Community Directory
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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Organisations providing help in West Lothian:
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Armadale & Blackridge
Armadale
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The Dale Hub |
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Armadale, Blackridge & Westfield |
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Armadale Thistle Football Club |
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Armadale |
Blackridge
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Blackridge Community |
Blackridge |
Torphichen
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Services provided |
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Torphichen Community Council |
Torphichen |
Westfield
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Westfield Parent Council |
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Westfield & Brighouse |
Bathgate
Bathgate
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Services provided |
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Bathgate Coronavirus Community help |
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Bathgate & Boghall |
Boghall
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Services provided |
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Boghall Drop In Centre |
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Boghall & Bathgate |
Broxburn, Uphall & Winchburgh
Broxburn
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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 |
Uphall
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Uphall Helping Hands |
Support with shopping/posting mail, friendly phone calls to residents affected by COVID19 in Uphall |
Uphall |
Winchburgh
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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. |
Winchburgh |
East Livingston & East Calder
Craigshill
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Areas service provided |
Daisy Drop In |
Craigshill |
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West Lothian Youth Action Project |
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Craigshill |
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Livingston Festival Association |
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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) |
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Craigshill, Ladywell & AHA areas |
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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. |
East Calder
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East Calder CDT |
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East Calder & District |
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Kirknewton and East Calder Church of Scotland |
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Kirknewton & East Calder |
Kirknewton
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Kirknewton CDT |
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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
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Services provided |
Contact details |
Areas service provided |
Mid Calder CC & Kirk of Calder Elders |
Collecting essentials such as:
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Eleanor Blair (Secretary) 07823 328609 eblair892@btinternet.com Rev. John Povey (Minister Kirk of Calder) 01506 882495 |
Mid Calder |
Pumpherston
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Pumpherston Community Council |
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Pumpherston |
Uphall Station
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Services provided |
Contact details |
Areas service provided |
Uphall Station & Pumpherston Coronavirus help group |
Uphall Station & Pumpherston |
Fauldhouse & breich valley
Fauldhouse
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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:
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Fauldhouse & Breich Valley |
Polbeth
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Contact details |
Areas service provided |
Polbeth Community Hub |
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Polbeth |
Stoneyburn
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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
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West Calder and Harburn Community Development Trust |
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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
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Contact details |
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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 |
Linlithgow & Linlithgow Bridge |
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Linlithgow Coronavirus Support (led by St Michael's Parish Church) |
Linlithgow |
livingston north
Livingston North Wide
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St. Peter's RC Church |
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Livingston North |
Carmondean
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Services provided |
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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). |
Throughtout Livingston (Knightsridge, Ladywell, Howden, Craigshill, Dedridge, Murieston & Carmondean) |
Knightsridge
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Service provided |
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The Vennie |
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Knightsridge |
livingston south
Livingston South Wide
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Service provided |
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Lanthorn Management Committee |
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Donna Lee 07869 507241 donna.lanthorn77@ hotmail.com Karyn Kirton 07387 932523 Mairi Dalglish 07774 023927 |
Dedridge, Adambrae & Murieston |
Ladywell
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Ladywell Community Fridge, LNN and Baptist Church |
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Ladywell, Eliburn, Howden & Livingston Village |
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Inveralmond Community High School |
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Suzie Young suzie.young@ westlothian.org.uk |
Murieston
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Murieston Community Council |
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Murieston |
Howden
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Salvation Army |
Phone calls to those who may feel isolated and help with any urgent supplies |
Howden & Livingston |
whitburn & blackburn
Blackburn
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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 |
Blackburn & some surrounding areas |
Whitburn
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Service provided |
Contact details |
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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. |
Whitburn |
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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. |
Whitburn & Armadale |
West lothian or multiward wide
West Lothian
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Crosspoints Community Church |
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West Lothian |
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The Food Train |
Food shopping and delivery service during this time for over 65s. |
West Lothian |
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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 |
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West Lothian |
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West Lothian Bike Library |
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West Lothian |
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West Lothian Foodbank |
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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. |
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HomeAid |
Furniture, transport. Distribution of food and emergency Scottish welfare fund application delivery |
West Lothian |
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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. |
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Macmillan Cancer Support |
Telephone Befriending |
West Lothian |
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Bridge Community Project |
Financial Wellbeing, Counselling |
West Lothian |
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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. |
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Handicabs |
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West Lothian |
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West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network |
Food distribution, social isolation phone calls |
West Lothian |
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Alzheimer Scotland |
Online, telephone, social media and digital support |
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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. |
West Lothian |
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Safe Families |
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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. |
West Lothian |
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No Limits |
Skype Club for members |
West Lothian |
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Victim Support West Lothian |
Telephone, web chat and email support. We can provide information and emotional support via these channels. |
West Lothian |
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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.) |
West Lothian |
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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. |
West Lothian, Edinburgh & Glasgow |
Multiward
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Livingston Round Table |
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Livingston |
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Kidzeco |
Providing (and delivering) free baby and children's essentials through our KidzStart project to harder to reach families in our community. |
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Family and Community Development West Lothian |
We are providing emergency childcare to key workers and vulnerable children |
West Lothian (We may be able to deliver supplies in Armadale, Bridgend and Stoneyburn but this depends on staff availability) |
Opening Times:Monday - Thursday
09:00 am - 17:00 pm Friday 09:00 am - 16:00 pm |
Telephone:
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Voluntary Sector Gateway West Lothian is a Registered Company in Scotland No. SC244154 and Registered Scottish Charity No. SC027612.
Registered Office: 20-22 King Street, Bathgate, EH48 1AX
Registered Office: 20-22 King Street, Bathgate, EH48 1AX