Visit to Abercrombie Court, St Monans

On Friday 28th November, Gayle and Vivien met with a group of tenants from Abercrombie Court, a Bield Housing Development in the beautiful Fife coastal village of St Monans.

St Monan's
St Monans

The group are interested in working with us to explore ways of building stronger social connections for older people within their local community.  Attending were  4 Bield tenants, 1 volunteer, Sam and Pam from Bield Housing with Mac (Sam’s 6 month old ‘cockapoo’).

Abercromby Court group
Abercromby Court group

The group decided that it would be important to get a sense of what people in the community feel would be useful and to explore ways to identify people who might like to build stronger connections.

As well as supporting less well-connected Bield tenants, the group identified several possible routes to reaching the wider community, including: the local Gospel hall, the Guild, the Community Council, the school and nursery. We agreed to explore some of these connections before our next meeting in January 2015.

We look forward to working with they group who bring many creative talents including: designing greetings cards and floral arrangements, knitting  scarves, bags, iPad holders and within a previous arts project they created mosaics which are displayed on the walls outside Abercrombie Court. They are also connected with others in the community through various groups and bring their own life experiences of working in different fields including housing.

creativity in action
creativity in action
mosaic created by Abercromby Court tenants
mosaic created by Abercrombie Court tenants