About Us
Rooted in Clydebank,
devoted to its people
A community-led charity born from a simple conviction: older people deserve to stay home, safely, on their own terms.
A community-led charity born from a simple conviction: older people deserve to stay home, safely, on their own terms.
Vibrant Health Advocates – Cobalt is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation rooted in the community of Clydebank, on the south bank of the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire. We work exclusively with residents aged 75 and over — the people statistically most at risk of a fall that leads to hospitalisation, loss of confidence, or the end of independent living.
Our work is local by design. We know the tenement closes, the steep garden paths, the ageing housing stock of this proud post-industrial town, and we understand the particular determination of older Clydebankers to stay in their own homes on their own terms.
Our approach combines practical home-safety action with longer-term strength and balance work. A home visit from one of our advisers is not a tick-box inspection — it is a proper conversation, lasting as long as it needs to, that takes in the whole picture of how someone moves around their home, what they worry about, and what they have already tried to manage.
Every penny to frontline care
As a SCIO, every decision we make is governed by a voluntary trustee board drawn from the local community, and every pound we raise goes directly into frontline support.
Out in the community
Home visits in action
Vibrant Health Advocates – Cobalt exists to protect the independence and wellbeing of over-75s living in Clydebank by delivering evidence-based falls-prevention support, practical home-safety adaptations, and warm, trusted guidance through the wider health and social care system — so that older residents of this Clydeside community can continue to live safely, confidently, and with dignity in the homes and neighbourhoods that are theirs.
Vibrant Health Advocates – Cobalt grew out of a simple, urgent observation: that Clydebank had a significant and growing population of over-75s living alone in older housing, and that a fall — something so preventable — was the single most common reason they lost their independence.
The founding trustees, a group of local health professionals, retired community workers, and older residents themselves, came together with the conviction that a dedicated, community-led response could do what stretched statutory services could not: reach people before they fell, in their own homes, with time and care.
We registered as a SCIO with OSCR and began our first home visits within months, working from a small base in Clydebank town centre and spreading outward by word of mouth and the trust of local GPs who had been waiting for exactly this kind of partner.
In the years since, we have grown steadily — adding exercise classes, deepening our referral relationships, and training more volunteer advisers drawn from the community itself. What has not changed is our founding belief: that the best falls-prevention work happens face to face, in someone's living room.
Clydebank built ships that sailed the world. The people who built this town deserve every support to stay in it, safely, for as long as they choose.
Vibrant Health Advocates – Cobalt is governed by a voluntary board of trustees who bring together expertise in community health, housing, financial management, and older people's services — and who all share a personal commitment to Clydebank and its older residents. Our trustees set the strategic direction of the charity, ensure strong financial governance, and hold themselves accountable to the community we serve.
Supported by a small team of paid staff and a dedicated group of trained volunteer home-safety advisers, the board works to make sure that every referral we receive is met with the same quality of care and attention.