Charity News

A charity which teaches babies and young children to swim held swimming races to raise funds for special care babies. Turtle Tots Edinburgh and...

Edinburgh-based Sara Hawkins joins 20 women from across the UK as a finalist in the 2019 NatWest everywoman Awards. The founder of The UK’s...

The Centre Livingston will be the first mall in the UK to sign up for Social Bite's World's Big Sleep Out on 8 December...

Author, Ian Rankin, launched Save the Children’s rescued phone box ‘Gilbert’ on Queen Street on Friday. The old-fashioned red phone box is run and maintained...

The doors at Scotmid’s first-ever store at Ponton Street, Edinburgh opened on Friday 4 November 1859 and to mark the Society’s 160th birthday there are a...

Will Aid invites you to have a professional will drawn up during the month of November in exchange for a donation to charity. The scheme...

Hibernian Community Foundation is the charitable arm of the Club established in 2008 to use football and the brand name  to improve people’s lives...

Edinburgh photographer set to be awarded by blood cancer charity for his ‘super’ fundraising efforts at the Tower of London next month. Micah Stanbridge...

National homelessness charity, Bethany Christian Trust, is encouraging festive shoppers to buy a bed for people who are homeless this Christmas by purchasing a...

Today Big Hearts honoured over 300 guests at their 5th Kinship Care Family Day, known to be Scotland’s largest gathering of families living in...

A survey recently revealed that over 1 million people in Scotland are living in poverty. Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home is witness to the...

Edinburgh’s newest, coolest gym has launched its latest charity adventure. A team from CaveFit at The Edinburgh Grand will climbKilimanjaro later this month to...

Earlier today the Shaw Trust Disability Power List 100 for 2019 was announced and Euan MacDonald, founder of Euan's Guide and the Euan MacDonald...

Hundreds of families from across Edinburgh and the Lothians gathered together earlier today at Dalkeith Country Park, to take part in Alzheimer Scotland’s Midlothian...

The Cyrenians Fareshare depot has surpassed its target of delivering over 1 million meals to charities and community groups across Central and South East...

The Hibernian Community Foundation and Team United will launch the first ever partnership of its kind – starting with a session on Tuesday 15 October at...

Her Majesty the Queen has bestowed the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service on two Edinburgh-based charities. The first is It's Good 2 Give! which...

This year’s Lunch with an Old Bag at Prestonfield House last month raised £760,000 for The Prince’s Trust Scotland, taking the ten year total to...

SANDS Lothians have become the latest big winners from Scotmid’s Community Connect initiative – being awarded funding of £15,000 to help them to provide...

Last week CEO, business leaders and MSPs from across Edinburgh spent the day ‘In the Dog House’ locked up in Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home’s kennel’s...

Mark Barclay from Edinburgh has been fundraising for Help for Heroes for ten years and is on target to reach £50,000 by undertaking challenges...

Social Bite, the social enterprise dedicated to ending homelessness in Scotland, has entered into its first retail partnership with Scotmid. This means branded products, normally only available directly...

Bield has revealed it remains focused on continuing to bring innovative changes to housing and care services to underline its commitment to improve the...

Fancy seeing the sights of Edinburgh while raising money to support people with cancer? Maggie’s Edinburgh Culture Crawl could be just the event for...

Watermans Solicitors announces new sponsorship agreement with Blood Bikes Scotland Volunteers who courier urgent medical supplies around Scotland have received a new set of wheels...

The 2019 Buccleuch Property Challenge raised over £12,000 for children's charity Seamab. The corporate adventure took place last weekend at Drumlanrig Castle on the Queensberry...

Former Scotland internationalist Ben Cairns and members of the Wooden Spoon Scotland committee were delighted to be at the Riding for the Disabled Association...

Scotland’s capital was a sea of tartan as 6,000 people took to the streets for Edinburgh’s biggest ever Royal Bank of Scotland Kiltwalk on...

Lothiancountry announced a new partnership with Team Jak this week, a local charity fighting cancer in young people. Team Jak’s logo, as well as details...

This weekend you can see all 61 Oor Wullie statues which have been out on the Edinburgh streets in one place. They have been...