Rachel Annand

CEO @DA_WestFife Chair of @AdvocacyInFife Also go by labels of mum, wife & unpaid carer

[Dunfermline Press @dunfermlinep]

MSP hails success of Fife business' Living Wage initiative https://t.co/MjdAeOungP

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

Please check the job advert on the
@goodmovesjobs website and to access the application pack. For an informal discussion please contact our CEO Rachel on [email protected]

https://t.co/HciIarfYLT

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

📢📢 RECRUITING NOW! 📢📢

Please check the job advert on the @goodmovesjobs website and to access the application pack 📑

For an informal discussion please contact our CEO Rachel on [email protected] 💙💛
https://t.co/pACziS7opp

[Anna Landre ♿️ @annalandre]

When this government says disabled people ought to work, we ask:

Where are the jobs?

The level-access commuter trains?

The accessible homes?

The carers to dress me at 6am? (Right, Brexit made them leave.)

The reduction in wait times for Access to Work, Wheelchair Services?

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

For the last 5 months, I’ve spoken to Rosy as she’s fought for care. Motor neurone disease means she needs a ventilator and feeding tube and yet she has been denied 24/7 carers. Rosy is now losing her voice but wants to speak out. We should all listen. 

https://t.co/yNYADCCpri

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

We just want to say a massive thank you to all of our amazing #Volunteers on #InternationalVolunteersDay 🙏

We literally couldn't do what we've done for the last 32 years without you 🤝

From past to present, advocates to trustees, we thank you all! 💙💛
#ThanksToOurVolunteers

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

“As someone who relies on the state for my survival, I have a healthy distrust of giving it any more power over my life than it already has. Though some people want the right to die, many of us are still fighting for the right to exist.”

@thelizcarr 🔥 https://t.co/Gd4Qbyy0tm

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

📢 2 DAYS TO AGM 📢

Just a reminder that, if you haven't already asked for the AGM Zoom link, there is still time 💻🖥️

Always good to hear about the successes of #CitizenAdvocacy partnerships over the last year
💙💛

[Rachel Annand @RachelAnnand1]

Looking forward to a great week! #FifeAdvocacyWeek

[Fife Advocacy Forum @AdvocacyinFife]

As we approach our very first #FifeAdvocacyWeek we are sharing our table of events with you! Fife Advocacy Week 2024 will take place Monday 28th October to Sunday 3rd November, with events running everyday until Friday 1st. More info on our website 🌐https://t.co/XCV4jwf07x

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

Hannah is at ASDA St. Leonards Street, Dunfermline store today with our information stall. If you are out and about today why not pop by and say hi! 🙌 We are here till 3 pm!

#VolunteerWithUs #CitizenAdvocacy

[Lynn Williams @Carer49]

The JCVI decision to exclude unpaid carers from the Covid booster shows how little it understands of the scale of what carers do. But I expected better from @JohnSwinney as First Minister, @neilcgray & others esp we move into the toughest winter yet.
https://t.co/SQ6FR0HVoB

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

Congratulations to our latest long serving #Volunteer, Donald MacKenzie, who was presented with his certificate by oor Margaret 📜

He has been matched with his advocacy partner for five years and works at our local @TechnipFMC 💙💛
#CitizenAdvocacy

[Lynn Williams @Carer49]

Unpaid carers are really important in our winter planning - but not important enough to protect them and sustain their ability to care by offering a COVID booster.
Utter madness. Health and Social Care Winter Preparedness Plan 2024-2025 (https://t.co/OIu9yThOyO)

[Shubhanna Hussain @Shubhanna]

The majority of issues I deal with at work are about violations of carers and disabled people's basic human rights. The Scottish Human Rights Bill was an opportunity to ensure better accountability when those rights are not being realised. Hugely disappointed by this news today..

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

@DA_WestFife attendees at today's @siaa_voice Annual Conference in Glasgow 👋🏻

So crucial that independent advocacy orgs work together to share solutions helping maximise impact 💙💛

(More photos 📸 to come)

[Rachel Annand @RachelAnnand1]

The time has just flown by!

[Dunfermline Advocacy @DA_WestFife]

🎀🎀 25 Year Anniversary 🎀🎀

It's twenty-five years to the day that our CEO, Rachel Annand, started with @DA_WestFife!😲

Please join all our staff, trustees and volunteers in congratulating Rachel for such an achievement 🍾
#Advocacy #Dunfermline
(📸 Anne, Rachel & Johnathan)

[Fife Advocacy Forum @AdvocacyinFife]

Thanks to Fife Young Carers for hosting our Development Session last week!

We welcomed new & established (dare we say old!) workers, with lots of time for people to network and build new links & supports.

Look out for our Advocacy Week in October
celebrating #Advocacy #Fife

[Ruth Williams @ruth_williams54]

Had a great time at @CarersTrustScot YAC Advisory Group Residential last week. Our session at parliament was very interesting and made great plans for our peer research at #SYCF2024!!

[Donald Macaskill @DrDMacaskill]

Social care in Scotland is traumatised: a personal reflection. #socialcare #trauma #carers #GeneralElection #NHS https://t.co/AtVc0pxZiV

[Carers Trust Scotland @CarersTrustScot]

Amazing presentations tonight at the Putting Young Carers on the Map event @fifeyoungcarers from young and young adult carers across Scotland discussing why it is important identity and support #YoungCarers #CarersWeek