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Community Benefit Funds step up to support CABs
Over recent months Foundation Scotland has been working with communities to ensure wind farm community benefit funding is reaching the most vulnerable during the cost-of-living crisis. Many community organisations providing vital support to those in need are experiencing the double whammy of keeping themselves afloat amidst rising costs while increasing the range and level of support they offer, to an increasing number ...
Putting SDG13 into practice
COP26 will be the largest summit that the UK has ever hosted. Taking place in Glasgow, the event will see 200 countries come together to outline global commitments on climate change. As we look towards this momentous occasion, take a look at how Foundation Scotland is putting climate action into practice. As Scotland’s community foundation, we recognise that climate change is here, and it is happening now. According to ...
Giving children's clothing a new lease of life with Berwickshire Swap
About the FundThe Greencoat UK Energy Drone Hill Wind Farm Community Fund opened in 2012 and supports community projects benefiting those living in the areas covered by Reston & Auchencrow, Grantshouse, Coldingham, and Cockburnspath & Cove Community Councils. The fund is provided by Greencoat UK Wind, the owners of the Drone Hill Wind Farm in East Berwickshire. About Berwickshire Swap Berwickshire Swap was ...
Cour Community Benefit Fund strengthens support in Kintyre
Previously, Tarbert & Skipness Community Trust, West Kintyre Community Fund and the East Kintyre Community Fund collectively decided how a single pot of Cour funds would be spent across the three areas.Under the new arrangement, each will receive an equal third of over £33,000 per annum to distribute as part of their individual existing grant making activity, which is sourced mainly by income from other community benefit f...
Glenkerie fund celebrates ten years of local support
In the latest round of funding, £64,000 was awarded to local services and projects across the Glenkerie fund area.The aim of the fund, which is provided by Nadara and administered by Foundation Scotland, is to enhance the local environment, ensuring that it is an attractive and vibrant place to live, work and visit. Since the Fund opened in 2014, it has supported community benefit projects which encourage and promote com...
Cooking up a refurbishment for village hall kitchen in North Middleton
For decades, this venue has been the pulsing heart of local life, hosting everything from weekly drama classes and line dancing sessions to rugby match screenings and wedding celebrations. Now, thanks to the dedication of the Middleton Hall Village Association (MHVA) and with support from the community, the hall has entered into a new chapter with an exciting kitchen refurbishment project.The MHVA, a not-for-profit volunteer g...
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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...
Mossmorran
The Mossmorran Windfarm Community Fund will support community projects that benefit residents living in the Hill of Beath, Cowdenbeath and Crossgates & Mossgreen Community Council areas.
£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...