Category: Role

  • SNAP – Special Needs Action Project

    About

    SNAP exists to improve the lives of young people with additional needs by providing social experiences, building self-esteem, and encouraging independence. We provide opportunities for making friends and socialising supported by our caring and experienced staff and volunteer team.

    SNAP run a number of clubs and activities for young people aged 5–19 and additional services for those aged 19 and above who need the continuation of the friendships and activities at SNAP. 

    Contact

    Website: snapinverness – Special Needs Action Project in Inverness

    Email: manager@snapinverness.org

    Phone: 01463 233 426 (Drummond), 01463 211 323 (The Haven)

  • Who Cares? Scotland

    About

    Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people.

    We provide support to Care Experienced people across Scotland. This support takes a variety of forms including independent advocacy, our helpline, knowledge about your rights and access to local groups.

    Contact

    Website: Who Cares? Scotland

    Email: hello@whocaresscotland.org

    Phone: 0141 226 4441

    Contact form available: Contact us – Who Cares? Scotland (whocaresscotland.org)

  • Reach4Reality

    About

    Reach4Reality provide positive activities for young people and young adults, aged 9-25, with social communication difficulties through a planned series of outdoor activity breaks (camps) tailored to their individual needs. Camps may last from a 24 hour stop over, a weekend or up to a week in the school holidays.  Young people are accompanied and supported on a 1:1 ratio by our team of carefully selected and trained volunteers.

    Before a young person/adult comes on a camp, a staff member will visit him/her at home and begin to develop a relationship with them through a number of short activity sessions locally, leading up to a day’s activity at a local outdoor pursuits centre. When a young person is ready they will be invited for a 24 hour stopover or weekend.

    Activities might include any of the following: canoeing, kayaking, ropes course, mountain biking, sailing, archery and team challenges; but the programme is determined by the needs and interests of the young people concerned.

    Contact

    Website: Reach4Reality

    Email: info@reach4reality.org.uk

    Phone: 07796 905339

  • Moniack Mhor – Creativity and Care

    About

    Creativity and Care is a three-year programme of creative and personal development opportunities for young care experienced people living in Scotland.

    Young people, aged 14-30, who have experience of the care system, can request one-to-one support, apply for funds through our discretionary fund, or take part in workshops, taster sessions, and residentials – all designed to provide a safe, nurturing, and equal space of creativity and discovery.

    If you are unsure whether this applies to you, you can chat to the team using the contact details below

    Contact

    Website: Creativity and Care – Moniack Mhor

    Email: aileen@moniackmhor.org.uk

    edel@moniackmhor.org.uk

    vicky@moniackmhor.org.uk

  • Brent Centre Highlands

    About

    The Brent Centre Highlands is a free service that offers psychotherapy and practical support to young people, aged 14-21 in the Scottish Highlands region.

    The Brent Centre Highlands clinic is based in Inverness, Scotland. The centre provides essential mental health services to young people in the region, filling a gap for specialised adolescent support.

    Contact

    Website: Brent Centre Highlands – Brent Centre for Young People

    Interested in learning more? Please contact Sarah Fielding, Specialist Mental Health Worker, at Highlands@brentcentre.org.uk

  • Bipolar Scotland

    About

    “We are Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar. Our vision is for a good life for everyone in Scotland who lives with bipolar. We are member-led, collaborative, advocates of peer support, rights-based and focused on equality, and lived experience is at the heart of everything we do. “

    Support is offered through:

    • Support groups
    • Peer Support
    • Self Management Training
    • Beyond Diagnosis

    In person support groups run in Inverness and support groups for across Highland available online. Find upcoming dates at: Support Groups – Bipolar Scotland

    Contact:

    Website: Bipolar Scotland – Scotland’s charity for people living with bipolar

  • Highland Mindfulness

    About

    The Highland Mindfulness Group was initially an informal group set up by former Drumnadrochit GP Dr Peter Wilkes well over 15 years ago. The Group has since evolved and became a registered charity in 2020. It now draws on the skills of a team of 11 trained mindfulness facilitators.

    This is a secular group unattached to any religious movement or lineage. Whilst it does not affiliate to any religion, it does of course welcome those with religious beliefs.

    Free drop-in sessions on Zoom 6 days a week with guided meditation practices (beginners welcome). The group also offers:

    • Free drop-in session face to face every fortnight in Inverness to support people’s ongoing mindfulness practice (beginners welcome)
    • Range of courses – including beginner’s mindfulness courses (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course and the Mindfulness Based Living Course), Kindfulness self-care course, and Insight meditation courses.
    • Regular meditation days in Inverness 
    • ‘Slow down Saturdays’ in Golspie (resuming September 2025)
    • Mindfulness in Nature sessions
    • Residential weekend mindfulness retreats in the Highlands
    • Taster sessions for groups and organisations can be arranged, as well as day workshops.
    • Free meditation recordings – please explore their website where you can listen to many guided practices.

    Events and services are for people aged over 18.

    Contact

    Email: highlandmindfulness@gmail.com

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  • Parent Club

    About

    “Being a parent is the best job in the world. Just not all the time. It can also be the hardest. A continual learning curve with new challenges at every turn. 

    Sometimes it can feel tough. And in those moments, when parents and carers need somewhere to turn, we want to be there for you, with information you can trust, all in one place.

    Through pregnancy and toddler tantrums, to starting school and all the way up to those tricky teenage years, we’re here to help. Offering tips and advice for all the challenges that family life throws up, from experts and parents and carers who’ve been there before.

    After all, we’re all in the same club.”

    Contact

    Website: Parent Club – For Baby Box And All Your Parenting Needs

  • Highland Peep

    About

    The Programme supports parents perinatally (i.e. before and after the birth) to reflect on their developing baby, tune in to their baby’s feelings and behaviour and respond sensitively (known as reflective functioning). This helps parent-baby bonding and attachment, and reduces the risk to the early parent–baby relationship, helping to prevent isolation, anxiety and low-level depression.

    All sessions are a mix of discussion, video clips, sharing of relevant research and advice, songs/rhymes and story sharing, all underpinned by the focus on reflective functioning.  After the initial phone conversation with the parent/s, we offer five group sessions of about an hour each, focusing on:

    1. Getting to know each other
    2. Supportive networks
    3. Transition to parenthood
    4. The developing brain, and emotional support
    5. Baby states

    Following these five sessions, we offer a reunion session once the babies are born.  Throughout the course we also signpost parents to other groups or provision within their local community.

    Contact

    Highland Peep Facebook page: Highland Peep | Inverness | Facebook

    Email: gillian.forbes@highland.gov.uk

  • LGBT Health and Wellbeing

    About

    “LGBT Health and Wellbeing is Scotland’s health and wellbeing charity for LGBTQ+ adults.

    Our vision is of a Scotland where LGBTQ+ people thrive; an equal Scotland where who we are does not negatively impact on our health and wellbeing.

    We provide emotional support and information to the entire diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community across Scotland. This includes queer, intersex, asexual people and all identities under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.

    You do not need a label to use our helpline. We will support you if you are questioning or exploring your sexuality and/or gender identity.

    We are also here for the families, partners, friends and supporters of LGBTQ+ people, as well as health and social care professionals who want to be more inclusive.

    We can support you with all kinds of issues as often and as regularly as you need it.”

    Contact

    Website: LGBT Health and Wellbeing

    Helpline: 0800 464 7000

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