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About
Our Mission
We are passionate about supporting children, young people, families and seniors who are experiencing emotional, mental, physical or financial difficulty affecting their wellbeing and quality of life and relationships.
We offer fully funded training courses in a unique way that is relevant to enable young people aged 12-25 years to learn more about the connection between their mind-emotions-body and behaviour. The training empowers them to recognise, understand and manage their own mental wellbeing to help them to grow into more skilful, kind and
compassionate human beings.
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We also aim to support children living in hardship or poverty each year at Christmas and provide training, support and wellbeing projects for Carers and Seniors. We offer the community a full timetable of in person or virtual classes and events designed to enhance each person's mental, emotional, physical health and wholeness.
Our Vision
We are devoted to helping our communities to work together to help each other thrive and flourish.
Our different charitable projects all focus on supporting people to learn new ways of being to live happier, healthier and more meaningful lives.
Our goals include creating more mindful and compassionate communities and to celebrate the spirit of giving to inspire others to be kinder to themselves and the world around them.
We believe mindful, kind, compassionate
communities can change the world.
Our Team
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Chief Executive &
Founder
Julie Griffin
Julie founded Glasgow's Spirit of Christmas in 2014 and Cultivating Mindfulness in 2018. She is a mindfulness teacher accredited with the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA). Julie is the Student Wellbeing Mindfulness Tutor for the City of Glasgow College, a mindfulness teacher at the University of Glasgow and co-developed the University of Glasgow, Mindfulness: A Focus on Adolescents course. She also teaches mindfulness and compassion in public, private and third sector organisations.
Julie is passionate about making mindfulness training more accessible to young people to improve mental wellbeing and prevent issues arising later in life. She is also a qualified Health Qigong Instructor and Heart Coherence Coach.
In Dec 2019, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson awarded Julie a Point of Light Award to recognise her work for founding Glasgow's Spirit of Christmas, children's gift campaign. A mindful, kind and compassionate community that has raised over £4.5 million of Gifts Made with Love for over 122,000 children affected by financial hardship & poverty.
Secretary
Linda Millar
Linda has had a number of careers, and has been working within learning and development for the last 9 years in large companies within energy, financial services and the legal sectors.
She describes herself as a ‘people person’ and very focused on coaching and supporting people to progress in their careers.
Linda became involved with GSOC in 2020 – firstly as a donor, and then as a volunteer, helping to support some of the activities required to deliver the campaign in the later stages.
She has also volunteered with her local foodbank and a homeless charity. Linda has 2 grown up children, and enjoys travelling and gardening.
Treasurer
Fiona Craig
Fiona is a busy Admin Manager at Hobs Reprographics. She has worked as a volunteer for Cultivating Mindfulness for almost two years assisting with admin projects, The Wellbeing Centre and Glasgow's Spirit of Christmas children's gift campaign.
With 23 years experience in finance and admin processes and procedures she brings a wealth of experience to her new volunteer role as Treasurer.
Fiona enjoys the outdoors and spends a lot of time walking in nature with her two dogs.
Join Our Team
We currently looking for a Marketing and/or a Social Media Content Creator to join our volunteer team. Please complete the Volunteer Form if you have a few hours a week to help contribute towards our charity's mission, vision and goals
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