ASC service user Liam McLeod received a volunteer appreciation award for his hard work at Serendipities, a cafe and social enterprise in Dundee. And as an extra bonus he was snapped with Santa at the organisation's Christmas party at Dudhope Castle! Serendipities describes itself as "a social enterprise in [...]
Our fantastic service-users at ASC have taken a little downtime after the busy-ness for their Christmas sale last week. Partytime took the form of singing, dancing... and festive food too of course, as it should! There was also a Christmassy Pass the Parcel and then, once their DJ Billy [...]
"In all the time I've done agency work, never once have I gone into a home and thought I'd want to work there permanently," says Alison McMahon. That was until she came to ASC's specialist care facility in Balbeggie. "The team welcomes everyone from Day One," says Alison, a Staff [...]
Stewart Hutcheson started thinking about a career in care in the most unlikely place: a gym. As a leisure attendant working in a fitness facility in Dundee, he got talking to a support worker who was bringing children with disabilities to use the trampoline. "I got talking to him [...]
Laura McKechnie got her first taste of a caring role as a child. "My mum and dad had a late baby when I was 11. So I was quite maternal with her and I did the childcare if my granny couldn't make it." The start of Laura's working life [...]
So many fabulously horrible halloween parties across Balhousie Care yesterday - we just had to share some of the spookily superduper photos. Including our unique specialist care facility, ASC in Balbeggie, Perthshire where our fantastic residents love to celebrate Halloween to the max - complete with coffin and a [...]
When our ASC service users have a day out, they go for it. Being active community members and enabling our service users as much as we can are core philosophies for us here at ASC. Here's service user Monica paying a visit to Blair Drummond Safari Park where she [...]
With the clocks going back soon we'll be heading into winter. Soon it'll be time to look towards the new year. And calendar time has long been on the minds of our fantastic service users at ASC. They've been drawing together some wonderful photos to capture the year for [...]
Not the real one, of course, which is keeping viewers gripped on Channel 4 right now. But just as nerve-wracking. All four units at ASC were given ingredients to make a no-bake tray bake (confusing? yes... but tasty too). It's a hard job judging a bake-off but someone's got [...]
Team ASC are always up for a challenge and this Autumn is no different. A few weeks ago, with the leaves starting to turn and the hay bales ready for collection, Activities Coordinator Anne Foulds and two service users, Liam and Robert started their fitness journey, taking up the [...]
