Tell us a bit about you and your life outside of Dunfermline Advocacy. Recently retired after a long career in banking and last 7 years working for a national capacity building charity. Love football (Aberdeen fan), play golf, love listening to music and going to see live music concerts. Father of 3 grown up daughters, husband of Dorothy and dog […]

My advocacy partner has been in his new home for just over two months now, and I’m pleased to say he is settling in really well. My first visit to his flat was …only two weeks after he had moved in, and so it was still all very new to him, and indeed for his support staff. What is so […]

The theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day, hosted by The World Federation of Mental Health, is ‘Dignity in Mental Health.’ According to Chief Executive of the Mental Welfare Commission Colin McKay: “dignity in mental health care is about having rights respected; getting the help you need and being able to influence your care and treatment.” The Mental Welfare Commission claims that one […]

Congratulations to Advocacy Partnership Sally and Hazel for winning the Charity Bake Off! See below for Barbara’s Bake Off Tips: 1. Above all, enjoy your baking and icing. Use your imagination and have fun! 2. Check your oven temperature, use a timer, grease and line baking tins thoroughly and practice the recipe first, if you have time. (I think that’s more […]

Have you been watching ‘The Great British Bake Off’ this season and wishing you could take part? We have secured a panel of three judges (Lord Provost Jim Leishman, DediCAKEd’s Abi Evans, and CEO of Dunfermline Advocacy Rachel Annand) for our free Charity Bake Off on Wednesday 7th October. If you win, you will secure a place at the Baking Day […]

Come along to our AGM at Baldridgeburn Community Centre, Dunfermline, from 12-2pm on Monday 28 September and find out more about Dunfermline Advocacy friendships that can change lives. We will be providing a light lunch. Please RSVP as soon as possible by calling 01383 624382 or emailing admin@dunfermlineadvocacy.org so we can finalise the catering arrangements.  

See our short film Friendship Changing Lives for an insight into Dunfermline Advocacy’s Citizen Advocacy Partnerships.  The films tells the story of some of the valuable relationships that can develop between Advocates and their Partners and aims to raise awareness of the vital work Dunfermline Advocacy carries out in communities across West Fife. 

It’s often hard to explain to people what a Citizen Advocacy Development Worker actually does.  No two days are ever the same.  But here’s what one day this week looked like for me… 8 am An earlier than usual start to deliver some training to hospital staff about ‘non-instructed’ advocacy.  I have matched a patient with severe autism with a […]

“I move out next week”  Those words were music to my ears when I recently had a catch up with my advocacy partner.  My name is Phil and I have been a Citizen Advocate with the Dunfermline Advocacy Charity since early 2012. My advocacy partner has been resident at Lynebank Hospital in Dunfermline for 17 years. To have finally reached […]

In this short film, one of our Citizen Advocacy Partnerships, John & Willie, talk about their experience at the Queen’s Garden Party at Holyrood Palace on 1st July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwYWmyBB0w John and Willie were invited to the Garden Party as part of a group representing Dunfermline Advocacy, in recognition of our recent Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service – The MBE for […]