Round 16 - Spring 2025

Safe Haven

Multi-Cultural Family Base

The Safe Haven project supports young refugees and asylum seekers aged 8 to 16 in Edinburgh, helping them settle into their new lives while coping with trauma and health challenges. Through organised outdoor and indoor activities, it provides a safe space to build confidence, improve physical and mental health, and overcome social barriers.

STEMpowered Futures

Bright Green Hydrogen

This project delivers free, hands-on workshops to schools in Edinburgh, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Fife, focusing on renewable energy technologies and green careers. The workshops aim to build pupils' confidence, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, while providing teachers with curriculum-linked resources for sustained STEM engagement and future career exploration.

Recovery Through Music (in Prison)

Change Grow Live

Recovery Through Music (RTM) is a user-led creative project, developed two years ago with support from the Community Grant. Now expanding into prisons, RTM helps people in recovery reconnect with music, rebuild confidence, reduce reliance on opioid treatment, and continue their journey through ongoing support after release.

Communities Dig Dalkeith

Archaeology Scotland

Communities Dig Dalkeith is an exciting new project that brings people together through archaeology – with a focus on improving health & wellbeing, inclusion and community cohesion using intergenerational practice. By taking part in the project participants will develop the skills needed to explore place and past while connecting with others and sharing their own experiences, skills and knowledge.

Archaeology Scotland

The Pause Place

The Health Agency

This project aims to offer a safe, inclusive space for women experiencing symptoms associated with menopause to connect, share and co-design drop-in activities that support physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Through peer support, expert input, and links to local services, it aims to reduce isolation, build confidence and create lasting, empowering networks.

Family Support service

Tailor Ed Foundation

This is a new innovative service in Edinburgh to help children who are waiting up to 4 years for an autism diagnosis and their families but who require support NOW. This hidden health inequality is creating 4 wasted years at the very time a child with autistic traits and families should be getting the support their current health needs and deserve 

Tailor Ed Foundation

Art Workshops for Well-being for East Lothian Young Carers & The Finola Trust, Inspired by "The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs" (Prof. Stephen Brusatte)

Shorelark Arts CIC

A series of mixed-media, inclusive, and accessible art workshops inspired by Professor Steve Brusatte’s book "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs". Blending art, palaeontology, and climate reflection, the workshops aim to support well-being through creative practice, culminating in a community exhibition and interactive open studio day at The Cockenzie Hub.

Shorelark Arts CIC

Heavy Sound: Creative Journeys

Heavy Sound

This project supports care-experienced and disadvantaged young people facing poverty, trauma, and emotional challenges which leaves them disconnected from school and the community. It offers a safe, creative environment where they can express themselves through art, improve emotional wellbeing, build resilience, and strengthen connections with schools, agencies, and their communities.

Heavy Sound

Women's Green Shed

Health All Round

A new volunteer led outdoor social group for women which to reduce social isolation and loneliness and get you out and about, meeting new people and having fun. Visiting the places that YOU want to go to: castles; islands; palaces; woodlands; museums and art galleries - the past and the present at the same time! You will learn new stuff, make new friends and live a more active, fulfilling life.

Generations: Women in Basketball

We Play Together SCIO

To encourage young girls and women to engage in Basketball together through a generative programme that fosters connection, confidence & community. Additionally to broaden their understanding about the diverse pathways to take within the sport beyond simply playing - coaching, officiating, club administration.

We Play Together SCIO