Better Lives Partnership

A non-profit supporting young autistic people or those with additional needs in Dumfries and Galloway.

[Better Lives Partnership @BetterLivesDG]

🧶🪡Last week D&G artist Sarah McCusker paid a visit to Team Stranrear.

She delivered a fantastic weaving workshop using pieces of spare fabric and wool to make a lovely eye-catching design.

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👕 A couple our young people at Team Stranraer have had the pleasure of working with the lovely Morag from Upland.

She has been working with them on designing their own fabric using a screen printing method.

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🐸 Team Dumfries have been releasing some more frogs!

The team have managed to release 92 frogs so far and are hoping to make it to 100 before the summer.

Great work team!

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🍕🔫 A super fun day for Team Dumfries!

Everyone was treated to a tasty pizza and a competitive water fight.

What a brilliant day!

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✏️Team Stranraer are delighted to say that Andrew has completed his SAP in Current Affairs.

For his final task Andrew delivered a presentation on the upcoming general election, complete with mini BLP election.

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👀 Look at these creative flatbreads Team Dumfries have created!

The young people picked which ingredients they wanted on their flatbread and then got to work arranging them into a design.

The result is amazing, well done team!

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🏠Team Stranraer welcomed back the lovely Kara, from the Citizens Advice Bureau, last week.

She delivered a very informative session about housing.

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🌊 Team Dumfries had a great session with Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere learning all about plastics!

A big thank you to Ribh for running the session the young people and staff learned a lot about our environment!

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🐦‍⬛🎨 Team CD have created beautiful garden birds in their digital art sessions.

The young people had to try different brush strokes and techniques to get the feathers just right.

How great do they look!

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👤🎨 A spot of portraiture for an interesting afternoon!

The finished product is brilliant, well done team!

A big thank you to Steven Burney who led the session!

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🌳🪵 Team Castle Douglas' last week of Branching Out!

For the young people's final session they were challenged with building a den. It turned out brilliant!

Then as a final treat the young people enjoyed a tasty hot chocolate.

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🐮🐔🦎 Last week Team Castle Douglas took a trip to Dalscone Farm!

For an Animal Care ASDAN task the young people had to visit a farm and investigate what animals they could find.

They spotted goats, porcupines and even a chameleon, how exotic!

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🍽Lots of hard work for Team Stranraer!

10 of the group have completed their first Towards Independence module in “Meal Preparation and Cooking”.

Well done team!

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You can now apply for the Fundraising Manager role through MyJobScotland!

Click the link to apply. Applications close 20th June 5pm.

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💧🏊‍♂️ As part of their Independent Living ASDAN, a group of young people from Team Stranraer have began a 4 week block for Swimming at the Ryan Centre.

It is clear to see from smiles (even if they are tired ones) that they had a great time.

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🗣 Team Dumfries have been working on some communication skills!

For this session they had to complete some tasks as part of a team and make sure they could communicate well with their team mates.

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🎨 Team Dumfries had a messy art session with Bea last week!

This time they created some ink art, which has made some really wacky patterns.

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🌍🔬 Team Castle Douglas took a trip to Glasgow Science Centre!

The young people had a great time looking round all the exhibits. There was so much to do and so many different topics to see.

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🎨 A group of our Stranraer young people have been working through the Expressive Arts ASDAN and took a trip to Edinburgh last week to visit the Scottish National Gallery and the Scottish Portrait Gallery.

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🦋 Team Dumfries have been learning all about Butterflies!

The young people have been watching how they transform from a caterpillar into their cocoon and then into a butterfly.

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