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How can art and disability help empower and engage people with a physical disability? In this short and inspiring blog, Ecas art leader Graham Young shares the tale of a day out to The Kelpies in Falkirk to answer just that.

As Learning at Work Week 2019 kicks-off we’re celebrating all things learning in the charity sector by sitting down with our Befriending Assistant, Sam Collins. With the annual campaign from Campaign for Learning promoting the power of learning and the …

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’.