Table Top Sale

Welcome to our first indoor Table Top Sale here at Carsebridge Cultural Campus. We have 25 tables booked, with a great range of wares, from antiques to jewellery, from bric-a-brac to children’s clothes, from home baking through to hand crafts, gift baskets, art and much more!

Entry is free, a coffee bar with seating will be on site and we have toilets available.

So come along to Carsebridge this coming Sunday, starting at 11am, peruse the tables, meet the table holders, tour the building and if the weather is lovely, then we will open the private gardens for everyone to have a wander and a seat in the sun.

A great few hours out! We look forward to welcoming you to Carsebridge.

Nourish the Soul

Writing for Wellbeing Course

Do you want to turn your hand to writing and not sure where to start – or do you write for a hobby and want to develop your skills, then we have great pleasure in sharing with you a series of new writing courses. These courses are also designed to improve our wellbeing, and to fully enjoy the process of writing.

Author and Publisher, John King from Tatterdemalion Blue is holding a short series of writing courses, here at the Carsebridge Cultural Campus.

The ‘Nourish the Soul’ writing for wellbeing course enables us to take the opportunity to stop and look at our self through poetic eyes, meditate a little, let go, reflect, and in that silent space listen and seek to express through words and imagery the beauty of the journey within – to capture the light in our self and in so doing begin to experience a sense of wellbeing.

This course is on Saturday 20th May from 11am through to 1pm and costs £15, payable in advance. All materials for the course are included and we will provide refreshments for participants. We look forward to welcoming you to Carsebridge.


Nourish the Soul – Writing for Wellbeing Course

£15.00

Author and Publisher, John King from Tatterdemalion Blue is holding a short series of writing courses, here at the Carsebridge Cultural Campus. This course is on Saturday 20th May from 11am through to 1pm and costs £15, payable in advance. All materials for the course are included and we will provide refreshments for participants. We look forward to welcoming you to Carsebridge.
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Purls of Wisdom – Knitting & Crochet Club

Welcome to our weekly ‘yarnery’ club.

This club is held every Wednesday throughout the year and starts at 10am and goes through to 12 noon.

There will be supportive knitters and crochet gurus on hand to help you begin a new pattern or help you learn from scratch. You can also get involved in one of the many projects we do as a club along the way. The choice is yours!

We have some spare knitting and crochet needles, and some yarns to get you started, so come along, join the warm and happy room of activity and have a most enjoyable Wednesday morning here in Alloa.

Cost per session is £3. There are refreshments available for extra payment and toilets for your convenience.

Fine Art Painting Club

Painting, at the heart of art

Paint has always been at the center of creative passion and is wonderful to work with.

Whether you choose to paint in acrylics, watercolour, gouache or oils, then help is on hand to guide you through the development of your skills, to help you consider your creative subject choices and to encourage you in your aims – whether to exhibit, to sell your work or just to have fun!

So, if you wish to learn to paint, or if you fancy painting for the first time since your school days, or you are passionate about painting, then come along and join us each week.

This friendly painting club is designed to bring painters together, to enable creative interaction and increase art opportunities for all involved, so we can all enjoy the art of painting. Each two hour session is £5 and please do bring your own materials. However, if you are a first time painter then we have some materials to get you started – always best to try before you go out and buy!

We look forward to seeing you at the club, so come to Carsebridge in Alloa and get painting!

The Pen & Ink Club

Draw : Sketch : Art

Welcome to the Pen & Ink Club in the Art Studio of Ochil House, here at the Carsebridge Cultural Campus in Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

This club is held every Wednesday starting at 10am through to 12 noon. There will be a focus on mark making, experimenting with inks, developing art skills and as with all activity at Resonate Together, lots of opportunity to share with others, socialise and enjoy a cuppa.

Alan C. leads this club and sets a theme for each weeks activity, which people can take part in. This ensures that all participants have opportunity to try landscapes, still life, contemporary art and a wide variety of topics, that are agreed together.

For this friendly and creative club is designed to give you support, encouragement and build your confidence, so we can all enjoy the art process. Each two hour session is £5 and please do bring your own materials. However, if you are a first time ‘pen & inker’ then we have some materials to get you started – always best to try before you go out and buy!

We look forward to seeing you at the club, so come to Carsebridge in Alloa and get creative!

From Paris to COP26

Announcement: Angela Watt has been invited to speak at the United Nations House Scotland – From Paris to COP26 – Closing Event in Aberdeen, this October – Link: www.unhscotland.org.uk/closing-event

‘From Paris to COP26’ signatory event opens September 28th and runs through the following month focusing on Travel, Economics, Construction Industry, Farming-Fisheries-Forestry, Renewable Energy, Wellbeing and Retail Consumption, with eminent speakers contributing to all subjects, the climate challenges and offering potential solutions.

The purpose of this UN House Scotland initiative is to create synergy and build on the agreement of worlds leaders, and to identify and disseminate helpful toolkits and guides for implementation, while developing connections across communities to achieve the goal.

Working with Dr. Dorothea Christiana FRSA, Director of Strategic Development, UN House Scotland; Nigel Dower, UNAS Chair of the Aberdeen Branch and Joe Ochei, UNAS Treasurer of the Aberdeen Branch – Angela has been asked to share her learning and experience of, ’Behavioural Change, Community Leadership’.

SHARE – Social Housing, Climate Change & Community Leadership

Today Angela Watt was invited to present at the ‘Governing Body Exchange – Back to the future’ Conference organised by SHARE, the learning and development organisation for Scotland’s housing associations and co-operatives. The Conference takes place over two days, 28th and 29th September via Zoom.

As part of the session on the role of housing in Climate Change, hosted by SHARE Director, Mary Sheerin McLuskey, the panel will discuss several aspects of the housing sectors Boards and Committees across Scotlan, made up of community volunteers making key decisions. Angela will present the Resonate Together experience of relationship building, personal and collective leadership and connecting to the natural world.

Sustainable Happiness, what is that?!

Today welcomed the start for Angela of an intensive two-week program delivered by Chris Adam, Sustainability Director, Dawson College, Montreal and Dr. Catherine O’Brien, Founder of SustainableHappiness.World.

Definition: ‘Sustainable Happiness is happiness that contributes to individuals, community or global well-being and does not exploit other people, the natural environment or future generations’, Dr Catherine O’Brien. Working in a global group of 14 people, this certificated program utilises a Journal created and designed along with Sean O’Brien Murray, to enable the individual to reflect on a wide range of themes including wellbeing, creativity and sustainability.

“This process of connection to self, others and the natural world is core to encouraging the behavioural change we all need to see in our communities for our planet and future generations to not only survive, but to thrive… this should be taught in every school in every country” added Angela Watt.

Community project launches!

Today saw the launch of our community project, the Potentia Collective. Over the last 7 weeks people from across Clackmannanshire have been invited to sign up and get involved.

Celebrating the power of culture to connect, inspire and transform people’s lives. The Potentia Collective process will utilise creativity to discover and harness people’s inner personal qualities in response to three specific topics of stigma, impermanence, and location.

Angela Watt says “We have taken yet another risk, creating a mutual learning process that is led by each person involved”

“Responding to the pandemics increasing community need and challenges, including heightened anxiety, isolation and loneliness, Potentia will enable people to reconnect with themselves in a positive way, with others in a safe environment and with the natural world”

The huge interest has led to a waiting list, and those on it will be contacted and informed of the second of three programmes due to start in October.

The frequency of place

What is the word that best describes the ‘space’, or the ‘energy within a room’ or the ‘positive vibe’ within a place? Resonate Together create an ‘atmosphere’ for building trust, sharing authentic kindness and for connection, but have tried for years to give this ‘process’ a name.

Resonate Together, through Angela Watt, has been invited to join PivotProjects.org who have brought together more than 100 people from around the world to create workgroups, develop new tools, insights and approaches to problem solving and enable delivery of the UN’s global sustainable development goals for health, education and equitable prosperity to be realised.

Working with Dr Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith, Bill McKenna, Clare Palgrave, Graham Hart and Damian Costello, Resonate Together are learning from this vast collective experience, how other cultures, global religions, and diverse communities all respond to the ‘frequency of place’.

Calling all Artists!

Contract opportunity! Resonate Together have x3 opportunities for local Artists to deliver community sessions in Alloa, Clackmannanshire and we launch the application process today!

The Potentia Collective project, supported by the Creative Communities fund from Inspiring Scotland, is looking to contract 3 Artists to utilise creativity enabling local people to discover and harness their inner personal qualities. The contracts are for 3 hours a week, through to March 2022, at Scottish Artists Union rates of pay and the closing date for applications is Monday 28th June at 12 noon.

For further details head over to our Facebook page or register your interest by sending us an email. We will email out the Potentia Collectives Artists information pack, so get in touch today!

No one size fits all

Today Angela Watt was invited to present at the online launch event of ‘A Scotland of Better Places’ report. This continues on from the research project, ‘Roots Community Conversations’ with the David Hume Institute, which saw Resonate Together bring together a wide range of diverse local people and a selection of those in roles supporting our community – including representatives from the local authority, the local health and care partnership, education, voluntary sector and the private sector.

Professor Duncan Maclennan, commissioned by the David Hume Institute, along with Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery, John Swinney MSP and Director of the DHI, Susan Murray will lead a discussion examining the report. Angela will present an overview of the complex challenges in grassroots Scottish community and share the decade of learning, offering a way to move forwards for recovery.

We are Inspired!

Wonderful news! In response to our research regarding the current needs of our community and the changes the covid pandemic has created for local people, our Potentia Collective project has won a funding award!

The Potentia Collective project celebrates the power of culture to connect, inspire and transform people’s lives. Utilising creativity to discover and harness people’s inner personal qualities – responding to three specific topics of stigma, impermanence, and location.

Inspiring Scotland, through their Creative Communities Fund, have chosen Resonate Together as their full project awardee for Clackmannanshire.

“We are very excited to work with Inspiring Scotland for the first time and at a point in the journey of our community, that is never more needed. Being selected for Clackmannanshire, bringing this opportunity home to Alloa and our county is an achievement to celebrate!” added Angela Watt.

Adapt & Thrive for our community

A great opportunity has been hard won, with Resonate Together gaining the Scottish Governments ‘Adapt & Thrive’ funding award.

The comprehensive and involved process to apply for the Adapt & Thrive fund included attending webinars, online discussions events and stepped levels of progress to ensure a good fit and all in response to the needs of our community. Creating a detailed financial strategy to strengthen the foundations of our organisation, enables us to serve our community for the foreseeable future and it was a great way for our diverse team to drive inclusive, citizen leadership within Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

The Community and Third Sector Recovery Programme that funded the ‘Adapt & Thrive’ award is part of Scottish Government’s £350m emergency response to coronavirus and we are grateful for them placing their trust and belief in our potential.

Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise – Europe

Congratulations! Resonate Together are excited to announce that Angela Watt has been selected to be one of the ‘Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise’.

In line with Euclid Network’s mission to empower social enterprises and impact practitioners, this initiative aims to recognise and celebrate women leaders in Europe who have made a significant positive impact in the sector. www.euclidnetwork.eu

“It is a bonus to have your work recognised and I am deeply grateful to the Euclid Network for this accolade. For me and many other female community leaders across Scotland and beyond, we all know we are not ‘self-made’, for it takes a team to drive a Social Enterprise – so this is a celebration for all at Resonate Together and for our community” added Angela.

The slowest website in the West!

Incredibly good news! Our oldest funding partner the Coalfields Regeneration Trust of Scotland has put their trust in us again and we have won an award to create our first website!

CRT is the only organisation dedicated to supporting the UK’s former mining communities. Here in Scotland, CRT have a dedicated Training & Enterprise Hub and an inspiring Team that are based in Kincardine, Fife. Working with Resonate Together from our early days, CRT have a deep understanding of the challenges within local ex-mining communities and how and when to offer support.

Resonate Together have had a journey of discovery and it has taken a long time to fully understand who we are and why our whole-system approach has been difficult to brand!

“When you are something different to everyone, one ‘strapline’ just does not cut it… some think we are an Arts Group, others label us Wellbeing, then there are those who having been through years of self-development with us know that we are also a route to employment” added Team volunteer, Colin Partington.

2021 will see Resonate Togethers first active website, at last!

Goodbye old friend, you will be missed

Everyone experiences loss in life, that often-deep pain of missing someone or something that at one point had meant a great deal.

This January the Resonate Together community said its goodbyes to our old venue in Castle Street, Alloa. Over a decade was spent in this warehouse home. Tens of thousands have passed through its doors, friendships have been made (and even one or two proposals of marriage!), choirs have sung, knitters have knitted, and the list of activity goes on and on.

This building, a mix of bricks and mortar, seemed to have an energy all its own. It loved being newly painted, having parachutes hanging from the rafters, it enjoyed silver chairs covered in flowers being a focal point for those having a cuppa and most of all, it tried to look after us.

Yes, it was cold (very!) in the winter, yes, we had to clean the gutters ourselves and yes it also sheltered many creepy-crawlies no matter how often we cleaned each day. But this informal, open space gave us so much and helped an idea become a community, together.