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Celebrating 15 years of charity work in Scotland It feels like only yesterday that we were at the SECC for this year’s edition of SCVO’s The Gathering, but over the last six weeks we have been reflecting on how we can put all of the great learning into …

When Jennifer Learmonth became a volunteer befriender, she wanted to work with people as an alternative to her day job in sales.

We’re always inspired when we see our clients gaining confidence and getting involved. But we’re even more inspired when they go on to encourage someone else in turn.

‘Without the P-Pod, he would have to sit in his wheelchair until bedtime or go straight to bed after he got back from school, and lie on the floor on a mat over the weekend. Your funding has changed his life’.

It’s one thing volunteering in a swimming class for physically disabled adults but it’s quite another being the group leader and that is exactly what happened when Neil Russell came along to the Ecas swimming group in 2011.