Tenants
Provide a range of services for children and adults with a learning disability: welfare rights advice, supported employment, housing with support, services for children, adults, care at home and a volunteer unit.
Provide advocacy workers for people with mental health problems beginning compulsory treatment.
Enables other voluntary organisations to focus on their core activities by providing accommodation and services at low cost while maintaining very high quality.
Dedicated to giving friendly and practical help to physically disable people. To achieve this ECAS does everything from running classes through to providing individual grants for holidays and equipment and supporting initiatives to bring greater freedom to physically disabled people.
Provide accommodation opportunities and support for young homeless people. The Smartmove project provides guarantees for landlords for tenants who cannot afford a deposit. They also run a refugee drop-in service at St Georges West church and farm for residential volunteers.
Represents the interests of tenants and residents in the City of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Young Carers Project
To provide support for children and young people who have caring responsibilities at home.
Aims to empower people who have disabilities to engage in the social, leisure and educational activities of their choice. 22 clubs across Scotland, 3 youth clubs in Edinburgh.
Part of UK wide Fairbridge organisations which aims to offer long-term personal development programme to inner city young people. The FIS office fundraises for the Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee teams.
Grapevine provides information, mostly by telephone, on matters such as benefits, housing, transport and equipment for disabled people in the Edinburgh area.
Employment assistance to people with disabilities - one to one support, getting disabled people into employment, creating their own jobs and giving network support to employers seeking help in this area. Provide a database of employers, help organisations to market to employers for disability employment and have an interactive web site.
Lothian Centre for Integrated Living
Assist disabled people to live independently in the community by means of independent living, payroll, and training and peer counselling services.
MILAN (SWO) Ltd is a day care provision for older Asian people from Indian Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Mauritian communities.
Men In Childcare attract and increase the number of men in the childcare profession.
To support and promote mobile community projects through advice, information and training.
A mental health charity that provides support services for vulnerable people across Scotland.
Provides support, information, counselling and safe temporary accommodation for ethnic minority women who are suffering from domestic violence or any form of abuse.
National organisation of disabled students - information service for individuals and institutions, lobbying and advice on policy development, voluntary projects for disabled people, monitoring developments - FE and HE, training and careers advice.
Training and adult guidance project which seeks to empower black minority ethnic people, helping them access sustainable employment directly or via appropriate education and training programmes.
Working with disadvantaged and vulnerable people in a positive and creative way.
Provides programmes for young people with limited opportunities with an emphasis on personal and social development, shared experiences and enjoyment in an outdoor setting.
Assist multi disabled visually impaired children and adults to help them fulfil their maximum physical, intellectual, emotional and social potential and providing residential and day-care assistance.
Women onto Work provides intensive pre-vocational training courses and guidance programmes to women who face the greatest disadvantages in terms of accessing employment, education and training opportunities
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