workshop from Stepping into Life will explore reconnecting with your body through rest, resourcing, and relationship with the ground and space using breath, awareness, and inward listening. Explore a new and fresh take at the question “how are you?” by orienting towards felt bodily sensations of your internal resources, and maybe engaging in some gentle movement.

Hosted by ALLIANCE Self Management team staff, this event will bring together international partners with an interest in self management, discussing how to empower people to lead their own self management at different stages in their journey.

Join Quarriers for an interactive online session where they will share learnings and replicable methods from a co-design process which led to the creation of an Epilepsy Self Management Toolkit. The session will include a live demo of the toolkit and discussion on next steps for its use across epilepsy support services.

Join PAMIS for an engaging information session to hear about their upcoming Moving and Handling Awareness sessions. This will be an informal and interactive session where you will have the chance to ask questions about their upcoming work.

Join ALLIANCE staff for networking, catching up with old friends and new and a warm welcome to Self Management Week 2025. Whether you’re a long-time network member, or interested in joining, our focus this year has been around what we need to be the leading partner in management of our health, so we’ll be kicking off with a networking session focussing on just that. The Self Management Network Scotland is composed of over 1,000 healthcare professionals, third sector staff and individuals living and working to support self management and meet once every quarter for networking sessions.

Join Pain Association Scotland online for an interactive information and discussion session which will focus on ways to take back control and live successfully within your limits. During the session you will learn about the importance of pacing, reducing anxiety and practising relaxation.

The analysis phase of the Long Term Conditions Framework has now concluded.  A full analysis report will be published in October.

As they move into the next stage they want to provide  an update on the high level results of the analysis,  timelines going forward and plans for the governance of the framework including third sector and lived experience involvement.

The Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health has been clear that they place a huge importance on hearing from organisations representing people with long term conditions and hearing directly from people with lived experience. This will be an important aspect of how they develop the framework and the ongoing action plans to improve services for people with Long Term Conditions.

On this basis they  would like to invite you to an online third sector event via teams.

If you could like to attend, please let them know by emailing longtermconditions@gov.scot with your name, organisation and email address so that the teams link can be sent on.  It’s important for them to know who will attend so they  can assign break out rooms.

We may need to minimise the number of people from the same organisation so we can ensure as many third sector organisations as possible can attend.

All third sector groups, charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups, both big and small, who have a connection with adult services or adult health and well-being, will be very welcome to attend.

The proposed agenda is:

1. Introductions and apologies

2. Age Scotland and policy engagement overview - Iain Fraser

3. IJB updates & highlights - Agenda link to follow when published

4. General updates

5. AOCB

The triennial theme for World Suicide Prevention Day (2024–2026) is “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”. This theme calls on us all to challenge harmful myths, reduce stigma, and foster open, compassionate conversations about suicide.

These resources may be of interest.

You may also find registering for COPE Scotland’s newsletter of interest.

The September Newsletter has a theme of connections. It is important that we feel safe to talk about suicide and listen when someone needs to talk as the earlier someone can share they are struggling, the sooner they can explore ways to help keep themselves safe from acting on thoughts of suicide.