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Refreshing the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland and Scottish Government Partnership Agreement: External Review
Findings from a review of the impact of the Health and Care ALLIANCE Scotland, its future role, and the strengths and weaknesses of the current working and funding model with the Scottish Government. It was carried out between July and December 2014.
APPENDIX ONE – List of ALLIANCE Member and Associate Member Organisations [8]
Member Organisations
| 25% ME Group | 25% ME Group was set up to offer support services to people severely affected by ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), and their carers. |
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| Aberdeenshire Signposting Project | Aberdeenshire Signposting Project has provided a free, confidential, non-judgemental and impartial signposting service in the Aberdeenshire area since 2004 to people who are at risk of, or are currently experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems. |
| Action for ME | Action for ME is the UK's leading charity dedicated to improving the lives of people with ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). |
| Action for Sick Children (Scotland) | Action for Sick Children (Scotland) is the only charity in Scotland dedicated to informing, promoting and campaigning on behalf of the needs of all sick children within our healthcare system. |
| Action on Hearing Loss | Action on Hearing Loss helps people identify whether they have a hearing loss, campaigns for change, provides services and training and actively supports scientific and technological research. |
| Age Scotland | Age Scotland work to improve the lives of all people in later life. They celebrate ageing and believe it presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges at home and abroad. They challenge ageist prejudice throughout society. |
| Alzheimer Scotland | Alzheimer Scotland is a leading voluntary organisation helping people with dementia, their families and carers. |
| Angus Cardiac Group | Angus Cardiac Group supports cardiac care and rehabilitation in Angus and is open to all those living with coronary heart/cardiac disease, their partners, carers and family members, health professionals and those interested in the aims and activities of the group. |
| Angus Long Term Conditions Support Group | Angus Long Term Conditions Support Group is designed to provide information and support to anyone with a condition that has a long term need for ongoing care. There are four self-help support groups meeting regularly in Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie and Forfar. |
| Anticoagulation Europe | Anticoagulation Europe is the largest independent charity whose aims include the prevention of thrombosis, and the provision of information, education and support to people on anticoagulant and anti-platelet therapy. |
| Aphasia Action Group | Is a small PFPI group comprising 3 speech and language therapists and 10 people with aphasia and their families. Their aim is to increase awareness of aphasia and improve services for people with aphasia and their families. |
| Arthritis Care in Scotland | Arthritis Care in Scotland is the voice for people with arthritis in Scotland. |
| Aspire2gether | Aspire2gether is a Social Enterprise and is a Company Limited by guarantee and a Scottish charity. They have been delivering services, which benefit individuals and communities since April 2003. |
| Asthma UK | Asthma UK Scotland is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of people with asthma in Scotland. |
| Ayrshire Cancer Support | Ayrshire Cancer Support was founded in 1982 to provide emotional support and practical help for cancer patients and their families and carers throughout Ayrshire. |
| Backcare | Backcare (Lothian Group) is an independent national charity that helps people manage and prevent back pain. |
| Befriending Networks | To support befriending services (training, information, quality standard, accredited qualifications, networking, campaigning) already operating throughout the UK and to actively support the development of new building services. |
| Bobath Scotland | Bobath Scotland aims to improve the quality of life for people in Scotland with Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy impacts on people's ability to walk, move, talk, eat and play. Bobath help young people develop the skills they need to a live a fuller life. They empower parents to give their child the best possible start and continued support and they train education and healthcare professionals who work with those affected by Cerebal Palsy in the community to ensure a continuity of care. |
| Borders Voluntary Community Care Forum | Borders Voluntary Community Care Forum gives service users and carers a voice. They support organisations that work in health and social care. They work in partnership with Scottish Borders Council, NHS Borders and others to improve services. They provide free training for people who work or volunteer in the health and social care sector, and unpaid carers. |
| Bowel Cancer UK | Bowel Cancer UK aims to save lives by raising awareness of bowel cancer, campaigning for better treatment and care and providing practical support and advice. |
| Brain Tumour Charity (The) | The Brain Tumour Charity is the UK’s largest dedicated brain tumour charity. It funds scientific and clinical research into brain tumours and offer support and information to those affected, whilst raising awareness and influencing policy. It aims to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatment of brain tumours. |
| BrainIAC (Brain Injury Awareness Campaign) | BrainIAC (Brain Injury Awareness Campaign) is a group of people with their own individual stories, who are all on the same mission - to improve things for the future. |
| Braveheart Association | The Braveheart Association helps people with heart problems in Falkirk and Clackmannanshire. |
| Bravehearts | Bravehearts is a Scotland wide branch of the SACHD for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. It was set up in 1996 after the European Heart Conference and is run by people with Congenital Heart Disorders, for people with Congenital Heart Disorders. |
| Breakthrough Breast Cancer | Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the UK's leading charity committed to fighting breast cancer through research, campaigning and education. |
| British Heart Foundation Scotland | British Heart Foundation Scotland invests in pioneering research, and support and care for heart patients. |
| British Lung Foundation | British Lung Foundation knows that one person in seven in the UK is affected by a lung disease, whether it is mild asthma or lung cancer, the British Lung Foundation is here for every one of them. |
| British Red Cross | The British Red Cross helps millions of people in the UK and around the world to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies, disasters and conflicts. |
| Brittle Bone Society | The Brittle Bone Society is the only UK Charity supporting people who have Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). |
| CACE | CACE enhances the wellbeing and quality of life for older people in Cumbernauld, and the surrounding areas. Older people are given individualised support to develop confidence, self esteem, self reliance and independence to fulfil their own potential. |
| Cancer Link Aberdeen and North (CLAN) | Cancer Link Aberdeen and North (CLAN) is a charity for anyone affected by any cancer at any time from diagnosis onwards. |
| Cancer Research UK | Cancer Research UK is the world's leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. |
| Cancer Support Scotland (Tak Tent) | Cancer Support Scotland (Tak Tent) promotes the care of cancer patients, their families, carers and friends, providing emotional support to all. |
| Capability Scotland | Capability Scotland campaigns with, and provides education, employment and care services for, disabled children and adults across Scotland. |
| CARE for Scotland | CARE is a well-established mainstream Christian charity providing resources and helping to bring Christian insight and experience to matters of public policy and practical caring initiatives. |
| Carers Scotland | Carers Scotland is the Scottish national office of Carers UK and is the only carer-led organisation working for all carers. |
| Carers Trust | Carers Trust 'formerly Princess Royal Trust for Carers' work to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems. |
| Carr Gomm | Carr Gomm is a not for profit company and a Scottish charity established in 2002. They work with people of any age to enable them to develop their potential, achieve their dreams and live within the community. |
| Castlemilk Stress Centre | Castlemilk Stress Centre provides a range of flexible Stress Management Services to Castlemilk & many surrounding areas tailored to the needs of individuals and groups. Services are provided to adults with mental health problems and addiction issues and any other stress related matters. |
| Cavernoma Alliance UK | Cavernoma Alliance UK is a charity created by people affected by cavernoma otherwise known as cerebral cavernous malformations or cavernous angioma. |
| C-Change Scotland | A supported living organisation that delivers creative and flexible support to individuals with learning difficulties and mental health issues. |
| Centre for Health and Wellbeing | Centre for Health and Wellbeing aims to improve the lives of people who are living with long term medical conditions such as Diabetes, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Depression, Obesity and Respiratory Conditions. |
| Change One Thought | Change One Thought brings together the skills and talents of a range of therapists that can provide holistic therapies to provide benefits in the workplace environment, to organisations, and individuals. |
| Changing Faces Scotland | Changing Faces Scotland is a charity that supports and represents people who have disfigurements of the face or body from any cause. |
| Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland | Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland aims to improve the quality of life for people living in Scotland affected by chest, heart and stroke conditions. |
| Citizens Advice Direct | Citizens Advice Direct is Scotland's independent telephone advice service. It is dedicated to providing advice services in a professional, non-judgemental manner to Scottish citizens by informing and empowering them to make practical choices on important issues in their lives. |
| Clydeside Action on Asbestos | Clydeside Action on Asbestos provides practical advice and support to those diagnosed with an asbestos-related condition and their families. |
| Coalition of Carers in Scotland | Coalition of Carers in Scotland is the information network for carers and carer organisations across Scotland. |
| Common Wheel | Common Wheel supports person-centred mental health recovery by offering high quality, meaningful artistic and technical activities in a safe and effective support environment. |
| Community Health Exchange (CHEX) | Community Health Exchange (CHEX) is one of the leading agencies in Scotland that provides a resource in supporting community development approaches to health improvement and challenging health inequalities. |
| Community Renewal | Community Renewal works to transform communities by engaging and supporting people to get involved in community activity and to improve health, learning and employment. |
| Contact a Family | Contact a Family is a UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children. |
| Cornerstone | Cornerstone is one of Scotland's largest charities and a leading provider of services for people with learning disabilities and other support needs. |
| Cornwallis Associates | Cornwallis Associates provides high quality training and development programmes for improving health, reducing inequalities, motivating behaviour change and improving communication skills. |
| Craighead Institute for Life and Faith | The Craighead Institute is a not-for-profit international centre of learning, consultancy and research. Founded in 1987, it works with individuals, groups, organisations and congregations concerned with social justice and is committed to bringing about a more humane world. |
| Crohn's and Colitis UK | Crohn's and Colitis UK (the new working name for NACC) brings together people of all ages who have Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, their families and the health professionals involved in their care. |
| CVS Aberdeenshire - Central and South | CVS Aberdeenshire support community and voluntary sector groups and organisations across Central and Southern Aberdeenshire. |
| Deaf Connections | Deaf Connections is a support and care service for Deaf and hard of hearing people. They offer communication support by providing registered sign language interpreters, electronic note takers and online interpreting services. |
| Deafblind Scotland | Deafblind Scotland is a national organisation which provides community care services to deafblind people; represents the concerns of deafblind people on national bodies; promoted the welfare of deafblind people and encourages voluntary effort to improve the lives of deafblind people. |
| Diabetes UK Scotland | Diabetes UK Scotland works for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition. |
| Down's Syndrome Scotland | Down’s Syndrome Scotland works to improve the quality of life for everyone in Scotland with Down’s syndrome and their families. |
| Drumchapel L.I.F.E | Drumchapel L.I.F.E. (Living Is For Everyone) is an award winning Healthy Living Centre based in Drumchapel, but supporting individuals, communities and organisations in Drumchapel, Yoker, Scotstoun, Whiteinch and Knightswood. |
| Dystonia Society (The) | The Dystonia Society helps and supports people with dystonia. |
| Edinburgh M.E. Self Help Group (EDMESH) | Edinburgh ME Self Help Group (EDMESH) provides support, information and friendship to people affected by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. |
| Ehlers-Danlos Support UK | EDS UK was set up in 1987 to support, advise and inform those living with Ehlers-Danlos Sundrome and help them to live full, active and positive lives. EDS is a genetic Connective tissue condition that is a multi-systemic syndrome. |
| ENABLE Scotland | ENABLE Scotland is the leading charitable organisation in Scotland for people who have learning disabilities. The organisation was founded in 1954 by the parents of children with learning disabilities, as they wanted to ensure their children were integrated into Scottish society and were given the same opportunities and choices as the rest of society. |
| ENeRGI | ENeRGI provides support and information for people who have experienced, or are experiencing, mental health and/or substance misuse issues as well as their carers by providing a drop-in centre, outreach support and a housing support service. |
| Epilepsy Connections | Epilepsy Connections is a community based support organisation for people living with epilepsy in the Greater Glasgow area. |
| Equal Futures | Equal Futures is funded and led by families. They have chosen to take the initiative to plan and support their disabled relatives to enjoy a good life anchored by inclusion and lifelong loving relationships. |
| Fairway Advocacy | Fairway Advocacy carries out research into the need for Advocacy services among those with neurological disabilities with the aim of creating an advocacy service for those with neurological disabilities. They currently provide advocacy services to those with neurological disabilities as part of their research. It aims to create a more equal and just society for those with neurological disabilities to live in through the creation and provision of advocacy services. |
| Falkirk District Association for Mental Health (FDAMH) | FDAMH's mission is to promote mental wellbeing by providing a range of services and creating an environment in which to support individuals to recover from mental ill health. |
| FASD Scotland | Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) offers: information and awareness about the lifelong risks of prenatal exposure to alcohol. |
| Fibromyalgia Friends Scotland | Fibromyalgia Friends Scotland is a support group for people who live with fibromyalgia. |
| Flourish House | Flourish House is a rehabilitation project for people experiencing the effects of long term mental illness. It creates an environment where people with mental health problems can be helped to acquire the confidence and skills necessary to lead vocationally productive and socially satisfying lives. |
| Focus ARBD | Focus ARBD is a national collective advocacy group for people who have Alcohol Related Brain Damage (ARBD). Its aims are to:
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| Food Train (The) | The Food Train aim is to help older people who, through age related ill health, frailty or disability, are unable to manage their grocery shopping, by providing a shopping delivery service with additional household support and befriending service where required. |
| Genetic Alliance UK | Genetic Alliance UK is a UK wide alliance of over 150 patient organisations that support people affected by genetic conditions. |
| Glasgow Carers Forum - Mental Health | Glasgow Carers Forum - Mental Health is a constituted group of mental health carers and staff working in mental health services in Glasgow. |
| Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector | Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector is the main development agency and advocate for voluntary and community organisations in Glasgow. |
| Glasgow Voices for Change | Glasgow Voices for Change - raise issues, which affects the lives of users of Glasgow Social Work Department. It also campaigns to highlight and resolve issues of concern to users of social work services. |
| Golightly Coaching | Golightly Coaching's aim is to support people with ME/CFS and fibromyalgia symptoms to recover regardless of how long they've had the condition using the Gupta Programme that retrains the amygdala and by doing so, stops the physical symptoms. |
| Good Morning Service | Good Morning Service provide a telephone befriending service, which alerts next of kin or the police to potential problems when a call out remains unanswered. |
| Gorlin Syndrome Group | Gorlin Syndrome Group is a support network offering guidance, advice and information to patients, their families and carers whose lives are affected by Gorlin Syndrome. |
| Grampian Opportunities | Grampian Opportunities aims to promote employability, develop enterprise and open up employment and volunteering opportunities for disabled people and people with mental health problems. |
| Haemophilia Scotland | Haemophilia Scotland works for people with haemophilia and bleeding disorders in Scotland. |
| Haven Centre (The) | The Haven Centre is a registered charity, which provides holistic support to people affected by a life-limiting illness. |
| Headway Glasgow | Headway Glasgow gives help and support to people affected by brain injury in Glasgow. |
| Headway UK | Headway UK is a charity set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury. It does this locally and nationally. |
| Heal The Whole of Me CIC | Heal The Whole of Me CIC is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that aims to increase the wellbeing of those in Clackmannanshire and the Forth Valley Health Board area. |
| Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust | Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust operates primarily to make Cambuslang and Rutherglen the healthiest and happiest place to live in Scotland. |
| Hearing Link | Hearing Link is the UK hearing loss organisation that makes it easy to find the right information, services and support. It is for people with any level of hearing loss and for their families too. |
| Highland Community Care Forum | Highland Community Care Forum has, over the past 20 years, built up a portfolio of services for carers. |
| Hirschsprung's & Motility Disorders Support Network (HMDSN) | HMDSN offer support to adults and parents of children who have gastrointestinal problems such as Hirschsprung's. |
| HIV Scotland | HIV Scotland is the leading national policy and strategic HIV charity. |
| Homelands Trust-Fife | Homelands Trust-Fife is an independent, Fife-based charity working to improve the quality of life of people affected by disability through the provision of top quality, accessible self-catering accommodation and supportive day services. |
| HOPE for Autism | HOPE makes a positive difference to the lives of people affected by autism. |
| Hypermobility Syndrome Association (HMSA) | Hypermobility Syndrome Association (HMSA) (also known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type 3/Hypermobility) provides support and information to those affected by this syndrome. |
| IA (The Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group) | IA (The Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group) primary aim is to help people who have to undergo surgery, which involves the removal of their colon and the creation of either an ileostomy or an ileo-anal pouch. |
| IBD4friends | IBD4friends is a networking site for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. |
| Infusion Co-operative | Infusion Co-operative is the expert consultancy in service user involvement. It helps clients in the public, voluntary and not for profit sectors energise their business by providing a range of services, including research, service evaluation, development, training and facilitation. |
| Intlife | Intlife are creating a charitable organisation to offer the choice of drug-free treatments for all. A pain management organisation run by people afflicted by chronic pain and their supporters for people in pain and their supporters. |
| Intrelate Care CIC | Intrelate Care CIC provides support to people with long-term conditions through the development of innovative technological solutions and through personal and organisational development programs. |
| Iris Cancer Partnership | Iris Cancer Partnership supports and enables access to massage for people affected by cancer in Scotland. |
| IRISS | IRISS mission is to promote positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland's social services by enhancing the capacity and capability of the social services workforce to access and make use of knowledge and research for service innovation and improvement |
| ITCanHelp (Scotland) | The purpose of ITCanHelp is to offer technical computer assistance to individuals with disabilities, by providing IT Support Volunteers who will visit disabled people in their homes and at other locations such as day centres, |
| Lanarkshire ME Support and Advice Group | Lanarkshire ME Support and Advice Group provides support and advice to people with ME in Lanarkshire. |
| Leonard Cheshire Disability | Leonard Cheshire Disability supports thousands of disabled people both in the UK and in more than 50 other countries. They help people with physical impairments, learning difficulties and long-term health conditions, as well as their carers, friends and families |
| Let's Get On With It Together | Let's Get On With It Together is derived from the motivation of different organisations within Highland, Argyll and Bute to work in partnership. The partnership has been constituted to develop and deliver a structure and sustainable self-management strategy. |
| Leuchie House | Since Leuchie House was launched as an independent charity in July 2011, it has welcomed over 740 guests and 62 carers. Leuchie House is the only centre in Scotland offering high quality respite breaks for people with long term physical conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington's, Parkinson's, MND, stroke and spinal injuries. Leuchie is a true example of integrated health and social care. |
| Life Support Partnerships | Life Support Partnerships offers workshops and tuition in the practice of 'Listening through the Body ~ with Art' and how to form and sustain effective self and peer support. |
| LinkLiving | LinkLiving is a listening, responsive organisation that works in partnership with people, providing a range of care and support services. |
| Little Haven (The) | The Little Haven provides support for people affected by life limiting illness, including cancer, MS, and heart and lung disease. It delivers a professional service through a sustainable programme of complementary therapy and by providing up-to-date advice and guidance materials for clients, their carers and families. |
| Live for Life Foundation | Live for Life Foundation supports families affected by Huntington’s Disease by improving care and support through raising awareness for Huntington’s disease |
| Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCIL) | Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCIL) is a disability and user-led organisation providing practical services to disabled people in the Lothian region. |
| Lupus UK | Lupus UK is the only national registered charity supporting people with systemic lupus and discoid lupus and assisting those approaching diagnosis. |
| Macmillan Cancer Support | Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. |
| Macular Society Glasgow Support Group | The Macular Society is a specialist charity for people affected by any form Macular Disease |
| Marie Curie Cancer Care | Marie Curie Cancer Care provides free care to cancer patients and those with other terminal illnesses in their own homes. |
| Max Appeal | Max Appeal supports families affected by DiGeorge syndrome, VCFS and 22q11.2 deletion. |
| MECOPP | MECOPP provides a variety of services to black and minority ethnic carers and communities locally, regionally and nationally. |
| Melanoma Action and Support Scotland (MASScot) | Melanoma Action and Support Scotland (MASScot) provides support for those with melanoma and non melanoma skin cancer and their carers. Campaigns on treatments and educates on early detection and prevention. |
| Meniere's Society | Meniere’s Society is a UK registered charity dedicated to supporting people with Meniere’s disease and vestibular disorders. Meniere’s disease is a long term progressive condition affecting both balance and hearing parts of the inner ear. |
| Midlothian Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) | MVA is the Midlothian Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) and is an independent voluntary organisation. MVA is a partner in the Midlothian Third Sector Interface, and part of the national network, Voluntary Action Scotland. |
| Minds Matter Training | Minds Matter Training provide mental health training throughout Scotland, and their aim is to make mental health and suicide prevention as accessible as possible to all in Scotland., including getting more of the general public trained in mental health and suicide prevention skills. |
| MND Scotland | MND Scotland is the only Scottish charity dedicated to people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), their families, friends and carers. They provide a wide range of services, information about MND, and funding for research. |
| Moebius Research Trust | Moebius Research Trust is dedicated to raising awareness and funding to allow research into the cause of Moebius syndrome. Moebius Syndrome is a rare congenital disorder which sadly, to date, has no cure. |
| Momentum | Momentum works in partnership to enable and empower disabled and excluded people to identify and achieve their goals. |
| Moray Disability Forum | Moray Disability Forum exists to support and assist all who have a disability whether this is physical, mental or sensory. |
| Moving On Ayrshire | Moving on Ayrshire is a charity based in Ayr, which provides a counselling service at locations throughout South Ayrshire. They offer adult survivors of sexual abuse and rape free one to one person-centred counselling in a safe environment which can enable them to address their issues and helps them work towards a healthier and happier future. |
| MS National Therapy Centres | MS National Therapy Centres works to support around 60 therapy centres in the UK. These are all independent charities in their own right, but MSNTC aims to provide support. |
| Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society Scotland | Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society Scotland is Scotland's largest charity for people affected by multiple sclerosis. |
| Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Lothian | The Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Lothian is an independent registered charity, set up in 1984 by a group of people with MS and their families and friends. They provide practical therapies including physiotherapy, yoga, oxygen therapy, affordable reflexology, and other services. |
| Music in Hospitals | Music in Hospitals enables people of all ages in hospitals, hospices, care homes and day care centres to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of high quality live music. |
| National Autistic Society | National Autistic Society champion the rights and interest of people with autism and aim to provide individuals with autism and their families with help, support and services that they can access, trust and rely upon and which can make a positive difference to their lives. |
| National Osteoporosis Society | National Osteoporosis Society is dedicated to eradicating osteoporosis and promoting bone health in both men and women. |
| National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) | National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) aims to provide information and support for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), their families, friends and carers, and health professionals with an interest in RA. |
| Neighbourhood Networks | Neighbourhood Networks’ aims and objectives are to work with local communities to support and empower even more people described as having learning disability or other people who could benefit from this flexible model of support. They work in partnership with people and agencies from other areas in Scotland to develop and create new networks which respond to local community needs. |
| Neurological Alliance of Scotland | Neurological Alliance of Scotland is a focused and purposeful forum of not-for-profit organisations and groups representing many thousands of people affected by neurological conditions in Scotland. |
| Never Give Up, Never Give In | This organisation provides peer support for all individuals living with a long-term condition, in order to alleviate social exclusion and isolation. Promotes a positive and proactive approach to living with a long-term condition, encouraging individuals to still have fun and to aspire to having a good quality of life. To raise awareness of the overall impact being diagnosed with a long-term condition can have on all aspects of an individuals’ life and those who are close to them. |
| No Strings Attached (Scotland) | No Strings Attached (Scotland) is an independent registered charity, based in West Scotland committed, through asthma management and music education to providing opportunities for young people with asthma, to help them better manage their condition and to participate more fully in all that life can offer. |
| North Lanarkshire Disability Forum | NLDF aim to support people with disabilities (and their carers) in achieving control over their lives and having a say over what happens to them. They provide information and advice on all aspects of disability relevant to any issues. Distribute up to date information on disability issues to individuals and organisations. |
| Now You're Talking Health & Wellbeing | Now You're Talking aims to promote health and wellbeing in North Lanarkshire, using a peer support model. They provide a range of activities centred around wellness recovery and self management which include the Happy Talk Cafe. |
| Open Secret | Open Secret provides confidence support and counselling services to individuals and families who live with the impact of childhood abuse in Scotland. |
| Organisation for Anti-Convulsant Syndrome (OACS) | OACS is a support group for the sufferers and the families of those who were born with a Foetal Anti Convulsant Syndrome (FACS). |
| Outside the Box Development Support | Outside the Box Development Support provides community development support to individuals and organisations across Scotland. This includes work with people who have long-term conditions. |
| Pain Association | Pain Association Scotland is a unique organisation that has pioneered the development and delivery of the self management training approach to chronic pain throughout Scotland for the last 19 years. |
| Pain Concern | Pain Concern provides information and support for those who live with pain and those who care for them. |
| Paisley FM (Fibromyalgia Support Group) | Paisley FM (Fibromyalgia Support Group) provides support and information to people with fibromyalgia, their friends and carers raising awareness of fibromyalgia in the Renfrewshire area. Paisley FM is a support group working with FMA UK. |
| PAMIS | PAMIS is the only organisation working with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities for a better life. |
| Parents of Autistic Spectrum Disorder Adults (PASDA) | Parents of Autistic Spectrum Disorder Adults (PASDA) is a support organisation for parents and carers of adults on the autistic spectrum who live in Edinburgh and the Lothians. |
| Parkinson's UK | Parkinson’s UK is the leading charity dedicated to supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families, friends and carers. |
| Patient Information Forum (PIF) | The Patient Information Forum is the organisation for consumer health information in the UK. |
| Patient Opinion | Patient Opinion aims to make it quick, easy and safe for patients and carers to give feedback about their health care, and for health service providers to respond to and make use of feedback for service improvement. |
| PBC Foundation (The) | The PBC Foundation provides support for people with primary billiary cirrhosis, their families and friends. |
| Penumbra | Penumbra is one of Scotland's leading mental health organisations, providing a wide range of support services for adults and young people. |
| People First (Scotland) | People First (Scotland) started in 1989. It is an independent self-advocacy organisation in Scotland run by and for people with learning difficulties. |
| Pink Ladies 1st | Pink Ladies provides confidence building courses for women in Midlothian who are affected by anxiety and depression |
| Plus Perth | Plus Perth improves the lives of people who have used mental health services, promoting mental health for all and challenging stigma. |
| PMR-GCA Scotland | PMR-GCA Scotland aims to support those who live with polymyalgia rheumatic and/or giant cell arthritis and their families, and raise awareness of this condition. |
| Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity | Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity is dedicated to the concerns of people affected by Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), a range of inherited, incurable renal conditions. |
| Positive Choices | Positive Choices formerly known as Disability Information Services in Perthshire (DISIP) allows clients to obtain a diverse range of information from one call or meeting, and from a single source. |
| Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association (The) | The Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association is the only national organisation in the UK dedicated to the support of people with PSP. |
| Psoriasis Association (The) | The Psoriasis Association provides information to give a better understanding of what psoriasis is, what causes it and what treatments are available. |
| Psoriasis Scotland, Arthritis Link Volunteers (PSALV) | Psoriasis Scotland, Arthritis Link Volunteers (PSALV) provides Scottish based patient information, support and advice on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. |
| Quarriers | Quarriers provides a variety of support services to children, adults, young people and carers. Their four main areas of work are epilepsy, children and families, adults with disabilities and young people. |
| REACH South Lanarkshire Autism | REACH were established to bridge the inequalities across Lanarkshire, to provide support to families who have a young person with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. |
| RehabGrads Scotland | RehabGrads Scotland activities promote abstinent recovery to service users currently engaged with addiction treatment centres |
| Revive MS Support | Revive MS Support is a charity dedicated to helping everyone affected by Multiple Sclerosis. |
| Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) | Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) supports blind and partially sighted people. |
| Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) | Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) is Scotland's leading mental health charity. |
| Scottish Burned Children's Club | Scottish Burned Children's Club is an organisation that helps children, up to the age of eighteen, who have sustained burn and scald injuries. |
| Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability (SCLD) | Scottish Consortium for Learning Disabilities (SCLD)'s mission is to work in partnership with people with learning disabilities of all ages and family carers to challenge discrimination and to develop and share good practice. Their goal is an inclusive Scotland where everyone is valued and respected for who they are and what they contribute as equal citizens. |
| Scottish Council on Deafness | Scottish Council on Deafness represents organisations working with and on behalf of Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deaf blind and hard of hearing people. |
| Scottish Disability Equality Forum | The Scottish Disability Equality Forum is a user-led membership organisation, which works across Scotland to remove barriers to the full social inclusion of people affected by disability. |
| Scottish Head Injury Forum | Scottish Head Injury Forum aims to provide education about acquired brain injury (ABI) to professionals and people with ABI and their families. |
| Scottish Huntington's Association | Scottish Huntington’s Association provides expert care to families living primarily in their own homes. Just as importantly, support is offered by families for families via a network of local family support groups. |
| Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance | Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance safeguards people who are vulnerable and discriminated against or who services find difficult to serve, empowering people who need a stronger voice by enabling them to express their own needs and make their own decisions. |
| Scottish Post Polio Network | Scottish Post Polio Network provides support for polio survivors in Scotland. |
| Scottish Seniors Alliance | Scottish Seniors Alliance represents local and national communities, supports and provides information and signposting. |
| Scottish Spina Bifida Association | Scottish Spina Bifida Association is Scotland’s voice for Spina Bifida, hydrocephalus and related conditions. |
| Scottish Stammering Network | The aim of the Scottish Stammering Network is to provide support to people who stammer and to raise awareness of the condition. The Charity does this at present by running support groups, workshops and open days. |
| Self-Directed Support Scotland | SDSS is a national membership organisation which actively promotes Independent Living by supporting, working with and championing the aims of Self-Directed Support disabled people's organisations. |
| Sense Scotland | Sense Scotland is part of the UK National Deafblind and Rubella Association and is registered as a company with charitable purposes in its own right in Scotland. |
| Shared Care Scotland | Shared Care Scotland was formed to promote and support the development of flexible, imaginative and person centred short break services (respite care) throughout Scotland. |
| Shared Lives Plus | Shared Lives Plus is the UK network for family-based and small-scale ways of supporting adults. |
| SITE (Supported Integration Training and Employment) | SITE provides training and support to people affected by sight loss. |
| Skin Conditions Campaign Scotland | Skin Conditions Campaign Scotland represents the interests of patients and patient groups. Members come from a wide range of organisations representing people with skin conditions. |
| SKS Scotland | SKS Scotland aims to deliver 'hands on' business support to organisations in the third sector and to engage with people with long-term conditions to deliver this service. |
| SNAC (Scottish Network for Arthritis in Children) | The object of the charity is to provide a national support network for children with arthritis and their families through the provision of factual, practical and emotional support. |
| Social Care Ideas Factory | Social Care Ideas Factory is an innovative network of social care provider organisations delivering services across Glasgow. |
| Speak Easy | Speak Easy is a group of people who have a Larynegectomy (removal of the voice box) due to cancer who have now formed a self help group. |
| Speakability | Speakability helps aphasic individuals rebuild communication through information services and self-help groups. |
| Spinal Injuries Scotland | Spinal Injuries Scotland is the national voluntary organisation concerned with new and long-term spinal cord injured people, their relatives and friends along with those involved in the management, care and rehabilitation of the injury. |
| Stirling Users Network (StUN) | StUN is a user-led charity, representing those with lived experience of mental health issues in Stirling (district). Their aim is to ensure that people with lived experience are fully involved in all decisions that affect them; that they are valued and supported to lead a full and fulfilling life. |
| Stroke Association (The) | The Stroke Association works for a world where there are fewer strokes and all those touched by stroke get the help they need. |
| Sue Ryder | Provides free care to those affected by life-changing illnesses, delivered through their fourteen care centres, homecare services and healthcare clinics, both in the UK and internationally. |
| Support in Mind Scotland | Support in Mind Scotland (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship Scotland) works to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people affected by serious mental illness. This includes those who are family members, carers and supporters. |
| SURF | SURF is Scotland's independent regeneration network. Its overall objective is to improve the health and wellbeing of residents in Scotland’s disadvantaged communities. |
| Talk Lipoedema | Talk Lipoedema are a UK based organisation active across the UK. They provide benefit to sufferers of lipoedema and their carers through participating in various projects and increasing awareness of the disease. |
| TAP Fibromyalgia Support Group | TAP Fibromyalgia Support Group provides help and support for people with fibromylagia in Tayside, Angus and Perthshire. |
| Target Ovarian Cancer | Target Ovarian Cancer is dedicated to achieving a long and good life for every woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the United Kingdom. |
| Terrence Higgins Trust | Terrence Higgins Trust is at the forefront of the fight against HIV, and improving the nation's sexual health. |
| The Coach House Trust | The Coach House Trust is a voluntary organisation that aims to promote social and economic inclusion through integrating people into their communities. They work with people aged 16 and over who have experienced exclusion from mainstream society and who are looking to improve their employability. |
| The Hope Cafe Lanarkshire | The Hope Cafe Lanarkshire provide opportunities for people with lived experience of mental health problems to support each other in their recovery journey through mutual support, self management, training and volunteering. |
| The Plan B Partnership Financial Inclusion Social Enterprise | The Plan B Partnership are a financial inclusion organisation their role is to make sure that people of all abilities are able to understand & access the right financial guidance, advice and plans that improve their financial health, confidence and security. |
| The Vital Force | The Vital Force is a new Scottish Charity created by staff at the NHS Centre for Integrative Care at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital to help to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Scotland. |
| Thistle Foundation (The) | Thistle is a pioneering, boundary pushing organisation that supports people with disabilities and health conditions to lead full and active lives. |
| Tourette Scotland | Tourette Scotland is a registered charity dedicated to providing support and information to people living with Tourette syndrome and promoting "empathy not sympathy." |
| Town Break Stirling Group | Town Break is a local community-based charity which offers a twice-weekly Day Club in Stirling and a weekly Day Club in Callander for more rural clients. |
| Transverse Myelitis Scotland Support Group | Transverse Myelitis Scotland Support Group is dedicated to advocacy for those who have these rare neuroimmunologic conditions. |
| Tuberous Sclerosis Association | Tuberous Sclerosis Association is the UK charity that supports individuals, promotes awareness and seeks the causes and best possible management of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC). |
| Universal Comedy | Universal Comedy deliver unique comedy workshops and training courses for people experiencing the downside of ill health, depression and anxiety, employment problems or anyone who would benefit from a laugh. |
| UPDATE | UPDATE improves the Quality of life of disabled people and carers in Scotland, primarily by enabling information providers to offer accurate, relevant and accessible disability-related information. |
| Urostomy Association | The aims of the Urostomy Association are to assist those who are about to undergo or who have undergone surgery which results in a urinary diversion, such as a urostomy, continent urinary pouch or neo bladder. To assist carers in the rehabilitation of people with a urinary diversion and to improve the quality of life of people who have undergone urinary diversion surgery and those who care for them. |
| Visibility | Visibility listens and responds to people affected by visual impairment to encourage a culture and environment which promoted choice and independence for all. |
| VOCAL (Voice of Carers Across Lothian) | VOCAL delivers carer support through two carers centres in Edinburgh and Midlothian, and through staff based in the community. VOCAL works with carers to identify a plan of support which can include work with other agencies, referral to benefit or power of attorney surgeries and access to a range of training and lifestyle management opportunities. |
| Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire | Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire (VANL) is the development agency for third sector organisations in North Lanarkshire. |
| Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) | Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) is a national intermediary body of voluntary and community health organisations. |
| Waverley Care | Waverley Care is Scotland’s largest charity providing support to people with HIV and Hepatitis C and to their partners, families and carers. |
| Wel Net Support Group | Wel Net are a mutual support group the incorporates mindfulness and meditation practices from the wel programme at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital |
| West Lothian Fibromyalgia Support Group | The purposes of the group are as follows:
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| Work4ME | Work4ME is a social enterprise. They are champions of self-employment for people with long-term conditions. |
| Yorkhill Children's Charity | Yorkhill Children’s Charity sits firmly at the heart of the hospital and works tirelessly doing all that they can to make these difficult times easier for the children and their families, helping to give them the best chance of making a full recovery. |
Associate Member Organisations
| Aberdeen Council for Voluntary Organisations (ACVO) | The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) represents innovative research-based biopharmaceutical companies, large, medium and small, leading an exciting new era of biosciences in the UK. |
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| Alliance for Self Care Research | Alliance for Self Care Research remit is to undertake research to support self-care and self-management of health. And to support knowledge exchange relating to self-care and self-management of health. |
| Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland | Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland works to promote and optimise Allied Health Professionals’ essential contribution to improved patient care. No website at present. Please contact Alliance Scotland for details. |
| Alternatives to Violence Project Scotland | Mission is to serve people who want to respond to conflict and violence without using, or being the victim of, violence. They run workshops open to anybody that wants to learn to handle conflict well, deal more effectively with strong feelings like anger, and build better relationships. |
| Argyll Voluntary Action | Argyll Voluntary Action (AVA) supports people & communities across Argyll & Bute to thrive. |
| Arran Council for Voluntary Service | Arran Council for Voluntary Services provide a wide range of information and support services to voluntary and community groups located on the Islands of Arran and Cumbrae. |
| British Association and College of Occupational Therapists | The British Association of Occupational Therapists is the professional body representing a diverse and thriving community of occupational therapy staff across the UK. |
| British Association of Supported Employment (BASE) | The British Association of Supported Employment (BASE) is a membership organisation for supported employment agencies and supported businesses in the UK. |
| Building Healthy Communities | Building Healthy Communities is a strong dynamic partnership which reduces health inequalities using a community development approach to promote the health and well being of the most disadvantaged individuals, families, communities and organisations in Dumfries and Galloway. |
| Charity Careers Scotland (Corporate Associate) | Charity Careers Scotland is the only online recruitment solution specifically for Scottish charities. We are staffed by people who know exactly how charities need to recruit because we have worked in the voluntary sector ourselves. |
| Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (The) | The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy provides a wide range of member services and campaigns on behalf of physiotherapists and the physiotherapy profession. |
| Citizens Advice Scotland | Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is a national umbrella body that provides essential services to Scottish Citizens Advice Bureaux. |
| Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface Limited | Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface, also known as CTSI, has been launched to enable development of the Voluntary Sector in Clackmannanshire to meet the needs of the community and to represent the Voluntary Sector in community planning. |
| Community Pharmacy Scotland | Community Pharmacy Scotland is an organisation which represents community pharmacy owners throughout Scotland in almost every aspect of their working lives , and is the voice of these vital healthcare professionals north of the Border, as they deliver pharmaceutical care to people of Scotland. |
| Crohn's and Colitis UK - Scotland | Crohn's and Colitis UK - Scotland aims to improve life for everyone affected by Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), the most common forms being Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Together these conditions affect about 250,000 people in the United Kingdom. |
| Crohn's and Colitis UK: Clyde Group | Support group for the local members of Crohn's and Colitis UK, covering the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. |
| CVS Aberdeenshire - Central and South | CVS Aberdeenshire - Central & South exist to support and represent local voluntary sector organisations by offering a range of services for both new and established groups |
| CVS Inverclyde | CVS Inverclyde Develop community groups, voluntary organisations & social enterprise and championing the role of the third sector in building successful communities. |
| Diabetes Minority Ethnic Group (DMEG) | Diabetes Minority Ethnic Group (DMEG) aim to improve the dissemination of information for the prevention and early detection of diabetes to minority ethnic people in Scotland. |
| Dumfries and Galloway Third Sector Interface | Dumfries and Galloway Third Sector Interface promote, support and develop a strong third sector; develop social enterprise; develop volunteers and volunteering; and connect the third sector to community planning. |
| East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action | East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action aim is improving all services for end users. EDVA provides services across 4 main areas; Volunteering, Voluntary Sector, Social Economy and Community Engagement. |
| Edinburgh Carers Council | Edinburgh Carers Council are an independent organisation that provides advocacy, information and learning opportunities to carers. |
| Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations' Council | Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council – EVOC – helps to support, develop and promote the interests and work of voluntary and community organisations in Edinburgh. |
| Energy Saving Trust | The Energy Saving Trust is one of the UK's leading impartial organisations helping people save energy and reduce carbon emissions. |
| Engage Renfrewshire | Engage Renfrewshire’s goal is to provide help and support to people living in Renfrewshire who want advice on volunteering and community work, as well as payroll and financial services. |
| Evaluation Support Scotland | Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) works with voluntary organisations and funders so that they can measure and report on their impact and improve their services. |
| Family Therapy Training Network | The Family Therapy training Network (FTTN), is a multidisciplinary group of professionals, whose members are amongst the most experienced family therapists and family therapy trainers in Scotland and the North of England. |
| Fife Voluntary Action | Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. They support, develop and represent community groups, voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteering. |
| Fife Voluntary Action | Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, resilient and delivers high quality services for the people of Fife. |
| General Pharmaceutical Council | General Pharmaceutical Council is the regulator for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy premises in Great Britain. It is our job to protect, promote and maintain the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public who use pharmaceutical services in England, Scotland and Wales. |
| Generations Working Together | Generations Working Together provides information, delivers support and encourages involvement to benefit all of Scotland’s generations, by working, learning, volunteering and living together. |
| Highland Third Sector Partnership | The Highland Third Sector Interface is the Third Sector ‘interface’ for the Highland area. With 8 partner organisations they are committed to working together with a common purpose and shared values and principles to represent and deliver the four core functions of a Third Sector Interface. |
| Inspire Community Coaching | Inspire Community Coaching provides tailor made coaching programmes in employment and life skills to individuals, groups and communities in the public, private and voluntary sector. These programmes are highly effective in motivating people in innovative and empowering ways. |
| International Futures Forum | International Futures Forum is a charity established to support a transformative response to complex and confounding challenges and to restore the capacity for effective action. |
| Lambhill Stables | Lambhill Stables is a centre point for the community, providing local residents with the opportunity to take part in a range of recreational activities, and to access a range of educational resources to develop their potential as active citizens in the community. |
| Learning Network West | Learning Network West vision is to provide a unique contribution in assisting and supporting workforce learning and development with the social services sector. Their objective is to develop and maintain an effective forum for all its stakeholders in order to enable workforce learning and development which is a key contributor to improving services that better meet the needs of service users and carers |
| Light on the Path | The key aim of Light on the Path is to empower and equip individuals and organisations to develop, accessing opportunities that they might not otherwise. They provide Reiki training and assist organisations with free interns and funding application support. |
| Living Streets Scotland | Living Streets is the national charity that stands up for pedestrians. With our Supporters we work to create safe, attractive and enjoyable streets, where people want to walk. |
| NHS 24 Health Information Services | Health Informtion Services within NHS 24 provides a growing range of quality assured health and care information services to the population of Scotland. |
| NHS Borders | NHS Borders improves the health of the people of the Scottish Borders. |
| NHS Education for Scotland (NES) | NHS Education for Scotland (NES) provides knowledge and information services and trains staff and partners of NHS Scotland. |
| NHS Lanarkshire | NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for improving the health of more than 553,000 people living within the North and South Lanarkshire local authority areas. |
| NHS National Services Scotland | Is accountable to the Scottish Government, they work at the very heart of the health services, providing national strategic support services and expert advice to NHS Scotland. |
| NHS Tayside | NHS Tayside is responsible for meeting the health needs of more than 388,780 people living in Tayside. |
| Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) | Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) exists to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the public by registering all nurses and midwives in the UK and setting standards of training, education and conduct. The NMC is happy to be an associate member of the ALLIANCE Scotland but, as an independent statutory regulator, does not take part in the campaigning activity of Alliance Scotland. |
| Paths for All Partnership | Paths for All Partnership is a partnership of more than 20 national organisations committed to promoting walking for health and the development of multi-use path networks in Scotland and reducing the proportion of the population who are inactive, through a national walking programme. |
| REACH Community Health Project | REACH Community Health Project is a national third sector organisation with a key strategic role in improving the health, wellbeing and health care provision of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in Scotland. |
| Royal College of Nursing Scotland | Royal College of Nursing Scotland represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies. |
| SCARF | SCARF provides householders, businesses and organisations with independent, free and impartial advice on sustainable use of energy that will not only reduce the amount of energy they use or save them money on fuel bills, but give them a warm, dry environment that puts less strain on natural resources and help combat climate change. |
| School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health, University of Stirling | The School is one of the UK's premier research schools. They work with their partners to provide high quality clinically-relevant research in the UK and internationally. |
| Scottish Dementia Clinical Research Network - SDCRN | SDCRN brings together Scotland’s leading academics, clinicians, carers and people with dementia and aims to turn scientific discoveries into safe and effective treatments. |
| Scottish Fire and Rescue Service | Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was established on 1st April 2013, bringing together the collective skills and experience from across Scotland’s previous eight fire and rescue services. The work in close partnership with local communities right across Scotland to deliver crucial safety messages in the fight against fire. |
| Scottish Health Council | The Scottish Health Council and was established in 2005 to promote Patient Focus and Public Involvement in the NHS in Scotland. It is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. A key aspect of the Scottish Health Council’s role is to support NHS Boards to improve individual and collective participation and also to monitor how they carry out their statutory duty to involve people in the planning and delivery of health services. |
| Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care | Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care is an umbrella organisation and representative body for palliative care in Scotland. |
| Scottish Pharmacy Board | Scottish Pharmacy Board is proud to be the professional body for pharmacists and pharmacy in England, Scotland and Wales. |
| Scottish Recovery Network (Penumbra) | Scottish Recovery Network (Penumbra) was formally launched in 2004 as an initiative designed to raise awareness of recovery from mental health problems. |
| Share Abilities | SHARE Abilities exists to bring out the best in people by supporting those who are experiencing difficulties in their lives to participate in positive activities to improve their general health and well-being and to provide opportunities to grow and develop |
| Shetland Community Health Partnership (CHP | Shetland Community Health Partnership (CHP) is responsible for managing a wide range of community based health care services and, in partnership with the Shetland Islands Council (SIC), provides a focus for the integration between primary care, specialist services and with social care to ensure that local population health improvement is placed at the heart of service planning and delivery. |
| Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS) | Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS) was set up in April 2002 under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 to regulate all adult, child and independent healthcare services in Scotland. |
| Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists | The Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists (SCP) is the Professional Body and Trade Union for registered podiatrists. The Society represents around 10,000 private practitioners, NHS podiatrists and students. |
| Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise | Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise provide support for voluntary organisations, social enterprises and volunteers in many areas, including funding advice, organisational structure, volunteer management, charity law compliance and representation on Community Planning Partnerships. |
| SUSE | The Scottish Union of Supported Employment is an umbrella organisation for public, private and voluntary bodies interested in supported employment, social inclusion and the changeover from traditional resource centre based day services to programmes in the community. |
| Telecare Services Association | The TSA is a membership based, not for profit organisation, formed in 1995 whose members provide telecare and telehealth to over 1.7 million service users. |
| The Bridge - Scottish Borders Community Development Company | The Bridge is an integral part of the Scottish Borders Third Sector Interface. They provide community development support and practical help on a range of issues |
| The Conservation Volunteers Scotland | TCV are an organisation that work to reclaim green spaces offering volunteers the opportunity protect and enhance green spaces and biodiversity whilst also learning new skills, getting fitter, engaging with their environment and meeting other like minded people |
| The Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland | The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) has supported community nursing to deliver excellent care throughout Scotland. |
| Third Sector Lab (Corporate Associate) | Third Sector Lab is Scotland’s leading digital media agency working solely with voluntary, social enterprise and public sector clients. They provide a wide range of digital services, including website design, social media strategy, training and event support. |
| Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd (Corporate Associate) | Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd's philosophy is to protect, support and care for people by providing healthcare technology and services that enable anyone requiring support and reassurance, such as older people or those with long term needs, to lead an independent life with dignity and reassurance. |
| Voluntary Action East Renfrewshire | Voluntary Action East Renfrewshire is part of a national network of Third Sector Interfaces (TSIs) whose ambition is to see a Scotland in which voluntary and social enterprise action in all its forms flourishes and delivers strong resilient communities. |
| Voluntary Action Orkney | Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO) supports this tradition by bringing together resources and expertise, working with the community to ensure a thriving, sustainable and healthy third sector for the future. |
| Voluntary Action Scotland | Voluntary Action Scotland is the umbrella body for Scotland's network of Third Sector Interfaces. VAS aims to develop, represent and support third sector interfaces and their members to ensure that, together, we can effectively influence policy and services planning at national, regional and local level and ensure our sector is recognised as key contributors to the delivery of high quality services. |
| Voluntary Action South Ayrshire | Voluntary Action South Ayrshire (VASA) is the local Third Sector Interface. It is recognised by Scottish Government and South Ayrshire Council as fulfilling a key role in ensuring the continued development of a robust Third Sector in South Ayrshire. |
| Volunteer Centre Glasgow (The) | The Volunteer Centre Glasgow aims to improve the quality of life for the people of Glasgow by offering opportunities to use and enhance their skills in volunteering, training and personal development. |
| Volunteer Development Scotland | Volunteer Development Scotland leads the way in informing and modernising approaches to volunteering policy, enhancing practice and improving the quality of the volunteering experience. |
| Walking on Wheels Trust | Walking on Wheels Trust provides a guide for wheelchair users and electronic scooter users who wish to enjoy the Scottish countryside. |
| Wellbeing Alliance | The Wellbeing Alliance are a health and wellbeing management consultancy that operates as an independent not for profit social enterprise who produce innovative proposals ,projects and campaigns to help improve health and equality. We are a team of Healthcare professionals and public health trained social entrepreneurs who live in Scotland but work throughout the UK |
| West Dunbartonshire Community Volunteer Service (WDCVS) | West Dunbartonshire Community Volunteer Service (WDCVS) exists to promote, develop and support volunteering and third sector activity throughout the area of West Dunbartonshire. |
| YSM Solutions (Corporate Associate) | YSM Solutions is a vocational rehabilitation and wellbeing company based in Glasgow specialising in musculo-skeletal, stress and mental health conditions. Their main aim is to reduce sickness absence and enable those at work to be fit at work and those off sick or not in work to be fit for work. |
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