The Workplace Equality Fund involves collaborative projects between private/public organisations and charities/third sector organisations.
It may be possible that private / public employers have a project idea but would like advice on who they could potentially work with. If that is the case, you can contact us by email at enquiries@equalityadvice.scot.
We have listed charities / third sector organisations below who are willing to partner in potential Workplace Equality Fund projects.
You can click on the plus (+) sign beside the organisations name to find out more about what they do and how you can get in contact with them.
Aberdeen Cyrenians put the needs of North East Scotland’s most vulnerable and socially excluded people first — leading at the frontline of service, care and influence for 50+ years.
Website: Aberdeen Cyrenians (weareac.org)
Key Contact: Emma Bellu (Grants and Trusts Coordinator)
Email: hello@weareac.org
Phone: 0300 303 0903
A strategic national infrastructure organisation, BEMIS aims to empower the diverse Ethnic Minority third sector.
Address: BEMIS, Mezzanine, 70 Hutcheson Street, Glasgow, G1 1SH
Phone: 0141 255 2133
Contact: Sue Barnes
E Mail: mail@bemis.org.uk
Web: www.bemis.org.uk
BAVS is an independent voluntary organisation, established in 1971, to support, inform, represent and provide services to the community and voluntary groups in the Berwickshire area.
Address: 55 Newtown Street, Duns, TD11 3AU
Phone: 01361 883 137
Contact: Jenny Haines (Senior Community Development officer)
E Mail: admin@bavs.org.uk
Web: www.bavs.org.uk
Performing arts classes to creative, social and recreational groups for all ages.
CVS Falkirk & District is recognised by Scottish Government and Falkirk Community Planning Partnership (CPP) as the third sector interface for the Falkirk area.
CVS have a primary role in ensuring the continuation and development of a vibrant third sector (charities, social enterprises, community and voluntary groups etc) in Falkirk.
CVS are keen to hear from any organisations, regardless of sector that may be looking to explore partnership working opportunities and project ideas for an application to WEF.
Address: Unit 6, Callendar Business Park, Callendar Road, FALKIRK, FK1 1XR
Contact Name: Lynsey Hansford
Telephone: 01324 692000
Email: info@cvsfalkirk.org.uk
Website: www.cvsfalkirk.org.uk
Close the Gap is Scotland’s expert policy advocacy organisation working on women’s labour market equality.
166 Buchanan Street
Glasgow
G1 2LW
Email: info@closethegap.org.uk.
Telephone: 0141 572 4730
Deaf Action exists to support the diversity of deaf people, including deaf users of British Sign Language (BSL), and those who are deafened, deafblind or hard of hearing. Their work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access and opportunity.
49 Albany Street
Edinburgh, EH1 3QY
Tel: 0131 556 3128
WhatsApp (text or video call): 07775 620 757
Email: admin@deafaction.org
Flexibility Works is the way of harnessing our energy, knowledge and passion to support more employers than ever before to move their dial on flexible working. Their approach is human, professional and practical.
The charity has worked with large and small organisations across different sectors to create working culture change.
Email: hello@flexibilityworks.org
Contact Form: Contact us | Flexibility Works
Telephone Number: 0141 378 8330
Community-led charity supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals and families.
Email: hope@hopeamplified.org.uk
Contact Form: hope amplified Contact address
Inclusion Scotland believes in and is founded upon the social model of disability, we are disabled by the barriers we face rather than our impairments themselves. Using the social model, they work to achieve positive changes to policy and practice, so that disabled people are fully included throughout all Scottish society as equal citizens.
Telephone: 0131 370 6700 (Typetalk calls welcome)
Email: info@inclusionscotland.org
BSL Scotland: Contact Scotland (contactscotland-bsl.org)
M:ADE seek to establish projects that address local issues in communities across the region of Moray, Scotland. Driven by the ethos of having a positive social impact through grassroots collaboration, their aim is to build, adapt and respond creatively with and for local people.
Email: stacey@morayartsdevelopmentengagement.org
Outside the Box provides development support to groups and people across Scotland who want to make a difference in their communities.
Outside the Box’s vision is a society where communities are welcoming and inclusive, and where people can contribute to making their communities work well for them and for everyone.
Address: Outside the Box,
The Old Toll, Harestanes, West Linton. EH46 7AH.
Telephone: 0141 419 0451
Email: admin@otbds.org
Website: Home – Outside the Box (otbds.org)
PKAVS vision is a Perth & Kinross where all communities are inclusive and connected, and local people reach their potential.
By working in partnership and providing person-centred support, they enhance lives and connect communities in Perth & Kinross.
Address: The Gateway, North Methven Street, Perth, PH1 5PP
Phone: 01738 567076
Contact: Admin team
E Mail: admin@pkavs.org.uk
Web: www.pkavs.org.uk
SUSE is the national representative body for supported employment providers and anyone interested in ensuring that disadvantaged people across Scotland have the opportunity of a working life.
Scottish Union of Supported Employment
1 Neasham Drive
Kirkintilloch
East Dunbartonshire
G66 3FA
Email: info@susescotland.scot
Telephone: 0141 777 5840
The Challenges Group is a group of social businesses and charities with over 20 years’ global operation, including over 10 years’ experience designing and delivering work-readiness and professional skills development programmes to help different groups access fair, sustainable work.
In Scotland, they run an award -winning women returners programme, Making Work Work – for Women Returners and help employers appreciate and access the talent and enthusiasm of women returners as part of a diverse workforce, helping deliver innovation, impact, profitability and equality.
Website: Making Work Work – The Challenges Group
Contact Name: Lynn Houmdi
Third Sector Hebrides exists to support the third sector on Lewis to develop and flourish by providing advice, information and practical services leading to more inclusive, prosperous, better educated and healthier communities across the Outer Hebrides.
Phone: 01851 702632
Contact: Admin Team
Email: enquiries@tshebrides.org.uk
Voluntary Action South Ayrshire (VASA) is the local Third Sector Interface.
It is recognised by Scottish Government and South Ayrshire Council as fulfilling a key role in ensuring the continued development of a robust Third Sector in South Ayrshire.
As VASA has been created from an amalgamation of Volunteer Centre South Ayrshire (VCSA) and Council for Voluntary Organisations in Kyle and Carrick (CVOKC) it is founded on a wealth of experience gained during decades of work with Third Sector organisations, agencies and groups operating in South Ayrshire.
Address: Voluntary Action South Ayrshire, 1st floor, Boswell House, 10 Arthur Street, Ayr, KA7 1QJ
Phone: 01292 432661
Contact: admin Team
Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire is South Lanarkshire’s Third Sector Interface (TSI). Third sector Interfaces across Scotland are required by the Scottish Government to operate within 4 core areas of activity:
- Volunteering development
- Social Enterprise development
- Supporting and developing a strong third sector
- Building the third sector relationship with community planning
Within these 4 core areas they deliver a wide range of activities and services designed for the benefit of the Third Sector and wider community.
Website: Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire (vaslan.org.uk)
Office: 128 Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0EW
Telephone: 01698 300390
Email: office@vaslan.org.uk
Works+ has been supporting young people in the Scottish Borders since 2018. Their approach prioritises confidence and wellbeing alongside developing skills and employability options for unemployed young persons aged 16 to 24 years.
Contact Us Form: Contact | Works+ (worksplus.works)
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