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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
£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...
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...
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...
First Minister’s Christmas cards raise £170,000 for charity
The First Minister commissioned the Katie Morag creator, Mairi Hedderwick, to create the artwork for last year's Christmas card and the original artwork sold...
Capital Sci-Fi Con 2017 – fundraiser for CHAS
Edinburgh's Capital Sci-Fi Con (18-19 February 2017) is the ONLY non-for-profit family friendly science-fiction and movie convention - with all profits going to Children's Hospice Association...
Logan cycles for Poppyscotland
12 year-old Logan Thomson got on his bike today to cycle across the Forth Road Bridge fourteen times to raise funds for Poppyscotland.
He decided to...
The Kiltwalk will be back in 2017 after raising £840,000 this year
After raising £840,000 in 2016 for Scotland’s children’s charities, The Kiltwalk will be back in 2017.
Sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland, the Edinburgh event will...
Could you cook an extra portion of dinner for an older neighbour?
Meal Makers, the project bringing neighbours together through food, is in Edinburgh and they want you to join up today!
Meal Makers bring together people who love cooking...
Charities win big at ScottishPower awards
Two charities have won awards totally £12,500 in recent national awards made by the ScottishPower Foundation.
One is a music charity which offers free, live musical concerts to...
Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus to host a Comedy Gala for Waverley Care
Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus will step aside from their roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to host a Comedy Gala in support of Waverley Care,...
Aberdeen Asset Management 5K for Wooden Spoon
Property professionals from all over the UK took over the streets of the Scottish capital and showed they were good sports in a 5k...
Kiltwalk 2016 raises over £100,000 for charity
Around two thousand people took part in the 2016 Royal Bank of Scotland Kiltwalk yesterday morning. It was great walking weather and they pounded...
Artist holding exhibition at Edinburgh Gallery to benefit local charity
This month Edinburgh-based artist Gabriel Böhmer will contribute to a group exhibition at The Edinburgh Gallery.
Gabriel’s work features both text and illustration, and is inspired...
Royal Botanic Garden searches for Edinburgh’s unsung business heroes
Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens, part of the Prestige Venues & Events portfolio of unique and unusual venues, is launching the Good Deed of the Year Awards,...
Waverley Care and Pleasance celebrate their 25 year partnership on the Fringe
Waverley Care and Pleasance held a fabulous photo call today with 25 yellow space hoppers - one for every year of their charity partnership...
Edinburgh Royal Voluntary Service thank their volunteers
Volunteers with the Edinburgh branch of the Royal Voluntary Service were treated to a thank you tea this afternoon in the Gorgie Suite at...
Freya is having her long hair chopped off!
Six year old Freya Henderson from South Queensferry is having her long hair cut off next Wednesday, the day before the schools break up...
Look out for the Moonwalkers ! #MoonWalkScot
The walkers are ready for the off later this evening, and the gates at Holyrood Park where the start and finish lines for the...
What’s on in Edinburgh this Week – Five Fantastic Fundraisers
The 200: William Douglas and Ruth Barrie recently found out their youngest son Sol was ill with a brain tumour. Sol has had surgery to...
Veteran Scottish rugby stars taking part in the Duchenne Dash on Sunday
Former Scotland international rugby greats Gavin Hastings, Rob Wainwright and Roger Baird will be among the former sports stars at BT Murrayfield this Sunday...
Rotarians fundraising with long distance cycling
Rotary is a charity organisation, with the twin aims of 'service above self' and charity fundraising to help people lead a better life.
Two members of...
What’s On in Edinburgh This Week – Nine Fabulous Fundraisers!
Grassmarket Community Cinema: Suffragette (15). 'For election week we’ve gone for a blatant voting and politics theme to celebrate the Scottish elections.... You might come for the...
SCVO Scottish Charity Awards 2016
Some of the charities which do great works in and around the capital are on the shortlist for the awards given by the Scottish...
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