Celebrating You

NEWS & EVENTS Speak Out Magazine | WINTER 2020LIFESTYLE CelebratingYou!Celebrating you is a space for you guys to tell us what you’ve been getting up to and to share anything you might be really proud of. We love getting stuff from you, so please send in your poems, stories, pictures, jokes or tell us about something you’ve done, your favourite hobby or a new pet, and we’ll include it in the next issue of SpeakOut. membership@whocaresscotland.org – 40 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 6HJ Lifetime of

Have You Seen our Care Family Christmas Plan?

Sadly, because of Covid-19 given the opportunity to make we are not able to host our Christmas Wishes, which we Christmas Dinner on Christmas are doing our best to make Day this year. But we want come true.

our members to know that we A Calendar of Digital

will still be here and so have Connection: We are offering come up with a plan to make our members opportunities sure that you feel loved and to connect digitally over the supported this Christmas. Christmas period. Have a look

Christmas Parcel: This on our website and our social issue of SpeakOut is part media platforms to see what’s of your Christmas Parcel. available! We’ve sent out parcels to all The Helpline: Remains open of our members, that’s over throughout the Christmas 2,900 parcels! They include: period. Monday-Friday 12noona Christmas Card, the Winter 4pm, this includes Christmas issue of SpeakOut, a chocolate Day. You can phone 0330 Santa and a tree decoration. We 107 7540 or email help@ hope you like them! whocaresscotland.org to talk to

A Christmas Wish: Care someone. Experienced people have been Who Cares? Scotland members from across Scotland who were committed to contributing to our ambition of a lifetime of equality, respect and love for all Care Experienced People.

From the very first gathering in December 2018, to all of the influencing moments with Scottish Government, the First

Lockdown By Megan, 19

Lockdown, the dreaded word, Suddenly your life is now all backwards, Well for us, This is the norm.

The norm of feeling trapped, Not knowing how our life is going to be mapped, No choice, No voice.

Waiting on an answer, As we feel our emotions getting chucked into a blender Anxious ball of nerves, Our life stories filled with things no one deserves.

We miss our family, The ones who were my anchors, Such as my cousins, and my little brother. I wished the time without them felt like

Thank You to the Collective

On behalf of everyone at Who Minister, Corporate Parents and many Cares? Scotland, we would like more – each of you should be proud to say an extra special ‘THANK YOU’ of all your hard work over the last to all the members of Who Cares? two years.

Scotland’s National Representative Find out what the future holds for Body – the Collective, who completed Scotland’s National Representative their 2 year terms on December 12th. Body and how you can have your say

The Collective was made up of on page 9.

blur. But it doesn’t, it’s destroying me, Only wishing I had the key, To a happy and successful time, But instead all I can do is climb.

Climbing, climbing, all day long, Up and down, left to right, up against the walls, Down again, down again, Constantly asking – when? When am I going to be free? Free of the uncertainty, Free of the blurring. Free of THIS life.

See this life I’m talking about, Don’t be in doubt, Isn’t about lockdown in 2020.

This is the life of care experience, A constant act of balance, So please remember to give us a voice, And remember we didn’t get a choice!