HELP NEEDED!

We need more volunteer help and more financial support to continue our growing and varied programme of activities and services.

If you can offer either we'd be delighted to hear from you.

Contact info@scotlandrussiaforum.org / 0131 668 3635 to discuss.

Download a short review of our achievements so far - The SRF 2003-2010

About us

  • Who we are
  • What we do
  • Support us
  • SRF in the news

Who we are

The Scotland-Russia Forum was founded in February 2003. Its aim is to promote a clear understanding in Scotland, Russia and its neighbouring countries of each other’s ways of life, history, heritage, cultural and commercial activities and voluntary services and to create contacts of all kinds between the peoples of these countries. We are an independent voluntary organisation with members of all ages, both Russian and non-Russian speaking and including many Russians now living in Scotland.

Our constitution.  Registered charity no. SC038728

Hon. President: The Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, M.P.
Hon. Vice-Presidents: The Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill; Lt. Commander Dairmid Gunn, OBE, Royal Navy (Rtd)
Founder President (2003-7): Tam Dalyell
Committee 2009-10: Jenny Carr (chair), Ian McGowan (treasurer), Sally Fraser (secretary), Peter France, Andrei Rogatchevski, Svetlana Shevchenko, Joe Wake, Helen Williams

What we do

Our core activities are a busy programme of lectures and exhibitions, a twice yearly newsletter and frequent e-bulletins of events connected to Russia and her neighbours all over Scotland. We also have parties, run business events, support student groups, set up an independent Saturday Russian school for children in Edinburgh, and try to provide information and support for many other Russian, Ukrainian and related activities in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK. Since the opening of the Scotland-Russia Institute in 2008 we have expanded the range of activities to include regular exhibitions, language classes and a popular lending library. See our Scotland-Russia Institute page. 

The SRF 2003-2010 shows the huge growth we experienced in our first two years at the Institute - and the urgency of finding financial means to continue after our initial finance runs out in 2011.

Support us

If you are interested in Russia and her neighbours we should be delighted to see you at any of our functions and to receive suggestions of activities you’d like to take part in. As a start why don’t you join our email news service (free for the first 6 months)? Have a look at our Support Us pages.  Join, give a donation, or volunteer to help us - or simply get in touch.

SRF (and associates) in the news

July 2010:Русский Язык за Рубежом. SRF supporter and veteran of the convoys, Jock Dempster, unexpectedly turned up on the back cover of the latest issue of this journal.
16 June 2010: Scotsman.  4 star review of our exhibition - Craig Brandist's "St. Petersburg: Reflections of a Floating Life". The Scotsman called Craig Brandist "an adept and imaginative photographer".
30 April 2010: Inverness Courier.  Urals-Scottish Society meets the Highland-Russia Connection in Inverness
March 2010: Kachkanar newspaper . SRF member Doris McCann is teaching in the Urals.
20 February 2010: Scotsman.  More on why more Russian should be taught.
10 February 2010: Scotsman. Long article on Russian language teaching and SRF; also includes interviews with Russian teacher at Fortrose and with Russian Edinburgh School.
5 February 2010:
Scotsman. News of the SRF's plans to use their grant from Russkiy Mir to encourage Russian teaching in Scottish schools.
19 January 2010:  BBC Radio Scotland. SRF members took part in the Massed Borders Choir rehearsal in Kelso on 16 January for a performance of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances in Russian (the concert will take place on 5 June).