Charities

REACT Disaster Response provide humanitarian action for the hardest-to-reach and most vulnerable. We are a disaster and crisis response charity, operating both in the UK and overseas. Established in 2015, teams of highly trained volunteer REACT Responders have the skills and expertise to rapidly identify and meet critical needs, helping people and communities affected by sudden or unexpected events.

Read Easy recruits, trains and supports volunteers to give one-to-one tuition to adults who struggle with reading. Working through community-based volunteer groups, Read Easy offers a free, friendly, flexible approach to learning to read for any adult who either can't read at all, or who lacks confidence with reading. People work at their own pace and the reading scheme builds reading skills, confidence and self-esteem.

Red Balloon are an education and well-being provision for young people who have self-excluded from mainstream school. Our students attend full-time and are taught one-to-one or in small groups. Our aims are to raise their self-esteem, aid their personal development, get them back on an academic track, and then support their return to mainstream education or their entry to college or employment.

Our vision is for Scotland to have a well-forested and productive landscape as well as a culture which values the contribution that trees and woods bring to our lives. Since its beginnings in 1991, Reforesting Scotland has helped bring about a transformation in the way we, as a nation, view Scotland’s forest resource and the level to which communities have become involved in managing their local woodlands. Reforesting Scotland aims to: Promote a sustainable forest culture and economy in a well-forested land Develop the use of locally-produced forest goods and services Encourage social and ecological restoration in forests and in wider land use Raise awareness of the benefits of low-energy living based on woodland resources Place the Scottish forestry situation in an international context.