Vision, Mission & Values
MECOPP (Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project) was established as a Company Limited by Guarantee in December 1999 and as an independent charity in January 2000. The organisation evolved in direct response to the difficulties experienced by Minority Ethnic carers, resident in Edinburgh and the Lothian’s, in accessing traditional mainstream carer support services. Since then, the organisation has grown substantially both in terms of the services it provides, the number of staff employed and the geographic reach of the organisation.
In addition to a range of direct carers support services delivered primarily in Edinburgh and the Lothian’s, Perth & Kinross and Argyll & Bute, MECOPP also provides a complementary service to its statutory and mainstream voluntary sector partners through input into policy, service and workforce development at both a local and Scottish national level.
Our Vision is of a Scotland where Minority Ethnic carers and carers from other marginalised communities have full and equal access to services and supports which promote and protect their quality of life, sustain them in their caring role for as long as they so choose and enable them to have a life alongside caring.
Our Mission: ‘Using local knowledge to improve national outcomes for Black and Minority Ethnic Carers’
Our Value Base is underpinned by an organisational Empowerment Framework which states that all strategic and operational decision making must support the following outcomes for carers:
The ability to make decisions about personal and collective circumstances;
The ability to access information and resources for decision making;
The ability to consider a range of options from which to choose;
The confidence in personal ability to influence change;
The ability to inform the perceptions of others through exchange, education and engagement, and;
The ability to learn and access skills to improve personal and collective circumstances.
