The story
Age Concern Scotland developed out of several Older People's Welfare Associations founded in 1944 during the Second World War.
Help the Aged in Scotland was established in 1986, when UK charity Help the Aged, founded in 1961, set up a permanent office in Edinburgh.
Age Concern Scotland offered a range of services directly, piloting programmes and developing locally based provision, while Help the Aged in Scotland was considered more as a campaigning and lobbying organisation.
The two charities collaborated on many issues and contributed to the 2002 introduction of Free Personal and Nursing Care and the implementation of the Adult Support and Protection Act in 2007. A joint campaign in 2005 led to the Burt Review of Council Tax, the report "A Fairer Way" the following year and the eventual freezing of the tax in Scotland for several years. They merged in 2009 to form the new organisation, Age Scotland.
From Wikipedia’s article on Age Scotland, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4