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Mags Murphy

Mags Murphy

Adult Support Practitioner (Financial Wellbeing) at Getting Better Together / Shotts Healthy Living Centre in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Aug 24, 2026

14:24
It's a good financial arrangement for us.
14:26
It was then about getting the word out, so it was the committee as we were then, we were going to meetings with people with NHS, explaining who we were, what we were about.
14:35
We were in schools selling fruit, nurseries, just getting the word out there.
14:40
Another thing we made plain was that GBT was run by local people for local people and that was something we always stated because we didn't want people to think it was the NHS or it was the North Lanarkshire Council it wasn't, it was local people that were in charge.
14:59
At the start, to say at the start when we started up we didn't have people griping about us, we did, we had opposition.
15:07
I think the group of people that were together were so strong in their belief that this would work because we were told, oh, there's no point in it, nothing ever works in shots, no, it runs for a couple of months, then that's it.
15:20
And we were determined, no, this is going to run.

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Kaska Hempel
Kaska HempelCORRESPONDENT
21:34
With the Springfield Community Hub, what prompted you to actually look into taking that land and developing it? I'll be able to

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