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Poppy Scotland is promoting an alternative Scottish Poppy Appeal this year, so people can safely show their support for the Armed Forces community. People can get involved by donating, downloading and displaying an A4 poppy in the window of their home during the Remembrance period (similar to the NHS rainbows earlier in the year).

Falkirk Council has launched an online consultation in order for people to share their views on Falkirk Council’s proposed rent increases for 2021-24. They are looking to gather people’s views on how much of a rent increase they would like to see, and how much they would like Falkirk Council to invest in council properties across the area. The deadline for responses is Friday 13th November; Falkirk Council will donate £1 to Strathcarron Hospice for every response.

Outside the Box is starting a new Walk and Talk Group for people working from home. The group will meet for the first time at 12pm on Friday 6th November, in front of Arnotdale House, Dollar Park, Camelon Road, Falkirk, FK1 5SQ. The group aims to encourage people to get away from their desk and keep active, getting people active and reducing the isolation a lot of people have experienced while working from home.

Falkirk Stadium has created a new hotdesking offer during November for those still working from home across the Falkirk communities, for the price of a hot drink from the Westfield Café. The offer aims to reduce isolation and benefit people’s mental health by providing a form of human interaction and a change of scenery. Booking in advance, participants order and pay for a hot drink of their choice in the café, and receive a 2 hour hotdesk booking.

Jupiter Community Upcycling is a new social enterprise run by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) Scotland, which supports people from different backgrounds to learn new skills by recycling and upcycling using wood diverted from landfill, and has now launched their new catalogue with items for sale.

Creative Scotland have released new funds to support project activity with children and young people, including the Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme (allows organisations and local authorities  to apply for small grants funding of up to £50,000, to distribute £500 – £5,000 to freelance artists and creative practitioners, to deliver youth arts activities; deadline for applications is Monday 2nd November) and the Youth Arts Access Fund (offers grants of £5,000 – £30,000 to those who run youth arts programmes, to support activity from March 2021 onwards. Applications proposing specific actions and partnerships to tackle inequality will be prioritised; deadline for applications is Thursday 12th November).

This week’s Funding Insight Bulletin is now live! The insight bulletin is generated by the Grantsonline Funding Portal, the UK’s most comprehensive and up to date UK grant funding information service.

The Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) has published a new, free resource for use in the substance use field across Scotland. “Moving Beyond ‘People First Language’ – a glossary of contested terms in substance use” supports a consensus on key concepts and terms in substance use, by defining and explaining the cause and nature of the contention, and suggesting better practice in terms of language choices.