Community correspondent Pete offers some tips for making fitness fun. A few things help me deal with depression and anxiety. Meds, talking, eating well (mostly), and some form of exercise. I usually have to do some combination of, or all of them to really feel like I’m keeping on top of things. The thing I […]
We’ve been talking about what makes us feel good. Often it’s the simple things. For our Community Correspondent David Bradley, it’s as simple as walking home, watching the sky shift from grey to black and back. But knowing it won’t rain. We’ll be sharing the other simple pleasures that people contributed for #makesmefeelgood – we’d […]
Regular Mind Waves readers will already know Emily McCurrie @Caminosmem as our resident film critic. She turned her hand to photography for the resilience contest and won a prize for her message on resilience. Is there no end to this woman’s talents? Here she tells us more about what resilience means to her. How […]
Total Steps Walked by Inverclyde Globetrotters 203,461,126 Total Miles Walked by Inverclyde Globetrotters 85,814 Miles to Go Till We Reach our 100,000 Mile Target 14,186 Miles to Go Till We’re Home from the Moon 66,455 Number of Likes on Facebook 91 A massive “Well Done” on reaching the unbelievable milestone of walking 200 million […]
We started out on a beautiful sunny day, from the very new Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre, at 11 am on Friday 5th August 2011 and come rain, shine, sleet, snow but not ice, we have been walking ever since. There were seven of us including Heather Macleod, Glasgow Walks Coordinator. Over the year and […]
Thanks to help from groups and individuals across Scotland, the Inverclyde Globetrotters are now only 83,700 miles from Earth on their way back from the Moon. They are hoping to land softly back in Greenock before the year is out. If you would like to help the Inverclyde Globetrotters get home sooner you can contact […]
A few weeks ago we had a piece about the Inverclyde Globetrotters, who have turned real walks into virtual walks which take them all over – and beyond – the world. Here are some photographs of people who love going for a walk in Glasgow. Some of the Community Reporters team and our friends are […]
A group of people from Inverclyde have walked to the moon and now they are walking home. Inverclyde Globetrotters is a group of people who come to a weekly fitness class as part of their recovery from major health problems. They have been meeting for 4 years now. At first they came to the class […]
