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Scots Urged to Look Out for Our Neighbours This Christmas

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SNP MSP Gillian Martin has today launched a campaign to tackle loneliness and isolation across Scotland this Christmas time โ€“ enlisting the help of the younger generation to look out for those around them.

The Aberdeenshire East MSP has created a Community Action Plan that encourages school aged children to complete โ€˜5 Acts of Christmas Kindnessโ€™ for their neighbours before term time resumes in January.

With the aim of inspiring younger residents to take simple, positive steps to look out for a neighbour in need during this challenging festive period, the Action Plan includes a list of small gestures that can make a huge difference to someoneโ€™s day.

The list of socially-distanced actions include: writing a Christmas note for your neighbour, drawing a Christmas themed picture for your neighbour, taking your neighbourโ€™s bins out for them, sharing some of your Christmas sweets with a neighbour and dropping off a bag of essential groceries to a local foodbank.

Launching the campaign, the MSP and mum of two said:

โ€œWhile we canโ€™t go inside the homes of those outside our extended household, and must keep socially distanced from others, thereโ€™s plenty we can do in our local communities to tackle loneliness this Christmas.

โ€œThis festive period will be like no other, and while many of us will have the chance to spend some well-deserved time with our family or friends over the break, others in our communities will be alone.

โ€œThis campaign encourages our young people to play their part in looking out for the older generation this Christmas by completing 5 Acts of Kindness before returning to school in January.

โ€œWhether itโ€™s leaving a kind note for your neighbour, or donating goods to a local foodbank, thereโ€™s plenty that our children can do this festive break with the support of their parents and relatives.

โ€œBy working together in our communities, I know we can spread Christmas joy to every street and household in Scotland.โ€

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