2013 Magazine - Royal Caledonian Ball

St Andrew’s Children’s
Society – SafeBase Parenting
Programme
In Scotland, one in five adoptions breaks
down in early years because of
insurmountable relationship difficulties
between the adopted child and their
adopters. This leads to children being
returned to local authority care with
resulting emotional trauma for both the child
and the adopter.
The SafeBase Parenting Programme has
become a very important support service for
parents experiencing relationship and
behavioural problems with their adopted
child.
Typical behaviours experienced by SafeBase
families before training include both physical
and verbal aggression which is unpredictable
and impulsive. Tantrums which become
oppositional and controlling are common.
Children frequently show anxiety as a means
of attention seeking. All of this leads to the
development of attachment difficulties
between the parents and the adopted child,
leading to additional difficulties within the
extended family.
Within the four day SafeBase programme is
Theraplay, an attachment-based approach
using structure and play to help challenging
children and their families. It assists parents in
providing their child with a more relaxed and
rewarding way of developing relationships.
Thank you to the Royal Caledonian Ball for
your donation of £3,000 from you last Ball.
Your support is very much appreciated by the
staff who delivers the training and the
SafeBase families.
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The Monymusk
Arts Trust
Aberdeenshire
Since
opening in
1990 this
little Arts
Centre
has been
astonishingly successful in providing a window
for all the arts, for visitors of all ages, from all
walks of life and from all over the world. It
was founded in 1987 to preserve and renovate
a small, disused, 18th century building as a
centre for encouraging all forms of the arts in
the area.
Originally built in the 18th century as a
lapidary (stone-polishing) mill, it was turned
into an Episcopal Church in 1801 but was
boarded up in 1939 and had lain disused since
the war.
It is a beautiful little Georgian building and its
acoustics are renowned. The Scots have a
reputation for their appreciation of music and
famous musicians from all over the world have
performed here, as well as young musicians
from the university, academies or primaries.
The Centre is open daily from May to
September with crafts for sale and art
exhibitions. It has been fully supported by the
village people since its inception and a
generation have grown up not knowing the
village without the Trust’s activities.
Until 2008 up to three-quarters of the Trust’s
funding was raised using the estate for fundraising
events, with support from
Aberdeenshire Council. Both these have
ceased and the Trust’s financial situation is now
critical, so we are extremely grateful for The
Royal Caledonian Ball Trust’s donation which
ensured our concert programme this winter.
www.artstrust.org