Charity News

After more than a decade of incredible support, Teenage Cancer Trust has handed over wig provision services for the fantastic Hair 4 U project around the UK,...

Big Hearts Community Trust, the official charity of Scottish Cup finalists Heart of Midlothian, have kicked off a new partnership with a Lothian insurance firm to...

People’s Postcode Lottery are funding the training of a litter of nine dogs to be trained as Guide Dogs to aid some of the...

The Chair of the Spifox Foundation, Andy Clark, Trustee Ronnie Urquhart, and three other Trustees visited North Edinburgh Arts last week to officially launch...

Crombies of Edinburgh has unveiled a life-saving device which could save someone’s life in the event of cardiac arrest. The butcher, on Broughton Street, is...

Kenmore & London-based TV presenter to undertake Three Peaks Challenge for mental health charity, MIND TV Presenter of  Channel 4’s “Place in the Sun” and...

Edinburgh charity Health in Mind received a huge financial boost after being awarded funding of £15,000 through Scotmid Co-operative’s Community Connect initiative. Mental health...

Earlier today Jeremy Balfour, the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MSP for Lothian, and his eight-month-old Cavalier King Charles/Miniature Poodle cross, Sadie, competed with...

A 12 year old superhero has thrown his support behind a major fundraising drive to help young people throughout Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife....

In the lead up to the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, superstitions and preparation tips for the 26.2 and 13.1-mile race are hotly debated. Luckily for...

A grant of £6,403 has been awarded to Epilepsy Scotland from the Scottish Children's Lottery to support its work with young people with epilepsy...

Loanhead Miners Youth Football Club girls’ team received new kits courtesy of Specsavers Opticians & Audiologists in Straiton Sainsbury’s this month. The £600 investment...

Dog owners across Edinburgh and the Lothians are invited to join a sponsored walk uniting thousands of paws across six countries next month. The Agria...

The Hibernian Community Foundation are about to launch the latest batch of Football Fans In Training sessions. It’s a 13-week course – this time...

Fundraisers across Scotland have the choice of crossing the Forth, Tay or Erskine Bridge to help support the work of Christian Aid during Christian...

During 2019/20 Edinburgh Trams will make Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity their Charity of the Year. In a year when they celebrate their fifth birthday at...

The Hibernian Community Foundation has been awarded a National Lottery Community Fund grant of £148,500 to deliver a three-year programme aimed at reducing isolation...

Today buildings all over Scotland will light up to signify that it is World Parkinson's Day. But although we all know the name, it...

Parkinson’s UK is calling on people across Scotland to get their cameras out and join in the Light up Scotland for Parkinson’s project which...

Last year Wardie Bowling Club chose Granton Youth Centre as their nominated charity. At their annual charity race night they raised £2400 for the...

Leading Edinburgh-based health and wellbeing charity, Thistle, has been awarded £4,000 by John Lewis and Partners. The money will be used to train volunteers who...

Michael Cantwell is running the Edinburgh Marathon in aid of the Fibrous Dysplasia Support Society (FDSS) He will be raising funds for the support society...

The Two Bridges Six Provinces annual charity cycle is organised by the Freemasons of Edinburgh to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease Scotland (MND...

Big Hearts – the official charity of Heart of Midlothian Football Club – has announced that during the last year it has supported more vulnerable people...

Edinburgh Diwali, the city’s annual festival of light, is appealing for public votes to secure £50,000 of National Lottery funding as part of this...

Over 200 fundraisers took part in Bethany Christian Trust’s nationwide Big Sleep Out events in Glasgow and Edinburgh last month to raise support for...

Budding young artists, dancers and musicians are amongst hundreds of young people across Scotland celebrating a £1.8 million cash boost helping them to develop...

A leading housing provider is celebrating after being awarded one of the most widely recognised business excellence accolades in Europe. Bield Housing & Care has...

The ScottishPower Foundation has announced this year’s recipients of its annual award fund. Eight charities in Scotland will share a part of the £1.25m...

A community food project has been pedalling its way quietly across Edinburgh for the past year under the title “Fork in the Road”. It refers to...