Winter Warmth
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Providing vulnerable elderly people with wood to use as fuel is the idea behind the Winter Warmth Project, which started in 1998 and now covers the whole of Dumfries and Galloway. Last year, over 300 households benefited from the scheme through which donations of wood are made to the Dumfries and Galloway Criminal Justice Community Service Scheme from various sources such as tree surgeons, local estates and private individuals who are having trees taken down due to storm damage or other reasons. Community Service teams then cut and split the wood into blocks for burning and deliver them to people who have been referred and accepted onto the scheme by Age Concern Scotland. Many of these people live in isolated areas so the scheme is also used as a way of maintaining contact with them and of distributing information and advice to them. |
