This 5 month project aimed to improve communication and understanding between generations within a given locality.
The focus was on establishing and improving links between young and old people in key community facilities, local schools and sheltered housing.
The aim was to reduce the social isolation of many older people and highlight the value of older people’s experiences.

Bob Pegg and Joanne Kaar, freelance artists with experience in teaching children worked on story-gathering, design and montage, and creating books. Bob worked in 2 Cairn Housing courts in Inverness and along with Joanne delivered workshops at Crown Primary School with the p4 class. A permanent website/webpage will house a resource of facts and news relevant to the project and which can be added to by Crown Primary children. They will also utilise resources such as the Highland Photographic Archive and look at examples of similar websites that already exist i.e the Cromarty Archive website.

The p4 class created 8 books from stories told by two residents: The Picnic, Daily Life, Games, The Strange Noise, The Penny, Wartime, Punishments for You!, Trouble at Sea. Bob Pegg also collected stories orally from residents at the courts.

We would like to thank Communities Scotland Cairn Housing for funding this project.

Jelica Gavrilovic, Projects Manager.