

Useful Contacts
Support and advice
Advice Shop Bathgate
Advice Service
tel: 01506 283 000
Carers of West Lothian
Information, advice and support for all unpaid carers and people with disabilities
tel: 01506 448 000
Dignity Boxes
Donation boxes in the form of toiletries in a variety of communities, small business and larger companies
The Food Train
Providing vital services to those who are no longer able to manage independently, through age, ill health, frailty or disability
tel: 01506 413 013
HcL Transport
Supported door-through-door transport.
Dial-A-Ride for any destination
tel: 01506 633 953
Dial-A-Bus – scheduled trips to Livingston Shops
tel: 01506 633 336
Kidzeco Kidz Start
Community project with the mission of helping new parents within the community
tel: 01506 815 534 / 01506 238 283
Neil’s Hugs Foundation
Help, understand and give support to families and friends affected by suicide
tel: 07446 717 501
West Lothian Foodbank
Provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food, fuel vouchers (referred by the Advice Shop) and support to local people who are referred in crisis.
tel: 01501 229 307
The Bridge Community Project
Financial wellbeing, counselling and bereavement support
tel: 01506 238 980
Citizens Advice Bureau West Lothian
Support and advice on a number of different topics
tel: 01506 432 977 or 01506 431 061 (appts)
Eastfield Development Centre and The Hub
F&BV CDT community buildings providing anti poverty support, food project, information, advice and signposting
tel: 01501 773 699 / 229 645
Home Aid West Lothian
Recycle used furniture and to support members of the West Lothian community who face social and economic exclusion
tel: 01506 652 230
Home Start West Lothian
Offers support, friendship and practical help to parents with young children, in communities throughout West Lothian
tel: 01506 415 755
Men Matters, Ace Awareness and mental health support
To raise awareness of ACEs and to raise money for more councillors
tel: 07938 159 593
West Lothian Financial
Inclusion Network
Aims to ensure that all West Lothian residents are aware of their financial choices and promotes access to financial advice, financial products and other services, particularly for the most excluded social groups
tel: 01501 771 775
Development Trusts
Fauldhouse and Breich Valley Community Development Trust
tel: 01501 773 699/07599 442 822
Kirknewton Community Development Trust
tel: 01506 883 988
Stoneyburn and Bents Future Vision Group SCIO
email: laura.sbfvg@gmail.com
West Calder and Harburn Community Development Trust
tel: 01506 872 931
Whitburn and District
Community Development Trust
tel: 01501 748 708
Addiewell and Loganlea Community Group
facebook @AddiewellandLoganleaCommunityGroup
Polbeth Community Hub
tel: 01506 536 123/0800 048 7481
WAT IF (Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax Improvement Foundation)
tel: 01501 785 194
Winchburgh Community Development Trust
tel: 07733 446 717
The Development Trusts Association Scotland
tel: 0131 220 2456
Credit Unions
Blackburn, Seafield and District Credit Union
Anyone who lives or works in the towns and villages to the west of Livingston including Harthill and Eastfield in North Lanarkshire, can join the Credit Union.
tel: 01506 650 198
West Lothian Credit Union
A financial co-operative offers its services to anyone who lives or works in West Lothian.
tel: 01506 436 666
Local Councillors
Councillor Pauline Clark
tel: 01506 281 741/01506 281 763
Councillor Cathy Muldoon
tel: 01506 281 759
Councillor Craig Meek
email: craig.meek@westlothian.gov.uk
West Lothian Council
West Lothian Council
tel: 01506 280 000
Fauldhouse Partnership Centre
tel: 01501 773 000
The Scottish Government
The Scottish Government
tel: 03002 444 000


