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NEWS
Updates, stories and learning from across the Collaboration.
This is where we share what’s happening in Moray — from project updates and new research insights to events, case studies and creative outputs. Everything here is shaped by community voices and the work we’re doing together to explore mental wealth.
You’ll find short updates, longer stories, films, reports and reflections from our peer researchers, partners and community members. As our projects grow, this space will grow with them.
Last updated: 10 August 2026
PEER SUPPORT RESEARCH PROJECT: Entering the Data Collection Phase
The Peer Support Research Project is progressing into its data collection phase, with a Peer Researcher now engaging with local groups across Moray. The project aims to better understand the local peer support landscape and identify practical actions that can help peer support thrive across communities.
16 hours ago2 min read
tsiMORAY CHANGING THE STORY IN MORAY: Community-Led Research into Mental Wealth, CHIME & Storytelling
A new community-led research project is exploring how storytelling can help build and make visible mental wealth across Moray. Working alongside local organisations, participants and peer researchers, the project will use the CHIME framework to better understand the impact of community activity and ensure lived experience helps shape future decisions.
17 hours ago2 min read
VALUING LIVED EXPERIENCE: Introducing the Collective Voice Interactive Data Tool
Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray (CMWM) and fellow community research network Community Knowledge Matter, are excited to share the Collective Voice interactive data tool. Data infrastructure like this tool strengthens the overall community data ecosystem in Scotland by making qualitative data which is the direct voices of people with lived and living experience more meaningful and accessible to others in their community as well as policy makers.
2 days ago6 min read
WHAT'S HAPPENING ACROSS MORAY'S COMMUNITY RESEARCH NETWORK
There’s plenty happening across Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray, our community research network. With our live projects continuing to develop, test new approaches and build learning around what supports mental wealth in Moray.
Aug 272 min read
CEILIDH & CARAMEL WAFERS: How Moray brought CHIME to Manchester
Samara Shah, Earthtime for All Ltd, shares her reflection from the most recent national gathering of the nine Community Research Networks funded by UK Research & Innovation (delivered by the Young Foundation). The Community Research Network Away Days took place at the inspiring People's History Museum, Manchester, on 15 and 16 April 2026. All 9 of the networks had sent a group of their core members to connect, build relationships and share experiences. From Durham to Newham,
Jun 293 min read
RESEARCH JIGSAW: Access the Collaboration for Mental Wealth Research Themes Resource
Myshele Haywood from GREC, chair of our research working group, shares our key resource to help inspire and support emerging Moray mental wealth projects.
Jun 92 min read
RIGHTS, VOICE & CHANGE: Making Experience Count Together in Moray
This event brings people together to explore how lived and living experience, human rights‑based approaches and shared data can support better decision‑making, fairer services and stronger mental wellbeing in Moray.
May 182 min read
PRINCIPLES AS PRCTICE: Care, Relationship, & Responsibility
There is a question that has been quietly brewing within me over the past few years since I started to work with community groups: what does it really mean to act ethically when we work with communities? Not in theory or reports, but in the everyday, where people carry stories, histories, wounds, and hopes. Through my involvement in the Just Transition Communities Project, and through the learning and mentoring I received from the Community Chartering Network, I began to see
May 16 min read
COMMUNITY RESEARCH SAFARI: Brings Moray Together to Explore Research, Place and Connection
On the 21st of November 2025, members of the Moray Community Research Network set off on a unique journey: a full-day Community Research Safari designed to explore the landscapes, organisations, and people that shape community-led research across our region. From Forres to Lossiemouth, through Elgin and Buckie, and on to Aberlour, the Safari invited participants to experience Moray in motion — travelling together, learning together, and deepening their understanding of what c
Feb 204 min read
MORAY'S FIRST SHARING CEILIDH: Brings the Community to Its Feet – With More to Come!
From tots to teen, grannies to gig-goers — Moray’s first Sharing Ceilidh was a joyful success, setting the stage for a summer of dancing, dialogue, and discovery. Hosted by the Collaboration for Mental Wealth in Moray, the Lhanbryde Community Centre came alive in June as nearly 50 people gathered for a unique evening of food, music, and heartfelt sharing. But this wasn’t just a ceilidh — it was a space for connection, curiosity, and community-led research. From the first beat
Aug 19, 20252 min read
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