Disability Resources Society and Culture Scotland United Kingdom

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• Cornerstone - A charity providing services for adults and children with learning disabilities across Scotland; information about organisation, services, recruitment, and branch contact details.
  
• Key - Provides individualised support to people with learning disabilities in a range of home and community settings. Information on the organisation, and its housing and care services.
  
• The Dochas Fund - Scottish charity providing information and support to people affected by Motor Neurone Disease and Guillain-Barré syndrome. History, focus, cards and prints.
  
• Lothian Autistic Society - Advice and help for parents in the Lothian area of Scotland.
  
• Douglas Bader Community Garden - Enabling garden project, volunteer courses, community recreational facility for people who want to volunteer in the community, gardening therapy, for those with special needs, run by a non-profit making organisation based in Cupar, Fife.
  
• Visual Impairment Scotland - A national organisation of people who work in the area of visual impairment to help visually impaired children and their parents. Information about their activities.
  
• Epilepsy Action Scotland - Provides general information about epilepsy, their services and campaigns, and their branch network.
  
• Camphill Scotland - Supports Camphill Communities and special education in Scotland, where volunteer co-workers live with and care for people with special needs. Includes general information and links to community and school sites.
  
• Sight Action - Charity which offers support to blind and partially sighted people in the Highlands and Western Isles. Includes details of services and how to donate or volunteer.
  
• Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living - A user-led organisation that supports and enables disabled people to live independent lives.
  
• Royal National Institute of the Blind, Scotland - Promotes the interests of people in Scotland with serious sight problems through campaigning on rights and access and delivering services supporting employment, education, families, social care and complex needs.
  
• Sense Scotland - Non-profit organisation working with people who have impairments to vision and hearing with or without other disabilities.
  
• Carr-Gomm Scotland - Non-profit charity providing supported living and person-centred support to people with disabilities and mental health issues.
  
• Deafblind Scotland - Association of deafblind and dual-sensory impaired people offers information about the condition, and about support offered to sufferers, families and carers. Includes event and contact details.
  
• Intowork - Working in partnership with employers to find work for the disabled in Edinburgh and the Lothians. Summarises legislation and presents project details.
  
• Seagull Trust - Free canal cruising in Scotland for people with special needs; includes branch finder, bookings, news, trust history and contacts.
  
• Scottish Disability Equality Forum - Organisation dedicated to aiding those affected by disability through fundraising, events and participation from disability groups and individuals.
  
• Cue and Review - Independently-funded group, transcribing print magazines and newspapers into audio formats for the benefit of visually- and reading-impaired people. Details of services, partners, and volunteer opportunities.
  
• The Scottish Society for Autism - Seeks to ensure the provision of education, care, support and opportunities for people of all ages with autism in Scotland. Information about their services, and programmes.
  
• CarersNet - The Coalition of Carers in Scotland. Includes local groups, young carers' groups, statistics and information for both professional and home carers.
  
• Forse House Residential Nursing Home - Residential nursing home offering short term or long term health care for people with learning difficulties, disabilities or terminal illness.
  
• Momentum - Helps disabled and excluded people throughout Scotland achieve their potential. Includes information about activities and fund-raising.
  
• Deaf Action - Provides a range of services to deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing people, their families and carers, mainly in Edinburgh and the Lothians, but also elsewhere in Scotland. Contact details.
  
• Enable - A membership organisation in Scotland for people with learning disabilities and family carers. Information about their campaigns, services, events and fundraising, and partners.
  
• Margaret Blackwood Housing Association - Housing for disabled people and their families throughout mainland Scotland. Also individually tailored care and support packages. Housing design, adaptations, and access audits.
  
• Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability - A partnership of 13 organisations offering advice, consultancy and awareness raising. Information on their campaigns, research, membership, publications and contact details.
  
• UPDATE: Scotland's National Disability Information Service - Provide a membership package of disability information, resources and services to organisations and members of the public; information about publications, helpline, and services.
  
• The Advocacy Project - Supports disabled people, people with mental health issues and older people across Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.
  
• The Scottish Spina Bifida Association - Scotland´s voice for spina bifida, hydrocephalus and related conditions. Includes information about services available and fund-raising.
  
• Pamis - Works with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, their family carers and professionals who support them. Information about their network, activities and projects, and their campaigns.
  
• The Royal Blind Asylum and School - Charity providing for the education, training, employment, care and welfare of blind and visually impaired people in Scotland. Annual report and information on their activities.
  
• Shopmobility Moray - Free-of-charge loan of scooters and wheelchairs to people with long or short term mobility problems, on a daily basis for electrical aids and longer term for manual aids.
  
• Turning Point Scotland - Charitable organisation listing learning disability, drugs, mental health and homelessness services offered. Includes contact, annual report, newsletter and job vacancy details.
  
• Walking on Air - Charity helping wheelchair users to go gliding. Information about the club and the aircraft and full contact details.
  
• Phew Scotland - Respite short breaks centre for the disabled, offering details of aims, accommodation, booking, history, directions and contact details.
  
• Deaf Connections - The oldest charity established for Deaf people in Scotland. Information on services of the organisation.
  
• The Scottish Council on Deafness - National co-ordinating body for voluntary and statutory organisations which cater for Deaf, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people, their families and carers, and professionals. Information on activities and events.
  
• Down's Syndrome Scotland - Information about the condition, with advice and guidance for individuals affected, their families and carers. Includes information about publications, membership and activities of the organisation.
  
• Scottish Association for Sign Language Interpreters - Offers details of services provided, on membership, finding an interpreter, news, events, sign video and contact details.
  
• NoteText - Professional speech to text services for deaf and hard of hearing people. Glasgow based.
  
• Visibility - A charitable organisation offering practical advice, help, and support for blind and visually impaired people in the West of Scotland.
  
• Aberlour Child Care Trust - A charity providing residential and community based services for some of Scotland's most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. Details, how to help, and news.
  
  

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