Generating Opportunity CIC
Promoting Inclusion and Diversity through the Arts
Welcome To Our Website
Generating Opportunity CIC is a creative wellbeing project in Perth and Kinross, working with adults
who use support. We use the medium of the creative arts, including photography, drawing and painting, creative writing, reminiscence activity and film, to deliver activities which encourage people to express themselves, dream big and get the most from life. We work with clients as creative collaborators, learning from them as we share and develop common interests. This enables us to celebrate diverse voices, promote wellbeing and strengthen communities. We encourage people to tell and share their stories, through music playlists, the spoken and written word and Life Story films. We also work with artists, musicians and makers, to widen the networks of arts-based opportunities for our clients.
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Dateline 01/03/2025:
Thanks to our wonderful funders and supporters, our Warm Sleep Project has finally achieved 568 items of bedding delivered to older people. Thank you so much to everyone who has inspired us through their generosity and support, particularly the Jimmie Cairncross Charitable Trust, Foundation Scotland and the Kinross-shire Fund, the Thomson Charitable Trust, family, friends and
kind people we have never met.
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Generating Opportunity CIC
Developing and sharing
common interests, stories and connections
to strengthen communities
Stories to Remember Handbook
Moments in Time
Fulfilling Stories project
We are delighted to have delivered three years of Life Story work to celebrate and support senior residents across our community through enabling them to share their life stories and memoirs.
Fulfilling Stories enabled even more individuals in care homes and other care settings to tell and share their living histories, with support from their families. We have compiled Stories to Remember as a handbook to encourage storytellers, family members and activities staff, to become more confident at sharing and recording reminiscences. Please see also our Insights training films which complement the handbook.
Eileen and Bill were two of our wonderful participants and we had the most captivating conversations. Eileen referenced travelling across Ireland on a donkey at the age of 18, with a friend and Bill shared his lifelong passion for gardening. We are indebted to Eileen and Bill and their families as well as Activity Coordinators Carol and Suzie.
Eileen is pictured here with her Memory Box, being interviewed by Linda. Many of the individual films we make are kept private, but some are available here and we also invite participants to allow us to share segments of their films. Please see Life Stories from Strathearn and our latest compilation film, Moments in Time, featured above.
Chris White at Glencairn House
Brighter Days Ahead
Brighter Days Ahead
Book
Our Exhibition at The AK Bell Library Perth
