Here you can find information on all of our members. Choose from the Index on the right to browse through them.
25% ME Group
25% ME Group was set up to offer support services to those severely affected by ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), and their carers.
Aberdeenshire Signposting Project
Aberdeenshire Signposting Project has provided a free, confidential, non-judgemental and impartial signposting service in the Aberdeenshire area since 2004 to people who are at risk of or are currently experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.
Action for ME
Action for ME is the UK's leading charity dedicated to improving the lives of people with ME.
Action for Sick Children (Scotland)
Action for Sick Children (Scotland) is the only charity in Scotland dedicated to informing, promoting and campaigning on behalf of the needs of all sick children within our healthcare system.
Action on Hearing
Action on Hearing helps people identify whether they have a hearing loss, campaigns for change, provides services and training and actively supports scientific and technological research.
Advocacy Matters
Advocacy Matters provides independent advocacy to people aged 16 or over, resident, studying or in hospital in the Greater Glasgow area who experience mental health problems.
Alzheimer Scotland
Alzheimer Scotland is a leading voluntary organisation helping people with dementia, their families and carers.
Angus Cardiac Group
Angus Cardiac Group supports cardiac care and rehabilitation in Angus and is open to all those living with coronary heart/cardiac disease, their partners, carers and family members, health professionals and those interested in the aims and activities of the group.
Angus Long Term Conditions Support Group
Angus Long Term Conditions Support Group is designed to give information and support to you, your carer or anyone you know with a condition that has a long term need for ongoing care. There are four self help support groups meeting regularly in Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie and Forfar.
Anticoagulation Europe
Anticoagulation Europe is the largest independent charity whose aims include the prevention of thrombosis, and the provision of information, education and support to people on anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy.
Arac
Arac identifies obstacles which prevent inclusion of disabled adults and children. By means of: Creating an Empowerment Centre, for knowledge exchange, integration and inclusion.
No website at present. Please contact LTCAS for details.
Arthritis Care in Scotland
Arthritis Care in Scotland is the voice for people with arthritis in Scotland.
Asthma UK Scotland
Asthma UK Scotland is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of people with asthma in Scotland.
Ayrshire Cancer Support
Ayrshire Cancer Support was founded in 1982 to provide emotional support and practical help for cancer patients and their families and carers throughout Ayrshire.
Backcare
Backcare (Lothian Group) is an independent national charity that helps people manage and prevent back pain.
BrainIAC (Brain Injury Awareness Campaign)
BrainIAC (Brain Injury Awareness Campaign) is a group of people with their own individual stories, who are all on the same mission - to improve things for the future. Brain Injury affects 3,500 people per year in Glasgow alone and it doesn't discriminate - it can get you whenever, wherever and whoever you are.
Breakthrough Breast Cancer
Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the UK's leading charity committed to fighting breast cancer through research, campaigning and education.
British Heart Foundation Scotland
British Heart Foundation Scotland invests in pioneering research, and support and care for heart patients.
British Lung Foundation
British Lung Foundation knows that one person in seven in the UK is affected by a lung disease, whether it is mild asthma or lung cancer, the British Lung Foundation is here for every one of them.
British Stammering Association Scotland
British Stammering Association Scotland is the only national organisation for adults and children who stammer, run by people who stammer. The Scottish branch serves as a focus for Scottish campaigns, events and services, and can engage more effectively with the national agencies in Scotland.
Cancer Care Research Centre
Cancer Care Research Centre was established so that people affected by cancer could help shape the future of cancer services in Scotland.
Cancer Link Aberdeen and North (CLAN)
Cancer Link Aberdeen and North (CLAN) is a charity for anyone affected by any cancer at any time from diagnosis onwards.
Cancer Support Scotland (TAK TENT)
Cancer Support Scotland (TAK TENT) promotes the care of cancer patients, their families, carers and friends, providing emotional support to all.
Care Co-ordination Network UK (CCNUK)
Care Co-ordination Network UK (CCNUK) is a networking organisation promoting and supporting care co-ordination or key working for disabled children and their families in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Carers Scotland
Carers Scotland is the Scottish national office of Carers UK and is the only carer-led organisation working for all carers.
Cavernoma Alliance UK
Cavernoma Alliance UK is a charity created by people affected by cavernoma otherwise known as cerebral cavernous malformations or cavernous angioma.
Centre for Health and Wellbeing
Centre for Health and Wellbeing aims to improve the lives of the increasing numbers of people who are living with long term medical conditions such as Diabetes, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Depression, Obesity and Respiratory Conditions.
Changing Faces Scotland
Changing Faces Scotland is a charity that supports and represents people who have disfigurements of the face or body from any cause.
Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland
Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland aims to improve the quality of life for people living in Scotland affected by chest, heart and stroke conditions.
Child Brain Injury Trust
Child Brain Injury Trust is a UK-wide charity offering support, information and training on childhood acquired brain injury.
Clydeside Action on Asbestos
Clydeside Action on Asbestos provides practical advice and support to those diagnosed with an asbestos-related condition and their families.
Coalition of Carers in Scotland
Coalition of Carers in Scotland is the information network for carers and carer organisations across Scotland.
Community Health Exchange (CHEX)
Community Health Exchange (CHEX) is one of the leading agencies in Scotland that provides a resource in supporting community development approaches to health improvement and challenging health inequalities.
Confer
Confer supports those who live with neurofibromatosis in Scotland.
Contact a Family
Contact a Family is a UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children.
Crohn's and Colitis UK
Crohn's and Colitis UK (the new working name for NACC) brings together people of all ages who have Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, their families and the health professionals involved in their care.
Diabetes UK Scotland
Diabetes UK Scotland works for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition.
Different Strokes
Different Strokes helps stroke survivors of working age to optimise their recovery, take control of their own lives and regain as much independence as possible by offering 'rehabilitative services', information and advice.
Disability Information Service In Perth (DISIP)
Disability Information Services in Perthshire (DISIP) allows clients to obtain a diverse range of information from one call or meeting, and from a single source.
Edinburgh M.E. Self Help Group (EDMESH)
Edinburgh ME Self Help Group (EDMESH) provides support, information and friendship to people affected by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
Epilepsy Connections
Epilepsy Connections is a community based support for people living with epilepsy in the Greater Glasgow area.
Epilepsy Scotland
Epilepsy Scotland is Scotland's voice for epilepsy, providing support and information.
Epilepsy West Lothian
Epilepsy West Lothian is a recognised Scottish Charity providing services relevant to epilepsy to the people of West Lothian.
Equal Futures
Equal Futures is funded and led by families who have chosen to take the initiative to plan and support their disabled relative to enjoy a good life anchored by inclusion and lifelong loving relationships.
FAP Gene
FAP Gene is an inherited condition which mainly affects the large intestine. The FAP Gene website was started in 2004 by Mick Mason when he realised there was a need for information on FAP. This information is from UK sources which are reliable, non-medical, up to date and easily understood.
Fibromyalgia Friends Scotland
Fibromyalgia Friends Scotland is a support group for people who live with fibromyalgia.
Flourish House
Flourish House is a rehabilitation project for people experiencing the effects of long term mental illness. Flourish house creates an enviroment by mental health problems can be helped to aquire the confidence and skills necessary to lead vocationally productive and socially satisfying lives
Fullarton Community Health House
Fullarton Community Health House works for the preservation and protection of the good health, both physical and mental, of those within the Fullarton area offering a variety of services including a self management programme for people with depression and another long term condition.
Genetic Alliance UK
Genetic Alliance UK is a UK wide alliance of over 130 patient organisations that support people affected by genetic conditions.
Glasgow Carers Forum - Mental Health
Glasgow Carers Forum - Mental Health is a constituted group of mental health carers and staff working in mental health services in Glasgow.
No website at present. Please contact LTCAS for details.
Glasgow Voices for Change
Glasgow Voices for Change - raises issues which affects the lives of users of Glasgow social work department they also campaign to highlight and attempt to resolve issues of concern to users of social work services.
No website at present. Please contact LTCAS for details.
Golightly Coaching
Golightly Coaching's aim is to support people with ME/
Gorlin Syndrome Group
Gorlin Syndrome Group is a support network offering guidance, advice and information to patients, their families and carers whose lives are affected by Gorlin Syndrome.
Haemophilia Scotland
Haemophilia Scotland works for people with haemophilia and bleeding disorders in Scotland.
Headway Glasgow
Headway Glasgow gives help and support to people affected by brain injury in Glasgow.
Headway UK
Headway UK is a charity set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury. It does this locally and nationally.
Hearing Link
Hearing Link, formerly Hearing Concern LINK, is a voluntary organisation working throughout the whole of the UK. Its aim is to connect people affected by hearing loss and their families.
Highland Community Care Forum
Highland Community Care Forum has, over the past 20 years, built up a portfolio of services for carers.
Hirschsprung's & Motility Disorders Support Network (HMDSN)
HMDSN offer support to adults and parents of children who have gastrointestinal problems such as Hirschsprung's.
HIV Scotland
HIV Scotland is the leading national policy and strategic HIV charity.
Hypermobility Syndrome Association (HMSA)
Hypermobility Syndrome Association (HMSA) (also known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type 3/Hypermobility) provides support and information to those affected by this syndrome.
IA (The Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group)
IA (The Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Support Group) primary aim is to help people who have to undergo surgery which involves the removal of their colon and the creation of either an ileostomy or an ileo-anal pouch.
IBD4friends
IBD4friends is a networking site for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Inverclyde Asthmatic Caring Group
Inverclyde Asthmatic Caring Group provides nebulisers to people with respiratory disorders in Inverclyde.
Iris Cancer Partnership
Iris Cancer Partnership supports and enables access to massage for people affected by cancer in Scotland.
Lanarkshire ME Support and Advice Group
Lanarkshire ME Support and Advice Group provides support and advice to people with ME in Lanarkshire.
No website at present. Please contact LTCAS for details.
Let's Get On With It Together
Let's Get On With It Together is derived from the motivation of different organisation within Highland, Argyll and Bute to work in partnership. The partnership has been constituted to develop and deliver a structure and sustainable self-management strategy.
Living Better Project
Living Better Project is led by RCGP Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health and the University of Stirling. Other partners in the project include Diabetes UK Scotland, British Heart Foundation (Scotland), Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, and Depression Alliance Scotland.
Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCIL)
Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCIL) is a disability and user-led organisation providing practical services to disabled people in the Lothian region.
Lupus UK
Lupus UK is the only national registered charity supporting people with systemic lupus and discoid lupus and assisting those approaching diagnosis.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer.
Macular Disease Society Glasgow Group
The Macular Disease Society is a specialist charity for people affected by any form Macular Disease
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Marie Curie Cancer Care provides free care to cancer patients and those with other terminal illnesses in their own homes.
Max Appeal
Max Appeal supporting families affected by DiGeorge syndrome, VCFS and 22q11.2 deletion.
MECOPP
MECOPP provides a variety of services to black and minority ethnic carers and communities locally, regionally and nationally.
Melanoma Action and Support Scotland (MASScot)
Melanoma Action and Support Scotland (MASScot) is a support group for people who have been diagnosed with melanoma.
Meniere's Society
Meniere’s Society is a UK registered charity dedicated to supporting people with Meniere’s disease and vestibular disorders. Meniere’s disease is a long term progressive condition affecting both balance and hearing parts of the inner ear.
Moebius Research Trust
Moebius Research Trust is dedicated to raising awareness and funding to allow research into the cause of Moebius syndrome. Moebius Syndrome is a rare congenital disorder which sadly, to date, has no cure.
Momentum
Momentum works in partnership to enable and empower disabled and excluded people to identify and achieve their goals.
Moray Disability Forum
Moray Disability Forum exists to support and assist all who have a disability whether this is physical, mental or sensory. Please contact LTCAS for details.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society Scotland
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society Scotland is Scotland's largest charity for people affected by multiple sclerosis.
Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Lothian
Music in Hospitals
Music in Hospitals enables people of all ages in hospitals, hospices, care homes and day care centres to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of high quality live music.
NAAPS
NAAPS is a UK charity representing the interests of vulnerable adults, attempting to house them within a secure family placement.
National Autistic Society
National Autistic Society champion the rights and interest of people with autism and aim to provide individuals with autism and their families with help, support and services that they can access, trust and rely upon and which can make a positive difference to their lives.
National Osteoporosis Society
National Osteoporosis Society is dedicated to eradicating osteoporosis and promoting bone health in both men and women.
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS)
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) aims to provide information and support for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), their families, friends and carers, and health professionals with an interest in RA.
Neurological Alliance of Scotland
Neurological Alliance of Scotland is a focused and purposeful forum of not-for-profit organisations and groups representing many thousands of people affected by neurological conditions in Scotland.
Open Secret
Open Secret provides confidence support and counselling services to individuals and families who live with the impact of childhood abuse in Scotland.
Organisation for Anti-Convulsant Syndrome (OACS)
OACS is a support group for the sufferers and the families of those who were born with a Fetal Anti Convulsant Syndrome (FACS). FACS is caused when a woman that takes Anti Convulsant Medication to control her Epilepsy becomes pregnant. The medication crosses the placenta and effect the developing foetus in the womb mainly during the first three months (first trimester).
Pain Association
Pain Association Scotland is a unique organisation that has pioneered the development and delivery of the self management training approach to chronic pain throughout Scotland for the last 19 years.
Pain Concern
Pain Concern provides information and support for those who live with pain and those who care for them.
Paisley FM (Fibromyalgia Support Group)
Paisley FM (Fibromyalgia Support Group) provides support and information to people with fibromyalgia, their friends and carers raising awareness of fibromyalgia in the Renfrewshire area. Paisley FM is a support group working with FMA UK.
PAMIS
PAMIS is the only organisation working with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities for a better life.
Parents of Autistic Spectrum Disorder Adults (PASDA)
Parents of Autistic Spectrum Disorder Adults (PASDA) is a support organisation for parents and carers of adults on the autistic spectrum who live in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Parkinson's UK
Parkinson’s UK is the leading charity dedicated to supporting all people with Parkinson's, their families, friends and carers.
Penumbra
Penumbra is one of Scotland's leading mental health organisations, providing a wide range of support services for adults and young people.
People First (Scotland)
People First (Scotland) started in 1989. It is an independent self-advocacy organisation in Scotland run by and for people with learning difficulties.
Pink Ladies
Pink Ladies provides confidence building courses for women in Midlothian who are affected by anxiety and depression
Plus Perth
Plus Perth improves the lives of people who have used mental health services, promoting mental health for all and challenging stigma.
PMR-GCA Scotland
PMR-GCA Scotland aims to support those who live with polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis and their families, and raise awareness of this condition.
Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity
Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity is dedicated to the concerns of people affected by Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), a range of inherited, incurable renal conditions.
Princess Royal Trust for Carers
Princess Royal Trust for Carers was created on the initiative of HRH The Princess Royal in 1991. At that time people caring at home for family members or friends with disabilities and chronic illnesses were scarcely recognised as requiring support.
Prostate Cancer Charity (Scotland)
Provide vital support for anyone affected by prostate cancer: concerned and diagnosed men, their partners, friends and families.
Psoriasis Scotland, Arthritis Link Volunteers (PSALV)
Psoriasis Scotland, Arthritis Link Volunteers (PSALV) provides Scottish based patient information, support and advice on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
Quarriers
Quarriers provides a variety of support services to children, adults, young people and carers. Their four main areas of work are epilepsy, children and families, adults with disabilities and young people.
Renfrewshire Carers Centre
Renfrewshire Carers Centre are part of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers, providing services and support to Carers in the Renfrewshire Area.
Revive MS Support
Revive MS Support is a charity dedicated to helping everyone affected by Multiple Sclerosis.
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) supports blind and partially sighted people.
Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH)
Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) is Scotland's leading mental health charity.
Scottish Burned Children's Club
Scottish Burned Children's Club is an organisation that helps children, up to the age of eighteen, who have sustained burn and scald injuries.
Scottish Dermatological Society
The object of the Society is to promote, for the public benefit, the knowledge, teaching, and practice of dermatology.
Scottish Epilepsy Initiative
Scottish Epilepsy Initiative is a dynamic and young organisation that listens to the needs of its beneficiaries to cultivate projects with a view to an advanced understanding of the issues surrounding epilepsy.
Their key focus is to work closely with people with epilepsy to provide practical solutions that make a simple, but effective impact on ordinary lives.
Scottish Head Injury Forum
Scottish Head Injury Forum aims to provide education about acquired brain injury (ABI) to professionals and people with ABI and their families.
Scottish Huntington's Association
Scottish Huntington’s Association provides expert care to families living primarily in their own homes. Just as importantly, support is offered by families for families via a network of local family support groups.
Scottish Pharmacy Board
Scottish Pharmacy Board is proud to be the professional body for pharmacists and pharmacy in England, Scotland and Wales.
Scottish Post Polio Network
Scottish Post Polio Network provides support for polio survivors in Scotland.
Scottish Spina Bifida Association
Scottish Spina Bifida Association is Scotland’s voice for Spina Bifida, hydrocephalus and related conditions.
Sense Scotland
Sense Scotland is part of the UK National Deafblind and Rubella Association and is registered as a company with charitable purposes in its own right in Scotland.
Shared Care Scotland
Shared Care Scotland was formed to promote and support the development of flexible, imaginative and person centred short break services (respite care) throughout Scotland.
Shine on Scotland
Shine on Scotland is campaigning to get vitamin D for every child in Scotland as a preventative measure against Multiple Sclerosis.
SITE
SITE provides training and support to people affected by sight loss.
Skin Care Campaign Scotland
Skin Care Campaign Scotland represents the interests of patients and patient groups. Members come from a wide range of organisations representing people with skin conditions.
Speak Easy
Speak Easy is a group of people who have a Larynegectomy (removal of the voice box) due to cancer who have now formed a self help group.
Speakability
Speakability helps aphasic individuals rebuild communication through information services and self-help groups.
Spinal Injuries Scotland
Spinal Injuries Scotland is the national voluntary organisation concerned with new and long-term spinal cord injured people, their relatives and friends along with those involved in the management, care and rehabilitation of the injury.
Stirling Health and Wellbeing Alliance
Stirling Health and Wellbeing Alliance works to empower people living in the Stirling area to improve their health and wellbeing and to tackle health inequalities.
Sue Ryder
Sue Ryder is a UK wide charity providing specialist palliative care, complex neurological care and homecare. Sue Ryder use a personalised and holistic approach to offer people choice in where and how their care and support needs are delivered.
Support in Mind Scotland
Support in Mind Scotland (formerly National Schizophrenia Fellowship Scotland) works to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people affected by serious mental illness. This includes those who are family members, carers and supporters.
TAP Fibromyalgia Support Group
TAP Fibromyalgia Support Group provides help and support for people with fibromylagia in Tayside, Angus and Perthshire.
Target Ovarian Cancer
Target Ovarian Cancer is dedicated to achieving a long and good life for every woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the United Kingdom.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Terrence Higgins Trust is at the forefront of the fight against HIV, and improving the nation's sexual health.
The Braveheart Association
The Braveheart Association helps people with heart problems in Falkirk and Clackmannanshire.
The Dystonia Society
The Dystonia Society helps and supports people with dystonia.
The Haven Centre
The Haven Centre is a registered charity which provides holistic support to people affected by a life-limiting illness.
The PBC Foundation
The PBC Foundation provides support for people with primary billiary cirrhosis, their families and friends.
The Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association
The Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association is the only national organisation in the UK dedicated to the support of people with PSP.
The Prostate Cancer Charity Scotland
The Prostate Cancer Charity Scotland was set up in 1996 in response to the urgent need to increase investment in prostate cancer research and to raise public and political awareness of a long neglected disease.
The Psoriasis Association
The Psoriasis Association provides information to give a better understanding of what psoriasis is, what causes it and what treatments are available.
The Stroke Association
The Stroke Association works for a world where there are fewer strokes and all those touched by stroke get the help they need.
The Thistle Foundation
The Thistle Foundation provides services to support disabled people live full and active lives.
Tourette Scotland
Tourette Scotland is a registered charity dedicated to providing support and information to people living with Tourette syndrome and promoting "empathy not sympathy."
Transverse Myelitis Scotland Support Group
Transverse Myelitis Scotland Support Group is dedicated to advocacy for those who have these rare neuroimmunologic conditions.
Tuberous Sclerosis Association
Tuberous Sclerosis Association is the UK charity that supports individuals, promotes awareness and seeks the causes and best possible management of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC).
Turning Point Scotland
Turning Point Scotland provides person-centred support to people affected by alcohol and drug addictions, mental health issues and learning disabilities.
Urostomy Association
The aims of the Urostomy Association are to assist those who are about to undergo or who have undergone surgery which results in a urinary diversion, such as a urostomy, continent urinary pouch or neo bladder To assist carers in the rehabilitation of people with a urinary diversion and to improve the quality of life of people who have undergone urinary diversion surgery and those who care for them.
Uveitis Information Group
Uveitis Information Group are a patient led charity, based in the UK, run by volunteers who are affected by uveitis.
VOCAL (Voice of Carers Across Lothian)
VOCAL delivers carer support through two carers centres in Edinburgh and Midlothian, and through staff based in the community. VOCAL works with carers to identify a plan of support which can include work with other agencies, referral to benefit or power of attorney surgeries and access to a range of training and lifestyle management opportunities.
Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS)
Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) is a national intermediary body of voluntary and community health organisations.
Waverley Care
Waverley Care is Scotland’s largest charity providing support to people with HIV and Hepatitis C and to their partners, families and carers.
Your Choice (Disability Information Greater Glasgow)
DIGG aims to provide people who have a long-term disability with the information they need to have control of their lives and to live life to the full. Funded by Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board, DIGG provides an information and support facility for patients, users and carers – particularly those with neurological and neuromuscular conditions, including acquired brain injury.
