I have seen just how determined my colleagues are to ensure that they are offering the best level of support to people with addictions... Read more
Perhaps it’s the lack of new things we have experienced in the last 12 months, or perhaps I forgot how much I love spring. Every year it comes as a quiet surprise over days... Read more
Often at Street Connect we write about the people we work with and the difference an encounter with us can make in their lives, but today I’d like to take you behind the scenes... Read more
It’s 2021, and here we are in the midst of another lockdown, unsure exactly how long this one will last. Could it stretch right into the spring? We do not quite know. We may have been hoping to say goodbye to... Read more
Street Outreach is for me, a walk through the streets of Paisley with a simple goal. I look to engage with someone and let them know that there is an organisation that can... Read more
This month marks an exciting time in the life of Street Connect, as we celebrate 8 years since our work began! Our recent Feast event... Read more
The world is a hectic place. Even before our present world crisis, the challenges of coping were great and now we are going through hugely difficult times as we see... Read more
When I saw this role at Street Connect advertised in February, I was struggling with grief after the sudden loss of my mum who I sadly lost to alcoholism... Read more
The last blog I wrote was back at the beginning of 2020, in the month of January. Now here we are 6 months later having been through, and continuing to navigate one of the most challenging seasons of our lifetime with Covid-19... Read more
On the last week before the lock down was officially announced and as the realisation of the reality that the Coronavirus was about to change our lives completely... Read more
I would like to tell you about the fantastic faithful, in other words – the volunteers. They come from such varied backgrounds, from different parts of the UK... Read more
Recently published figures show that 195 homeless people are thought to have died in 2018 in Scotland – nearly four a week – up 19% from the estimate of 164 in 2017 and a proportionally higher number of homeless deaths than elsewhere in the UK... Read more