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Speaking up for Our Age: Celebrating 75 Years of National and Local Older People’S Groups and Organisations in Scotland, 1943-2018 Speaking Up for Our Age: Celebrating 75 years of national and local older people’s groups and organisations in Scotland, 1943-2018 Speaking Up for Our Age: Contents 1940s OLD AGE IN THE NEW WORLD PAGE FOUR Speaking Up for Our Age: Celebrating 75 years of 2018 is a special national and local older year for older s people’s groups and 1950 organisations in Scotland, people’s groups and Doors of opportunity 1943-2018 organisations in PAGE EIGHT Compiled and edited by Elizabeth Bryan, Scotland. 75 years Age Scotland ago Age Scotland’s s Published by Age Scotland 1960 Causewayside House predecessor charity, Hives of Industry 160 Causewayside PAGE FOURTEEN Edinburgh EH9 1PR the Scottish Old www.agescotland.org.uk People’s Welfare Design by www.theroundroom.co.uk Committee, was set up. © Age Scotland PAGE TWENTY ISSN 1747-4515 In 1943 there were only three older people’s welfare committees in Scotland. These were in Dundee, 1980s Edinburgh and Peebles. The Fighting Inequality Scottish Old People’s Welfare Committee’s immediate aims PAGE TWENTY SIX were to investigate the position of older people in Scotland and raise s awareness of their needs, and to 1990 Age Scotland, part of support the development of local MAKING OUR VOICES HEARD the Age Network, is an old people’s welfare committees PAGE THIRTY FOUR independent charity around the country. In 2018 there dedicated to improving the are more than 1000 organisations later lives of everyone on the ageing journey, within a in membership of Age Scotland 2000s charitable company limited alone, each providing friendship, THE NEW MILLENNIUM by guarantee and registered activities or services for older people, in Scotland. Registration PAGE FORTY TWO or campaigning on behalf of older Number: 153343 Charity Number: SC010100. people. Many of these organisations Registered Office: have been set up by older people, Causewayside House, and are run by older people. 2010s 160 Causewayside, LOVE LATER LIFE Edinburgh EH9 1PR. PAGE FORTY SIX Front cover picture reproduced by kind permission of Broomlands and Acknowledgements Bourtreehill Age Concern. All photographs within this publication are the PAGE FIFTY property of Age Scotland unless otherwise stated. Cover photograph: Members and Volunteers, Broomlands and Bourtreehill Age Concern, 1984. Age Concern, and Bourtreehill Broomlands Members and Volunteers, photograph: Cover CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF NATIONAL AND LOCAL OLDER PEOPLE’S GROUPS AND ORGANISATIONS IN SCOTLAND, 1943-2018 Celebrating 75 years of national and local older people’s groups and organisations in Scotland, 1943-2018 In the build up to our 75th skills with support from The Living – so often underestimated, anniversary, Age Scotland Memory Association. It brought undervalued and under reported. embarked on a project to find members and staff of Age Scotland We hope the publication is a fitting out more about the charity’s in touch with people who have tribute to those who have gone history and the development of made an important contribution to before and have put so much local and national older people’s the development of older people’s time, energy and skill into setting organisations in Scotland. We were groups and organisations across up and running organisations to delighted to be awarded funding Scotland to learn from them make older people’s lives better. from the Heritage Lottery Fund and capture their memories and We hope the publication will spark to help with some of the project experiences. It highlighted further research into older costs including support for some wonderful archives people’s organisations of our member organisations to of photographs, and their important research and celebrate their own minutes and place in our history. The Heritage Lottery Fund documents that society - a also provided us with the resources generations of neglected area to create a timeline publication older people’s of study and – a special issue of Advantage groups have attention. magazine - and a film to present carefully Finally, we and share our story. This timeline preserved. hope the publication is the result of several publication months investigation by volunteers We hope the will inspire and staff – the Age Scotland publication policymakers, History Detectives. will give planners, partners readers a good and people of all Our journey back in time started understanding of the ages to get behind in the offices of the Scottish growth and development and get involved in older Council for Voluntary Organisations of national and local older people’s people’s groups and organisations, (SCVO), where we rediscovered the groups and organisations over the ensuring Scotland is a good place minutes of the Scottish Old People’ years, their spirit and vitality, and to grow old in for all our citizens Welfare Committee. It took us the enormous contribution they today and for future generations. on many fascinating visits to the have made and continue to make National Library of Scotland which to advancing later life in Scotland. Elizabeth Bryan holds many important documents, We hope the publication shines Community Development periodicals and publications a light on the extraordinary care Co-ordinator, Age Scotland relating to our history. It enabled and commitment that people us to learn oral history interviewing have for others in their community September 2018 Mary Marshall, Brian Sloan and Maureen O’Neill visit the collections of the National Library of Scotland, August 2018 PAGE FOUR 1939 1940 1942 1943 1943 World War II Conservative led The Beveridge Report, The first The National begins. Wartime Coalition ‘Social Insurance and meeting of Council of Social Government Allied Services’, is Scottish Old Service Scottish is formed. published. In it William People’s Welfare Advisory Beveridge sets out a plan Committee Committee to put an end to what he (SOPWC) is held becomes 1940 calls the ‘five giants’ – in Edinburgh. A the Scottish Food and clothes Want, Disease, Ignorance, sub committee Council of rationing begins. Squalor and Idleness. on Homes and Social Services. Older People is immediately set up. 1940s OLD AGE IN THE NEW WORLD In 1943 Britain was in the grip of war. The entire population had been mobilised to support the war effort, and there was a strong sense of community spirit often transcending social class and other barriers. There was also a growing determination, powered by the popularity of the 1942 Beveridge Report, that after the war ended the country could not go back to pre-war social conditions. People wanted the future to It was in this context that the formed at this time included the be better than the poverty first meeting of theScottish Scottish Churches Consultative and deprivation that had Old People’s Welfare Committee Committee and the Citizens been experienced by earlier (SOPWC) took place on Friday Advice Bureaux Advisory generations. This stirring of 22nd January 1943, in the Committee. consciousness included concerns offices of the National Council SOPWC brought together a for a fair deal for older people. of Social Services Scottish range of national voluntary Life expectancy was increasing, Advisory Committee, sector and charitable the proportion of older people in Alva Street, Edinburgh. organisations concerned with the population was growing, and SOPWC was one of number of the welfare of older people, the war had drawn attention to welfare committees established and the recently established some of the hardships and needs by the new National Council of Edinburgh Old People’s Welfare of older people. Social Services Scottish Advisory Council and Dundee Old People’s Committee during World War Welfare Committee. II to support the war effort SOPWC’s immediate aims were and the social wellbeing of the to gather information about the community of Scotland. Other present position of the care and important national committees welfare of “the aged”, to provide CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF NATIONAL AND LOCAL OLDER PEOPLE’S GROUPS AND ORGANISATIONS IN SCOTLAND, 1943-2018 1945 1945 1945 1945 World War II SOPWC writes to SOPWC receives a letter The Lord Provost of ends. the Department of from the Department Aberdeen calls a public Health asking if local of Health: the Secretary meeting to gauge Labour authorities drawing up of State will consider whether an Old People’s Government plans for rehousing are the payment of grants Welfare Committee is formed. including houses and to Old People’s Clubs should be formed. The hostels for aged persons under terms of the Local Aberdeen Old People’s in their plans. Government (Scotland) Welfare Council is set Act, 1929. up as result of this meeting, and starts a Visiting Scheme. The founding a platform for discussion, and to are filled with references to members of the raise awareness of the needs of endowments of cash and Scottish Old People’s older people. buildings, and fundraising efforts Welfare Committee (1943) Founding members put great to support the opening of new time and energy into SOPWC’s Eventide homes by the churches work and those organisations and some by old people’s welfare committees. with federations encouraged their Aged Christian Friend local branches and members to There were other concerns too. In Society of Scotland; support the formation of local the 1940s most older people lived Church of Scotland; old people’s welfare committees at home. Studies carried out by Dundee Old People’s around the country. SOPWC made SOPWC and the Glasgow Council Welfare Committee; small donations of £20 to new for Social Service, with funding Edinburgh Old committees to help with start-up support from the Nuffield Trust, People’s Welfare expenses. drew attention to Council; Federation the hidden poverty Throughout the of Soroptomists 1940s SOPWC and loneliness experienced by Clubs; Hospital worked to Almoners Association; address the lack older people. Council of Women of appropriate Many older people of Great Britain; homes and were suffering housing for from malnutrition Rotary International; older people.
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