Miscellaneous

A V on the right hand side on this list means that the organisation is actively seeking volunteers.

Albion Trust (property)

"The Albion Trust runs Norton Park, a sustainable building service for non-profit, community organisations in Edinburgh."

Association of Scottish Talking Newspapers
"The main objective of the Association of Scottish Talking Newspapers (ASTN) is to help people who cannot read newspapers and magazines, whether due to visual impairment or some disability, which makes reading a strain."

The Bike Station
"The Bike Station is a community project that accepts donated bikes from members of the public and recycles them for use by priority groups of people such as the long term unemployed, those who have been homeless and those with mental health problems. A proportion of renovated bikes are sold to raise funds."

Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition
"The Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition unites a wide variety of individuals, members and affiliated groups including campaigns, political parties, NGOs and churches."

English Speaking Union Scotland
"ESU Scotland is an educational charity whose purpose, shared with the English-Speaking Union internationally, is to promote international understanding and human achievements through the widening use of the English language throughout the world."

Humanist Society Scotland
Society based on humanist principles, with secular wedding, child naming and funeral services provided.

Infusion Cooperative
"Infusion Cooperative is the expert consultancy in service user involvement."

Lothian Sound
"Lothiansound is a weekly audio recording of news and events read mainly from the Edinburgh Evening News. A Scottish charity, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lothiansound is run entirely by Volunteers and supplied free of charge to over 600 Listeners. To Listeners who are registered blind or partially sighted, even the postage is free, thanks to the Post Office "Articles for the Blind" arrangement."

Meadows Chamber Orchestra
"The MCO has performed regularly and with critical acclaim to audiences in Edinburgh and many parts of Scotland for almost 30 years. A tradition of imaginative programming and exciting performances has given the Orchestra a unique place in Scottish musical life."

Mr McFall's Chamber
"Mr McFall’s Chamber is an adventurous group of musicians – by and large string quartet, piano and bass. We frequently add percussion to this mix as well as welcoming a number of vocalists as guests."

National Association of Youth Orchestras
"The National Association of Youth Orchestras was formed in 1961 in order to represent youth orchestras throughout the UK and to foster their development. Its membership is open to all such organisations including student orchestras, chamber orchestras, symphonic, wind and jazz orchestras and chamber music ensembles, whether independent or under the control of local authorities or music services."

One World Shop
"We are a leading fair trade retail company in Scotland, set up in 1983."

RAF Benevolent Fund
"The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund provides financial and practical assistance to anyone who is serving, or has ever served in the RAF, and their partners and dependants too."

Re-Union Canal Boats
"Re-Union Canal Boats is a social enterprise that hires out a canal boat on Edinburgh's Union Canal for staff away days, events, training, conferences and community activities."

Royal British Legion
"The Royal British Legion Scotland is the prime ex-Service organisation and one of Scotland’s best known and most highly respected charitable organisations."

RSABI
"RSABI is a unique Scottish charity dedicated to the relief of hardship and poverty amongst people who have depended for their livelihoods on the land."

SACRO
"Sacro aims to promote community safety across Scotland through providing high quality services to reduce conflict and offending."

Scotland Against Criminalising Communities
"We defend the democratic right of everyone - including refugee and expatriate communities - to dissent and to resist oppression, nationally and internationally. We support community organisations and solidarity campaigns in their exercise of this right. We promote and support public meetings throughout Scotland to highlight the way that civil liberties are being eroded in the name of the War on Terror and to help people organise in defence of their rights."

Scotland Indymedia
"Don't hate the media, be the media."

Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance
"The Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance promotes, supports and defends the principles and practice of independent advocacy across Scotland."

Scottish Institute of Human Relations
"SIHR aims to facilitate the growth of individuals in their sense of themselves, their relationships, their workplaces, and cultural environments through the application of psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and systemic ideas."

Scottish National War Memorial
"The Scottish National War Memorial commemorates nearly 150,000 Scottish casualties in the First World War, 1914 - 1918, over 50,000 in the Second World War, 1939 - 1945 and the campaigns since 1945, including the Malayan Emergency, the Korean War, Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and the Gulf War."

Scottish Veterans' Residences
"SVR is Scotland's oldest ex-service charity, founded in 1910 to support independent living for ex-service men and women and their spouses of all ages."

SSAFA Forces Help
"We provide support for the serving men and women in today’s Armed Forces and for those who have served - even if it was only for a single day. We also care for the needs of their families and dependants."

Theodore Salvesen Trust
"The Theodore Salvesen Memorial Trust is a grant giving charity registered in Scotland."

Tipereth
"Tiphereth is part of the CAMPHILL MOVEMENT, which was founded in 1940 and works to create communities in which vulnerable children and adults with learning difficulties, can live, learn and work with others in healthy social relationships based on mutual care and respect."

VL Friendships Scotland
"VL Scotland is a Scottish charity which promotes international friendship and understanding by welcoming visitors from other countries to Scotland."

Word Out - Edinburgh Stammering
"Word-Out is a group of people who stammer with or without prior therapy experience. We meet on alternate Monday evenings in Edinburgh."

World Development Movement
"WDM Scotland is the Scottish wing of the World Development Movement (WDM). WDM tackles the underlying causes of poverty. We lobby decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote positive alternatives. We work alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice."