Charity News

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...

Fundraising & sponsorship training for community groups hosted by Edinburgh Shoreline project Thursday, 28 March 2019 from 10.30am to 4.30pmAt Botanic Cottage, Royal Botanic Garden...

Ahead of International Women’s Day, this Friday, 8 March, breast cancer charity, Walk the Walk, highlights the achievements of some of the inspirational Walkers...

Entries are now being accepted for PoppyScotland's sixth Sportive. In past years over £200,000 has been raised for the charity which supports the Armed...

The daffodil has come to symbolise the charity Marie Curie, and next week they will use a super-sized flower to mark the beginning of...

In the event of a no deal Brexit there is a possibility of disruption to medicines, and now four health charities have appealed to...

Support from the one of the country’s leading homebuilders is helping to fund a joint project between the Rotary Club of Currie and Balerno...

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Children as young as five and their parents took to the court in a touchtennis fundraiser to raise £250 for Advantage, an Edinburgh based...

The Changing Room’s new 12-week course, which is aimed at men aged 30 to 64, begins on Tuesday 26 February at Easter Road Stadium...

Bags of Help Centenary Grants deliver huge funding boost in Edinburgh. Tesco is marking its centenary year by offering community projects in Edinburgh the chance...

An American rugby club came to Edinburgh on the eve of Scotland’s Six Nations match against Ireland to present a donation of more than...

Diabetes Scotland launches a series of grassroots events calling for local action to tackle the defining health crisis of our time. There are nearly 300,000...

Leith Rotary Club are holding a charity concert on 13 April 2019 at Inverleith St Serf's Church. They are raising funds for Save the...

AN organisation that puts its profits into advancing surgery worldwide has just announced that it will raise tens of thousands in 2019 to find...

The Centre, Livingston, one of Scotland’s largest indoor shopping malls, which attracts around 55,000 shoppers a day, has launched an appeal for a new...