Charities

JDRF exists to find the cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications, and is the world’s leading type 1 diabetes research charity.

A small act of kindness for a lollipop lady after her daughter’s bike was stolen has melted thousands of hearts on social media.

MUSEUMS Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the national development body for the Scottish museum sector.

ALZHEIMER Scotland is getting behind the Giving Tuesday campaign by promoting Alzheimer Scotland’s freephone 24 Hour Helpline - 0808 808 3000.

CANCER Research UK spent more than £33 million last year in Scotland on some of the UK’s leading scientific and clinical research

THE Boys’ Brigade is a Christian youth organisation that works with more than 20,000 young people across 430 communities in Scotland on a weekly basis

FOR 50 years, Simon Community Scotland has been working alongside people experiencing all forms of homelessness.

THE Scottish Wildlife Trust is the nation’s leading wildlife conservation charity. We have been working for more than 50 years to protect Scotland’s wildlife for the future.

TO celebrate #GivingTuesday, Poppyscotland will be streaming live from the Lady Haig Poppy Factory over Facebook for the very first time.

GIVING Tuesday last year broke a Guinness World Record for the most online donations in 24 hours as people gave away £35 million to good causes globally.

AFTER Black Friday and Cyber Monday what a relief it is to have Giving Tuesday.

ONE in three people in the country has paid a compliment to a stranger in the past year, according to new research released to mark #givingtuesday – the global day of giving.

The Syrian home of a young Harry Potter fan who was sent books by JK Rowling has been destroyed by bombing.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes will this week set off to climb Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica.

JK Rowling has sent Harry Potter books to a young fan in Syria after her mother messaged the author to ask how her daughter could get hold of the novels.

THE parents of two-year-old Finn Mackin have praised the selfless acts of strangers who helped save their son from a rare form of leukaemia.

Around 450 Highland pre-schoolers as well as children in the Highlands and Islands branch of Down’s Syndrome Scotland are set to enjoy fun and educational music workshops over the next school year, thanks to funding just announced by Creative Scotland for Inverness-based charity Artsplay Highland.