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Welcome to all the organisations that have joined SCVO recently. You can find out more about them below:
The Northern & Clyde Water Sports Club
Joined SCVO on 22 October
<p>Education for water based sports</p>
Mauchline Burns Bairns Under 5's Group
Joined SCVO on 21 October
<p>We are an early education establishment who provide early learning and childcare to children ages 3 to 5. We are a charity run nursery who relys heavily on donations.</p>
Aonaich Scotland
Joined SCVO on 18 October
<p>We are a newly establish belief body based in Dundee, Scotland. Aonaich Scotland grew from a shared calling and years of walking alongside people through joy, loss, healing, and change. Over decades of collective service with thousands of individuals and families, a clear truth emerged: life feels most meaningful when we are genuinely connected, seen, and supported. Aonaich Scotland is a non-religious, belief-based community rooted in that simple, human need for real connection.</p> <p>At the heart of this community are a few guiding principles. Everyone is welcome, without exception, and whatever is sacred to each person is held with deep respect. Aonaich Scotland offers a safe, non-judgmental sanctuary where people can slow down, breathe, and step away from the noise of modern life. Here, emotional and mental well-being are nurtured through companionship, stillness, humour, and heart, with no financial barrier to belonging.</p> <p>The name “Aonaich Scotland” reflects this vision. In Gaelic, “Aonaich” speaks of unity, oneness, and coming together, and also echoes the enduring strength of Scotland’s mountains—steadfast through time and change.</p> <p>The community exists to stand beside people at life’s most significant moments—births, unions, learning, success, and bereavement—honouring the full arc of life. In all things, Aonaich Scotland seeks to live its name: coming together, sharing experience, and living its core principles with love, strength, and compassion.</p>
'On The Edge' Fusion Youth Orchestra
Joined SCVO on 16 October
<p>We provide multi-generational community music making opportunities via high level creative music education provision for children and young people from under served areas.</p>
1st Fochabers Scout Group
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>We are a small charity under the umbrella of the Scouts Association. We operate three sections; Beavers, Cubs and Scouts as well as providing a venue for Fochabers Rainbows and other local groups.</p>
Dundee & Angus Wood Recycling CIC
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>We are a community interest company who take in all kinds of wood and upcycle it to make products which are then sold to local people, schools, nurseries etc, at lower than average prices to help those in the community. All our items are made by adult volunteers who generally are from a background of additional support needs, we also support young people from Barnardos, work with some from the criminal justice system, and anyone else who wishes to improve their wood working skills. We are beginning to offer classes to various groups in the Dundee area, eg. halloween crafts, small wood projects.</p>
Golf in Society
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>At Golf in Society we specialise in transforming the lives of our ageing population by introducing them to the wonderful game of golf. </p> <p>We put golf at the heart of local communities, by delivering tailored golf sessions for those living with chronic illnesses like Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Loneliness, Depression & many more. </p> <p>Golf in Society is a UK-based social enterprise that uses golf to support people living with long term conditions—such as dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, loneliness, and depression—through tailored weekly sessions at local golf clubs. It operates “Golf Health Hubs,” offers carer respite, and partners with national bodies like Scottish Golf and The R&A Foundation to expand accessible, health focused golf programmes.</p> <p>What Golf in Society Does</p> <p>• Provides person centred golf activities for dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, frailty, depression, and loneliness. golfinsociety.com • Offers respite for carers, with trained facilitators supporting participants. golfinsociety.com • Delivers care home golf services and one to one sessions tailored to individual needs. golfinsociety.com Key Programmes Get Into Golf (6 week programme) • Teaches basics (grip, putting) and can progress to advanced play. • Adapted to each participant’s health needs. golfinsociety.com Forever Golf Days • 5 hour experience combining golf, wellness, and social connection. • Designed for people with early dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, and active older adults. • Cost: £55 including lunch. golfinsociety.com Weekly Golf Sessions • Typically 2 hours. • No golf experience required; wheelchair users welcome. golfinsociety.com Impact and Expansion • Supported by Scottish Golf, Active Scotland, and The R&A Foundation, which invested £100,000 to expand hubs across Scotland. golfinsociety.com • In 2025, the organisation delivered 800+ sessions, with participants walking a combined 9.5 million steps, demonstrating measurable health benefits. golfinsociety.com Golf in Society positions golf as an accessible, therapeutic activity that improves physical health, mental wellbeing, and social connection for older adults and people living with chronic conditions.</p> <p>Our Scottish team specialise in inspiring people living with a diagnosis to discover a happier healthier life. At Golf in Society we create essential, regular, reliable respite for unpaid carers. We also offer carers wellbeing events.</p> <p>At Golf in Society we specialise in transforming the lives of our ageing population by introducing them to the wonderful game of golf. </p> <p>We put golf at the heart of local communities, by delivering tailored golf sessions for those living with chronic illnesses like Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Loneliness, Depression & many more. </p> <p>Golf in Society is a UK-based social enterprise that uses golf to support people living with long term conditions—such as dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, loneliness, and depression—through tailored weekly sessions at local golf clubs. It operates “Golf Health Hubs,” offers carer respite, and partners with national bodies like Scottish Golf and The R&A Foundation to expand accessible, health focused golf programmes.</p> <p>What Golf in Society Does • Runs Golf Health Hubs at local clubs, offering inclusive, low pressure sessions for people with long term conditions. golfinsociety.com • Provides person centred golf activities for dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, frailty, depression, and loneliness. golfinsociety.com • Offers respite</p>
Greener Peebles
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>Greener Peebles runs a thriving intergenerational Community Garden project in Peebles, Scottish Borders.<br>Our ambition is to support local people to nurture and enjoy the outdoors, learn skills, connect with others and live healthy lifestyles. We aim to empower beneficiaries to feel good and reach their potential. We achieve this by running inclusive, engaging group activities, which focus on food growing, practical skill development and enhancing biodiversity. Working alongside others, on a shared practical task helps to facilitate skill development, peer support, and contributes meaningfully to community action, developing the garden as a community asset. Our activities emulate the NHS 5 Ways to be Well. The garden runs two weekly volunteering sessions, a monthly skill share and regular events. In addition to growing food and seasonal gardening tasks, our work promotes environmental sustainability. All sessions end with free harvest, and free meals are provided at celebration events through the year. Skill share topics vary every month, from practical, sustainable gardening skills, to upcycling household items, arts and crafts, and wellbeing themes. We encourage volunteers to lead skill shares to bring their own interests and hobbies to the garden, as well as running staff-led sessions, and professional workshops. Our approach to volunteering means it is easy to get involved, with opportunities for open volunteering, group sessions, and specific volunteer teams.</p>
Migrant Women Press CIC
Joined SCVO on 15 October
<p>Migrant Women Press (MWP) is a Scotland-based, migrant women-led independent media organisation and Community Interest Company (CIC) dedicated to amplifying the voices and experiences of migrant and racialised women.</p> <p>Founded in 2020, we produce community journalism and storytelling that challenges stereotypes, addresses inequalities and brings underrepresented perspectives into public conversations, particularly around gender, race, migration and social justice.</p> <p>Alongside our journalism, we create opportunities for migrant and racialised women to develop their skills, confidence and professional networks through training, mentoring, paid opportunities and our Emerging Women Journalists Fellowship.</p> <p>Our work is rooted in intersectional feminism, anti-racism and community engagement. We aim to build a more inclusive media landscape while empowering women to tell their own stories, influence public narratives and participate more fully in society.</p>
Belonging Scotland CIC
Joined SCVO on 14 October
<p>Belonging Scotland CIC is a community organisation that brings adults together to reduce loneliness and isolation, build social connection and improve wellbeing. Through community gatherings, creative activities and shared meals, we help people connect, build meaningful relationships and be included. We welcome people from all backgrounds and create a friendly space where everyone feels valued and truly belong.</p>
Kirkcudbright Swimming Pool Ltd
Joined SCVO on 14 October
<ul> <li><ol> <li>To provide in the interests of social welfare, a swimming pool and other facilities for recreation and leisure time activity available to the public at large within Kirkcudbright and environs with a view to improving their conditions to life.</li> </ol> </li> <li><ol start="2"> <li>To advance education through the provision of training in the skills of life-saving and resuscitation.</li> </ol> </li> <li><ol start="3"> <li>To provide relief for persons suffering from a mental and/or physical disability or impairment through the provision of therapy within a swimming pool environment.</li> </ol> </li> <li><ol start="4"> <li>To arrange and promote lectures, demonstrations and competitions and to form classes of instruction so as to bring about a widespread and thorough knowledge of the principles which underlie in the art of swimming and to promote and encourage the teaching of swimming and life-saving in schools, colleges and other educational establishments.</li> </ol> </li> </ul>
Loco Home Retrofit CIC
Joined SCVO on 14 October
<p>We seek to accelerate the phase out of fossil fuel heating in homes in Greater Glasgow. And in so doing, make homes healthier, less expensive to run, and to build a better community-led economy. We provide paid expert services to homeowners, contractors and local authorities.</p>
Achieve More! Scotland
Joined SCVO on 13 October
<p>Achieve More! Scotland delivers programmes to improve young people’s physical and mental health and well-being, confidence and self-esteem, aspirations, personal responsibility and life chances by engaging them in structured, positive activities that work across communities and are delivered by role models.</p> <p>These activities take place within schools and communities. Within areas of high social deprivation our diversionary activity for young people takes the form of sports, physical activity, group work, volunteering, employability and personal development sessions. Our school-based activity includes one-to-one sessions, structured curriculum time activity sessions and activity at breakfast, lunch and after-school clubs. Our employability, Levelling the Field and ASN programmes assist parents in addressing issues affecting them and support them to develop skills and confidence to support their children in their academic and life journeys.</p>
Forfar Community Connections
Joined SCVO on 13 October
<p>we support people that are facing isolation, mental health and addiction and work towards creating social groups to bring the community together</p>
Grangemouth CAR 4U
Joined SCVO on 13 October
<p>Grangemouth CAR 4U provides a community-based transport service, principally for people in the Grangemouth Community Council area, who are affected by cancer and have difficulty accessing healthcare. It provides or arranges transport to hospital, GP, diagnostic, treatment, rehabilitation, hospice and palliative-care appointments, with essential carers or companions where necessary. It may also provide related assistance, information and signposting and work with partner organisations where this furthers its charitable purposes. The transport service is directed at relieving people in need because of ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage and by advancing health. It enables eligible beneficiaries to access cancer-related diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, hospice and palliative care, while reducing transport barriers, stress and social isolation. The service is delivered entirely by volunteers for the benefit of users in our local area with all fund's to deliver the service being derived from donations and grants from local people. businesses and organisations.</p>
Voxter Centre Trust
Joined SCVO on 13 October
<p>Voxter Outdoor Centre provides affordable group accommodation and recreational facilities in a historic building in Northmavine, Shetland. We support community groups, schools, families and visitors by providing a welcoming space for outdoor activities, learning, social gatherings and wider life experiences, while preserving the building for future generations.</p>
Creative Rural Arts Workshops
Joined SCVO on 9 October
<p>Creative Rural Art Workshops (CRAW) is a non-profit Community Interest Company registered and operating in Scotland. We have been the very lucky recipients of Start It funding from Firstport, Pathways funding from South of Scotland Enterprise and Enterprise Seed Fund from Business Gateway Dumfries and Galloway. By teaching modern and traditional arts and crafts, our aim is to create a vibrant and inclusive workshops that promote, encourage and support health and wellbeing with a specific focus on those experiencing loneliness and isolation in the rural communities across Dumfries and Galloway. By providing commercially priced specialist workshops to the public we will be able to offset the cost for those less well-off which is often a symptom which contributes towards loneliness and isolation. CRAW has a commitment to breaking down barriers to participation in arts-based learning, seeing it as a process which produces more than just the end product. Our Studio Workshop and central equipment and material store is in Newton Stewart where we will run regular workshops for our beneficiaries as well as revenue raising speciality classes. In time we also plan to deliver workshops in other venues and online. We also intend to sell work made by both our artist tutors and our participants, providing another income stream for the company and helping to make our artists more sustainable in their practice</p>
G.R.I.P. Circus Arts
Joined SCVO on 9 October
<p>G.R.I.P. Circus Arts CIC is a Glasgow community circus space built by a local community of aerialists for people who want to train and learn. Our aim is to make circus arts available to everyone. At Firhill we run Intro & Beginner classes for both kids and adults plus Open sessions in a heated hall. As a CIC we reinvest back into the community making classes as low cost as possible while maintaining high safety standards.</p>
Middleton Village Hall
Joined SCVO on 9 October
<p>Middleton Village Community Hall is a key part of the Moorfoot community, supplying a hub for local community groups to provide services and events for the surrounding community. The hall has a committee who volunteer to maintain the community hall in order to keep it available for community use and also tries to organise various events and opportunities, essentially trying to ensure that the village hall remains an integral part of the community and available to all. The hall is also available to hire for community events, private events and educational workshops etc. It is a welcoming and affordable venue.</p>
Open Book
Joined SCVO on 9 October
<p>Open Book uses literature as a way of connecting people and building communities through shared reading and creative writing sessions across Scotland.</p>