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Furnace Village Store Offers More
Furnace Village Store is the only grocery shop and Post Office in the village of Furnace. It is central to community life, providing access to Post Office services and a general store. These allow local people to collect pensions, top up prepayment meters, access cash and buy essentials. The previous owners of the business, who had been running the shop for 18 years, wanted to retire and had the business up for sale for over ...
Supporting Quality Education in Scotland
The ambition of Goal 4 is to 'ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all'. Through our diverse range of funding programmes across Scotland, we support this goal in a number of ways, including: Capital grants Revenue grants Bursaries Repayable grants/loans Funds with specific educational objectives To review how some of the grants we've awarded contribute ...
Upcoming fund deadlines
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New project to ensure communities benefit from natural capital investment
The project, which is led by Community Land Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Land Commission, will help deliver Government expectations that communities are involved in decisions about - and benefit from - Scotland’s land, and will broker partnerships between local communities, landowners, and nature finance developers.The groundbreaking project is funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Foundation Scotland, Scott...
A new mantra for strategic intervention
Since starting with Foundation Scotland back in September last year as a Community Funds Adviser, one of the main challenges I've faced is the challenge of fund underspend in some areas. This was the case for A'Chruach Wind Farm Community Fund. The fund serves three community council areas in Argyllshire: Lochgilphead, Dunadd and West Loch Fyne. To address the issue, following fund review meetings with the panel of local volu...
Education and Training Bursaries: Changing Lives
A range of costs can be supported, including course fees where these cannot be paid for from other sources, and support costs like travel, subsistence, accommodation and childcare.Thirty four awards were made between 1st of September 2022 and 31st August of 2023, committing a total of £47,228. Analysis of the awards made to date shows that around two thirds of the sub fund benefits local young people aged 16 to 25 and a furthe...
Old Luce Education and Training Fund
This fund provides bursaries to residents of the Old Luce Community Council area to help them access training and education opportunities that better equip them with the range of skills needed to enter or retain employment.
Groundbreaking windfarm funds delivering millions for local communities
The study’s findings show that the community benefit funds linked to SSE Renewables Achany and RWE Rosehall wind farms have delivered significant value across the three rural community council areas they serve: Ardgay and District, Creich, and Lairg. Both funds aim to support a broad range of community activities that help build vibrant local economies, support and encourage thriving communities, and make the areas an attracti...
Funding swings Kinglassie Primary School’s new playground into action
The aim of having new equipment was to improve the facilities and provide the pupils with a space they could be proud to call their own. The Ventient Westfield (Kinglassie) Community Wind Farm Fund supports projects which benefit those living within the Kinglassie Community Council area. Kinglassie Primary School is supported by a dedicated group of parents within the Parent Council, which is a voluntary, not for pro...
BMET education & training bursaries changing more and more lives
Since launching in 2016, the BMET Fund has awarded 375 grants worth over £400,000 helping 242 individuals access training and education courses, achieve qualifications and move on into jobs, further training and enhanced career prospects. 2022 was BMET’s biggest year on record, increasing from 8 grant awards in 2016 to 50 in 2022; from £5,100 paid out in 2016 to £75,000 in 2022. In short, BMET is having a greater impact...