Impact: making better things happen
Improving the lives of physically disabled people in and around Edinburgh is what counts most when we look back over the last 100 years of Ecas.
We’ve come a long way since then, and done great things. So have our service users and volunteers.
Over the last ten years
Befriending
130 successful
befriending matches
befriending matches
12,000+ hours keeping people company through befriending
Trained 102 volunteer befrienders
Supported 99 befriendees
Ecas Grant Fund
Awarded more than £283,000 to 524 people
Activities
We’ve offered even more opportunities by adding reading and creative writing, music for fun, tai chi groups and more swimming sessions.
Activity service user responses from our survey in 2016

