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On this page we describe some of the many activities with which our members are involved.
Support for People with Learning Disabilities
Members in Elgin provide toilet bags for hospitals and support the local ENABLE group.
They also provide toiletry items for Aberlour Child Care Trust, which was started by a Rector of the Episcopal Church in Aberlour.
He personally paid for an orphanage to be built next to the Episcopal Church in Aberlour. This has since closed, but the organisation still supports children, into adult hood, by providing accommodation etc. Most of the people have learning or other difficulties. Aberlour is one of the congregations looked after by the Rector of Elgin.
Premature Baby Clothes
A number of branches have members who make baby clothes for premature and still-
Perth Prison Play Area
More volunteers are needed to play with children when they visit their fathers.
Please contact Lesley Brooke on the St. Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane Diocesan page to find out more.
To find out more about the MU and prison work click here.
Fife Contact Centre, Kirkcaldy
The Centre provides a welcoming, neutral and non-
Promoting and maintaining contact with both parents helps to minimize damage caused by separation or divorce. Vulnerable children can suffer many negative effects, amongst which low self esteem, lack of confidence, behavioural difficulties and an unrealistic picture of the parent with whom they no longer live. Meeting other children in similar circumstances helps a child to feel less isolated and different.
Showground Baby-
Members provide baby changing facilities at Agricultural Shows around Scotland.
The picture on the left shows the baby changing tent at Doune & Dunblane Show and the one on the right, the Perth Show, both last summer. The Mums and Dads really appreciated this as an alternative to changing and feeding babies and young children in toilets so much so that they asked us to provide a similar tent at Drymen Show and if we would consider having one at the Royal Highland Show next year.
Find out more about the Baby Changing Facility at the Drymen Show in May 2008 by clicking this link: Drymen Show
Recipe Book for Skint Singles
Every year, we sell this to students at Glasgow University and to other charities.