The Scottish Refugee Council is a registered charity that provides advice and services to asylum seekers and refugees.

In recognition of the international convention that underpins the Scottish Refugee Council ’ s work, the charity produced a short film, Courage: 60 years of the UN Refugee Convention.

Scottish Refugee Council was established in 1985 in response to a growing need for assistance for refugees in Scotland.

During the 1990s the Scottish Refugee Council expanded because of international events and a need for more comprehensive refugee services.

In 1999, in response to the escalating crisis in Kosovo, the Scottish Refugee Council worked with the Refugee Action, UNHCR and other partners to set up reception centres as part of a humanitarian evacuation programme.

The Scottish Refugee Council was at the forefront in helping these refugees settle and integrate into Scottish society.

Following this change, the Scottish Refugee Council faced a 20-fold increase in the size of its client base.

Following this the Scottish Refugee Council helped to establish the Refugee Integration Forum to lead a community approach to improving the lives of refugees and asylum seekers.

In 1995, on the 10th anniversary of its founding, Nelson Mandela became a patron of the Scottish Refugee Council.

“ I am delighted to be associated with the Scottish Refugee Council ’ s aims of protection and resettlement of refugees in Scotland and I wish you every success in achieving these aims .”

Scottish Refugee Council States its vision as: “ a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome.

There are three main areas in which Scottish Refugee Council works to help refugees and people seeking asylum in Scotland.

Scottish Refugee Council provides a number of direct services to refugees and asylum seekers.

Scottish Refugee Council is also actively involved in campaigning and influencing public policy.

In conjunction with bodies such as the Refugee Council, Scottish Refugee Council influences policy at Westminster and the Scottish Parliament.

Networking and partnership-building is also important to Scottish Refugee Council.

It works closely with other refugee agencies in the UK, including the Refugee Council, the Refugee Survival Trust, and Scottish Detainee Visitors.

Scottish Borders Council is considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland object.

Significant strands of this infrastructure include: The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh College of Art, Talbot Rice Gallery ( University of Edinburgh ) and the Edinburgh Annuale.

He launched numerous initiatives to promote Scotland, attracting businesses and new jobs through his new Scottish Council of Industry.

A long-standing supporter of the Home Rule movement, Johnston persuaded Churchill of the need to counter the nationalist threat north of the border and created a Scottish Council of State and a Council of Industry as institutions to devolve some power away from Whitehall.

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

In the Scottish Rite the central authority is called a Supreme Council.

In January 2007, the Shetland Islands Council signed a partnership agreement with Scottish and Southern Energy for a 200-turbine wind farm and subsea cable.

An active Mason and member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, by 1898 he was a Master Mason and had risen to the thirty-third degree in the Scottish Rite, the highest level of the order, and had become a member of its Supreme Council.

One of the Moorfoot Hills, it is located in the parish of Heriot in the Scottish Borders Council Area.

Badenoch ( from the Scottish Gaelic Bàideanach meaning drowned land ) is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorms and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampians, and on the west by Lochaber.

The Council is currently controlled by the Scottish National Party.

* Judges of the Scottish Court of Session, known as ' Lords of Council and Session '.

The campus has been selected as the headquarters for a number of sports agencies including the Sportscotland Institute of Sport, the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland, Scottish Swimming and triathlonscotland.

UK universities have a statutory obligation to support their students in the establishment of some form of students ' union ( sometimes also called a " students ' association " or " guild of students ", and, in the Scottish Ancients, a Students ' Representative Council.

The V & A is in discussion with the University of Dundee, University of Abertay, Dundee City Council and the Scottish Government with a view to opening a new £ 43m gallery in Dundee which would use the V & A brand although it would be funded through and operated independently.

The decision to notify an SSSI is made by the official nature conservation body ( the appropriate conservation body ) for that part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage or the Countryside Council for Wales.

In Scotland, its functions were merged with those of the Countryside Commission for Scotland to form Scottish Natural Heritage, and similarly in Wales there was a merger to form the Countryside Council for Wales.

As a result of the 2007 election, the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost control of East Dunbartonshire Council, with one of the primary grievances amongst the electorate being fortnightly waste collection, after the introduction of kerbside collections for recycling plastics, glass, metals and paper.

Unfortunately, the plan to connect Ocean Terminal and the Scottish Executive building area by the new Edinburgh Trams by the Port of Leith tram stop has been shelved after dispute between Edinburgh Council and the contractors.

Countryside Council of Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage

It is also represented on Fife Council by Keith Legg ( Scottish Liberal Democrats ), Douglas Chapman ( Scottish National Party ) and Pat Callaghan ( Scottish Labour Party.

This failure to honour the conditions of the Berwick treaty allowed Edward to continue to press for a Plantagenet successor to David — terms that were totally rejected by the Scottish Council and probably by Robert himself.

Nominally friendly lords and even his own fortresses closed their gates to him, and John was forced to flee into Scotland with a handful of retainers and throw himself on the charity of the Scottish King Robert II until the crisis was over.

The Scottish Government however, decided the waterways in Scotland would not be part of the new charity, with British Waterways Scotland remaining a state-owned entity operating as Scottish Canals.

Cairnhead Community Forest is a Scottish charity formed in 1998 to encourage and enable community participation through a working partnership with its owner Forestry Commission Scotland.

In November 2011, Schwimmer gave the Scottish charity Children 1st permission to screen his film Trust to commemorate World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse and Violence against Children.

In order to make this easier the school is now a registered charity: Scottish charity number SC037867.

During the 1885 / 86 season London Welsh were invited to make up an ' exiles ' team, along with players from London Scottish, to face a London XV in a charity match at The Oval.

In 2007, he received from the University of Paisley his third honorary doctorate, for his contribution to Scottish culture and charity work.

" The Scottish SPCA changed its logo in 2005 to make a clearer distinction between itself and the RSPCA in an attempt to prevent legacies being left to its English equivalent by mistake when the Scottish charity was intended.

In 2011, Montgomerie was named president of the English junior golf charity, the Golf Foundation, and in 2012 the Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, named him as an ambassador for the Scottish junior golf programme, clubgolf.

Businesses located within the township include-are the Post Office, the Co-op supermarket, Borrodale Hotel ( public internet access available ), Scottish Hydro Electric shop, Burnside Fish and Chips and filling station, and the thrift shop ( charity shop ) where you can also get teas, coffees and eatables.

In 1984 Irish musician Bob Geldof and Scottish Ultravox member Midge Ure organised a charity fundraiser record for the starving of Africa.

In 2004 Robin Dunseath, publicist for Scottish entrepreneur Tom Farmer and ex-president of the World Haggis Hurling Association, said he invented the sport as a practical joke for the 1977 Gathering of the Clans in Edinburgh, later using it to raise funds for charity at Highland games.

For charity trustees, the Charity Commission of England and Wales, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator of Scotland and Voluntary Activity Unit of Northern Ireland often has concurrent jurisdiction with the Courts.

The bases are located in Glasgow and Aberdeen ( where the service is provided by the Scottish children's charity Children 1st ), Manchester, Liverpool, Prestatyn, Birmingham, Nottingham, London, Belfast and Foyle, supported by the online only centres at Leeds and Cardiff.

The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( also known as the Scottish SPCA and SSPCA ) is a charity to promote animal welfare in Scotland.

" The Scottish SPCA changed its logo in 2005 to make a clearer distinction between itself and the RSPCA in an attempt to prevent legacies being left to its English equivalent by mistake when the Scottish charity was intended.