Projects helping to re-connect isolated or lonely people in communities across Scotland are sharing £3.5 million of National Lottery funding today (THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY).
The National Lottery Community Fund and The King’s Fund have today launched a £3 million fund to empower voluntary and community sector organisations and the local health and care sector to work together to boost the health and wellbeing of their communities.
This Valentine’s Day, over 90 groups across Northern Ireland are celebrating being given the chance to ‘love’ their community by getting up to £1,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund to bring their idea to life in 2020.
Over 200 projects in Scotland will receive money from the fund – called #CelebrateNationalLottery25 – after they applied to the £2 million pot last December.
Next month £100,000 of National Lottery funding will be up for grabs for local groups and organisations working to help Barnsley communities to thrive.
A specialist mentoring service striving to steer vulnerable local young people away from serious crime and violence is celebrating today after being awarded nearly £480,000.
Bridgend Animal Rescue Centre CIC known locally as BARC, their grant of £95,500 will mean that local people are able to gain valuable training and work experience with animals.
Following two successful years of the Mayor’s Community Weekend, communities across the West Midlands are being given £100,000 to host celebrations this summer.
The National Lottery Community Fund’s Scotland Director today welcomed the findings of the Independent Care Review (ICR) and endorsed the vision proposed by the review which plots a 10-year transformational change approach to the Scottish care system.
