Ruth Clark

A very successful first day at our Level 6 Emergency First Aid At Work course ⛑️ 🙌 Excellent participation and engagement from our young people with the excellent Fiona from @amalgam8_safety #TrainingTheNextGenerationOfLifesavers

Happy New Year from all at SASkA! Team SASkA braved the nippy weather and explored the coast Maybole beach to Culzean meeting a couple of herons along the way. Thanks as always to Brian and Abbie @CLD_SAC for leadership ♥️

Our #SAWeeCarers had the best time at our third & final Christmas memory making day of 2024 🎄🎅🌟 Games, crafts, food, singing, dancing & a special visit from Santa with wonderful gifts 😁 Thank you @HoneypotCharity for a very special time 🫶 #SAYoungCarers #BreakFromCaring @DoonfootPrimary @ForehillPrimary @KincaidstonPS @GlenburnPrimary @StNinians_PS

Great final outdoor session of the year for the SASkA clan with @CLD_SAC exploring the Burns Monument and gardens today.

Great wee outdoor session this week exploring the @AllowayTunnel Project Art with the SASkA outdoor group and @CLD_SAC credit for photography and videography to one of our talented young people ♥️

Lovely evening at our parent/carer information sessions. It was great to get to spend time with our young people and their families discussing their progress at SASkA so far 🌟 #Buildingpositiverelationships #Celebratingsuccess #Planningforthefuture

Today we were shooting part of our SASkA film with @theirisayr. We are extremely proud of our young people taking this opportunity to have their voice heard and help others by doing so 🌟 🎥 🎞 🎙 #Opportunities #Givingyoungpeopleavoice #Thepromise #Thepoweroffilm

We would like to say a big thank you to the SAC child protection communication subgroup who invited us along yesterday to talk about our new care leavers app @ChampionsBoard1 #workingtogether

Another wonderful session exploring the great outdoors with Team SASkA supported by @CLD_SAC Can you guess where we visited? Full credit to the young people for the fabulous photographs😊

#YWW24 - Youth Justice 🤩 Our Detached Team engage positively with young people in their local community to challenge their attitudes & actions in an attempt to alleviate antisocial behaviour & support critical discussion around alcohol consumption, personal safety, & drug use.

Our young people have been looking at the brilliant poem - "Walk a mile in my shoes" by Martin Calder. We had a look at each verse and noted their valued thoughts on it ❤️ #careexperienced #traumainformedpractice #empathy

Some stunning photography from one of our talented young people during this weeks outdoor session #timetoshine @CLD_SAC

Thank you @Dalmillingps for inviting me along to this morning's parent meeting. Brilliant to chat with everyone about support for #SAYoungCarers & parent carers, as well as hear all about the incredible service provided by our friends at NEST 💜 #RaisingAwareness #WorkingTogether

@MissMaxwellAyr Huge congratulations he’s just gorgeous xx

Finally introducing our baby boy, Angus Cameron Lawrie who is now 6 weeks old! Happy Halloween 🎃

❤️ Care experience Week Event Lauren and Lynn attended the event at Ayrshire College. It was great night with so many partners! Thank you to all the young people who came to speak to us about our Youth Voice groups and vote for a theme for our next Youth Awards ⭐️

Today in SASkA, some of our young people are making pizza from scratch and of course the best bit...eating it! 🍕 👩‍🍳 😋 👨‍🍳 🍽 #Learninglifeskills #Cookingtogether #Buildingrelationships

What a fabulous day spoiling our #UnpaidCarers & #SAYoungCarers from Prestwick & surrounding villages 💜 Fantastic entertainment from @pwkacademy & @KingcasePS , beauty treatments, sound bath, silent disco, quiz, raffle & loads of tasty food 😁 #CarerCelebration #WorkingTogether @GlenburnPrimary @StNinians_PS @Lauren_008

An amazing poem composed by one of our young people called - Walk a miles in my shoes 🫶🏼💚 facebook.com/share/v/nF9Jpx… ⁦@ChampionsBoard1⁩

Lovely feedback this morning from one of our volunteer tutors who is part of our partnership tutoring initiative for #SAYoungCarers with @ba_uws 💜 #RaisingAttainment #WorkingTogether #EveryonesAWinner

Thank you to everyone who has come along to our Carers Day event at Prestwick Academy. There is a real buzz in the air! It is important to take this time to celebrate our fantastic unpaid carers here in South Ayrshire. 💜 Watch out next week for more photos from the event!