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Volunteer Development Scotland Ltd. (also known as Volunteer Scotland).
Charity registered in Scotland SC013740 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland, No. SC106743. Our registered Office is Jubilee House, Forthside Way, Stirling. FK8 1QZ

Big Hearts Community Trust

Charity registered in Scotland SC037311

Big Hearts Community Trust is an independent charity working in partnership with Heart of Midlothian Football Club to deliver community based activities. The trust has three full time, and one part time staff member. Our main project areas are: 1. Kinship Care – comprehensive support package for families in Edinburgh, including training sessions for carers and an after school club. 2. Big Hearts Supporters – a unique fan engagement project, designed to encourage fans of the club to become volunteers. 3. Football Memories – a support group for those with a dementia diagnosis, using reminiscence tools at Tynecastle. 4. Big Hearts Befrienders – a befriending project for Hearts fans to support kinship care young people through 1-1 engagement.

Current opportunity

Big Hearts Befrienders provides one-to-one befriending for children and young people aged 5-16 years either in kinship care or who are socially isolated within the city through supporting them to...