My name is Elaine and I am a #CitizenAdvocate for Dunfermline Advocacy I had always been interested in volunteering but never had enough time. After a change in career last year I decided to find out more about charities in the local area and felt inspired by the work and ethos of Dunfermline Advocacy. After meeting Ewan, the development worker […]

I had just retired and I knew that I wanted to fill that gap in my life.. Advocacy caught my eye Enid has been matched with her Citizen Advocacy Partner Jan for almost three years.  Listen to what Enid feels about being an Citizen Advocate with Dunfermline Advocacy and how it benefits both herself and her partner Jan.  

“We get along very well together and I make a point of seeing him at least once a week.”   I first met John on 17th September 2015 and have been assisting him wherever I could since then. We get along very well together and I make a point of seeing him at least once a week. Like John I […]

My Volunteering Experience with Dunfermline Advocacy I’ve been volunteering with Dunfermline Advocacy for two years.  Following my initial training I was matched  with a young man who is a long term patient in a local hospital unit.  He comes from the same part of the north of Scotland as myself, so we have some common ground to chat about.  As […]

My Volunteering Experience with Dunfermline Advocacy I have been an Advocate for Citizen Advocacy Partner for over six years and he has become a part of my life. He gives me so much joy and I hope I give him some too. With the help and support of Dunfermline Advocacy and in particular Barbara I have been able to make John’s […]

My experience of volunteering with Dunfermline Advocacy – Philip My connection with Dunfermline Advocacy started in 2012.  I had some free time and wanted to do something that would make a real difference to another person’s life as well as enriching my own.  At the same time I needed flexibility, because I work full-time, so it had to fit in […]

Volunteering makes me feel… Volunteering makes me feel that I’m giving something back, in some small way.  If I try and analyse it from a purely logistical perspective for example that I give up one evening per week to meet up with my Advocacy Partner, and attend maybe a dozen or so different types of support meetings every year. I […]

Thank you to everyone who attended our training session last night.  We thought you may be interested in further reading about the history of Human Rights.  Below are some links to Scottish Human Rights and Advocacy Organisations as well as background information about Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the driving force behind the 1948 Charter of Liberties….. a true Champion of […]

At DA we talk about citizen advocacy fitting into our volunteer’s everyday life and being something that is flexible. Microvolunteering takes this further and is all about no commitment, on demand actions that can be carried out on and offline. It’s about participating in actions that may only take a few minutes and can be worked into someone’s spare moments […]

March 2017 marks the 170th birthday of Scottish Scientist and Inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Bell’s most famous invention of course was the telephone. Many people deride the intrusion caused by modern telephone technology and this was a view shared by its inventor with Bell himself refusing to have a telephone in his study for that very reason. It was one […]