1000 Better Stories

What happens when two organizations with different backgrounds and areas of expertise learn to work together? How do we begin to connect the dots between health inequalities and the impacts of climate change? And how do we prepare to work alongside communities without arriving with all the answers?  The first two episodes of Becoming Unbound explored how communities in East Haven and Shotts are already coming together around health and climate. This time we are turning the microphone around to listen to a story from the Unbound team itself. Unbound brings together two organizations, the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN), and the Scottish Community Development Centre, or SCDC. They both work alongside communities, but bring different perspectives to the project. SCCAN's focus on climate action and SCDC's on health inequalities.  In this episode, you'll hear from Dawn Brown and Craig Dunn, who coordinate the project, Laura McDonald and Kirsty Heron from the engagement team, Kaska Hempel and Alette Willis, who work on storytelling, and Sam Jordan and Ruth Mclaren from the communications team. Together, the team reflects on the first year of working on Unbound. Becoming Unbound is the pilot podcast mini-series for the Unbound Scotland project, which supports community-led action on climate and health across Scotland. Through conversations rooted in lived experience, the series explores how communities are responding to climate and health challenges – and how these stories can help shape the future of Unbound. Unbound project is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.   Chapters 01:04     Host introduction 03:17     Origin of Unbound 08:11     One day that sums up the first year of Unbound 19:50     The moment when something changed 35:40     What surprised us 50:56     What we learned this year 52:33     What seems possible now 53:45     Host reflection Resources  Unbound Scotland project website: https://www.unbound.scot/  Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) https://sccan.scot/  Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) https://www.scdc.org.uk/  The Community Health Exchange (CHEX): https://www.chex.org.uk/    Credits  Kaska Hempel (design, production, interviewing, editing) Blip Blop Tuesday by kjartan_abel — https://freesound.org/s/558270/ — License: Attribution 4.0