# Scotland Language Action Toward Education

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC037862
- **Known as:** SLATE
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Feb. 23, 2007
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC037862


## Contact

- **Address:** 210 Cumbernauld Road, Chryston, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G69 9NB
- **Website:** www.slatecharity.com



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;

**What the charity does:** As a professional storyteller with international connections in writing and storytelling, I set up a number of projects and competitions* to help teach English to students living and working abroad. Through fundraising we gather prize money to allow students in Uzbekistan to win cash, books and certificates. We also provide goodwill gifts and birthday cards for vulnerable children in various countries. On Line meetings with students of interpreting and real time live storytelling sessions. Some of these links go back to 2001 and the origin of the work there. Post covid we have established links with Universities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkey with Morocco on the horizon for next year.  * KNITC currently running in Perm Russia and Ko’Kand Uzbekistan and is open to students in Kazakhstan and Turkey.  Birthday Cards for All regular made by Scottish schoolchildren and are collected for personal distribution by volunteers.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;

**Objectives:** 1.	The Group&#x27;s objectives are:  •	To inform and educate people, some of whom are University Students and others who are more disadvantaged and live in street environments and are cared for in Shelters. •	To educate and improve the health of all people through the promotion of sexual health advice.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** Scotland and other parts of the UK







