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Province of Scotland
Scotland
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cottish members work with enthusiasm to support family life in all
its varying forms, each looking for a project to support in their area.
Students Knitting
Glasgow Diocese has produced a cookery Members love to knit and each diocese
book, Simple Meals for Skint Singles, which provides tiny garments for premature babies
they take to Freshers’ Day at Glasgow and ‘angel pockets’ for still-born babies.
University.
Parenting groups
Contact Centre A mother and toddler group at Perth
The Contact Centre in Kirkcaldy was set up Cathedral led to a parenting group being
to fill the gap which arises when the held there. ‘We need to train more
parental relationship has broken down, facilitators as I believe this is the key to
enabling children to spend time with their reaching out to young families,’ says
non-resident parent in a neutral venue. Provincial President Sheila Redwood .
Prison play areas Prayer
In Perth and Edinburgh Mothers’ Union Prayer circles in each diocese are key to
members have been the first to provide play Scotland’s work. A new book of prayers
areas for the children who come to visit written by members in Galloway was
their fathers in prison. There is launched at the Stirling Roadshow. A new
one women’s prison in branch opened in Glasgow last year and
Scotland and every year the another is being formed in Stirling. Sheila
women there receive a says, ‘I ask your prayers for continued growth
signed card and Christmas in the work of Mothers’ Union in Scotland as
gift from Mothers’ Union it supports families at all
members. stages in their
lives.’
Fact File
Population: 5,000,000
Mothers’ Union members: Just under a thousand members
in seven dioceses.
Recent estimates suggest that there are just over 162,000
one parent families in Scotland, including more than
280,000 children.
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