Isla Davie

· RECRUITMENT OF NEW VOLUNTEERS WELL UNDER WAY · THE LISTENING SERVICE EDINBURGH HITS THE HEADLINES! Recruitment: With active volunteer listener numbers having dropped to 30 we have been busy with our latest recruitment round, looking to find up to 6 new people to provide the “listening ear” in the Sheriff Court. Many thanks to the Volunteer Scotland website and the Volunteer Edinburgh Fair on 1 September for providing the forums for us to advertise our service. We had an...

STOP PRESS! STOP PRESS! NEW VOLUNTEER LISTENER RECRUITMENT ROUND THIS AUTUMN ONLINE APPLICATION FORM IS OPEN – Closing date for applications MONDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2026 - The Listening Service Edinburgh is looking to recruit up to six new volunteer listeners ready to start participating in the service by the New Year. Volunteers are required to offer a non-judgemental listening ear on a 1 to 1 basis, while maintaining court user confidentiality, to help court users find their way around the...

On 5 June a number of our volunteers attended the memorial service for Jim Wallace, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, who had been our most supportive Patron for three years. The service was held in Dunblane Cathedral, where he had sung in the choir. It was a very heart-warming occasion fully filled by a large number of people from his many activities– from politics and the legal profession, from his role as Moderator of The Church of Scotland, from the many causes he espoused. There was much...