# Bilingual Family

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC053564
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Aug. 8, 2024
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC053564


## Contact

- **Address:** Midlem Mill Cottage, Lilliesleaf, Melrose
- **Postcode:** TD6 9EL
- **Website:** https://bilingualfamily.org/



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation&#x27;,&#x27;the promotion of equality and diversity&#x27;

**What the charity does:** We support parents raising children to speak more than one language, and advice well as educators, speech and language therapists and other professionals who support multilingual families.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**Objectives:** 4 The organisation&#x27;s purposes are to (a) advance education and the heritage, culture and science: Bilingual Family will advance the understanding of the benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism for children and young people and provide accurate, research-based information and advice to parents of bilingual children and to professionals supporting bilingual and multilingual children and families. (b) advance human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation and promote equality and diversity: Bilingual Family will promote language equality and diversity to give every child the chance to learn and use their heritage language(s) alongside the main language(s) of the community they live in, as stated in UN&#x27;s Convention of the Rights of the Child, article 30.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Scottish Borders
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas






