Tag: charity
Nationwide Tour Launch for Scotland’s State Band
Representatives of Royal Regiment of Scotland Band gather in Central Edinburgh for Launch
The Band of The Royal Regiment of Scotland – Scotland’s best-known military band – is to embark on its first-ever nationwide tour...
Annual Charity Walk to cross cleaner, quieter Forth Road Bridge
Refurbished bridge to 'host' Christian Aid's 2018 Walk
Organisers of this year’s annual Christian Aid sponsored walk across the Forth are hoping this year will be even bigger and better with local people encouraged to...
St Columba’s link with Ocean Terminal
Ocean Terminal have made St Columba’s Hospice as its charity partner for 2018 and the link starts with an exhibition of photography and patient artwork from the hospice. It is free to the public...
Tennent’s Lager Raffle off ‘Best Seat in the House’ at BT Murrayfield
Official Beer of Scottish Rugby Support The BEN and the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation at Home 6 Nations Matches
Scottish Rugby icon, Doddie Weir, was joined by Chris Gardner of The BEN charity as Tennent’s Lager...
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards 2018
Scottish Book Trust, the national charity transforming lives through reading and writing, has supported over 90 creative individuals through the New Writers Awards since 2009. Today, Scottish Book Trust announces the 10 new awardees...
Charity can use your unwanted gifts
With the Festive season over, many will have received unsuitable or unwanted gifts.
Instead of throwing them away or leaving them unused, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) is urging the public to donate their unwanted...
Social Security Minister signs final Christmas card in campaign to fight loneliness
Vintage Vibes received over 1,500 card requests from all over the world
Social Security Minister Jeane Freeman has signed the final Vintage Vibes Christmas card as volunteers deliver cards to lonely over 60s across the city.
Edinburgh-based Vintage Vibes launched...
Cullen Property raises over £12,000 to support Social Bite
Edinburgh property management team sleeps out in -6 temperatures
Social Bite’s Sleep in the Park event took over Edinburgh’s Princes
Street Gardens at the weekend as over 8,000 people, made up of small corporate teams and...
Barclay’s Princes Street Staff Raise £2,500 for Books for the Blind
Staff from Barclay's Bank run 5K for RNIB
Staff at Barclays Bank’s branch on Princes Street have raised £2,500 to transcribe a new ‘talking’ audio-book for blind and partially sighted people.
Their team ran 5k in...
Local youth work charity celebrates 20th anniversary
Friends of The Award are celebrating their 20th year of supporting young people from across Edinburgh and the Lothians to complete the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.
This milestone was recognised by Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP, who...
Agencies chill for charity
Five of Edinburgh and Glasgow's creative agencies have pledged to raise over £15,000 to help end homelessness in Scotland as part of Social Bite's Sleep in the Park on December 9.
Sleep in the Park...
Fundraiser to celebrate new arrivals to Edinburgh at St Mary’s Cathedral
The unique contributions of Edinburgh’s refugee and migrant communities will be celebrated in an exciting evening of music, art and discussion this St Andrews Day. The fundraising event - Nov 29 7.30-9 pm -...
Edinburgh Ladies raise over £105,000 for CHAS
Last week (Friday 3 November), the ladies of Edinburgh dug deep to raise an incredible £105,612 for Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) at the city’s legendary Fawkes-y Ladies Lunch.
Held at Prestonfield House, Michelle McManus...
Specialist New Start Sarah is Having a Ball
Travelling the country is no problem for Scottish-borders born solicitor and keen hill runner Sarah McWhirter.
The clinical negligence specialist recently joined the team at Slater and Gordon in Edinburgh and says she’s enjoying meeting...
Children’s Giving Tree teams up with Blackwell’s
Blackwell's Book Shop 'plants' a Children's Book Tree for Charity
The Children's Giving Tree is a special way to gift a book to a child in Edinburgh who is living in difficult circumstances over Christmas. In...
Poppyscotland Paints the Town Red!
Edinburgh landmarks lit up for Charity
Landmarks across Edinburgh are joining a host of Scotland’s most famous buildings, structures and sculptures, in lighting up Poppy red to raise awareness for the annual fundraising campaign run...
Edinburgh Category Winners at First ever Climate Challenge Fund Awards
National awards ceremony recognises local efforts to tackle climate change.
Community-led organisations from across Scotland gathered in Edinburgh yesterday (Wednesday 1 November) to celebrate the first ever Climate Challenge Fund Awards, organised by environmental charity,...
Forth Bridge ‘Hosts’ Poppyscotland Appeal Launch
Veteran, and beneficiary, joined by Uphall school pupils to launch 2017 Poppy Appeal.
Corporal Andrew McIntosh, 44, who served for 14 years with the 22nd Cheshire Regiment and saw service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and...
Man on a Mission!
Mark Barclay from Edinburgh is now approaching a new fundraising milestone.
53 year-old Mark Barclay met Veterans when working in military affiliated organisations, and was inspired to help wounded, injured, and sick Service Personnel so started...
‘Unforgotten Forces’ Project Launched Today
£4M programme launched to support older Armed Forces veterans in Scotland.
Launched by Scottish Veterans Commissioner Eric Fraser CBE at the Legion Scotland Club in Grangemouth today, the Unforgotten Forces project will fund a programme...
Best Community Project for 1st Step Bikes
Linlithgow based 1st Step Bikes awarded Best Community Project by Cycling UK
National cycling charity Cycling UK celebrates the efforts of 1st Step Bikes, based in Linlithgow, winner of a Cycling UK’s Volunteer of the...
Community Project awarded £11,696 Children’s Lottery Grant
Fischy Music awarded a £11,696 grant from the Scottish Children's Lottery.
Fischy Music, a community project based in Edinburgh, uses music and song to support the emotional well-being of young children across the UK. The charity...
Supermarket workers raise cash for two charities
Tesco workers are walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise funds for their National Charity Partnership with Diabetes UK (DUK) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The walk has passed through the Borders...
Walkers get fired up for Edinburgh Kiltwalk
Nearly 3,000 walkers are prepared for Sunday's Royal Bank of Scotland Kiltwalk in Edinburgh
The final rallying cry for Kiltwalkers went off with a bang when charities gathered at the One o’clock gun at Edinburgh...
Donation after guide dogs visit new house development
Guide dog pups and their walkers visited CALA Homes East’s Kinleith Mill development in Currie to help the young dogs get accustomed to new sights and sounds.
The trip was organised by CALA sales advisor...
Just Festival 2017
Just Festival 2017: Press Release
The world is in a difficult place at the moment. From the domestic to the global, the personal to the political, for those who wish to make the world a...
CHAS thanks theatre audiences for much-needed cash
Audiences at a major Scottish-based theatre have helped raise over £80,000 for Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS).
The Edinburgh Playhouse has co-ordinated bucket collections, held fundraising events and donated gifts during the last 20 years.
CHAS...
£1.5 Million Charity Milestone Reached
Locals from Edinburgh help Rank reach £1.5 Million Charity Milestone
Team members from Grosvenor Casino and Mecca Bingo based in Edinburgh are celebrating today after reaching an incredible fundraising milestone of £1,500,000 for deserving charity,...
Marie Curie Plant a Garden of Light in Edinburgh
Over 2,100 handmade daffodils have been planted overnight at St Andrew Square Garden to make A Garden of Light celebrating the Great Daffodil Appeal .
The outdoor installation marks Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal taking place throughout...
Special Charity Service for ‘Missing People’
Special Service in Edinburgh to mark the 40,000 people who go missing in Scotland Every Year
X-Factor stars and operatic multi-platinum-selling vocal quartet G4 featured in a special Carol Service at St John’s Church on...
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