Who we're Involved With
Please see below who we support and who can support you.
link: mecaforpeace.org
The Middle East Children’s Alliance is a nonprofit organization working for the rights and the well-being of children in the Middle East. MECA supports dozens of community projects for Palestinian children and refugees from Syria. Since 1988 we have delivered $42 million in food and medical aid to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. MECA welcomes the support of all people who care about children and their future.
THINK FOR YOURSELF - ACT FOR EVERYONE
Bringing non-religious people together to develop their own views and an understanding of the world around them
Humanists are people who shape their own lives in the here and now, because we believe it's the only life we have. We make sense of the world through logic, reason, and evidence, and always seek to treat those around us with warmth, understanding, and respect.
PRESERVING THE PAST
RECORDING THE PRESENT
INFORMING THE FUTURE
National Records of Scotland (NRS) is a Non-Ministerial Department of the Scottish Government. Our purpose is to collect, preserve and produce information about Scotland's people and history and make it available to inform current and future generations.
We were established on 1 April 2011, following the merger of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the National Archives of Scotland (NAS). For administrative purposes, we sit within the Scottish Government’s Constitution and External Affairs portfolio.
We are headed by Paul Lowe, our Chief Executive, who fulfils the roles of two non-ministerial office holders – the Registrar General for Scotland and the Keeper of the Records of Scotland.
Finding someone to talk to
It may be that you find support from talking to friends or one of the medical team looking after you or a self-help group such as Maggie’s Cancer Centres. Wherever you find support, it's important that it meets your needs and helps you face the journey before you.
Those we talk to may not have the answers we're looking for, and that’s OK. What’s important is that the person takes seriously the questions we're asking. Telling our story helps to bring both meaning and purpose to our experiences. Through asking questions and telling our stories we can hear our own hopes and fears, our worries and dreams and so we discover our own way forward which offers the potential for transformation and change.
Some people find it helpful to talk to a member of their own belief community. If you have a faith, you may find it a source of comfort and support. Some people, when faced with illness, may find themselves questioning their faith or deeply held beliefs and values.
If you think that it might help you to talk to a member of the clergy (minister, priest, imam etc) or a representative of a belief community - don’t be put off because you aren’t sure what you believe or haven’t worshipped anywhere regularly. Most faith groups are used to dealing with uncertainty and are usually happy to talk to you and give whatever support and comfort they can.
Imagine having to flee your homeland because of war, terror or persecution. Imagine being a child or young person. Imagine not having your parents with you because they were killed before you left or were unable to leave. Imagine arriving in a strange country, seeking asylum, completely alone. Imagine having absolutely nothing.
Separated children and young people experience the double trauma of separation not only from their homeland, culture and natural environment but also from the adults in their family who gave them care.
The Separated Child Foundation offers emotional, social, financial and physical support to separated children and young people in Britain up to the age of 21. We also engage in educational activities that raise awareness of their needs and encourage positive responses to them.
Contact:
Email: contact@separatedchild.org
General enquiries: 07376 721325
Press and media: 0208 933 4588
Sands exists to reduce the number of babies dying and to support anyone affected by the death of a baby, before, during or shortly after birth, whenever this happened and for as long as they need support.
About Disability Equality Scotland
We are Disability Equality Scotland. We are a membership organisation for disabled people and disability groups/organisations.
If you are a disabled person, we want to hear from you. We want to hear about your experiences of accessibility, inclusion and equality, good or bad! This information helps us when we meet with key decision-makers who are responsible for ensuring equality and human rights are in place with policies and the law.
Become a member with us and join over 1,000 disabled people, sharing their views on access and inclusion. Together we can make Scotland accessible and inclusive for all!
At Cyrenians, we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.
We meet people where they are, and support them towards where they want to be.
PANDAS is a community offering peer-to-peer support for you, your family and your network.
Free helpline
Call us on 0808 1961 776
Our FREE PANDAS Helpline is available from 11 am - 10 pm every day. Our dedicated volunteer team are on hand to offer support and advice and can help to direct you to other organisations, if necessary.
Please call us if you’re struggling with helplessness, low mood, anxiety or have any concerns about your health during or beyond your pregnancy.
You can also call us for advice and support if you’re concerned about someone you know.
*Please note that by using our services, you acknowledge and are in agreement that confidentially may be broken at any time for safeguarding reasons at our own discretion.
Sometimes it might feel like no one understands what you’re going through, and coping with the everyday effects of pre and postnatal depression can be isolating and stressful. It can be difficult to come to terms with a diagnosis or make a treatment choice. Sometimes you simply need space and time to talk freely about how you’re feeling and all the options you might have.
Our helpline can get very busy. We answer as many calls as we can, but if you can’t get through, please leave a message with your name and phone number. We will call you back within 24 hours from a withheld number.
Unfortunately, we can’t return calls to withheld or anonymous numbers.
If you need urgent help….
If you need urgent help or are worried about a loved one, call the Samaritans on 116 123 or the emergency services on 999
Maggie’s offers the best possible support free to anyone with cancer and their families who walk through our doors. You'll find our centres alongside NHS hospitals and we can also support you online.
WE BEAT CANCER
We fund scientists, doctors and nurses to help beat cancer sooner. We also provide cancer information to the public.
WE RAISE MONEY
Every step we make towards beating cancer relies on every pound donated.
OUR ORGANISATION
A number of bodies work together to ensure that we make the best use of the funds we receive and continue to carry out world-class research.
For 100 years, SAMH has been Scotland’s national mental health charity.
And we will be here for as long as we are needed.
Tracing our roots back to 1923 and pre-dating the NHS, SAMH has been there for Scotland’s mental health for a century!
From our early beginnings thanks to the pioneering work of Dr Kate Fraser CBE, at a time when women were expected to remain in the home and mentally ill people were routinely shut away in workhouses or prisons, we’ve grown to employ around 550 staff and operate more than 70 services in communities across Scotland.
To celebrate this milestone, we’re encouraging people across Scotland to make this the year to do something for Scotland’s mental health.
Visit our centenary hub:
We strive to create a world where mental illness is better understood, diagnosed, treated and, maybe someday, prevented. Research is the first step towards making that a reality. That’s where your donation makes a difference.
For every gift that MQ receives, we funnel it to mental health research programmes at the world’s top universities, where mental illness is meticulously studied to gain a better understanding of it. This is our best chance for more effective treatments, faster diagnoses and better care for your loved ones. Help us make these life-changing breakthroughs.
We have provided support and information to millions of people since our phone started ringing in 1974. Throughout our history, we have been at the forefront of supporting our communities in facing the issues of the day.
TransActual UK was founded by a group of British trans people in 2017 as a response to increasing press hostility, transphobia and misinformation. We are run by the trans community, with the trans community, for the trans community.
In June 2020 we expanded our scope and remit to:
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share reliable information about trans people’s lives and about trans rights in the UK, as well as dispelling common myths
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amplify the voices of trans people so that the wider world may hear the experiences of a wide range of trans men, trans women and non-binary people
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educate people about trans people's lives and the issues we face
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advocate for trans people
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empower trans people to bring about change in their lives and in the community
Equality, dignity and respect - regardless of who you are.
Go to Stonewall for support, info and campaigns.
WHO USES CHANGE.ORG
Petition starters and supporters
More than 200 million people in 196 countries are creating change in their communities.
Decision makers
Decision-makers at the highest levels of government and business are engaging with their constituents and consumers.
Organisations
Leading organisations are advancing their causes and mobilising new supporters.
Media
Journalists are sourcing powerful stories and covering campaigns hundreds of times a day.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. And we never give up.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty.
Uniquely, we also run a housing association and care provider, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.
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ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls.
We are ending violence and fighting poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want. Learn about our vision, our mission, our approach, and our impact.
WE CAMPAIGN FOR A WORLD WHERE HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ENJOYED BY ALL
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses of human rights.
The 99% Organisation is an inclusive volunteer movement of people who want to end mass impoverishment using peaceful means.
Read our blog about 99% here
AVAAZ - THE WORLD IN ACTION
SUPPORT CAMPAIGNS AROUND THE WORLD
Avaaz is an ally, and a rallying point, for the disadvantaged everywhere.
- Zainab Bangura, Director General at UNON
Avaaz—meaning "voice" in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages - launched in 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.
Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues, from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change. Our model of internet organising allows thousands of individual efforts, however small, to be rapidly combined into a powerful collective force.
(Read about results on the Highlights page.)
The Avaaz community campaigns in 17 languages, served by a core team on 6 continents and thousands of volunteers. We take action -- signing petitions, funding media campaigns and direct actions, emailing, calling and lobbying governments, and organizing "offline" protests and events -- to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform the decisions that affect us all.
It's time to create the world we want
With your help together we can fight for a fair and peaceful world for everyone
For the latest Greenpeace petition, click below:
Scotland's leading environmental campaigns organisation.
We want a world where everyone can enjoy a healthy environment and a fair share of the earth’s resources.
From grassroots groups to the Scottish Parliament, we campaign for environmental justice and a just transition to a fossil fuel-free Scotland.
Together we push for the transformational changes needed in Scotland and around the world – for people and planet.
Care2 gives you the tools to make the impossible possible.
Sign the latest petitions on the world's largest social network for good
"The best way to predict the future is to create it!" - Dennis Gabor
Progress. Kindness. Community. Action.
Our Promise: Welcome to Care2, the world's largest community for good. Here, you'll find over 45 million like-minded people working towards progress, kindness, and lasting impact.
Care2 Stands Against: bigots, racists, bullies, science deniers, misogynists, gun lobbyists, xenophobes, the willfully ignorant, animal abusers, frackers, and other mean people. If you find yourself aligning with any of those folks, you can move along, nothing to see here.
Care2 Stands With: humanitarians, animal lovers, feminists, rabble-rousers, nature-buffs, creatives, the naturally curious, and people who really love to do the right thing.
You are our people. You Care. We Care2
While the NSS has a national and international focus, the key issues in Scotland mostly but not exclusively centre round education, and the issues of denominational and non-denominational schooling, discriminatory employment and selection policies in faith schools, Religious Observance and Religious & Moral Education, Creationism and ID in science classrooms and the role of school chaplains.
If there is any way you think you can contribute to our efforts to make Scotland a fairer country free from religious privilege, sectarianism and discrimination on grounds of religious or non-religious belief, then please do get in touch. I would recommend following the NSS on Facebook and Twitter and follow the NSS in Scotland through @NSSScotland or @AMcBay_NSS.
We work in the UK and internationally to challenge religion's disproportionate influence on governments and in public life. We defend freedom and equality as a counterbalance to the powerful religious lobby and religious impulses that can threaten human rights worldwide.
We support secular cases in the courts; we lobby policy makers; and we provide a secular voice in the media. We have a 150-year track record of changing society for the better. And we have gained recognition at a global level.
The National Secular Society is a non-party-political organisation with members from across the social, religious and political spectrum.
The NSS is a democratic and independent non-profit organisation which receives no funding from government or other public bodies. Our campaigning is wholly supported by our members and supporters – people like you who share our belief in the urgent need to keep religion and politics separate.
Becoming a member of the NSS is a declaration of your belief in fairness, freedom and human rights. Make a stand. Join us and add your voice to the call for a secular society.
Edinburgh Secular Society is an organisation based in Edinburgh dedicated to promoting secularism across Scotland.
Edinburgh Secular Society on Facebook
Latest news:
Garrett Stell discusses the undemocratic anachronism of unelected and unaccountable religious nominees on council education committees: whether they should have votes or indeed, given their minority representation of Scots, have seats at all.
Opposing any change to the status quo is Marian Macintyre from the Church of Scotland’s Faith Impact Forum who argues that even without a vote, these intruders contribute with “sensitive and informed discussions” representing the “ethos of their faith group” and that theirs is a “pastoral” role.
Religious representatives defend divisive sectarian faith schools to maintain their precious “ethos”, they seek to reduce information available to LGBT young people in the ridiculous belief that they will then not “choose” such a lifestyle, and Edinburgh Secular Society uncovered an example of a creationist who called evolution "really illogical", sitting at the table in South Lanarkshire!
What possible wisdom is Mrs MacIntyre defending other than to suggest more of her god in schools?
Neil Barber
Edinburgh Secular Society
Common Weal is wholly funded by individual supporters giving regular or one-off donations and from small profits from our merchandise sales. Be a part of Scotland’s growing grassroots think tank and movement.
Common Weal is a people-powered think-and-do tank in Scotland. We develop policy on and campaign for social and economic equality, for well-being and the environment, quality of life, for peace and justice.
We seek to promote thinking, practice and campaigning on a wide range of social, economic and cultural areas. Some of our biggest issues are social and economic equality, participative democracy, environmental sustainability, well-being, quality of life, peace, justice and cooperation on the left of the political spectrum. We are not affiliated to any political party but work in partnership with a wide range of organisations.
We are governed by a Board drawn from a diverse range of activist circles in Scotland and they oversee our work and set our agenda. We are a fast and responsive organisation which is able quickly to look at and deal with big issues as and when they arise.
We are almost wholly funded by small, regular donations from members of the public – our average monthly donation is £10. We do much work collaboratively and will share project costs where we can, and from time to time we will carry out commissions for organisations whose values we share. We also make some income from merchandise (as well as publishing books we produce T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and more).
Who we are:
Wellcome is a global charitable foundation established in 1936. Through our work, we support science to solve the urgent health issues facing everyone.
Our mission:
We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
We fund curiosity-driven research, and we’re taking on three of the biggest health challenges facing humanity – climate change, infectious disease and mental health.
With a £37.8 billion investment portfolio, we give researchers the time and resources they need to make breakthroughs.
We also work with policymakers, run advocacy campaigns, and form partnerships with other organisations to ensure everyone, everywhere benefits from advances in health science.
WE BELIEVE IN A WORLD FREE FROM TORTURE
We believe no one should be tortured for being who they are. Are you in?
Fairtrade is a system of certification that aims to ensure a set of standards are met in the production and supply of a product or ingredient. For farmers and workers, Fairtrade means workers’ rights, safer working conditions and fairer pay. For shoppers, it means high-quality, ethically produced products.
Choosing Fairtrade means standing with farmers for fairness and equality, against some of the biggest challenges the world faces. It means farmers creating change, from investing in climate-friendly farming techniques to developing women in leadership.
With Fairtrade you change the world a little bit every day. Through simple shopping choices, you are showing businesses and governments that you believe in fair and just trade.
Scotland’s curriculum – Curriculum for Excellence -
helps our children and young people gain the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for life in the 21st century.
Q: What are the 7 principles of the Curriculum for Excellence?
A: Challenge and enjoyment; breadth; progression; depth; personalisation and choice; coherence; relevance.
link: Curriculum for Excellence: Experiences and outcomes PDF (300+ pages)
Yoga is a way of life.
Classes by Susan Ross Yoga Teacher & Celebrant, Falkirk area
tel: 07979 340 099
