Charity News

This summer, Scottish Ensemble (SE) and Social Bite are teaming up to spread the joy of shared food and live music with new collaboration...

Care for Veterans (CfV) charity is asking people to show their support for our nation’s heroes by helping disabled ex-service personnel. This August, challenge yourself...

Smart Works is a great name for a great service. The charity based in Annandale Street Lane offers any woman with a job interview...

Five Edinburgh-based UK military veterans have been presented with new iPads to help them improve their digital skills and connect with friends and family...

The pupils of George Heriot's School took on the In Our Shoes challenge laid down by charity Invisible Cities, and kept their shoes on...

Heather Mortimore is a volunteer at Food Facts and Friends in Penicuik where she has offered her time since April 2020. Volunteering is in...

Struan conquers the Seven Hills of Edinburgh for his Granny Super Edinburgh schoolboy Struan Waddell, raised more than £2,500 in one day to help provide...

On the fundraising journey which Jamie Alcock is undertaking from Gloucestershire to Elgin, he will have two companions, his two Shire Horses, Millie and...

This Saturday 26th of June, GrizzFit, Linlithgow’s newest state-of-the-art gym, are holding an event which will see the team and gym members take on...

Fort Kinnaird has gifted £1,250 worth of books to The Venchie Children & Young People’s Project to be distributed to children and young people...

A proportion of the sale proceeds of Clyde the Caterpillar Cake and Frieda, the free-from Caterpillar Cake will be donated to Tickled Pink this...

Scottish homelessness charity Cyrenians has launched their summer appeal ‘Food That Goes Further’, asking for regular support to their community food projects to ‘help...

On the 26th of June 2021, GrizzFit, Linlithgow’s Newest State of the Art Gym, are holding an event which will see the team take...

The Cyrenians’ FareShare depot based in Leith has distributed 1,800 tonnes of food to charities and community groups across Central and South East Scotland...

Youngsters aged 16 to 24 have until Tuesday 1st June to sign-up for a brand-new project in Edinburgh, supported by the Scottish Professional Football...

For a fourth year in a row hundreds of Edinburgh teachers, school staff and supporters are running The DARED Challenge to support local charity,...

The ‘Beat Hunger’ Campaign is aimed at tackling food inequality and poverty in the North East of Edinburgh and has continued its drive to...

A charity transforming the training of children's surgery in Africa through a major new learning platform, is launching throughout much of the continent. Created by...

Homeless charity Rowan Alba is appealing for local volunteers to support its CARDS befriending service which works with people across the city, providing vital...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were joined in the café kitchen at the Palace of Holyroodhouse by members of the charity, Sikh Sanjog,...

 Baillie Smith, 20, from Ellieburn, Livingston, has raised just under £2,000 after walking 13 miles from his home to Easter Road - the stadium...

A new fundraiser for Maggie's Edinburgh, the centre based at the Western General Hospital which supports people living with cancer, will involve taking a...

The Edinburgh All-Ability Bike Centre (ABC) is stopping its services at the end of the month due to a lack of sustainable funding, The...

Today (Tuesday 11 May), a very tall package was received at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo as two male giraffes arrived...

Erskine is the charity providing support to 1,000 veterans and their spouses, with four homes in Scotland one of which is in Edinburgh. The...

A team of police dog handlers from Scotland raised almost £10,000 for a charity that helps support retired police dogs in their new homes.  Lisa...

Express Micro Science (EMS), completed their 1083 mile virtual challenge from Lands End to John O’Groats in just 17 days, raising more than their...

This June the organisers of the Big Lunch, a community event inspired by the Eden Project, say it is going ahead. The idea is...

Scotland's community foundation, Foundation Scotland, is offering innovative social enterprise funding from today. The body has integrated with Resillent Scotland and can now expand on...

The charity, Empty Kitchens, Full Hearts (EKFH) has issued a plea to anyone who is able to volunteer some of their time to the...