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Welcome to all the organisations that have joined SCVO recently. You can find out more about them below:
The Way of the Beloved
Joined SCVO on 30 October
<p>The purpose of the charity is the furtherance of the Christian religion. This may take the form of discipleship, leadership development, church planting, facilitating retreats, holding conferences and running theological schools. It may also include the provision of bursaries towards the development of individuals. The charity in accordance with this purpose has delivered activities focused on weekly public worship and weekly contemplative prayer. Pastoral care and spiritual accompaniment sessions are provided regularly and often online, extending support beyond the local area and in-person retreats have been held and have been publicly available through an open booking process. Some individuals have been supported financially to enable attendance at retreats. Wider engagement and learning has been facilitated by hosting international students for shared prayer, study and practical work. Community engagement has also been supported through relationship building and presence.</p>
Camelon, Bantaskin and Tamfourhill Community Council
Joined SCVO on 29 October
<p>We're a recently formed community council (late 2022) and we try to solve problems with residents. We are currently trying to pressure the council into undertaking basic repairs to council properties in our most deprived areas, we do monthly walkabouts to identify issues that need to be tackled, we're the most local community council to the proposed AI data centre in Larbert so have been working with Larbert residents on that (and supporting them to restart their community council!), we've started a community lottery, the Lock 16 Lottery, we are about to run an on-the-street-consultation on whether there is a demand for rebuilding a community facility, we meet in different venues across our area and link up with other orgs on e.g. litter picking and community events.</p>
Tain Gala Association
Joined SCVO on 29 October
<p>Tain Gala Association is a volunteer-led charity working to bring people together and strengthen community life in Tain and the surrounding area. For almost forty years, we have created opportunities for local people to celebrate, connect and take pride in their town. Our work supports children, young people, families, older residents and people who may feel isolated, with a focus on making community participation welcoming, inclusive and affordable.</p> <p>We are best known for organising Tain Gala and other community events. These provide opportunities for people of different ages and backgrounds to come together, enjoy activities and entertainment, and make memories. They also give local groups, businesses, makers and traders opportunities to participate in community life. Through these events, we encourage volunteering, support local involvement and help maintain the traditions and community spirit that make Tain special.</p> <p>Our charitable work extends beyond organising events. We aim to reduce social isolation, improve wellbeing and create more opportunities for people to get involved throughout the year. We recognise that rural communities need accessible places where people can meet, develop friendships, try something new and feel that they belong. Listening to local people and responding to their needs is central to how we develop our activities and future projects.</p> <p>Our community hall project focuses on bringing the old Brownie hut back into community use. We want to give this familiar building a new chapter as a welcoming place where people can gather, share skills and take part in activities. By taking on the hall, we aim to create an affordable space that responds to local needs and supports community life throughout the year.</p> <p>Our plans include opportunities for local groups, workshops, youth activities, social gatherings and community events. We want the hall to support friendships, learning and creativity, while giving people somewhere to develop their ideas. Bringing the old Brownie hut back to the community would also provide a base for our charitable work and help us build on the connections created through our events. We are working towards making this project sustainable, with community involvement helping to shape how the building is used and developed.</p> <p>Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do. They contribute their time, energy and skills to planning, fundraising, running events and developing new projects. We value their contribution and want volunteering with us to be enjoyable, meaningful and open to people with different abilities and experience.</p> <p>As Tain Gala Association SCIO, charity number SC055698, we are building on our history while planning for a sustainable future. We raise funds, seek support and develop partnerships to help deliver our charitable aims, with resources used to benefit the community.</p> <p>Our purpose is simple: to help Tain thrive by bringing people together, creating opportunities and making our town a place where everyone can feel welcome, valued and connected. Through our events, volunteering and community hall project, we want to create lasting benefits for local people and preserve the community spirit that has sustained Tain Gala Association for almost forty years.</p>
Alloa Community Shed
Joined SCVO on 28 October
<p>The Shed benefits the community of Alloa by providing inclusive recreational activities that improve wellbeing, reduce loneliness and isolation and strengthen community connections. Through practical activities such as woodworking, crafting, and other hands on skills, we also have a social room where members can converse in a safe space</p>
Kingussie Community Development Company
Joined SCVO on 28 October
<p>Kingussie Community Development Company’s (KCDC) mission is to carry out and promote activities for the benefit of the community of the town of Kingussie, provide recreational facilities and advance environmental protection and improvement of the community.</p>
Shettleston Community Growing Project Ltd
Joined SCVO on 28 October
<p>Shettleston Community Growing Project is a community charity in the east end of Glasgow, bringing local people together through gardening, food growing and outdoor activities. We provide allotment plots, shared growing spaces and volunteering opportunities where people can learn new skills, grow fresh produce and connect with others.</p> <p>Our work helps reduce social isolation, supports physical and mental wellbeing, and encourages people to care for their local environment. Through community activities, events and our children’s club, we create opportunities for people of different ages and backgrounds to get involved. We aim to make our garden a welcoming, affordable space where the community can grow together.</p>
Kirkcaldy and District Men's Shed
Joined SCVO on 27 October
<p>Supports men and women with mental health, creative skills and social activities.</p>
Stellar Quines Theatre Company
Joined SCVO on 27 October
<p>Stellar Quines is a Scottish intersectional feminist theatre company based in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy. We believe theatre can be a potent force for change. </p> <p>We seek to enlarge understanding and practice of gender justice at all levels of society, for communities and a world in which all may flourish.</p> <p>We create shows and provide opportunities and support for personal growth, career development and social engagement, on stage, backstage and in the community.</p> <p>We collaborate and work in partnership with others in Kirkcaldy and beyond, in projects that nurture creativity and invite action.</p>
Two Destination Language
Joined SCVO on 26 October
<p>Two Destination Language is the collaborative practice of artists Katherina Radeva (Bulgaria) and Alister Lownie (Scotland). For fifteen years, we have made intercultural dialogues: work about identities — belonging and otherness — which has reached all four UK nations and toured to 13 countries internationally. Our work is interdisciplinary, taking shape as performances, installations, walks, publications, socially engaged community projects and peer knowledge exchange programmes.</p> <p>We are bold, innovative, experimental and honest. We value care, difference, joy and the transformative power of art and culture. We believe that creative spaces are a place for individual and community identities to be explored, affirmed and forged anew.</p> <p>Our practice is fragmentary and nomadic, partnering over the years with an extraordinary range of creative collaborators, residency centres, venues and festivals in order to make our work and share it with audiences. Projects take shape through exploratory work informed by the variety of places (familiar and unfamiliar) in which we make it.</p>
Edinburgh Tool Library
Joined SCVO on 23 October
<p>The Edinburgh Tool Library (ETL) is the UK's first tool-sharing library, operating as a charity that lets members borrow equipment instead of buying it.</p> <p>Key Activities & Services</p> <p>• Tool Lending: We provide access to an inventory of over 3,000 hand tools, power tools, gardening equipment, and repair gear for free loans with membership. • Workshop Spaces: We operate a community workshop and learning space in Leith where members can work on projects and we run community learning opportunities. • Skill Sharing & Classes: We run weekly classes, practical maintenance training, and community learning courses. • Community Programs: We have youth initiatives like Tools for Life for young adults aged 16–24, cycle repair via a Cycle Kitchen, home draught-proofing (Draughtbusting), and a monthly Repair Café. • Locations: Operates out of multiple neighborhood hubs including Portobello, Meadowbank, Colinton, Wester Hailes, and Leith.</p>
Helmsdale Heritage and Arts Society
Joined SCVO on 23 October
<p>Timespan is a cultural institution in the village of Helmsdale in the North East of the Highlands consisting of a local history museum, a contemporary art gallery, a library and archive, the River Café, a shop, and our geology and herb gardens.</p> <p>In a region marked by historical injustices, defined as rural and remote, and affected by a lack of cultural services, Timespan serves as a vital cultural hub, engaging over 20,000 individuals annually and reaching an online audience of 110,000 across various platforms.</p> <p>Our complex programme is rooted in exploring local issues linking them to global conversations to create cultural offerings meaningful to the communities we serve, which remain central to our approach.</p> <p>We hold the ambition to contribute to a more equitable, diverse, inclusive, and sustainable future bringing together people involved in arts, science, heritage and activism to Timespan to collaboratively produce ideas into actions.</p>
Spirit Aid Limited
Joined SCVO on 23 October
<p>We are a humanitarian charity based in Glasgow concerned with children and families. We deliver thousands of food hampers every year to families in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. We also do an annual Christmas Toy Appeal and distribute new toys to children nominated by schools and teachers.</p>
The Northern & Clyde Water Sports Club
Joined SCVO on 22 October
<p>Education for water based sports</p>
Mauchline Burns Bairns Under 5's Group
Joined SCVO on 21 October
<p>We are an early education establishment who provide early learning and childcare to children ages 3 to 5. We are a charity run nursery who relys heavily on donations.</p>
Aonaich Scotland
Joined SCVO on 18 October
<p>We are a newly establish belief body based in Dundee, Scotland. Aonaich Scotland grew from a shared calling and years of walking alongside people through joy, loss, healing, and change. Over decades of collective service with thousands of individuals and families, a clear truth emerged: life feels most meaningful when we are genuinely connected, seen, and supported. Aonaich Scotland is a non-religious, belief-based community rooted in that simple, human need for real connection.</p> <p>At the heart of this community are a few guiding principles. Everyone is welcome, without exception, and whatever is sacred to each person is held with deep respect. Aonaich Scotland offers a safe, non-judgmental sanctuary where people can slow down, breathe, and step away from the noise of modern life. Here, emotional and mental well-being are nurtured through companionship, stillness, humour, and heart, with no financial barrier to belonging.</p> <p>The name “Aonaich Scotland” reflects this vision. In Gaelic, “Aonaich” speaks of unity, oneness, and coming together, and also echoes the enduring strength of Scotland’s mountains—steadfast through time and change.</p> <p>The community exists to stand beside people at life’s most significant moments—births, unions, learning, success, and bereavement—honouring the full arc of life. In all things, Aonaich Scotland seeks to live its name: coming together, sharing experience, and living its core principles with love, strength, and compassion.</p>
'On The Edge' Fusion Youth Orchestra
Joined SCVO on 16 October
<p>We provide multi-generational community music making opportunities via high level creative music education provision for children and young people from under served areas.</p>
1st Fochabers Scout Group
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>We are a small charity under the umbrella of the Scouts Association. We operate three sections; Beavers, Cubs and Scouts as well as providing a venue for Fochabers Rainbows and other local groups.</p>
Dundee & Angus Wood Recycling CIC
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>We are a community interest company who take in all kinds of wood and upcycle it to make products which are then sold to local people, schools, nurseries etc, at lower than average prices to help those in the community. All our items are made by adult volunteers who generally are from a background of additional support needs, we also support young people from Barnardos, work with some from the criminal justice system, and anyone else who wishes to improve their wood working skills. We are beginning to offer classes to various groups in the Dundee area, eg. halloween crafts, small wood projects.</p>
Golf in Society
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>At Golf in Society we specialise in transforming the lives of our ageing population by introducing them to the wonderful game of golf. </p> <p>We put golf at the heart of local communities, by delivering tailored golf sessions for those living with chronic illnesses like Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Loneliness, Depression & many more. </p> <p>Golf in Society is a UK-based social enterprise that uses golf to support people living with long term conditions—such as dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, loneliness, and depression—through tailored weekly sessions at local golf clubs. It operates “Golf Health Hubs,” offers carer respite, and partners with national bodies like Scottish Golf and The R&A Foundation to expand accessible, health focused golf programmes.</p> <p>What Golf in Society Does</p> <p>• Provides person centred golf activities for dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, frailty, depression, and loneliness. golfinsociety.com • Offers respite for carers, with trained facilitators supporting participants. golfinsociety.com • Delivers care home golf services and one to one sessions tailored to individual needs. golfinsociety.com Key Programmes Get Into Golf (6 week programme) • Teaches basics (grip, putting) and can progress to advanced play. • Adapted to each participant’s health needs. golfinsociety.com Forever Golf Days • 5 hour experience combining golf, wellness, and social connection. • Designed for people with early dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, and active older adults. • Cost: £55 including lunch. golfinsociety.com Weekly Golf Sessions • Typically 2 hours. • No golf experience required; wheelchair users welcome. golfinsociety.com Impact and Expansion • Supported by Scottish Golf, Active Scotland, and The R&A Foundation, which invested £100,000 to expand hubs across Scotland. golfinsociety.com • In 2025, the organisation delivered 800+ sessions, with participants walking a combined 9.5 million steps, demonstrating measurable health benefits. golfinsociety.com Golf in Society positions golf as an accessible, therapeutic activity that improves physical health, mental wellbeing, and social connection for older adults and people living with chronic conditions.</p> <p>Our Scottish team specialise in inspiring people living with a diagnosis to discover a happier healthier life. At Golf in Society we create essential, regular, reliable respite for unpaid carers. We also offer carers wellbeing events.</p> <p>At Golf in Society we specialise in transforming the lives of our ageing population by introducing them to the wonderful game of golf. </p> <p>We put golf at the heart of local communities, by delivering tailored golf sessions for those living with chronic illnesses like Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Loneliness, Depression & many more. </p> <p>Golf in Society is a UK-based social enterprise that uses golf to support people living with long term conditions—such as dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, loneliness, and depression—through tailored weekly sessions at local golf clubs. It operates “Golf Health Hubs,” offers carer respite, and partners with national bodies like Scottish Golf and The R&A Foundation to expand accessible, health focused golf programmes.</p> <p>What Golf in Society Does • Runs Golf Health Hubs at local clubs, offering inclusive, low pressure sessions for people with long term conditions. golfinsociety.com • Provides person centred golf activities for dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, frailty, depression, and loneliness. golfinsociety.com • Offers respite</p>
Greener Peebles
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>Greener Peebles runs a thriving intergenerational Community Garden project in Peebles, Scottish Borders.<br>Our ambition is to support local people to nurture and enjoy the outdoors, learn skills, connect with others and live healthy lifestyles. We aim to empower beneficiaries to feel good and reach their potential. We achieve this by running inclusive, engaging group activities, which focus on food growing, practical skill development and enhancing biodiversity. Working alongside others, on a shared practical task helps to facilitate skill development, peer support, and contributes meaningfully to community action, developing the garden as a community asset. Our activities emulate the NHS 5 Ways to be Well. The garden runs two weekly volunteering sessions, a monthly skill share and regular events. In addition to growing food and seasonal gardening tasks, our work promotes environmental sustainability. All sessions end with free harvest, and free meals are provided at celebration events through the year. Skill share topics vary every month, from practical, sustainable gardening skills, to upcycling household items, arts and crafts, and wellbeing themes. We encourage volunteers to lead skill shares to bring their own interests and hobbies to the garden, as well as running staff-led sessions, and professional workshops. Our approach to volunteering means it is easy to get involved, with opportunities for open volunteering, group sessions, and specific volunteer teams.</p>