£5 Food Vouchers Over the winter months, and working with Brechin Soup Initiative (The Diocese of Brechin) and Brechin Community Football Trust, Brechin Healthcare Group had secured funding from Angus Council to be able to offer £5 food vouchers to anyone within the DD9 area. The Soup Initiative had, and continues to, deliver soup weekly …
Read MoreThe usual services continue to be available at the Jenner Centre; Footcare on Mondays and Hearing Aid Services on Tuesday and Friday mornings; and of course we’re still there to answer questions and help folk find information and support. We are moving slowly but steadily towards plans to support those affected by dementia. A Meeting …
Read MoreThe recent rise in gas and electricity costs have made us consider whether we can afford to keep the Jenner Centre going on a full time basis. Our landlord has been extremely supportive throughout our 21/2 years at 24 St David’s Street but he cannot be expected to absorb the very high increases which will …
Read MoreThe last newsletter was sent out in January following our successful meeting at St. Andrew’s Church Hall and since then we have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get NHS Tayside (NHST) to engage with us. Following the meeting at St. Andrew’s Church we had discussions with Mairi Gougeon our MSP and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs …
Read MoreWe had a very good meeting on Wednesday evening at St. Andrew’s Church hall with the hall comfortably full given the Covid restrictions. There was plenty of discussion and everyone was able to have their say. The meeting opened with feedback from folk with their thoughts on both the refusal by NHS Tayside to our …
Read MoreBrechin public meeting called over future direction of community health hub plan By Graham Brown January 23 2022, 9.15am Brechin Healthcare Group secretary Nilima Puthu and chairman Grahame Lockhart at the old infirmary. Pic: Mhairi Edwards/DCT Media. Brechin health campaigners will ask the public what direction they want the town to take after the …
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