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CSV is giving grants to encourage local people to volunteer to improve their local environment

Young Scot and SNH have joined forces to encourage young people to celebrate the joys of Scotland’s outdoors

Save the Children’s Dorothy Parker is in Bangladesh finding out how to reduce child mortality

During Benefits Awareness Month poverty charity Turn2us is urging families living in poverty to check its benefits calculator

Shelter’s Architect in the House campaign has helped thousands of supporters renovate their homes over the last 16 years

Oxfam is urging women to donate their spare bras to help a social business in West Africa

The Sheila McKechnie Foundation has launched its annual Campaigner Awards to recognise grassroots activists

Two autism charities are celebrating Scottish businesses that are lighting up their premises blue for World Autism Day this week What’s the campaign called? Light It Up Blue for World Autism Day   What’s the point? As part of the Light It Up Blue campaign to celebrate and raise awareness of autism, two local autism

Barnardo’s Scotland launches a campaign to encourage more people to help local children on short breaks

Keep Scotland Beautiful’s annual National Spring Clean is coming to an unsightly mess near you

Could you work with the PlanB Partnership to help reduce the debt burden

What’s on your mind? See Me is challenging young people to think about mental health

Save the Children’s No Child Born to Die campaign aims to eradicate malnutrition in some of the world’s poorest countries

Mary’s Meals latest fundraising campaign aims to help even more children in the developing world

The Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium has a new campaign to talk about recovery

The National Autistic Society is hoping to roll out the Autism Alert card nationally

With the number of people living with cancer increasing every year, Macmillan is calling on everyone to open up about their feelings

Citizens Advice Scotland is supporting a campaign to make consumers more vigilant of their energy consumption

Poverty campaigners are fighting the stigma of living in poverty in Scotland in a bid to improve people’s lives

Energy Action Scotland’s campaign to highlight the plight of thousands who can ill afford rising fuel costs

Shelter Scotland is campaigning to make sure children are not forced to spend Christmas in unsafe temporary accommodation

A coalition of third sector organisations are bringing emergency life support skills training to Scottish schools

Buy a Caring Christmas Tree and help the homeless

The NSPCC is raising awareness of the impact of neglect on society’s most vulnerable

The life story of abused children doesn’t have to end in tragedy, explains Barnardo’s new national campaign

People with long-term conditions are learning that self-management can make a dramatic difference to their lives

Volunteer Development Scotland has teamed up with other bodies to promote the Just Ask campaign for the European Year of the Volunteer

Enable Scotland is campaigning for better standards of education in mainstream schools for children with learning disabilities.

The three-year Close the Gap campaign aims to tackle poverty and inequality in the

Fundraisers are urging the public to beware of bogus charity collectors

OneKind is gathering information to help campaign for an all out ban on snaring

WWF Scotland aims to promote sustinable fishing of our seas with a new campaign

The Blackwood Foundation is calling on disabled Scots to help with design innovations

Tackling loneliness and isolation is the theme of CSV’s Make a Difference Day

Increasing numbers of Scots are visiting Citizens Advice Bureaux reporting scams, a new campaign is raising awareness of con artists

100,000 children in Scotland are the victims of neglect. Action for Children is urging everyone to do more to change this

The Big Lottery’s SOS Active campaign aims to promote social enterprise in rural communities

The Scottish Youth Parliament says young people overwhelmingly back equality when it comes to gay marriage

HIV charity Waverley Care is using the Edinburgh Comedy Festival to tackle stigma

SAMH has launched a new campaign to create a suicide community support network

Three housing bodies and 335,000 Scots are fed up of waiting for more affordable housing

A campaign to protect Britain’s war memorials honours the 100th anniversary of the

The British Red Cross explains how to help tackle the worst food crisis this century

Barnardo’s Scotland is tackling Scotland’s biggest child protection issue

Action on Hearing Loss Scotland is promoting its new online hearing check

Find out how CSV’s Action Earth project can change your environment

A hut in the country can become a safe haven away from the big city for 1,000 more Scots

The Scottish Volunteering Alliance wants you to Just Ask your friends to help too

Regular and timely delivery of medication is crucial to people with Parkinsons disease

Road safety charity Brake is campaigning to prevent young people needlessly losing their lives as a result of car accidents

help for Heros is looking for 11,000 volunteers to help raise

Jubilee Scotland campaigns for the cancellation of poor countries’ debts

Save the Children aims to ensure Scotland’s poorest achieve more in school

World Meningitis Day this year aims to raise support for safe and effective vaccinations

Mary’s meals is encouraging the public to fill backpacks with educational materials

RSPB’s campaign to protect Scotland’s wildlife and landscape for the next generation

SCIAF wants the next government to help the world’s poorest people survive climate change

Join the campaign to raise awareness of the most common cancer in men

The Electoral Reform Society Scotland wants to change the way you vote with their latest campaign. What is your campaign? Yes to Fairer Votes What is the point? On the 5 May 2011, anyone registered to vote in UK parliamentary elections can vote in the referendum on how we elect MPs.  We will choose whether

What is the campaign called? Clean up the bailed-out banks What’s the point? In 2008 the UK Government spent more than £45 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money propping up the Royal Bank of Scotland after a catastrophic financial loss. That’s enough to fill the cut to the Scottish budget this year thirty-five times over. Despite

SWA asks people to mark international women’s day by pledging to support their campaign

The Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium is fighting against the stigma of drug use, which is stopping people from getting better What is the campaign called? Getting Serious About Stigma is based on new research from the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) which highlights the stigma facing people with drug problems and addiction in Scotland. The

SFHA is campaigning against Housing Benefit cuts that could leave tenants short of rent