We began in 1991 as an Urban Aid funded project called the Drumchapel Mental Health Consumer Enablement project.

We asked local volunteers to help us ask people what they wanted us to do to achieve the above, we asked everyone you could think of. The results of that were twofold:

• Create community based mental health support services
• Challenge the stigma around mental ill health

Listening to the voices of lived experience and seeking solutions together; including how to invest resources, has been core to our practice ever since.

Most people who come to us are suffering mental or emotional distress but it’s not an illness its life.

People come to COPE for many reasons, in the main when they feel/think this just isn’t them and something needs to change.

Integrated Grant Fund

Individual support services for those living in West Glasgow are core funded by Glasgow Community Planning Partnership Integrated Grant fund.  Core funding is less now than in 1999; when we were funded to cover only Drumchapel. 

Transforming Self-Management in Scotland fund Health and Social Care Alliance

This Fund is to support and develop ideas which have their roots in the lived experience of people living with long term conditions and their unpaid carers.  The fund offers COPE an opportunity to further co design and develop ideas locally with people with lived experience which support self-management and to share learning Nationally. 

Glasgow Third Sector Transformation Fund; Reshaping Care for Older people fund. 

Is aimed at promoting wellbeing in later life for older adults and those who care for older adults. 

And our own fund-raising efforts through our social enterprise company TLC2COPE

20 Drumchapel Rd Glasgow G15 6QE opening hours:

• Monday, Wednesday Thursday 9am-5.30pm
• Tuesday 9am-5pm
• Friday 9am-2.30pm

Yoker resource centre 10 Kelso Place Glasgow G14 0LL

• Tuesday 9.30am-5pm

Services are by appointment only and can be made by phoning 0141 944 5490,
or emailing kathleen@cope-scotland.org or texting 07763 743 296. You can visit 20 Drumchapel Rd to make an appointment for a later date.

We do not offer home visits

The services we offer at 20 Drumchapel Rd and Yoker Resource centre are free, we do not ask for fees nor do we ask for suggested donations.

We cover the West of Glasgow for face to face services. Through our ehealth strategy we plan to offer wellness and self-management advice and training resources to anyone who can access the internet.

We hire people who hold a professional qualification in human service provision, are a member of a professional body and have a minimum of 5 years post qualifying experience, and are committed to continuous professional development.

We do not use volunteers or students to offer individual services, wellness advisors offering support are qualified to do this and sit on a similar grade to points on the band 6 in nursing, which is a senior nursing/charge grade

We do not have the infrastructure to offer volunteers or students, the support and supervision they need. However, people do help us out by being part of co design and production teams, helping us develop new services, being members of COPE and helping with strategic planning.

Students often visit COPE and sometimes there are opportunities for attending things with someone from COPE in an informal mentoring role, this all depends on what other demands are on the service.