The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, is pleased to announce the new members joining its Scotland Committee.
A first of its kind support service for bereaved families is one of 549 projects across Scotland today sharing in over £23 million from The National Lottery Community Fund.
Projects working to improve the confidence and wellbeing of young people across Scotland are today (WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY) sharing in £1,271,922 of Young Start funding this Children’s Mental Health Week.
A community group in the Scottish Borders has been given £595,500 by the Scottish Land Fund to buy an area of land in their village. Broughtonknowe Community Woodland Ltd will purchase 55.85 ha of woodland in Broughton in order to continue using it as an amenity green space and to increase biodiversity on the site.
Across Scotland, local people are coming together to save forgotten spaces by transforming them into community gardens with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund.
Awards for the projects on Colonsay, Papay and Harris, which will use the funding to buy existing buildings that will be converted into a total of 10 affordable rental units, are amongst eight grants totalling £1,105,260 that have been given to communities across the country in the latest round of awards by the Scottish Land Fund.
