Tag: charity

AN EDINBURGH café is inviting the city to come and try what could be the city’s most ethical cup of coffee.Café 1505 has partnered with Equal Exchange – a cooperative promoting Fair Trade and organic...

An exhibition that captures the faces and stories of people who champion the joy of everyday walking in Scotland is launching this weekend.The Humans of the Walk portrait photography exhibition celebrates the many ways...

Fundraising & sponsorship training for community groups hosted by Edinburgh Shoreline projectThursday, 28 March 2019 from 10.30am to 4.30pmAt Botanic Cottage, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Arboretum Place, EH3 5NZ Are you a small...

EDINBURGH’S largest independent hotel is adapting its facilities to accommodate guests who have been affected by cancer.Ten Hill Place is making alterations to all disabled toilets in its 129-bedroom Old Town building to make...

Children as young as five and their parents took to the court in a touchtennis fundraiser to raise £250 for Advantage, an Edinburgh based project which uses tennis as a catalyst to support those...

Surgeons' Quarter claims that The City of Edinburgh Council’s plans for a new tourist tax are set to rob tens of thousands of pounds from charity each year.The organisation is calling on the council...

AN organisation that puts its profits into advancing surgery worldwide has just announced that it will raise tens of thousands in 2019 to find a cure for Scotland’s second biggest cancer.For the first time,...

The first meeting of Edinburgh’s Poverty Commission took place today (Tuesday, 27 November) to attempt to define the long-term responses needed to significantly reduce poverty in Edinburgh. This follows the announcement in October of the...

A charity open rover competition will be held on Sunday, November 25 with registration between 6.30am and 8am at Cats Café at The Tennis Courts at North Berwick. The postcode is EH39 4JZ and...

THE SEARCH to find the brightest and best innovations to help people with disabilities has been launched by a leading care provider. The Blackwood Design Awards are an annual celebration of cutting edge designs and...

Edinburgh welcomes some of the world’s top cancer researchers to the city on Thursday for a Meeting of Minds.St Andrews-based charity Worldwide Cancer Research is hosting the key event and they researchers have £4m...

The Chair of Bield, the charity which provides housing and care, says that people can look forward to benefitting from their high quality services for a long time yet.Susan Napier said Bield remains one...

Decembeard is Bowel Cancer UK’s annual fundraising campaign, which asks men to grow a beard throughout the month of December and raise money to help stop deaths from bowel cancer. More than 23,000 men are...

ONE of the country’s top golf clubs has raised over £3,000 for charity in memory of a schoolgirl who tragically passed away.Jess Mackie, from Gullane, East Lothian, was just 14-years-old when she sadly died...

Debbie Collins tells us that technology is developing rapidly and has the potential to revolutionise the way care is given by providers across the country – providing the industry keeps pace.  Investment in technology has...

Applications now open for the Youth Talent Development FundThe Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and Creative Scotland have today (Wednesday 10 October) announced the launch of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Youth Talent Development Fund...

Charities win at Netball FestivalLinlithgow Flyers Netball Club held a 'Festival of Netball' last Saturday with the aim of supporting two local charities. Nine teams were involved in the day – Linlithgow Flyers (Pink, Blue...

A two-year project that has helped young people across Edinburgh to connect with the city’s wildlife and green spaces is coming to an end this September. 'Digging for Diversity', funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund’s...

An Edinburgh man has won a prestigious award from a Scottish charity for his work in ensuring local people, including those with cancer and dementia, don’t miss out on regular walks in their local...

As it announces its 5,000th successful operation, Edinburgh-based charity Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) has revealed shocking statistics on the preventable deaths of millions of children in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite great strides to reduce...

A MOTHER conquered her extreme fear of heights to raise over £2,500 in memory of her son who died unexpectedly. Christopher Nelson tragically passed away in November 2015 while in Amsterdam, aged just 24. His mother, Donna, and eight other members...

Going to Myanmar to visit and do some loose English teaching in 2014 was a bit of an adventure following my retiral but little did I realise it would start a life-changing passion.  Myanmar...

A devoted gamer has raised over £5,000 for a children’s charity and is about to take part in an exhausting 24-hour gaming marathon for the seventh year in a row.Save Point organised by Edinburgh...

A local taxi company has partnered up with a much-loved children’s charity to support bereaved families during the most challenging moments following the loss of a child.Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity (ECHC) has received a...

The Polar Academy benefits from Beeline's PR team fundraising Two consultants from Edinburgh-based PR company, Beeline, swapped laptops and phones for a mountain-bike and running lycra to raise over £2700 for the Bo’ness based charity,...

A local children’s charity is inviting women to come together to raise money at a fun-filled evening of food, drink, dancing and live music.Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity (ECHC) is hosting its annual ‘Girly Get Together’ this September...

Walk Together Edinburgh: 1st September 2018 starting at 10.30am and finishing at 2.30pm.Walk Together is a 4.3 mile sponsored walk for Bowel Cancer UK and Beating Bowel Cancer. They are a wonderful way to...

RIVAL football fans joined forces to raise money in memory of a young boy who tragically died due to a rare medical condition. Paul James Cockburn, known as PJ, was just 12 when he suffered...

Floral Clock Commemorates 100 Years since end of WW1Edinburgh’s historic Floral Clock - which this summer has been designed to mark 100 years since the signing of the Armistice, leading to the end of...

A brand new family fund-raiser in aid of leading Armed Forces charity Poppyscotland was launched yesterday with the support of Scotland and Edinburgh Rugby star, Hamish Watson. The Big Poppy Bounce will see supporters of...