Charity News

YOTEL Edinburgh has agreed to host local charity Smart Works Edinburgh in a free working space one day a month for the next six...

Funstation is supporting Sunflower Scotland with a donation of £3,000 to cover the cost of sending a truck full of aid driven directly to...

Housing provider Bield has strengthened its management team with the appointment of two new voluntary board members. The appointment of Beth McNeil and David Fisher...

Alzheimer Scotland wants to get you chatting over a cup of tea. The charity is launching its Tea & Blether campaign to get people...

The Big Issue Invest Power Up programme will deliver £500,000 of funding for a variety of social ventures, including Wee Seeds growing in Edinburgh. Christina...

Scottish law firm Thorntons is supporting Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) by becoming the headline sponsor at the charity’s fifth Rocking Horse Ball. This year’s...

Stockbridge-based charity, Lifecare, are running an art competition for children 12 and under, asking them to imagine themselves at 80. Entry is free, and the...

Actor and TV personality Christopher Biggins has been revealed as the host for a major charity event in Edinburgh this summer to raise funds...

Ten year-old Maia Bombrys is flexing her entrepreneurial skills with fundraising efforts for Ukrainian aid charity, Sunflower Scotland, and has already broken her initial...

At Ocean Terminal the former Debenhams store has been temporarily changed into a space welcoming community groups as a new social enterprise - The...

Teapot Trust, a mental health charity with its base at Eskmills in Musselburgh, has been awarded £5,000 of funding to help children and families...

Meet the volunteers behind Sunflower Scotland at Starbucks Fountainpark, between 10am and 2pm on Sunday 10 April. Have some tea, coffee and Ukrainian cakes and...

On a drizzly Edinburgh morning, Californian Heidi Kuhn was all smiles as she planted a hickory tree at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh accompanied...

Last month Dine restaurant on Cambridge Street hosted the Elsie Inglis campaign fundraising Gala Dinner. As well as entertaining all the guests who bought...

The Edinburgh Tool Library, which lends out tools to those who know how to use them and teaches those who want to know, is...

Mary's Meals is a charity with a simple idea, providing one daily meal in a place of learning in order to attract chronically poor...

A new restaurant in Penicuik used its opening night to raise funds for local charity, Food Facts Friends. Owners of Koshi, the new Nepalese...

The sum of £6,545 was handed over to charity Dnipro Kids to help them resettle Ukrainian orphans they have brought from the war zone...

The team of volunteers behind the Statue for Elsie Inglis campaign have raised £33,000 of their goal of £50,000 with a range of events...

The Eric Liddell Centre the Edinburgh-based charity and community hub is changing its name on 1 April 2022. The organisation will now be...

Residents at an Edinburgh care home have completed a mile for every day in February to raise money for a charity which supports older...

The pupils and staff of Towerbank Primary School in Portobello responsed to the crisis in Ukraine, by fundraising for people in the region...

Sunflower Scotland is a voluntary association that has sent more than 100 tonnes of aid directly from Edinburgh to cities in Ukraine. It has been...

Landmarks and buildings across Edinburgh will light up purple to help raise awareness of epilepsy for Purple Day on Saturday 26 March. Several local councils...

Specsavers’ Scottish stores have collectively raised £73,000 to help the country’s premature and sick babies. The funds have been donated to Simpsons Special Care Babies...

Thistle Adaptive Bikes run sessions for anyone who wants to cycle at Craigmillar and at Saughton Park - and they have specially adapted bikes...

Yotel Edinburgh are offering free working space for six months to a nominated group to mark International Women's Day 2022. The hotel will also...

Edinburgh Women’s Aid (EWA) will run its first International Women’s Day campaign from 8-15 March, to help raise funds for its Work 4 Women,...

A new book, All the Way Home, with articles by Scottish writers including Val McDermid, Kirstin Innes and Jenni Fagan will raise funds for...

Staff at Musselburgh Racecourse are saddling up – for a 500 mile charity bike challenge. The racing five are taking part in the Cycle for...