# Ceartas

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC035269
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** March 1, 2004
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC035269


## Contact

- **Address:** McGregor House, 10 Donaldson Crescent, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G66 1XF
- **Website:** www.ceartas.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Provide an independent one to one advocacy service for adults over the age of 16 in East Dunbartonshire giving priority to people living with mental health, dementia, learning &amp; physical disabilities, acquired brain injury and substance misuse.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;,&#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**Objectives:** To relieve the suffering and distress and generally promote the welfare  of children, physically disabled persons, those with learning difficulticulties and those affected by mental ill-health and older people by: (a) providing an advocacy, information and other forms of support for such persons. (b) promoting and encouraging the training and education of people so that they may develop skills to help the aforementioned persons c) promoting the understanding and awareness of the rights of the aforementioned individuals, their families and their carers. and d) encouraging such persons to involve themselves in all aspects of society and, in particular, in those decisions affecting themselves their families and their carers, through co-operation with the authorities and other agencies.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** East Dunbartonshire
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






