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OT Society Awards

11/06/2021

In the last months of 2020, students Kate and Katie joined The Usual Place team on a placement for their Occupational Therapy degree, spending seven weeks with our staff and young people. Following their very successful placement, the students made...

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National Lottery Award

26/05/2021

The Usual Place in Dumfries has recently received a £243,939.00 National Lottery Award from the National Lottery Community Fund. The Usual Place Team are very proud to be a recipient of this significant funding, alongside another 245 groups across Scotland....

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Our Voices: Amy’s Research Role

04/11/2020

Amy Wright, the Chairperson of our Board of Directors, has secured a new role as a research intern to Jeremy Balfour, an MSP for the Lothian region. Amy applied for this role through Inclusion Scotland, an organisation which represents disabled...

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The Brilliance of People

29/10/2020

The turn of the decade in the 1990s brought with it a time for change, as the Disability Civil Rights Movement grew. Increasingly, disabled people wanted a voice of their own when decisions were made over their lives and were...

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Our Voices: James’ Album Cover

10/09/2020

One of our trainees, James, has created an album cover for the Utah-based ukelele band The Naked Waiters! This cover will be used for digital copies of the album, which released on the 19th of August. James first met The...