RNIB Scotland social and leisure groups

Community Connection events – Summer 2021

It's good to talk, especially now when there are still restrictions about meeting up. Our community connection events will hopefully include something to interest everybody. So please feel free to join us for a chat.

We will be holding the group telephone and online calls listed below throughout summer and everyone is welcome. For further information and joining details on any of these calls, please contact [email protected] or phone 07821 810955.

Alongside these, as lockdown eases, some of our groups are starting to meet up again in person outdoors, although still following social distancing guidelines.

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Telephone and online groups

Monday

• Hi tech, Lo Tech – 11am, fortnightly

• Blind Vision Oban – 2pm, monthly

• Glasgow Anderston social group – 3pm

• Film group – 4pm

• Write Away creative writing group – 2pm, fortnightly (if interested, contact Margaret Jackson on 07821 804 643)

• Diabetes Social Group - 2pm, fortnightly.

Tuesday

• Hillside Art group – weekly at Mousdale House, Milton Road, Edinburgh

• General chat – 11am

• Football focus – 1pm

• 'Doggy Friends' dog discussion group – 3pm, fortnightly

• Harry Potter Fans group - 2pm, second Tuesday of each month

• Forth Valley Book group - 6pm, monthly.

Wednesday

• Campaigns group – 11am, fortnightly

• Glasgow East End social group – 3pm

• Connect singers – 3pm.

• Young person's peer support telephone group – 5pm on last Wednesday of each month.

Thursday

• General chat – 11am

• Ayrshire peer support group – 1pm, monthly

• Prestwick book group – 2pm, monthly

• Forth Valley social group – 3pm, weekly

• Quiz – 4pm, fortnightly

• Sight Loss Activity North East call – 4pm on first Thursday of each month

• VI gaming group – 4pm

• Edinburgh and Lothian Virtual Audio Book group – 10.30am on first Thursday of each month

• Aspiring Writers group – 2pm, fortnightly (contact James Kyle on 07562 170 413 if interested)

Friday

• Edinburgh games group – 11am, weekly at Mousdale House, Milton Road, Edinburgh

• Borders Support Group – 10.30am, first Friday of each month

• Troon book group – 2pm, monthly

• Hamilton social group – 4pm, fortnightly.

• Edinburgh games group – 1.30pm, meeting weekly at Mousdale House, Milton Road, Edinburgh.

Saturday

• Glasgow book group – 4pm, monthly.

• Corstorphine group (Edinburgh) group – 2pm every third Saturday of each month, meeting at the Astoria Centre, Kirk Loan, Corstorphine.

One-to-one telephone befriending service

Our trained volunteers offer a weekly one-to-one social chat for an initial term of six weeks, at which stage the offer is reviewed and if appropriate can continue for another six weeks. For more information please contact [email protected] or phone 07864 958240