Scottish Huntington’s Association (SHA) is a Scottish charity that was established by families living with Huntington’s disease (HD) in the late 1980s. Experiencing directly the dearth of services available to them, the organisation pursued the goal of setting up specialist family support services and this ultimately blossomed into the development of an extensive network of specialist services.
There are currently nine specialist HD services in Scotland; Highland, Grampian, Tayside, Angus, Fife, Lothian, Lanarkshire, Glasgow and Ayrshire. We also have three specialist youth advisors; one covering the North East, based in Aberdeen, and two the South West, based in Glasgow.
SHA also supports a network of family branches which are run by family members for family members and provide information and peer support. The groups also fundraise, are able to help people in practical ways by providing welfare grants and provide fun social opportunities. There are currently groups in Tayside, Fife, Lothian, Forth Valley, Lanarkshire, Aberdeen, Elgin, Glasgow and Ayrshire | | 'LEAP are a Scottish Charity based in Rural Renfrewshire which works within communities to tackle fuel poverty and support individuals and groups to make their homes and communities more sustainable places to live, work and play. LEAP was born out of the drive and determination of local volunteers to make a difference in their community in 2010 and established as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2013.
We aim to help reduce the amount of energy it takes to run our homes or community buildings, we provide services around energy efficiency, education, community outreach and run a community car club and our youth engagement programme Yep!
LEAP support local networks of families and vulnerable individuals to access energy efficiency measures, reduce the costs of energy supply and move out of fuel poverty. |