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Special pot of £7.5 million to celebrate National Lottery 25th birthday
30th September 2019
The National Lottery Community Fund is making a special £7.5 million pot of funding available to mark The National Lottery’s 25 th birthday.
The fund, #CelebrateNationalLottery25, will help communities celebrate the extraordinary impact the National Lottery
has had since…
Number of Scots needing emergency support on the rise
29th October 2019
Most of the Crisis Grant expenditure related to applicants needing to buy food – 60% of all payments – which is a 29% increase from the same quarter last year.
There were 32,995 crisis grants awarded, an 11% increase on last year.
Half of the reasons for applications in the last…
Get your Cash for Culture guide
23rd September 2019
Cash for Culture from Voluntary Arts Scotland was created to help voluntary-led cultural groups navigate the funding
landscape.
The publication has been updated for 2019. Download a free copy at voluntaryarts.org/cash-for-culture or email info@vascotland.org.uk to request…
Lottery players have raised £1.3 billion for Scotland’s charities
29th October 2019
Social Bite was founded in 2012 by Josh Littlejohn and Alice Thompson with a business model that encourages entrepreneurs to help solve social problems rather than profiting personally.
It received £557,496 from the National Lottery Community Fund in 2016 for its Social Bite Acad…
Youth crime prevention project to be extended
29th October 2019
The charity as well as partners and funders believe that crucial to the project’s success is the role of peer mentors. Action for Children has employed almost 100 former service users it has previously supported, with many of these acting as peer mentors within projects, providin…
Supporters feature on new lifeboat
28th October 2019
The name of each person being remembered will be featured within the lifeboat’s letters and numbers, or decal, displayed on the vessel’s hull in lettering 3-4mm in height. The Shannon class lifeboat will be based at the RNLI’s Invergordon Lifeboat Station in Scotland and is due t…
Gifts in wills to double
28th October 2019
The report reveals:
• Legacy and in-memory giving are worth £5 billion a year to British charities (£3 billion and £2 billion respectively) – a tenth of total income.
• The long-term outlook for legacy and in-memory fundraising is extremely positive, than…
Government in care funding pledge
28th October 2019
Now more than £12 million of further funding will be provided this academic year to enhance the support available.
Local authorities will work with chief social workers and directors of education to decide how this year’s funding will be used.
Care experienced young people from b…
Scots racking up millions in council tax debt
28th October 2019
With 3,399 people looking for advice over that period, the debts worked out to around £1,900 on average.
This is significantly larger than the average council tax per dwelling for the country, which according to the most recent Scottish Government figures stands at £1,147 per yea…
Souter makes massive charity donation
25th October 2019
Souter is a devout Christian evangelical and has sparked controversy in the past owing to his opposition to the repeal of Section 28 laws which forbade local authorities from "intentionally promoting homosexuality".
His foundation primarily – if not exclusively - funds charities…