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Context

In 2014 Scotland, 34,000 Homeless applications were made, and 29,894 households were assessed as homeless by their local Scottish authority. This equates to a household losing their home every 17.5 minutes. 

 

safe & Enabling spaces

Edinburgh not only has a high number of people experiencing homelessness, it also has a high number of castle owners unable to maintain their estates. Can their be a symbiotic relationship providing genuine mutual value between two socio-economic groups?

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green care

Carlowrie Academy is an initiative that provides low cost gardening services for luxury castles, but yet, simultaneously offers green care therapy, nature connection, well-being and accredited qualifications for beneficiaries.

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partnership

Adaptability, the competency that helps us understand and cope with change was cemented though this symbiotic relationship between two worlds that would never normally meet. Co-created alongside Bethany Homeless Charity Police Scotland and Carlowrie Castle. 

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