Our Mission
Mearns Kirk Helping Hands: Committed to providing a range of high quality services and activities to improve health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation and loneliness and promote community led support for those living locally who will most benefit.
The aims of Mearns Kirk Helping Hands are:
- To provide a range of high quality support services to those most in need in the community; improving health and well being by reducing social isolation and promoting community self-help.
Key current support services include:
- The provision of a safe and stimulating environment to people living with dementia.
- Support for people journeying with their grief.
- A range of support services for those experiencing social isolation as well as other disadvantaged members of the community.
What We Do
We provide activities in the following areas to address our aims:
Our Supporters
Mearns Kirk Helping Hands would be unable to carry out it’s work without the generous assistance of our funders and supporters:
- The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust
- The Corra Foundation
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- ASDA Foundation
- Connecting Scotland
- East Renfrewshire Good Causes
- Cheshire Community Foundation
- Waitrose (FareShare)
- Merchants House Glasgow
- Age Scotland
- Befriending Networks
- RSA
- Scottish Government: Resilience Fund
- Arnold Clark
- Scotmid Community Grants
Our Partners
Working in true partnership with organisations to deliver high quality services is crucial to Mearns Kirk Helping Hands mission. We want to work with innovative partners with a strong presence in the communities they work in.
Governance
Mearns Kirk Helping Hands is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) SC046646.
Our History
Mearns Kirk Helping Hands evolved from the good work being carried out by volunteers from Mearns Kirk for over 20 years. In 2016 it was decided that Mearns Kirk Helping Hands be established as a registered charity, to develop and grow these three established volunteer led groups (The Friendship Club, The Lunch Club for People Living with Dementia and the Eastwood Bereavement Group).