Charity News

Local charity, the Eric Liddell Centre, has launched an appeal for help this Christmas. Working as a day care provider supporting elderly people with...

In a Marvel-lous Christmas surprise, a team of costume-clad superheroes payed a visit to the residents of the Edinburgh Children's Hospital. In a troop made...

In support of their local community, the 1st Musselburgh Scouts have been collecting food for East Lothian's Jingle Bag Appeal. Launched in 2017, the Jingle Bag...

An Edinburgh sepsis survivor is supporting the charity Sepsis Research FEAT by becoming the Scottish face of its Christmas campaign to help people learn...

Homelessness charity Rowan Alba has launched its annual Christmas appeal hoping to boost the core services it offers. These in turn reduce reliance on...

RMF Health is working with charity, Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation to spread joy to NHS patients and staff who will be spending this...

Independent Pizzeria, Pizza Geeks, have launched their new festive menu for December - with a charitable twist. The local pizzeria, with branches in Haymarket, Leith...

What The Fork has teamed up with Bonnie Burrito, MC’s Takeaway and Harajuku Kitchen to raise money for charity, Steps To Hope this Christmas. Until...

Christmas jumpers featured both on and off the track at Musselburgh Racecourse’s last race meeting. Seven National Hunt races over jumps got racing fans in...

Staff and volunteers are photographed outside Thistle’s Centre of Wellbeing in Craigmillar at the start of their family-friendly afternoon of festive fun held on...

Charity Bethany Christian Trust set a target of raising £20,000 in one week to support people without a home this winter. They exceeded their...

The Christmas tree in Charlotte Square Gardens will be lit up on Monday 6 December as part of the appeal for St Columba's Hospice...

Foundation Scotland, Scotland’s community foundation, marks the organisation’s silver anniversary this St Andrew's Day – also aptly named "Giving Tuesday" this year.  Originally...

A letter from Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, founder of Mary’s Meals.  Dear Editor,  The charm of the presents under our Christmas tree lies partly in their very different shapes and...

Christmas is officially in full swing in the 74 Dobbies’ stores in Edinburgh and all across the UK. Dobbies Shopping Evening 1 SA Dobbies...

Charity Social Bite’s Festival of Kindness has launched in Edinburgh and in four other UK cities, expanding on last year’s campaign, in a bid...

As Hearts prepare to welcome St Mirren to Tynecastle on Saturday, the Jambos skipper, Craig Gordon was keen to highlight an important event taking...

An eight-foot-tall giraffe sculpture that will form part of a city-wide art trail has been sponsored by CALA the house builder. CALA Homes (East) is...

Marie Curie is calling on young fundraisers this festive season to take part in a penguin parade to raise funds for families affected by...

Actor sisters, Sophie and Emma Thompson are backing the new Mary's Meals campaign, Double The Love, to help feed even more children in some...

Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home (EDCH) as announced that it has received the biggest known cryptocurrency donation in Scotland. EDCH has received 26 Ethereum...

The annual event to raise awareness of bullying of children and young people gets underway today. The theme is One Kind Word designed along...

Dalkeith Country Park’s Spectacle of Light and Santa Fun Run will raise vital funds for Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) this December. Dalkeith Country Park...

Two well-loved Edinburgh establishments are working together to provide a simple and convenient way for members of the public to pass on their old...

Edinburgh charity The Welcoming has won the Ashden Award for Green Communities.  The prize was announced at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, UK, at a ceremony attended by the President of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado. https://youtu.be/5nm97h_DLW4 The Ashden Awards honour pioneering organisations lowering carbon emissions and building a...

Artist Steven Brown has collaborated with the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and today announced the first of two artworks supporting the charity. The...

Big Issue Invest (BII) has announced the eight social ventures which it will support over the next two years. Some of these work some of...

The charity KidsOR, which has its headquarters in Edinburgh has successfully installed six state-of-the-art operating rooms in Zambia - the biggest install in one...

Edinburgh local, Ken Knowles, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Scottish Wildlife Trust for which he has volunteered since 1976....

Chris Sellar was honoured on Thursday morning by Olympic cyclist, Victoria Pendleton, at a ceremony at Oriam. Chris from Edinburgh ran 280km earlier this...