The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety

The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety Providing empowering Personal Safety and saving lives since 1997. We specialise in 'Personal Safety incl.
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ScotCPS is a Scottish registered charity providing personal safety, conflict resolution & practical self defence training to individuals and businesses. self defence' courses for Female Survivors of Violence; Children; Pupils & Students;People with Sensory Impairments; People with Dwarfism; the LGBTI community; Ethnic Minority groups; and Personal Safety in the Workplace.

06/01/2026

The next few weeks will shape what social care looks like in North Ayrshire. Decisions are being discussed that could affect how people live, cope, and stay independent. Your experiences need to be part of that.
If you can, please try to attend one of the local authority's drop-ins.
Showing up matters. It makes it harder for real lives to be overlooked.
Here is the full list:
Wednesday 7 January: Fullarton ConneXions, Irvine, 11am–2pm
Wednesday 7 January: Kilwinning Sports Centre, 4pm–7pm
Thursday 8 January: Brodick Hall, Arran, 1.30pm–4.30pm
Tuesday 13 January: Hayocks Community Centre, Stevenston, 11am–2pm
Wednesday 14 January: Bridgend Community Centre, Kilbirnie, 4pm–7pm
Thursday 15 January: Clark Memorial Church, Largs, 11am–2pm
You can also fill in the online form. It’s tough. It asks people to choose between things that don’t feel fair. Please use every comment box. Say what it would mean for you. Say why the choices don’t work. Your words count.
https://tinyurl.com/NAHSCPsurvey
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Our session is going ahead this Friday. We’ll go through it together and make sure your views are captured clearly.
🗓 Friday 9 January
⏰ 11am – 1pm
📍 Training Room, The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety, John Centre, Barony Court, Princess Street, Ardrossan KA22 8DQ
The venue is wheelchair accessible. There is an accessible toilet.
Tea, coffee and biscuits provided.
There’s on-street parking, and more parking just across on the road at the seafront (not the promenade).
You’re welcome to bring a carer, family member, or friend if that helps.
Please register everyone that will attend so that we can plan numbers as capacity at the venue is limited.
Relaxed space. No judgement. No pressure.
If you haven’t registered yet, you still can contact Kaye.
Kind regards,
Kaye

Kaye Robertson
Operations Manager
The Community Brokerage Network
Tel: 07769 698 606

This survey is for Individuals/ Service Users/ General Public North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership is responsible for a wide range of community and hospital-based health and social care services for all ages, including care at home, social work, children and family services, older....

Blast from the past…hopefully you’ll recognise the movie this montage is based on (please excuse Alan’s awful Sean Conne...
04/01/2026

Blast from the past…hopefully you’ll recognise the movie this montage is based on (please excuse Alan’s awful Sean Connery accent…it’s not as bad as his Liam Neeson’s) 😂

Highlander spoof promo video - There can be only one Scottish Centre for Personal Safety

Happy New Year, everyone. Our Barony Wellbeing Café in Ardrossan is re-opening on Tuesday (6th January) @ 11am. Hope to ...
04/01/2026

Happy New Year, everyone.
Our Barony Wellbeing Café in Ardrossan is re-opening on Tuesday (6th January) @ 11am.
Hope to see you all there. 😃 ☕️ 🍰

Happy New Year to all our service users, supporters, and funders from all the team at The Scottish Centre for Personal S...
31/12/2025

Happy New Year to all our service users, supporters, and funders from all the team at The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety 🍾🥳🎉🎊

Anyone know of any potential funders?
30/12/2025

Anyone know of any potential funders?

Can you help prolong the good work of the group?

Our Centre is now closed until after the festive period. We reopen on Tuesday 6th January 2026. Merry Christmas and a ve...
22/12/2025

Our Centre is now closed until after the festive period. We reopen on Tuesday 6th January 2026.
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all our volunteers, service users, supporters, and funders.
See you next year. 🎅🏻🎄☃️

18/12/2025

Santa Redman is at it again…but Michael fended him off. 🎅🏻🤜👍

Santa Redman…Ho, Ho, Ho.
18/12/2025

Santa Redman…Ho, Ho, Ho.

18/12/2025

A fun night as the Krav class were attacked by Santa Redman…

Our Therapeutic Art classes begin their next 8-week on Thursday 29th January  2026, 12-2pm.To book your place, please em...
06/12/2025

Our Therapeutic Art classes begin their next 8-week on Thursday 29th January 2026, 12-2pm.
To book your place, please email info@scotcps.org.uk

This video, produced during the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2025, highlights the amazing impact our Therapeutic Art classes have on those who partic...

Coming soon…
04/12/2025

Coming soon…

💜 Women-Only Self-Defence & Personal Safety Training

Ross-Shire, Skye and Lochalsh Women’s Aid is delighted to host this empowering women-only training, delivered by The Scottish Centre for Personal Safety

📅 Tuesday 31st March
⏰ 9:00am – 4:30pm
📍 Portree Community Centre

This confidence-building course will cover:

✅ Understanding the law on self-defence & reasonable use of force
✅ Recognising warning and danger signs early
✅ Using your voice effectively & adopting a defensive stance
✅ The T-Zone – high-impact target areas
✅ How everyday objects can become improvised weapons
✅ Practical scenario training — including what to do if someone is following you

If you would like to attend, please reserve your spot by emailing MoragSkye@rosswa.co.uk

Empower yourself. Build confidence. Stay safe. 💪💜

Address

The Barony St. John Centre, Princes Street
Ardrossan
KA228DQ

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ScotCPS is a Scottish registered charity providing personal safety, conflict resolution & practical self defence training to individuals and businesses.

We specialise in 'Personal Safety incl. self defence' courses for Women; Children; Pupils & Students;People with Disabilities; and in the Workplace.

Our development of a Personal Safety course specifically for people with low or no vision saw Principal Instructor Alan Bell reach the final of the RNIB Vision Pioneer Awards in the category of Teacher of the Year 2017 and we won the Pioneering Project Award for these courses at The Scottish Charity Awards 2018.