Mutual Aid

Inverness

Since 2024

About

Who runs MAIN?

A disabled, queer, neurodivergent immigrant - with no funding and no staff -

who loves Inverness and community-building.

What’s the point?

  • Making things better, because we live here.


  • Identifying systems and resources that are
    sustainable through pandemics, climate change,
    and other consequences of late-stage capitalism.


  • Developing community based on unmet needs.


  • Contributing meaningfully to research that
    educates on how to     improve policies and
    services for marginalised groups.

What sort of stuff
does MAIN do?

Projects

*What’s a“mask bloc”?

Building off of themes of accessibility, the goal of the Highland Mask Bloc* is to distribute:


  • high quality respirators to help protect against the aerosolised spread of not only
    COVID-19, but myriad other harmful viruses, as well as


  • literature to help community members make informed decisions about the way they
    safeguard the health of themselves and their loved ones.

Areas of Focus: Direct action, mutual aid, public health

Highland

Mask Bloc

(Like this infographic!)

Areas of Focus: Community advocacy, accessibility campaigning

Coming from a starting point of understanding that not everyone’s needs will look the same as our own and that they can vary from day to day, Accessible Inverness advocates for policy and design change for those whose needs are not typically considered first when designing systems and services.

The Highland Forest Learning Collaborative is intended as a resource for local home
educating/EOTAS families (aim: 7-12 mixed-age children per session) with support needs not
typically considered.



Key themes of this group include low-demand and safer socialisation options in
woodland/outdoor settings.

Areas of Focus: Alternative education, inclusive education, grassroots outdoor education,
neurodiverse community building

Case study for co-operative, nature-based education: Tauxemont Co-Operative Pre-School


...and the Wee Free Library

A work in progress, ready to
be discovered by walkers
and cyclists.

Get in Touch*

  • For general Accessible Inverness enquiries:
    hello@accessibleinverness.scot
  • For general MAIN enquiries:
    hello@mutualaidinverness.scot

*pls dont call me on the telephone, i hate it and can rarely actually do it.

Wondering how to support?

  • Skill/time donations! The Highland Forest Learning
    Collaborative is looking for help with ‘one-off’
    sessions with the kids, so if you have a passion
    for/expertise in something like, for example:
  • Insects
  • Bike repair
  • Astronomy
  • Bee-keeping

...and are looking for an excuse to ‘info-dump’,
please reach out!
forestcoop@mutualaidinverness.scot

Highland

Mask Bloc