2024

Southside Community Centre Association

£1,882

Warm Space initiative – one day a week provide a heated space, hot drinks and activities (craft, films, games). Help reduce isolation.

Ferrywell Youth Project

£2,100

To fund food costs for 120 young people at weekly youth clubs for P6 to S6.

Livity Youth Scotland

£4,000

Helping young people in Craigmillar from BAME communities affected by racism & poverty; provide cultural, sport and emotional well-being as well as food. Spaces for 25-30 young people to attend weekly activities.

Move on

£1,500

Cost of living support for young people leaving care: clothing vouchers, hygiene products, energy top-ups for 20 young people.

Castlebrae Community High School

£2,000

Biodiversity project: beekeeping, horticulture & kitchen garden.

Tinderbox Collective 

£4,000

To provide access to musical instruments & tuition for young people in deprived areas (Muirhouse, Drumbrae, WesterHailles, Moredun & Craigmillar). Shared instruments on loan through public libraries (library of things).

Edinburgh Leisure

£2,100

Sustainable Composting Bins: cafes at Edinburgh Leisure generate 9 tonnes of food waste a year. This initiative would compost this waste to be used as organic fertiliser on various council and community sites in the city.

Transition Edinburgh South

£2,918

Tools and craft materials to enhance sessions in walled garden serving deprived areas (Gracemont, Liberton, Southhouse & Burdiehouse)

Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council

£2,000

C3R (Community Reuse Reduce Recycle) towards the cost of a marquee where events can be delivered at various festivals (Festival of Cultures; Edinburgh Climate Festival etc). Creating a warm, safe, dry and welcoming space for outreach activities.

Campbell Park Partnership

£500

Funding equipment for school children to get involved in gardening activities at Campbell Park.

Eric Liddell Community

£2,050

To make the community garden more accessible and dementia friendly. Plant sensory plants, increase colour contrast; disability accessible furniture; raised beds. Purchase accessible gardening tools.

2023

LIFT @ Muirhouse Millennium Centre

£1,500

Six month’s funding for Cozy Club which provides a hot meal and social activities for 40-50 people weekly who are socially isolated to increase social inclusion.

The Green Team’s Skylark Project

£1,750

An all-girl project (including non-binary & trans) whose voices can be unheard and needs overlooked. Run 4 projects for 8 girls each, full-day outdoor sessions to undertake conservation projects, to connect with nature and learn skills. Fire-side discussions on issues of concern. Encourage participants to take John Muir Discovery Awards.

Royston Wardieburn Community Centre

£1,000

Kitchen Garden & wildlife meadow: sustainable planting around centre and maintenance; setting up a  kitchen garden to supplement food given by Fare Share for community meals. Raised beds for vegetables; daffodils and wild-flower seed & plug planting.

Edinburgh Tool Library

£1,750

Project bringing together disadvantaged women to build an outdoor community kitchen at Granton Community Gardens.

Prospect Bank School

£2,000

A Special needs school for 50+ pupils. To promote inclusive play and to create a sustainable garden.

Edinburgh Agroecology Coop – Lauriston Farm

£2,000

Accessible Gardening: community garden with 28 allotment plots used by community organisations – make the plots more accessible, raised beds, seating.

2022

Bikes for Refugees (Scotland)

£3,500

Providing bikes for refugees to help with resettlement and reducing isolation including provision of 50 welcome packs (helmets, lock, lights) & repairing donated bikes.

Heart of Newhaven Community

£2,000
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Solar Panels

Solar panels, and costs towards installation, for a new community hub expected to be used by 500 people

Newhaven Heritage Community Garden

£5,000

To help local adults and children learn about planting and growing

Dunedin Fencing Club

£2,500

Part funding towards a project aimed at making fencing more accessible to excluded groups through activities such as training female coaches, provision of para-fencing equipment, funding beginner courses and sessions for residents of deprived areas.

Hibernian Football Club

£1,500

Part funding towards Bright Sparks project to provide environmental education to 360 pupils delivered by a HCF Youth Support Worker

Lochend Football Academy

£3,500

Part funding towards replacement goal posts for new pitch to be used by 200 children from Lochend & other deprived areas

Corstorphine Community Centre

£2,000
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Solar Panels

Solar panels, and costs towards installation, for a new community centre.

2018/19

Liberton Primary School – Lighting up Play

£3000 towards lighting up their school ‘Playbox’ and play area so children can play outside in the winter months.

Oaklands School – Oaklands Growing Sustainable Communities

£2750 towards promoting awareness change towards sustainability / carbon reduction through community growing, meadows and interpretation activities.

Drumbrae Leisure Centre – Community Garden

£2954 towards their Community Garden, in collaboration with their Active Communities Programme and Holiday camps.

Friends of Redhall School – School Grounds (wildlife, teaching and environmental education)

£1840 towards Redhall School Garden, to improve their school grounds for wildlife, teaching and environmental education.

Davidson’s Mains Parent Council – Bike Racks

£598 contribution towards provision of school bike racks (co-funded with Sustrans) to encourage pupil participation in active travel.

Buckstone Primary School Parent Council – BPS Recycling Improvement Programme

£2890 towards encouraging behavioural change to maximise the amount of waste recycled by working to educate children, introduce new transparent recycling bins, purchasing books and funding a school trip to a recycling centre.