Becoming Unbound: Getting Better Together at Shotts
Season 1, Episode 2
What does it mean to live well? And what does it take for a community to make it happen in the face of disappearing jobs, increased cost of living and a changing climate?
Join Kaska Hempel, our Story Lead, as she visits Shotts in North Lanarkshire to meet Mags Murphy and Mark Slorance from Getting Better Together, one of Scotland's innovative Healthy Living Centres. Together they explore how their community has led for 25 years on helping local people live well - building better health and, more recently, weaving climate action into everyday community life.
Hosts Laura McDonald (Scottish Community Development Centre) and Pam Candea (Scottish Communities Climate Action Network) reflect on the story, exploring how communities can improve health and wellbeing while creating a more resilient future, and what Unbound can learn from places where climate action grows naturally from the things that matter most to people.
Becoming Unbound is the pilot podcast mini-series for the Unbound Scotland project, which supports community-led action on climate and health across Scotland.
Through conversations rooted in lived experience, the series explores how communities are responding to climate and health challenges - and how these stories can help shape the future of Unbound.
Listen to 1000 Better Stories on your favourite podcast app here.
View a transcript of this podcast here.
Chapters
00:40 Host Introduction
02:25 Welcome to Shotts
11:39 Something Had to Change
16:38 Making Things Happen
21:34 More Space for the Community
24:11 Living Well
30:01 When the Weather Changes
33:45 Building Resilience
39:01 Keep the Wheel Turning
44:13 Host Reflection: The Story Beyond Shotts
Resources
Credits
Kaska Hempel (design, production, community interview, editing)
Blip Blop Tuesday by kjartan_abel -- https://freesound.org/s/558270/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
