Useful Links

General

• ABCtales.com
  http://www.abctales.com - where you can explore and develop your creative writing skills, get support from editors, publish your short stories and poems online, get feedback and writing tips and meet fellow writers, all for free.
• Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
  http://www.acas.org.uk - aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations. Providing up-to-date information, independent advice, high quality training and working with employers and employees to solve problems and improve performance.
• Artlink
  http://www.artlinkedinburgh.co.uk - Developing Access and Knowledge in the Arts - Artlink works hard to increase opportunities for individuals who experience disadvantage or disability to take part in the arts in Edinburgh and the Lothian region.
• Care.org
  http://www.care.org - CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
• Central Registered Body in Scotland
  http://www.crbs.org.uk - The Central Registered Body in Scotland (CRBS) is the National Clearing House for Disclosures for Volunteers and paid voluntary sector staff.
• Centre for Alternate Technology
  http://www.cat.org.uk - CAT is concerned with the search for globally sustainable, whole and ecologically sound technologies and ways of life.
• Civicus
  http://www.civicus.org - World Alliance for Citizen Participation.
• Conflict Archive
  http://cain.ulst.ac.uk - contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present.
• Digital Divide Network
  http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org - The website offers a range of information, tools and resources that help practictioners stay on top of digital divide developments.
• European Social Fund
  http://www.esf.gov.uk - The European Social Fund (ESF) is one of four Structural Funds designed to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union.
• Eurodesk
  http://www.eurodesk.org - aims to offer a range of concrete services to professionals working with young people and European information.
• European Union
  http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm - Provides an index and route into a vast range of resources available on the European Union website.
• Google Maps
  http://map.google.co.uk - Useful Map tools for UK Streets.
• Heifer International
  http://www.heifer.org - work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.
• The Hunger Site
  http://www.hungersite.com - Focuses the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need - the eradication of world hunger.
• Independent Media Center
  http://www.indymedia.org - Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
• International Fund for Animal Welfare's Campaign
  http://www.banhunting.com - Campaign against Cruelity to Animals.
• IsleOfBarra.com
  http://www.isleofbarra.com - Presenting the Isle of Barra and Vatersay on WWW.
• KableNET.com
  http://www.kablenet.com - Kable is a leading provider of public sector research, publishing and event services.
• One Parent Families Scotland
  http://www.opfs.org.uk - Scotland's National Voluntary Organisation Supporting Lone Parents.
• OneWorld.net
  http://uk.oneworld.net - provides the UK's best online coverage of human rights and sustainable development.
• Ordinance Survey
  http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk - Britain's National Mapping Agency.
• Panda.org
  http://www.panda.org - The WWF Global Network.
• Scottish Roots Ancestry Research
  http://www.scottish-roots.co.uk - A professional Scottish Genealogy service that will undertake ancestral research into your Scottish family history.
• Scottish SPCA
  http://www.scottishspca.org - Caring for Scotland's Animals.
• Self-help UK
  http://www.self-help.org.uk - provide a searchable database of over 1,000 self help organisations and support groups across the UK that provide support, guidance and advice to patients, carers and their relatives.
• Intute > Social Sciences
  http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences - a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.
• Street Map
  http://www.streetmap.co.uk - Provides address searching and street map facilities for the uk.
• Trust for the Study of Adolescence
  http://www.tsa.uk.com - TSA is a UK charity focusing exclusively on work with teenagers and young adults. It aims to help close knowledge and skills gaps.
• Waste Watch
  http://www.wastewatch.org.uk - Waste Watch is the leading national organisation promoting and encouraging action on the 3Rs - waste reduction, reuse and recycling.