Enabling, Facilitating, Championing

South Lanarkshire Council has recently launched the Climate Emergency and Food Fund Grants. It is an exciting opportunity for our community group to access new grants. If you have brilliant ideas for a project that will making contribution to a cleaner and greening South Lanarkshire, you might want to apply for the funding.

There is an opportunity for the community to access two new grants which will bring people together to tackle climate change and encourage the development of various new project in the community.

We are delighted to see many more organisations in South Lanarkshire signing up to join VASLan Membership Programme. We would like to ensure that our membership is representing the diversity and extent of South Lanarkshire’s third sector. One of the benefits of joining VASLan free membership is to access our managed funds. Peter McGhee, Development Officer for Sustainability and Collaboration, explains how the programme works.

A small farm in South Lanarkshire will pass into community hands as communities across Scotland today start their Christmas celebrations early with grants from the Scottish Land Fund.

Loanhead Farm near Tarbrax is set to be bought by WAT IF? a local community development trust following an award from the Scottish Land Fund. The award is part of a package of grants to 12 groups in Scotland totaling £2,754,897.

The Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) has just announced the launch of their new Recovery Seed Fund.

This fund is available to all new (under 12 months) and unconstituted Lived Experience recovery groups/organisations, with an initial award of up to £5000 on offer to help towards start-up & running costs. A key advantage of this fund is the additional on-going support that will be given to develop your group/organisation to become sustainable, skilled and independent.

Enquiries are encouraged for this exciting new opportunity.

Co-op has worked together with the Hubbub Foundation to offer grants up to £4,000 to enable voluntary and community groups to establish new community fridge projects.

Find out more information including the requirements and how to apply on the link below. Please make sure that you apply before 1 February, 2022.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

South Lanarkshire Council has been allocated £298,000 for year one of a likely allocation of £3.5m (over the period 2021 to 2026) to renew playparks in the area.

GoodCall is a Social Enterprise that provides affordable, high-quality digital resource exclusively to the third sector. This includes mobile phones and line rental, saving customers on average 40% on their current contracts. As a social enterprise, any profit they achieve is re-distributed into the organisations they work with to help them deliver their services, and to create sustainable employment for individuals furthest from the job market.

Scotland’s Climate Festival is now open for registration on November 2.

Would you like your community to be involved? The Climate Festival, which is funded by Scottish Government, and run by Keep Scotland Beautiful will support communities across Scotland to host events on climate action – be it a growing workshop, led bike ride or introduction to community energy.

The National Lottery Community Fund has announced that The Platinum Jubilee Fund will launch on Wednesday 17^th November.

The Fund will support 70 projects across the UK to mark Her Majesty the Queen’s 70th (Platinum) Jubilee.

Applications need to fit one or more of these areas of focus:

The Communities Mental Health & Well Being Fund is now open for South Lanarkshire area!

The ambition of this fund is to support initiatives that promote mental health and well being at a small scale, grassroots, community level. It should be accessible to all groups, no matter how small or inexperienced they are.