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Home-start Cowdenbeath providing local support
They provide a range of services including one-to-one support, family and parenting groups, resilience work, a summer holiday programme, and social events and activities.Project background/historyIn 2022, the organisation partnered with The Cottage Family Centre’s ‘Big Hoose’ project. The Big Hoose connects major retailers, such as Amazon, with support organisations across Fife to redistribute surplus items which would otherwi...
Scotland’s Community Foundation fast tracks funding to help most in need
The accelerated funding programme comes in response to increased pressure on charities and community groups, many of whom are seeing a surge in demand for services while they themselves are facing reduced capacity and soaring overheads, such as utilities, staffing and National Insurance costs.To provide support for organisations who need it now, and to help with longer-term capacity building, Foundation Scotland will implement...
£20,770 helps tackle ‘holiday hunger’ in Eastern Berwickshire
The Greencoat Drone Hill Community Fund Panel initially awarded £8,000 to the Radio Borders ‘Cash for Kids’ charity to extend the ‘Holiday Hunger’ programme that was operating in other parts of Scotland into the Drone Hill Fund area for the first time. The grant provided school holiday food vouchers and activity packs for disadvantaged children, and was later increased to £11,270 to support more children and include winter jac...
Four community organisations share £63,000 thanks to Clashindarroch Wind Farm Community Fund
In this latest round of funding, The Cabrach Trust has been awarded £40,432 from the fund established by wind farm owner Vattenfall. The grant will be used towards the early stages of turning the Old School buildings at The Cabrach into a new community facility providing for events and educational activities, alongside a bunkhouse for visitors. It will enable The Cabrach Trust’s design team to develop costed designs and...
Minnygap
The Minnygap Community Fund supports community projects benefitting those living in the community council areas of Johnstone, Templand and Kirkpatrick Juxta.
Funding supports heart of the community Memorial Hall
The Langhope Rig Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund supports community projects benefitting those living in the areas of Ettrick & Yarrow, Lilliesleaf, Ashkirk & Midlem, Upper Teviotdale and Borthwick Water, Hawick and Denholm & District. Currie Memorial Hall, in the village of Lilliesleaf, is the only community space in the village available for community functions and events. The village hall’s activity schedu...
Tannach Education & Training
This fund provides bursaries to residents of the Tannach and District Community Councils area in Caithness to help them access training and education opportunities that better equip them with the range of skills needed to enter or retain employment in key sectors of the local economy.
Funding support for Xcel Youth Trust new Sensory Room
Crossdykes Community Benefit Fund supports a wide range of charitable activities providing benefit to the five community council areas of Langholm Ewes & Westerkirk, Lockerbie and District, Middlebie & Waterbeck, Eskdalemuir, and North Milk.The Xcel Youth Trust is a registered charity, based in Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway. They work with 300-400 young people, aged 8 -24, across the community of Eskdale. The...
Todhill Wind Farm Community Fund
Each year, an index-linked amount based on £45,600 is paid into the fund for the operating life of the wind farm. 50% of the Todhill Wind Farm Community Fund goes into a fund specifically for the Larbert, Stenhousemuir & Torwood (LST) communities. The remaining 50% of funds goes into a combined fund for the Denny & Districy communities. Each fund has its own arrangements for distributing funds, with a...
River Avich Hydro Fund
AED is a community benefit society set up by the local community to develop and operate the hydro scheme. Starting in 2021, AED will make funding available to support charitable activities that primarily benefit people living in Inverinan, Lochavich, Dalavich, or Kilmaha. A map of the area served by the fund can be viewed here.However, smaller amounts of funding (‘micro-grants’) are available for charitable activities ben...