The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EG.
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Welcome to all the organisations that have joined SCVO recently. You can find out more about them below:
Edinburgh Nightline
Joined SCVO on 20 February
<p>The purposes of the charity are: the preservation and protection of good health among students experiencing or at risk of, depression, suicide, despair or distress, or any other form of mental illness at any institution of higher or further education in, near, or connected to, the City of Edinburgh, by the provision of listening and other services to support those in need; and to advance education for the public benefit in particular by promoting public understanding and awareness of mental illness among students.</p>
Feel The Warmth CIC
Joined SCVO on 20 February
<p>Feel The Warmth CIC not for profit was set up to stop our elderly dying or suffering from hypothermia. We developed, designed and produce a far-infrared Kidney warmer and a Heat Pad with a polymer that can be used every day for less than £1.00. Intrinsically safe cannot over heat or burn unlike hot water bottles, electric blankets etc. Low Energy, climate friendly pulls less than 5 volts. cost of living, loneliness to get them to lunch clubs, out walking, bowls golf. far-infrared also helps with pain relief for many ailments arthritis etc. We have also done a pilot for stress and anxiety which had amazing results. we also work with a Dr Adrian Smales who is a scientist and gives talks on how far-infrared works within our body.</p>
Rigside Primary School Parent Council
Joined SCVO on 20 February
<p>We are the parent council for Rigside Primary School</p>
STAND
Joined SCVO on 20 February
<p>STAND (Striving Towards A New Day) promotes the welfare of people of all ages living with mild to moderate-stage dementia in Fife. STAND also supports families and friends who are affected by their loved ones' dementia. We support them all through sociable and stimulating community-based weekly Dementia Friendly Meeting Centre Spaces (DFMCS).</p>
Collective Communities CIC
Joined SCVO on 19 February
<p>Collective Communities is a creative hub and event space that supports emerging talent, local enterprise and cultural activity. We have a thriving community of brands, artists, entrepreneurs and charities based in the heart of Glasgow’s East End.</p>
First Star Scholars UK
Joined SCVO on 19 February
<p>First Star Scholars UK is a charity that supports children and young people with care experience to achieve long-term educational and life success. We work in partnership with local authorities, schools, foster carers and universities to deliver sustained programmes that build academic attainment, confidence, aspiration and life skills from early secondary years through to higher education. Our trauma-informed model provides mentoring, tutoring, university residentials and consistent adult relationships, helping young people overcome structural disadvantage and progress into further education, university and meaningful employment.</p>
Fossoway Community Development Trust
Joined SCVO on 19 February
<p>We aspire to be the shared voice of our community through our members’ engagement with the community; facilitating a consultation exercise to understand the challenges and opportunities of the Fossoway Community. The Fossoway Community Development Trust will raise funds for agreed projects and will manage them until fruition. On completion, the projects will be self-sufficient; if they are able to generate a profit this will help create community wealth that can contribute to future projects.</p> <p>We will encourage, support and work with existing organisations, so that they continue to deliver great benefits to Fossoway. Our projects will have the following values for the Fossoway community:</p> <p>Safe and inclusive: where people from all ages, all abilities and all backgrounds can live, work, play, learn and use our natural and built resources. Connected: where we have good digital infrastructure and with excellent options for walking, cycling, public and private transport. Sustainable: where nature is enhanced and improved, for us and future generations. Enterprising: where people can develop their business ideas and promote rural regeneration. Leisure: where we can benefit from a range of natural, cultural, and historical leisure activities. Confident: where we have pride in our environment and celebrate a sense of place</p>
Friends For Inclusion
Joined SCVO on 19 February
<p>Friends for Inclusion Ayrshire is a friendship and social events project run by and for people with learning disabilities.</p> <p>Our members have the opportunity to experience and enjoy a number of leisure and social and online events organised by us each month. We offer support to all our members to help them develop a social circle and sustain lasting friendships and relationships.</p>
Horses4Help CIC
Joined SCVO on 19 February
<p>What We Offer at Horses4Help CIC </p> <p>We work with children, young people and adults with our ponies in structured or client led sessions, as required, to help individuals with emotional growth, self-awareness and resilience.</p> <p>To protect our ponies well-being we don't offer riding, instead focusing on tasks like grooming, feeding and leading around obstacle courses to build trust, communication and emotional regulation. This also means our sessions are open to all with no horse experience necessary.</p> <p>🐴 Emotional and Mental benefits: 👉 Building Trust & Connection: Forming a bond with a horse fosters feelings of safety, patience, and empathy, improving self-esteem and reducing isolation. 👉 Mindfulness & Presence: Activities require focusing on the present moment and the task at hand, pulling clients out of worries about the past or future. 👉 Enhanced Self-Awareness: Our ponies can help people become more aware of their own feelings and behaviors. 👉 Experiential Learning: Instead of just talking, you actively engage with the pony in ground-based exercises. Tackling challenges with a pony (like leading it through obstacles) provides a safe space to practice vulnerability, problem-solving and assertiveness.</p> <p>🐴 How Sessions Work: 👉 Ground Exercises: You might groom, lead, feed, or navigate a pony through an obstacle course. We also offer long-lining and at liberty connection work in our Round Pen as well as Mindfulness and Nature based activities.</p> <p>🐴 Key Benefits include: 👉 Increased Self-Esteem & Confidence: Successfully guiding a large animal builds self-esteem, confidence and resilience. 👉 Improved Emotional Regulation: Better emotional regulation and impulse control. Learning to calm yourself to calm the horse. 👉 Better Communication Skills: Developing nonverbal and empathetic communication and leadership, social and problem-solving skills. 👉 Anxiety & Stress Reduction: The human-animal bond releases oxytocin, promoting relaxation whilst reducing anxiety, stress and depression.</p> <p>We offer non-judgemental 1:1, Group Sessions and ASDAN Accredited courses.</p>
Sahara Women's Group (SWG)
Joined SCVO on 19 February
<p>The organisation’s purposes are to prevent and relieve poverty for ethnic minority women through initiating and facilitating support programs to empower local women. This is paired with advancing and delivering initiatives and programs that facilitate equal engagement and participation of ethnic minority women and their families in the community while ensuring responsive care needs are secured and delivered equally to the diverse group: employing community advocacy support, culture and art programmes, community care initiatives, tackling isolation, and exclusion and deploying a community learning and development approach to equal involvement and empowerment, which help advance equality, inclusion and community cohesion. To promote equality and diversity through enabling the diverse ethnic minority women and encouraging collaboration and shared learning, and to deliver responsive inclusive programs including cultural and volunteering activities that safeguard equal opportunities and care for these diverse women in society at various levels while assisting in removing barriers that hinder and disadvantage these diverse ethnic minority women from acting as equal citizens.</p>
Woodend Arts Association
Joined SCVO on 19 February
<p>The Barn is a creative organisation rooted in shared heritage, community voices and the natural environment, supporting and co-creating artistic work that provokes thought, sparks imagination, and responds to lived realities in Deeside and Aberdeenshire. We run a regular events programme comprising films, music and performing arts; exhibitions in our gallery space; workshops, especially in contemporary crafts; and we work with artists and communities to imagine unique creative projects. The Barn has always had an environmental focus to its work: with two different garden spaces and our rural location, we view nature as a key creative partner, inspiring storytelling and community activities.</p>
A Place Called Here
Joined SCVO on 18 February
<p>A Place Called Here is a suicide bereavement peer support organisation offering free weekly support meetings and wellbeing activities for anyone affected by suicide loss. We provide a safe, compassionate space for connection, shared understanding, and healing, alongside holistic supports such as mindfulness, sound baths, and Reiki to help reduce isolation and promote emotional wellbeing</p>
Dynamic Earth Charitable Trust
Joined SCVO on 18 February
<p>Dynamic Earth is a science education charity, and Edinburgh's science centre and Planetarium. Our mission to to empower people with understanding and empathy for the Earth in the face of climate and biodiversity crises. We are the UK's only science centre dedicated to Earth and environmental sciences, inspiring the next generation of Scotland's problem solvers, and showing people how to protect planet Earth. We offer immersive, inclusive science learning in-person and online experiences to school, community, and family and public audiences and break down barriers to accessing STEM learning.</p>
Junomichi Scotland
Joined SCVO on 18 February
<p>JUNOMICHI SCOTLAND (SCIO) is established for the advancement of education and other purposes reasonably regarded as analogous, in accordance with section 7(2)(a) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005. The organisation's purpose is to support, coordinate, and ensure the ethical transmission of Junomichi across Scotland through educational leadership, pedagogical regulation, and guidance to affiliated schools, groups, and teachers. It acts as the national governing body for Junomichi in Scotland. Junomichi is a discipline of conscious movement and self-development, rooted in the educational vision of Dr. Jigoro Kano and further developed by Professor Igor Correa Luna. It is not a sport, but a path of reflective study and embodied ethics, grounded in five core principles: Decision, Non-Opposition, Encompassing, Mobility, Control. These are anchored in the philosophical foundations of: Seiryoku-Zenyo (Efficient use of energy), and Jita Kyoei (Mutual help for mutual prosperity). Junomichi Scotland upholds the Junomichi Charter, which defines its ethical and pedagogical foundation. We Maintain a Technical Commission to oversee student progression and uphold standards for recognition up to First Kyu; Organise study sessions, classes, and educational seminars to deepen understanding and refine pedagogical practice; Provide guidance to affiliated schools and teachers on ethical and educational matters. Coordinate national gatherings and forums for collective study and pedagogical reflection.</p>
Oxgangs Care
Joined SCVO on 18 February
<p>We are a Day Centre for older people in EH10 & EH13, we offer companionship, hot food and entertainment. We are funded primarily by Local authority and now need to find other funding to make up for a short fall in funds.</p>
Ardentinny Community Trust Limited
Joined SCVO on 17 February
<p>Ardentinny Community Trust is the development trust for our village with the following objectives - a) to provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activity available to the public at large within the village of Ardentinny and the surrounding landward area - as defined by the Ardentinny Community Council boundaries (the Operating Area) -with a view to improving their conditions of life; b) to preserve, restore and improve the environment in the operating Area through the provision , maintenance and or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate ( but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any .private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration, and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. c) To promote for public benefit the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or architectural significance located within the Operating Area. d) to provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within the Operating Area; e) to advance education and to promote training programmes and' opportunities for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area particularly among young -people and the unemployed; f) to relieve poverty among the residents of the Operating Area; g) to promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.</p>
Friends of Crookston Castle
Joined SCVO on 17 February
<p>The Friends of Crookston Castle, care for and celebrate Glasgow’s last castle. We develop and deliver a range of projects and programmes to increase awareness, knowledge, and enjoyment of the Castle, its grounds and history; promote the welfare of the Castle and its neighbouring communities by building local capacities including: caring for a heritage asset, supporting (and assisting) in furthering all activities and events that bring added benefit to the Castle, its ground and the local community.</p>
Glasgow South West Foodbank
Joined SCVO on 17 February
<p>We are a foodbank who provides emergency food parcels to anyone experiencing hardship. We are referral based and part of the Trussell network.</p>
RCCG Open Heavens Fife
Joined SCVO on 17 February
<p>We're a family of believers committed to loving God, loving people, and making a difference in our community. Whether you're new to faith or have been following Jesus for years, there's a place for you here. We run children's activities every Sunday, and during school holidays, we run camping exercises. We also run a warm space at Kirkcaldy High Street every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am to 2 pm all through the year. This space is where both young and old, and people with learning disabilities, come in to play and meet up with other people from the community to have a free cup of tea and a biscuit. We also give sanitary pads and other body care items to homeless people. During summer holidays, we run street concerts across most high streets in Fife. We also give compassion aid to support children in less developed country specifically in Uganda (Africa).</p>
Resolis Memorial Hall Management Committee
Joined SCVO on 17 February
<p>Resolis Hall is a centre point of the Resolis parish. Facilities include a large hall with stage, meeting room, outdoor playing field, large car park, woodland, playpark and community orchard. The Hall hosts lots of weekly groups as well as day and evening events including community events, ceilidh, parties and dramatic and musical performances with excellent accousitcs and a warm atmosphere.</p>