Round 17 - Autumn 2025

Beyond Earlston

Beyond The Beats

A fun, engaging and educational project that will give young people in Newtown St Boswells the chance to learn new skills, build confidence and connect with others in a positive and supportive space. Providing free local access to high-quality creative opportunities, reducing barriers to participation, supporting wellbeing and creating pathways into volunteering beyond the project

Beyond Earlston | Scottish Borders Charity

Boom Saloon

A Little Life Advice 

A Little Life Advice empowers people living with dementia to capture and share their wisdom through creative storytelling workshops delivered with University partners. By transforming these contributions into a beautifully designed book, we preserve vital voices while building a stronger, more connected relationship between the University and local residents at a critical moment in their lives.

Boom Saloon

Edinburgh Agroecology Coop (Lauriston Farm)

The Community Kitchen Table

The Community Kitchen Table is a community meal and education programme bringing people together to harvest, cook, preserve, and share nutritious, locally sourced food. Our project aims to improve health, wellbeing, and social connection across North Edinburgh by empowering residents to eat well, learn new skills, and support one another

Edinburgh Agroecology Coop (Lauriston Farm) 

Edinburgh Refugee Sponsorship Circle

Home Through Our Eyes: A Celebration of Welcome and Community

Home Through Our Eyes is a participatory photo and storytelling exhibition co-created by resettled refugee families and volunteers from the Edinburgh Refugee Sponsorship Circle (ERSC) and Student Action for Refugees (STAR). The project celebrates five years of community-led welcome by sharing personal memories and new photographs that explore what “home” and “community” means in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Refugee Sponsorship Circle

Family Journeys

The Den

The Den, located in Duddingston is a special, exclusive use, outdoor venue where we can offer nurturing, therapeutic and outdoor safe space to build family connections. We have usage of The Den to support our vulnerable children and families build relationships with parents and siblings who have been missing from their lives. We have no equipment or materials to facilitate sessions

Family Journeys

Fetlor Youth Club 

Nourish to Flourish: Meals for Children and Young People Facing Poverty

We offer a healthy, nutritious and hot food to the 330 children and young people who attend the Club on a weekly basis. For many children and young people this will be their only hot meal especially during the school holidays.

Fetlor Youth Club

Livity Youth Edinburgh

Craigmillar & Niddrie Community Sports Clubs

Two free, community-led sports clubs in Craigmillar and Niddrie that bring together children, young people, and adults of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities, with a targeted focus on people from Black and Global Majority (BGM) backgrounds. The sessions will include a variety of sports including basketball, badminton, football, pickleball and table tennis, on a weekly basis in a fun social way.

Livity Youth Edinburgh

Re-Act: Refugee Action Scotland

Sudanese Community Mental Health Building 

Our project will bring mental health and PM+ workshops to the Sudanese refugee (New Scot) community in Edinburgh. This program will focus on mental health workshops for women and young people, led by a Sudanese counsellor and supported by Edinburgh University team members.

Re-Act: Refugee Action Scotland

Sporting Memories Foundation Scotland (SCIO) 

Sporting Memories Places Edinburgh

We will use the hook of sport, through a mix of reminiscence, social activities and taking part in inclusive physical activities to connect frailer older people who share their interest and passion for sport. Facilitated by volunteers within the local community we will deliver a new weekly Sporting Memories Community Club in Niddrie and facilitate one to one activity within individual’s home.

Sporting Memories

The Gilmerton Community Centre

Sustainable Gilmerton

Sustainable Gilmerton aims to tackle poverty and climate change, and improve the health and wellbeing of
local residents by offering programmes that build local sustainability and circular economy. This will include
the community garden, using its produce to support cooking on site, the food pantry and lunch club, and
volunteering opportunities for local people and University students/staff.

Gilmerton Community Centre

The School Bank West Lothian

Camp Kits!

Attending school camp is an important experience for young people in primary school. This project will help children living in poverty overcome the 2 barriers to attending camp - the cost of the trip (many schools in areas of deprivation use their PEF funds to pay this cost) and the cost of the items children are required to take: clothing, footwear, sleeping bag, waterproofs etc so they can fully participate in activities. 

The School Bank West Lothian

Very Inclusive Play Club

Help Our Little Stars Shine!

We support 0-6 year-olds with complex needs across Edinburgh, equipping parents with skills, knowledge and tools to use at home. We provide a learning environment where children are accepted, and engaged. These parents experience isolation, fear and hopelessness, and we support them on their journey to accepting and understanding their child. Help us help their Little Stars Shine! 

Very Inclusive Play Club