Charity News

Edinburgh Airport is to make £100,000 available for local community groups and charities as it reintroduces its Community Fund. The funding will be available throughout...

Actors, Emma and Sophie Thomson, are the faces of the Mary's Meals campaign, Double The Love, and want to remind everyone it is running...

Chris Howard stopped off in Edinburgh on the homeward stretch of his 11,000 mile journey walking around the British coast. Today was the 393rd day...

A charity is urging Edinburgh homeowners to apply for free smoke alarms before the deadline for new Scottish Government safety standards. Care and Repair Edinburgh,...

Persimmon Homes East Scotland has awarded It’s Good 2 Give a £1,000 grant as the company continues to support local groups and charities across...

Volunteers who have helped Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland say the work also improves their own health and wellbeing. The charity has more than 8,500...

The charity Steps to Hope has had a rocky start to the New Year after their catering van was vandalised. Charity founder, Richie Roncero,...

FOOD BANKS IN SCOTLAND STRUGGLE TO KEEP UP WITH RISING DEMAND AS DONATIONS FALL Food banks in Scotland are preparing for their most challenging Christmas...

Landmarks across Scotland shone green on Tuesday to highlight the NSPCC and to let people know the charity’s Childline service is here for children...

This Christmas, hundreds of families in Edinburgh and the Lothians will receive Christmas essentials thanks to the incredible efforts from 274 Big Hearts Supporters...

A new £100,000 fund to support people with learning disabilities from ethnic minority backgrounds has been launched today.  ENABLE Scotland, the country’s largest member-led charity,...

LifeCare Edinburgh has received a donation of £10,000 from ScottishPower which the energy company would otherwise have spent on their annual Christmas party. This significant...

Shoppers at The Centre, Livingston joined retailers and the management teaming supporting three organisations ahead of Christmas, River Kids, Kidzeco and Invisible Cities. Everything...

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...