If I told you that over 700,000 people used Scotland’s public libraries in 2019 for health related support – you may be surprised? This confirms what many people  already know that public libraries have supported health and wellbeing since their incept …

Samaritans are here to listen for anyone who needs us 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Since the coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions we’re all taking to contain it changed all our lives, this space to listen has become more vital than ever. Volun …

If you’re one of the 1,800 people in Scotland who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s while you’re of working age, your concerns are likely to be about more than health. You might worry about your personal relationships, children, work, keeping a roof …

Room for Art is social prescribing project, providing visual arts workshops facilitated by professional artists. Our participants are referred by GPs, OTs, community link workers, social care agencies, and through self-referral. Our participants are pe …

Here at West Dunbartonshire CVS, the local Third Sector Interface, we pride ourselves on our community focus and our commitment to co-producing services with those who will ultimately use them. Our strapline, ‘for communities…with communities’ isn’t ju …

In Ayrshire the Breastfeeding Network Peer supporters work in partnership with midwives, health visitors and the infant feeding team to create an Integrated Infant Feeding Team. Our peer supporters offer evidence based, non-judgemental and unbiased Bre …

CLiCK is a Scotland-wide project supporting women who sell or exchange sex. We are a partnership of organisations working together with women’s needs and voices at the heart of the service. Our trained, trauma informed Women’s Workers across Scotland p …

Informing families and facilitating friendships The idea for Breast Buddies (BB), a mum to mum peer support service for new mothers, originated in Perth & Kinross and was conceived and developed in 2017 by a group of NHS breastfeeding support volun …

Caring for those approaching the end of life in Scottish Hospitals Over half a million Scots will die in acute hospitals in the next twenty years, and millions of people with palliative care needs and approaching the end of life will be cared for in a …

During the Covid pandemic this year, the National Breastfeeding Helpline has provided (and continues to do so) a vital service to families, offering evidence based, non-judgmental, unbiased, accessible breastfeeding information and support to anyone wh …