Fewer calls for Covid aid in Selkirk
Voluntary organisations such as community resilience teams who were run off their feet during the first lockdown say there are not nearly so many calls for help in the second.
Speaking at Selkirk Community Council’s online meeting on Monday, Graham Easton, organiser of Selkirk's Response Team – which at the height of lockdown completed more than 400 shopping trips, prescription pick-ups, post office visits and dog walks – said there had been “very few requests” this time round.
He said: “There’s been a big shift as to how people are approaching this lockdown … it may mean that people have set up their own support networks, or that they are just that bit more switched on for it having gone through it all already.”