It has been great to see the community responding to the impact that COVID-19 (Coronavirus) will have on our community and everyone on the team at VSGWL has been really touched by this.

We wanted to give you some information on what help is available in West Lothian, and how you can help out in your local area and informally keep a watch/ensure that any neighbours, older or vulnerable people are okay to help everyone get through the difficult times ahead:

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Useful Links

Third Force News have released five things you can do in your community.

Facebook Groups 1. Coronavirus Scotland Updates & Help 2. Coronavirus in Scotland - Latest News and Updates 3. Coronavirus Support Scotland 4. West Lothian Covid-19 Community Support 5. Linlithgow Coronavirus Support 6. Whitburn Coronavirus Help Group / Whitburn CDT 7. Bathgate Community Coronavirus Help 8. Broxburn and Uphall Coronavirus Community Help 9. West Calder & Harburn - COVID-19 / West Calder & Harburn CDT 10. Uphall Helping Hands 11. Craigshill Good Neighbour Network 12. Pumpherston Community Council ​13. Polbeth Covid-19 response 14. Communities in Action 15. Fauldhouse & Breich Valley Community Coronavirus Help

Age Scotland have released 10 tips you can follow.

Coronavirus Tech Handbook - If you are interested in setting up and organising community support volunteering you might find the Coronavirus Tech Handbook handy!

Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland are organising a range of help with great volunteer support – includes Kindness Callers, Community Kindness Supporters, Kindness Drivers and Digital Kindness Supporters. More details and how to sign up if you wish are available at: ​https://www.chss.org.uk/coronavirus/volunteering-opportunities/

Keeping Safe - Here are a few guides containing information/advice on keeping communities safe from scammers during these uncertain times. Police Scotland - Shut out scammers Trading Standards Scotland - Coronavirus Scams Trading Standards Scotland - ScamShare Bulletin

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​Organisations providing help in West Lothian:

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Armadale & Blackridge

Armadale

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
The Dale Hub	Remote emotional support via text/phone/social media etc. Group video support Distribution of essentials (food/ toys/toiletries) with doorstep support	Angela Douglas ​01501 733248 ​angela@fcdwl.org	Armadale, Blackridge & Westfield
Armadale Thistle Football Club	support with shopping, prescriptions, etc	Bill Baird 01501 730454 ​billwbaird@aol.com	Armadale

Blackridge

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Blackridge Community		Blackridge Help Page ​- Covid 19	Blackridge

Torphichen

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Torphichen Community Council	food deliveries, pick up prescriptions, dog walking, etc	Torphichen Facebook ​​07887 867119	Torphichen

Westfield

Organisations	Services Provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Westfield Parent Council	food, prescriptions, appointments etc School lunches being distributed from the school between 12-1.30pm.  ​delivering food packages, leaflet delivery.	Tania Burns 07837 007245 / 0131 468 0145 ​tania.tradesdirect ​@gmail.com	Westfield & Brighouse

Bathgate

Bathgate

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Bathgate Coronavirus Community help	listening ear picking up and delivering prescriptions shopping ​hearing aid batteries etc	Rosslyn Clowe rosslyn_barr@ hotmail.com 07584 421710 Bathgate Coronavirus Community help	Bathgate & Boghall

Boghall

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Boghall Drop In Centre	Meal provision including delivery for the elderly and isolated Breakfast & lunch Club Access to computers - prebookable appointment . Priority will be given to credit claiments, children and young people. Items will be made available for those whose work places have closed or whose income has been affected by the coronavirus (Covid – 19).	Kelly Drummond 01506 283201 kelly@bdic.org.uk ​Boghall Drop In Centre Facebook	Boghall & Bathgate

Broxburn, Uphall & Winchburgh

Broxburn

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Broxburn & Uphall Coronavirus Community Help	This group has been set up to help those vulnerable residents of the Broxburn & Uphall area through the challenges and affects of coronavirus	Broxburn & Uphall Coronavirus Community Help Facebook	Broxburn & Uphall

Uphall

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Uphall Helping Hands	Support with shopping/posting mail, friendly phone calls to residents affected by COVID19 in Uphall	Uphall Helping Hands Facebook	Uphall

Winchburgh

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Wichburgh Helping Hands/ ​Winchburgh CDT	Support with shopping/posting mail, friendly phone calls to residents affected by COVID19 in Winchburgh. Keen for volunteers to help. Looking to help with a local food delivery service.	www.winchburghcgg.co.uk/​helpinghand www.onewinchburgh.info	Winchburgh

East Livingston & East Calder

Craigshill

Organisations	Services Provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Daisy Drop In		Elaine 01506 238998 07949 750305	Craigshill
West Lothian Youth Action Project	Commuity Fridge Thursday & Friday mornings at Riverside Wing hot meals, deliveries and collections	Helen Davis helen@wlyap.org.uk 07719 716913 For food parcel requests: riverside@wlyap.org.uk	Craigshill
Livingston Festival Association	Picking up/ collecting prescriptions Shopping Phone call befriending for the lonely Tradesmen for emergency repairs plumbing, electrician and joiner. Use of vans, cars	Fiona McLeod ​​Feemac1981@ hotmail.co.uk Frank Mc Alistair (Resident/Community Volunteer) 07538 184376 Franko1976@ outlook.com Deborah Carson (Resident/Community volunteer) 07528 233725 Debbie1carson@ ​gmail.com	Craigshill
Almond Housing Association (AHA)	Actively supporting both the Ladywell and Craigshill Community Fridges Whats App video calls to support AHA tenants Co-ordinating grant applications to support individuals Part of the West Lothian Food Network who are currently co-ordinating food supplies during this coronavirus outbreak	Barbara Boertien 07921 526847 barbara.boertien@ ​almondha.org.uk	Craigshill, Ladywell & ​AHA areas
Craigshill Good Neighbour Network	Provision of activity packs for adults and essential household/personal care items for those experiencing hardship in addition to our telephone and online befriending support.	Jane Deary 07473 102669 janecgnn@gmail.com

East Calder

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
East Calder CDT	collecting shopping prescriptions and chat on phone (via church listeners)	Morag Lyall (Director) Chris Davidson (Director) 01506888525 ecmcinfogroup@gmail.com	East Calder & District
Kirknewton and East Calder Church of Scotland	Listening support	Alistair Cowper (Minister) 01506 357083 / 07791 524504 acowper@churchof ​scotland.org.uk	Kirknewton & ​East Calder

Kirknewton

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Kirknewton CDT	deliveries of supplies or foodfuel poverty advice guidance for who to approach money issues person to talk to (on phone) providing key and factual information sharing key activities to do during lockdown Kirknewton Coronavirus updates​	Tony Foster (CEO) 07734 884320 tonykirknewton@ ​gmail.com Shop contact 01506 885331 leave message for Ian Watt (Community Council Member) or Maria Bathgate (Volunteer Co-Ordinator)	Kirknewton & Wilkieston

Mid Calder

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Mid Calder CC & ​Kirk of Calder Elders	Collecting essentials such as: Shopping prescriptions Someone to talk to ​	Eleanor Blair (Secretary) 07823 328609 eblair892@btinternet.com Rev. John Povey (Minister Kirk of Calder) 01506 882495	Mid Calder

Pumpherston

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Pumpherston Community Council	providing social support via a friendly phone call or councillor support via Neil’s Hugs Foundation Prescription Uplift and Delivery Food Shopping and delivery Cooked Meals Transport to hospital appointments Advice and signposting to appropriate agencies and organisations.	Karen Rogers pumpherstoncomm@ ​gmail.com karen@325 ​consultancy.com 07534 761457 Pumpherston Community Council Facebook	Pumpherston

Uphall Station

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Uphall Station & Pumpherston Coronavirus help group		Uphall Station & Pumpherston Coronavirus help group Facebook	Uphall Station & Pumpherston

Fauldhouse & breich valley

Fauldhouse

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Fauldhouse and Breich Valley Coronavirus Help volununteers	If you live locally and if you are self isolating due to COVID-19, local volunteers could help you with: ​picking up shopping or urgent supplies posting mail having a friendly phone call	07599 442 822 info@fauldhouse.org.uk Fauldhouse and Breich Valley Coronavirus Help Facebook	Fauldhouse & Breich Valley

Polbeth

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Polbeth Community Hub	Advice Access to food Welfare right information Food distributions Delivery of meals Daily phone calls to check on people​	Errin Anderson 01506 536123 errin@polbeth.org	Polbeth

Stoneyburn

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Stoneyburn and Bents Future Vision Group SCIO	Free meal delivery service to local elderly, vulnerable and those self isolating in Stoneyburn and Bents We can also pick up prescriptions and shopping Telephone service to our vulnerable residents Pennies Pantry service in partnership with WLFIN Blether Service - Weekly calls for anyone who would benefit from a friendly chat.	07399 231814 sbfvg1@gmail.com  https://www.facebook.com/sbfvg  If you are able to volunteer please contact the Group	Stoneyburn and Bents and the surrounding environments.

West Calder

Organisation	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
West Calder and Harburn Community Development Trust	We are still running our Brunch Club but as a delivery service Free meal delivery service to local elderly and vulnerable people in West Calder and surrounding area We can also pick up prescriptions and shopping​	Brunch Club @ Home inquiries should be made on 07926 172029. Volunteer inquiries should be made to getinvolved@ ​westcalder.org ​Requests for support and general inquiries can be made on 01506 872931 or at cdt@westcalder.org	West Calder, Harburn & Polbeth directly, Addiewell & Breich in partnership with other local organisations.

Linlithgow

Linlithgow

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas support provided
Linlithgow Link	Support for isolated by illness, age, or infirmity in Linlithgow & Linlithgow Bridge. Can support with food/prescription pick up through volunteers. Also offer befriending call service to its clients	www.linlithgowlink.org.uk	Linlithgow & Linlithgow Bridge
Linlithgow Coronavirus Support (led by St Michael's Parish Church)	Delivering food and prescriptions to vulnerable or isolated people, phone befriending, emotional support	Liam Fraser ​​07539 127265 lfraser@churchof ​scotland.org.uk	Linlithgow

livingston north

Livingston North Wide

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
St. Peter's RC Church	Phone buddy system for parishoners Support with shopping	Father Simon Hughes 01506 438787 cymonul@gmail.com	Livingston North

Carmondean

Organisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Livingston United Parish Church	Help can be provided with delivering shopping, providing baking and meals and especially providing a phone call service (either one off or regular check in).	Ken Brown  07366622365 kenneth.brown@churchof ​scotland.org.uk	Throughtout Livingston (​Knightsridge, Ladywell, Howden, Craigshill, Dedridge, Murieston & Carmondean)

Knightsridge

Organisation	Service provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
The Vennie	​ Food Outlet on Tuesdays from noon at Mosswood Community Centre. Costs of food are by donation (where possible/affordable) Can deliver food from the food outlet and shopping for people at risk.	Tom Heron 01506 432094 admin@thevennie.co.uk www.thevennie.co.uk Knightsridge Community News Facebook	Knightsridge

livingston south

Livingston South Wide

Organisations	Service provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Lanthorn Management Committee	​Groceries Prescriptions Community food shop on a Monday & Wednesday from 12pm	Donna Lee 07869 507241 donna.lanthorn77@ ​hotmail.com Karyn Kirton 07387 932523 Mairi Dalglish 07774 023927	Dedridge, Adambrae & Murieston

Ladywell

Organisations	Service provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Ladywell Community Fridge, LNN and Baptist Church	collection and deliveries of foodstuffs for the Fridge collection/delivery of shopping Prescriptions phone calls Community fridge, Friday afternoons from Ladywell Baptist Church	Ann Lee 07565 536398 ladywellnn@hotmail.com Sybil Scott 07841 290184 sybil.scott45@outlook.com Ladywell Community Fridge Facebook	Ladywell, Eliburn, Howden & Livingston Village
Inveralmond Community High School	​We are providing hot meals to take away for pupils who receive Free school meals Also providing sanitary towels and books for Young people of all ages delivering food parcels to those self-isolating. (open from 12-2pm)	Suzie Young suzie.young@ ​westlothian.​org.uk

Murieston

Organisations	Service provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Murieston Community Council	Community Council Possibly food distribution	Davidson McQuarrie (Secretary)  07504 561029  davidson.mcquarrie@ ​blueyonder.co.uk	Murieston

Howden

Organisations	Service provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Salvation Army	Phone calls to those who may feel isolated and help with any urgent supplies	Captain Lisa Cunningham Lisa.Cunningham@ salvationarmy.org.uk 01506 430272 / 07818 689929	​Howden & Livingston

whitburn & blackburn

Blackburn

Organisations	Service provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Community Action Blackburn (CAB)	Working with football club to roll out the Brunch club using the football clubs premises.	​Lisa Drinnan 07808 698975 projectmanager.cab ​@gmail.com   Alison Kerr 07889 202504   Brian Smillie 07769 314387 brian.smillie@gmail.com	Blackburn
Blackburn Family Centre	Distribution of food packages, etc to vulnerable people	Jacalyn Sinnott childcare.blackburnfamily ​centre​@hotmail.com	Blackburn & some surrounding areas

Whitburn

Organisation	Service provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Whitburn Community Development Trust	Open weekdays between 10-12, for Community Fridge service (which reuses surplus supermarket stock). Starting to recruit Volunteers to support us in collecting surplus food across the community and county; delivering food parcels; picking up and delivering prescriptions. Working with online Facebook groups to help enable a Whitburn-wide response.	David MacDonald 01501 748708 david@whitburncdt.org.uk Carole Volunteer@whitburn ​cdt.org.uk	Whitburn
St Barbara Catholic Parish	St Barbara Catholic Parish consists of  Churches in Whitburn(St Joseph's) and Armadale (Sacred Heart and St Anthony's). We have formed a volunteer's group of 8 people who are able to reach out to the needy ones in Armadale and Whitburn.	Fr Sebastian Thuruthippillil 01501 740348	Whitburn & Armadale

West lothian or multiward wide

West Lothian

Organisation	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Crosspoints Community Church	Delivery of Medicines shopping phone call	Robert Bell (Pastor) robertbell40.rb@gmail.com rob@theheraldstrust.org 07939 038179	West Lothian
The Food Train	Food shopping and delivery service during this time for over 65s.	Jenny White 07801 707736 jenny@thefoodtrain.co.uk	West Lothian
Youth Action Project	Collection of any donations & Food parcels - Deliveries West Lothian wide providing produce is available prescription deliveries. Website -  information for young people and parents. Exercise - In urgent cases support an hour bike rides or walk for most challenging young people, adhering to social distancing.	Helen Davis 07719 716913 helen@wlyap.org.uk  For organisations and groups food parcel requests riverside@wlyap.org.uk	West Lothian
Home-Start West Lothian	​Remote/Phone Support Helping with distribution of essential items	Allie Cherry-Byrnes  01506 415755  allie@homestartwl.org.uk	West Lothian
West Lothian Bike Library	​A range of Bicycles for use by children for exercise or for essential staff commuting to work. ​Free servicing and repairs of bikes, contribution to cost of the parts if possible	David Liddell  07724 667321  Info@wlbikelibrary.co.uk​	West Lothian
West Lothian Foodbank	​Emergency food still provided to people in crisis, but partially through home delivery now Food will be delivered to a lot of service users now, rather than have them pick up food at one of the distribution centre's	Kathleen Neilly 01501 229307 Kathleen@westlothian. foodbank.org.uk ​Steven Turnbull  07785 721454  Support@westlothian. ​foodbank.org.uk	West Lothian
The Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) Foundation UK ​	Switched to hosting video social calls, and information and support phone line. Extensive support on social media. Have suspended research projects, physical social events and in person family support, and small grants scheme.​	Nigel Over  01506 429970  nigel@smith-magenis.co.uk
HomeAid	​Furniture, transport. ​Distribution of food and emergency Scottish welfare fund application delivery	Willie Dunn 07887 794975 Ceo@homeaid ​westlothian.org	West Lothian
​The Larder West Lothian	Fresh food or food parcels to people in their homes. The Larder can do the food and have agreed with Homeaid that they could do the delivery.	Angela Moohan  ​01506 412819 angela@thelarder.org
Macmillan Cancer Support	Telephone Befriending	Kathryn Speirs  07801 307086  kspeirs@macmillan.org.uk	West Lothian
Bridge Community Project	Financial Wellbeing, Counselling	Alan Davidson  ​07976144720  alan@bridgecommunity ​project.org.uk	West Lothian
Artlink Edinburgh	We continue to engage with our service users remotely through email, WhatsApp and other forms of digital communication. Service users have been set projects, will receive one to one tutorials by artists and can participate in group work through Zoom.	Jan-Bert van den Berg  07779 659054 ​ janbert@artlink ​edinburgh.co.uk
Handicabs	Essential Hospital Appointments Can deliver food parcels and medication to support isolated individuals	Kelvin Cochrane  07727 021399  kelvin.cochrane@ ​handicabs.org.uk	West Lothian
West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network	​Food distribution, social isolation phone calls	Carol Henry  01501 771775 carol@wlfin.org.uk	West Lothian
Alzheimer Scotland	Online, telephone, social media and digital support	Lesley Millar  07500 498574  ​lmillar@alzscot.org
Circle (West Lothian Project)	Staff will be providing support to families over the telephone, via text and e-mail and by using video calling where possible. Workers will contact families regularly to offer as much help as we can such as food distribution.	Alex Collop 07703 714764 alex.collop@circle.scot	West Lothian
Safe Families	Telephone support/ online support Picking up food from foodbanks for vulnerable families who are self-isolating	Andrew Murray 07766 365733 andrewmurray@ ​safefamilies.uk	West Lothian
Carers of West Lothian	Offering information and advice to all carers and disabled adults in West Lothian as well as signposting to specialist organisations.  Helping with any questions in general as well as those relating to Coronavirus.  Also offering peer support groups being run via Zoom including Carers Coffee Mornings, mental health support group, bereaved carers support groups, social groups for disabled adults and groups for young carers. ​	Alison Wright ​01506 448000 www.carers-westlothian.com office@carers-westlothian.com	West Lothian
No Limits	Skype Club for members	Paul Weddell 01506 855914 info@nolimitssportsclub.org	West Lothian
Victim Support West Lothian	Telephone, web chat and email support. We can provide information and emotional support via these channels.	Stephanie Simpson ​0800 160 1985 victimsupport.westlothian @victimsupportsco.org.uk	West Lothian
River Kids	We can offer the following to isolated individuals: clothes/toys/books/games/toiletries (if available) and baby items (nappies/wipes) etc. (Requests from community groups are to be made direct, those who normally benefit from our services will need to make a request via their normal contact.)	Lynda Sneddon ​​07908 148549 lynda@riverkids.org.uk	West Lothian
The School Bank West Lothian	We are providing educational packs to children who are being home schooled. We are aiming to provide stationery (pens, pencils, paper, erasers, sharpeners), crafts and activities for children who are struggling at home due to having limited resources. We would like to support these children to access some learning opportunities to help them learn at home and support their mental wellbeing. Many families are struggling to purchase these resources during this difficult period.	Kirstin Shemilt 07779 226468 chair@schoolbank- ​westlothian.org	West Lothian
​Gig Buddies West Lothian	​Gig Buddies is a befriending programme that pairs local people with people with a learning disability. Buddies are paired based on mutual interests such as music tastes, hobbies, sports etc, and other factors such as location and age. This could be anything from going to see live music, the theatre or going for coffee, whatever your “gig” is. We are still recruiting volunteers, and have moved our training session online. Although we aren’t able to get out to gigs at the moment, we have lot’s of social events and opportunities for volunteers to get to know their buddy over the coming months.	Debbie Forsyth debbie.forsyth@thera.co.uk 07921 289625	West Lothian, Edinburgh & Glasgow

Multiward

Orgaisations	Services provided	Contact details	Areas service provided
Livingston Round Table	collecting and delivering lunches prescriptions and pick ups	Craig Fowler  contact@livingstonround ​table.co.uk ​or Facebook page	Livingston
Kidzeco	Providing (and delivering) free baby and children's essentials through our KidzStart project to harder to reach families in our community.	Tracy Murdoch 07766 522715 tracy.murdoch@ ​kidzeco.net
Family and Community Development West Lothian	We are providing emergency childcare to key workers and vulnerable children	Raymond Branton  01506 857158  raymond@fcdwl.org	West Lothian ​(We may be able to deliver supplies in Armadale, Bridgend and Stoneyburn but this depends on staff availability)

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