Sponsors

For our 2025 annual conference, “Our Voice Matters”, we’re proud to partner with a range of outstanding organisations as sponsors and exhibitors, helping to make this event truly impactful.

Refreshment sponsor

Blue Triangle is a homelessness charity and social care provider established in 1975. Every day, they provide 24/7 trauma informed support and a safe, secure place to live for over 400 young people and adults across Scotland.

Through their diverse range of person-centred services, they empower individuals to thrive, transition to their own tenancies, succeed in their recovery journeys, and reconnect with their community.

Exhibitors

The Donaldson Trust envisages a society in which neurodivergent people are understood, accepted, treated fairly, and valued.

Year of Care Partnerships aims to support organisations and practitioners to implement high quality personalised care and support planning so that people with long term conditions can feel more involved in their care, are enabled to develop their health literacy and supported to self-manage.

Since 1998, Scottish Book Trust has been delivering world-class programmes across Scotland and working with partners from small community groups to the Scottish Government. As a national charity, they believe that reading and writing for pleasure have the power to transform lives and everyone should have access to their benefits.

Voices of Experience (VOX) Scotland is a national collective advocacy organisation run for and by its members, who all have living or lived experience of mental ill health. They represent their members’ views to Scottish Government, the NHS, and others to influence mental health policy and practice, making sure that our laws and services reflect their needs and interest.

Talking Mats is a Social Enterprise specialising in communication.  Through their training and bespoke symbols, they support people to think about things that matter to them, and to communicate their views effectively.

At Vegetarian for Life, care home caterers often contact them, concerned that a vegetarian or vegan resident living with dementia has lost this part of their identity, and is now ‘asking for meat’, or picking it from others’ plates. This presents a huge barrier to individuals eating in line with their religious or philosophical beliefs. Carers don’t want to distress a vegetarian or vegan by ignoring their present wishes, and may reluctantly give in to such requests. Vegetarian for Life offer guidance on navigating this difficult terrain.

Social Security Scotland delivers 15 benefits, supporting families on low incomes, disabled people, carers, people who need help paying for a funeral and young people entering the workplace.

Scotland Versus Arthritis is the largest funder of arthritis research in Scotland. They are funding research worth over £97 million across the UK this year with £12.4 million aimed at improving the lives of the 1.7 million people living with arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions in Scotland: www.versusarthritis.org/in-your-area/.