Useful contact numbers for Highland Council Services
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Barchester’s Charitable Foundation
Services provided: Barchester’s Charitable Foundation is a charity that helps older people and other adults with a disability across England, Scotland and Wales. We give grants to help reduce isolation and loneliness, promote group activities and generally improve people’s mobility and quality of life. We help individuals with: Manual and powered wheelchairs Mobility scooters Specialised…
Living Life (NHS 24)
If negative thoughts and feelings are affecting your daily life, specialist support can help your recovery. Living Life is a free phone service which provides talking therapy to help you recognise unhelpful thought patterns and positive ways of coping. The service is available to anyone in Scotland aged 16 and over with: • low mood…
Scottish Legal Complaints Commission
Services provided: The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) receives all complaints about legal practitioners in Scotland. They operate independently of the legal profession and are impartial and accessible. They investigate and resolve complaints about inadequate professional services, refer conduct complaints to the relevant professional bodies and have oversight of complaints handling across the legal profession.…
Yellow Card Centre Scotland
Aims: The mission of the Yellow Card Centre Scotland is to enhance and safeguard the public’s health in Scotland by ensuring that the adverse effects of medicines are minimised. To meet this objective they seek to: Raise the profile of adverse drug reactions as an important health issue amongst both professionals and the public in…
Befrienders Highland
Befriending organisation for people who have experienced mental health problems, or are lonely or isolated and live in the Highlands