Empowering rural communities

Organisation

Community

Local Authority

Project description

Amount awarded

Alyth Development Trust

 Alyth and wider Glen Isla

Perth & Kinross

To formally explore the potential of purchasing and redeveloping the town's derelict Millhaugh sawmill.

£21,340.00

Arisaig Community Trust

 Arisaig

Highland

To support project management costs and a SUDS pond as part of the development of affordable housing.

£37,093.77

Arran Eco Savvy Community

 Arran

Argyll & Bute

To support staff resource and capital outlay for a zero-waste 'pop up' cafe pilot and Eco Hub.

£32,006.12

Colintraive & Glendaruel Development Trust

Colintraive and Glendaruel

Argyll & Bute

To host a sustainable food ecosystem pilot to increase local food production and market opportunities

£33,542.60

Community Energy Scotland

 North Ronaldsay and Sanday

Orkney

To explore the opportunities and locations for EV installation, including community consultation through a feasibility study.

£25,120.09

Countryside Learning Scotland

 Gairloch & wider Wester Ross area

Highland

To expand pathways to rural work provision and establish a steering group will to address the community challenges of local rural employment for young people.

£15,883.75

Culbokie Community Trust Limited

 Culbokie

Highland

To complete the creation of Culbokie Green - a car-free ‘Green lung’ in the heart of the village - with paths, seating, planting and play.

£25,392.66

Cycling Without Age Lewis and Harris

 Lewis and Harris

Eilean Siar

To purchase two electric trishaws, to replace minibuses or other forms of transport for people unable to get out and about due to mobility restrictions, or for residents in care homes.

£19,788.00

Dundee and Angus ADHD Support Group

 Angus

Angus

To expand and develop support services for people with ADHD, including moving to larger premises and a greater number of events & training.

£38,096.75

East Fife Sports Council

 Cupar

Fife

To introduce and qualify pupils in aquatics and lifeguarding, increasing understanding of water safety and employment opportunities. 

£13,342.35

ENABLE Scotland

 Moffat

Dumfries & Galloway

To develop a service to nurture a more inclusive community through peer-led community groups and advocacy opportunities.

£32,746.23

Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company

 Ettrick

Scottish Borders

To install wildlife cameras and develop a wildlife hub in the former school building.

£26,190.00

Falkland Stewardship Trust

Falkland, Freuchie, Newton of Falkland, Strathmiglo, Auchtermuchty and Dunshalt

Fife

To explore options to re-model estate to better support community and generate income.

£33,309.80

Farr North Community Development Trust

 Bettyhill, Strathnaver and Altnaharra, Strathy and Armadale, and Melvich

Highland

To pilot a ‘meals on wheels’ type meals delivery service; delivering an enhanced nutritional meal delivery service to vulnerable, at-risk and isolated members of the community.

£13,459.72

FEAT Trading CIC

 Levenmouth

Fife

To create a Visitor Development Officer post to engage with Park visitors and gather intelligence to enable the Park to meet the needs and demands of the community and other stakeholders.

£28,456.02

Fife Migrants Forum

 North East Fife

Fife

To employ a part time Community Development Worker and volunteers to look at ways in which migrants can be better integrated in and welcomed by the local community.

£29,178.22

Grantown YMCA Community Centre

 Grantown on Spey

Highland

To refurbish their soft play area.

£31,842.19

Hope Cohousing Community Interest Company

 Orkney

Orkney

To support professional fees and statutory costs for a community-led housing development.

£48,163.41

Islay Energy Trust

Islay, Jura and Colonsay

Argyll & Bute

To train local people to install and maintain heat pumps and solar panels to lower the cost and increase efforts to decarbonise.

£17,498.70

Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust

 Isle of Eigg

Highland

To produce a series of podcasts and a website to raise awareness of Eigg islanders' way of life to encourage sustainable tourism.

£8,245.00

Kinlochleven Community Trust

 Kinlochleven

Highland

To develop a community land and woodland management project including experimenting with fencing, flood defences and rewilding or other pilot projects.

£39,807.43

KPT Development Trust

Keir, Penpont and Tynron

Dumfries & Galloway

To provide the initial means of producing & distributing food locally and to explore the feasibility of setting up a gardening and ground maintenance social enterprise.

£32,023.87

Kyle & Lochalsh Community Trust

 Lochalsh

Highland

To set up an electric community transport scheme and establishing  2 community polytunnels to train and promote growing local food.

£44,959.50

Live Learn Earn CIC

 Tweeddale

Scottish Borders

To create a new ‘Mobile Workshop’ to enable the R-evolve project to visit youth communities across the Scottish borders region.

£18,445.52

Loch Ken Trust

 Loch Ken

Dumfries & Galloway

To expand engagement with schools and community groups and provide a canoe to manage more remote areas.

£24,250.00

Lunan Bay Communities Partnership (LBCP)

 Lunan Bay

Angus

To support the Community Ranger Project through purchase of an ATV and materials for its Education Programme.

£16,559.39

Morvern Community Development Company Ltd

Morvern

Highland

To develop a community action plan for next 5-10 years to replace existing community plan.

£29,100.00

Mull And Iona Community Trust (MICT)

Isles of Mull, Iona, Ulva and Gometra

Argyll & Bute

To commission a consultant to carry out a detailed feasibility study and options appraisal for the provision of key worker accommodation on Mull and Iona.

£20,016.92

Netherthird Initiative for Community Empowerment

Netherthird

East Ayrshire

To pilot a Mental Health Test of Change Project with young people who are in emotional distress and displaying maladaptive coping behaviour.

£6,354.00

North Queensferry Community Trust

 North Queensferry

Fife

To buy and fit-out a two-bay modular building as a flexible workshop/social space for  crafts and a tool library.

£19,400.00

Orkney Athletic and Running Club

Orkney mainland & islands

Orkney

To purchase hurdles and a trolley to allow people to participate in national events and support hosting national and international level events.

£11,477.04

Perth Autism Support SCIO

Perthshire

Perth & Kinross

To expand and tailor outreach activities and support plans for autistic young people and their families in more rural areas.

£28,842.95

Plastic@Bay CIC

 Durness to Ullapool

Highland

To support a small, innovative plastic recycling enterprise to focus on  the problem of mismanagement of old fishing gear and ocean plastic.

£18,808.30

Rosemarkie Amenities Association

 Rosemarkie

Highland

To purchase a self-propelled tractor to manage greenspaces and bring overgrown areas back into use.

£5,340.86

Scottish Canoe Association

Mid Atholl, Strathtay & Grandtully Council area

Perth & Kinross

To create a car park, public toilets, and facilities for cyclists and motorhomes at a key access point for locals and visitors.

£48,375.84

Scottish Seabird Centre

 East Lothian

East Lothian

To work with care providers and other organisations to support older and isolated audiences to access the many benefits of time spent engaging with marine habitats and wildlife.

£16,975.00

Scourie Community Development Company

 NW Sutherland

Highland

To undertake feasibility and technical support to explore income generation options around wind and hydro power.

£36,860.00

South Islay Development

 Islay

Argyll & Bute

To increase motorhome hook up points from 4 to 12 and add waste disposal, toilets, showers and laundry facilities.

£48,329.28

South Uist Estates Ltd

Lochboisdale, Isle of South Uist.

Eilean Siar

To undertake technical work to support development of  a community led/ cooperative housing model aiming to deliver modern affordable homes and community facilities.

£48,306.00

Street League

 South Carrick

South Ayrshire

To support young people from rural communities into employment by trialling and adapting Street League's model to meet rural needs.

£30,145.31

Taigh Dhonnchaidh

 Ness

Eilean Siar

To purchase a marquee to allow for ceilidhs, performances and community gatherings.

£7,074.15

The Birchvale Players

 Dalbeattie

Dumfries & Galloway

To undertake an extension to create costume workshop, supporting skills development for young people.

£48,073.20

The Cabrach Trust

 Cabrach, Dufftown, Rhynie, Lumsden, Glass

Moray

To support the curation and promotion of a rural skills, education, and wellbeing programme in a restored stone bothy.

£36,460.40

The Dornoch Area Community Interest Company

 Dornoch

Highland

To build a motorhome, coach and car park as part of multi-phase community-led redevelopment of brownfield site.

£48,500.00

The Glendale Trust

 Glendale

Highland

To pilot new building approaches to identify a way to maintain heritage buildings and provide affordable housing in rural areas.

£47,840.40

The Langholm Alliance

Langholm and Eskdale

Dumfries & Galloway

To develop an Explore and Discover Guide to Langholm and Eskdale and support local people to see and experience local attractions.

£11,383.92

The Southern Uplands Partnership

 South Scotland

Scottish Borders

To develop an app to map EV recharging infrastructure.

£15,342.01

The Stove Network Ltd

 Sanquhar, Stranraer, Dumfries, Langholm and Castle Douglas 

Dumfries & Galloway

To support 5 community anchor groups to host 2 creative community practitioners to work directly with local people to co-create place-making projects.

£45,682.15

The Whithorn Trust

 Whithorn

Dumfries & Galloway

To host "Skills sabbaticals" for young people to access advanced training which may not be available locally, and the purchase of specialised tools which they will need to progress further in their chosen crafts.

£47,833.03

Third Sector Hebrides

 Lewis and Harris

Eilean Siar

To develop a horticultural hub, providing space for people to take part in outdoor activity and creating volunteering opportunities.

£23,675.74

tide - Together in Dementia Everyday

 All Scotland

Glasgow City

To undertake a consultation, report and campaign about the needs of rural carers of people with dementia.

£27,441.30

Trossachs Community Trust

 Trossachs

Stirling

To repurpose an old village school into a community led visitor centre featuring heritage displays toilets, parking, café & shop.

£48,500.00

Tweedsmuir Community Company

 Tweedsmuir

Scottish Borders

To develop a series of community gardens, access points and recreation areas, increase understanding of rural practices, and promote rural regeneration using sustainable development methods.

£42,214.40

Voluntary Action Orkney

 Orkney mainland & islands

Orkney

To develop a community-led local Food Dignity Strategy, in which people who have experienced food insecurity will be in the driving seat of the planning process.

£20,709.88

Wormit Boating Club

 North East Fife

Fife

To work with local Scouts to train them in two-oar boat rowing.

£9,700.00

Yetholm Community Shop Limited

 Yetholm

Scottish Borders

To repair and refurbish a local shop to support a community-owned business and develop economic and social opportunities.

£38,984.30

Youth Highland

 Highlands

Highland

To support youth work services using a voluntary network approach, in which local community-led organisations are supported by a Youth Highland coordinator.

£38,450.80

Organisation

Community

Local Authority

Project description

Amount awarded

Aberchirder Village Hall

Aberchirder

Aberdeenshire

To landscape the outside of the village hall & use it for community recreational activities.

£2,850.00

Ability Shetland

West Shetland

Shetland

To set up parent and child groups for families of children with complex additional needs.

£3,000.00

Annan the History Town Group

Annan

Dumfries & Galloway

To visit and meet with other rural communities to learn from their experience.

£3,000.00

Arts Inc. CIC

Creetown

Dumfries & Galloway

To create a board-game based on their village (to improve knowledge of the area, create interest in heritage and to engaging local residents in its design).

£3,000.00

Athelstaneford Primary School Parent Council

Athelstaneford

East Lothian

To improve the facilities of the local playground.

£3,000.00

Avoch and Killen Community Council

Black Isle

Highland

To support a new working group to advocate for better destination management and improve education around the marine environment.

£2,500.00

Bornish Community Council

South Uist

Eilean Siar

To buy a lawn tractor in order to maintain the grounds and graveyard of one of the local churches.

£3,000.00

Campsie Memorial Hall Trust

Lennoxtown and wider Campsie

East Dunbartonshire

To provide a range of evening courses for local people to improve employability skills and encourage community development activities and social enterprise.

£3,000.00

Castlebay & Vatersay community council

 Castlebay & Vatersay

Eilean Siar

To purchase materials which community volunteers will use to build planters for flowers and plants.

£3,000.00

Colinsburgh Community Trust

Colinsburgh, Kilconquhar & Arncroach/Carnbee

Fife

To convert the community library into a multifunctional space offering a community cafe and pantry.

£2,907.00

Colmonell Community Association

Colmonell

South Ayrshire

To replace the roof and to make the local community toilets accessible for disabled people.

£3,000.00

Colvend & Southwick Community Coucnil

Colvend & Southwick

Dumfries & Galloway

To fund the cost of new community ‘get-togethers’.

£300.00

Cormonachan Community Woodlands Ltd.

Loch Goil

Argyll & Bute

To purchase a ‘people counter’ to monitor visitor numbers and enable better management of the woodland.

£2,076.00

Craigencault Westside Allotment Society

Kinghorn

Fife

To improve disused allotments by creating an additional plot, installing better water supply, buying a strimmer, planting a mini orchard, and creating a communal compost area.

£1,200.00

Cromar Future Group

Deeside

Aberdeenshire

To increase the number of young people who can access their science and technology training.

£3,000.00

Cromarty Youth Cafe

Cromarty & Black Isle

Highland

To build a 600 metre MTB Pump Track on an old disused skatepark.

£3,000.00

Duneaton Community Council

Duneaton

South Lanarkshire

To re-engage 6 rural communities post-Covid-19.

£3,000.00

Fair Isle Marine Research Organisation (FIMRO)

Fair Isle

Shetland

To produce a community led virtual tour of the Fair Isles.

£2,800.00

Fearnag Growers (Community Growing Project) Ltd

Strathnairn

Highland

To develop a willow tunnel and workshops for a community garden and allotments looking to provide community activities in a Covid-safe space. 

£1,500.00

Fortrose and Rosemarkie Community Council

Fortrose and Rosemarkie

Highland

To buy 6 disposal units/ bins as part of a strategy to reduce litter on the beaches.

£868.00

GCAT

Glenkens

Dumfries & Galloway

To run three pilot Energy Cafes to help people to use technology to understand how much energy they are using, and to help keep their houses warmer and greener.

£3,000.00

GlobalYell Ltd

Yell

Shetland

To run art workshops with young people to look at how the uses of peat has changed and the debate around renewable energy.

£3,000.00

Harburn Village Hall SCIO

Harbun

West Lothian

To install better disabled access to new outdoor areas.

£2,862.00

Heids and Herts Scotland SCIO

Howe of Fife

Fife

To produce a short documentary in the Howe of Fife, highlighting the issue of loneliness (especially in the wake of Covid-19)

£3,000.00

High Life Highland

Skye and Lochlash

Highland

To create wellbeing packs for people who can't attend in person events, to lessen their isolation from the community. 

£3,000.00

Innerleithen, Traquair & Walkerburn Parish Church if Scotland (ITW)

Traquair, Walkerburn, Innerleithen and Cardrona

Scottish Borders

To improve the community’s wellbeing and mental health among elderly people by taking a free travelling social club to 4 villages.

£3,000.00

John Muir Trust

Lochinver

Perth & Kinross

To pilot a deer stalking programme for women in the Quinag Estate in Sutherland.

£3,000.00

Keiss School Parent Council

Auckengill, Keiss, Lyth and Reiss.

Highland

To buy a poly-tunnel for the local school to help children learn about the science of growing food, improving mental health and wellbeing.

£3,000.00

Kirkmichael Community Council

Kirkmichael

Dumfries & Galloway

To commission a local housing need survey to establish the profile of housing needs and demands.

£3,000.00

Lamancha & District Community Association

Lamancha

Scottish Borders

To build a shed to store equipment, which will provide steady income for the Trust.

£2,500.00

Langholm Initiative

Langholm

Dumfries & Galloway

To undertake a study into the best long term use of their community-owned properties as part of economic regeneration efforts.

£3,000.00

Lewis and Harris Horticultural Producers

Stornoway

Eilean Siar

To develop a small community garden on the grounds of their allotment site.

£3,000.00

Local association of parents and carers of autistic youth in Angus

Angus

Angus

To host music workshops for young people with autism, recording the progress through journaling, interviews, discussions and surveys.

£3,000.00

North Common Trust

Thornhill

Stirling

To thin the tree canopy over the village common land to dry it out and enable people to use it year round.

£800.00

North West Community Bus Association.

Kinlochbervie

Highland

To put more drivers through the Sutherland Access Panel Disability Awareness Course and Midas Certifications.

£2,000.00

One Step Borders CIC

Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

To recruit a temporary co-ordinator to recruit, train and supervise an additional 30 volunteers. 

£3,000.00

Orbost Trust

Orbost, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye

Highland

To develop a business plan on options for buying and managing the land the community currently lives on.

£3,000.00

ORKNEY FOOTBALL CLUB

Orkney

Orkney

To explore new methods to reignite interest in developing football skills and physical/mental wellbeing.

£2,650.00

Orkney Hockey

Orkney

Orkney

To facilitate the introduction of indoor hockey through purchase of  equipment, hire venues and to support people to be able to attend hockey workshops and camps.

£3,000.00

Pairc Area Forum

Pairc

Eilean Siar

To undertake a community engagement exercise with the goal to develop a co-ordinated strategic plan for the whole area.

£3,000.00

Sandness Community Development Group

Sandness

Shetland

To support a wider plan to bring together multiple communities under a single umbrella to deliver a project to convert a community-owned building to an Airbnb, with income generation for the area.

£1,500.00

Shoshin Taiko Dojo CIC

Strathard, Gartmore, Port of Menteith.

Stirling

To host taiko drumming classes in local villages over ten weeks culminating in a final theatre show held at Gartmore Village Hall and potential first Scottish Taiko Festival.

£2,500.00

South Bragar Common Grazings

South Bragar

Eilean Siar

To train young people to make dry-stone dykes which will protect machair near the shore which is being destroyed by the influx of tourists to the area.

£3,000.00

St Margaret's Hope Bowling Club

South Ronaldsay

Orkney

To part-fund a new sit-on mechanised blade roll for the grass for improving local community greenspace.

£3,000.00

Staffin Community Trust

Staffin

Highland

To update a Recreation Plan for local woodland so it could be used for biking and to undertake user consultation to determine needs.

£3,000.00

Tagsa Community Gardens

Benbecula

Eilean Siar

To start a new project ‘ Generations Gardening Together’.

£3,000.00

Tarland Community Housing

Tarland

Aberdeenshire

To develop a scoping study to understand the potential for a live/work development.

£3,000.00

The Ayrshire Hospice

Ayrshire

South Ayrshire

To create a fully integrated virtual day services platform to complement face to face patient care. 

£3,000.00

The Ecology Centre

Kinghorn, Burntisland and West Kirkcaldy

Fife

To develop two areas: a pond and a overpopulated woodland to more useable outdoor space for their volunteers and local people. 

£3,000.00

The Flourishing Well

St Cyrus

Aberdeenshire

To host two full day events for the community (in person), including Yoga, Pilates, Qi Gong, Tia Chi, Sound healing and meditation sessions.

£3,000.00

The Harburn Players Drama Group

Harburn

West Lothian

To invest in sound equipment, stage infrastructure, costumes, stage make up and props to support a drama experience that benefits wellbeing.

£2,500.00

The Hub Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries & Galloway

Dumfries & Galloway

To support to further develop the CAPE Network and its capacity by training new practitioner volunteers from the community.

£2,875.00

The Learning Space

Duns

Scottish Borders

To enable young people they work with to learn to drive in a safe known professional environment. 

£3,000.00

The Outpost

Burra

Shetland

To buy a polycrub and provide disabled access to it (better fencing/decking) at a workable height to people with mobility issues. 

£3,000.00

The Selkie Collective Projects

Skye

Highland

To offer a 5-session ‘winter circle’ to isolated women in rural areas, including  forest bathing, earth education, and nature questing. 

£2,800.00

The Stephen Lyon Organisation

Perth & Kinross

Perth & Kinross

To develop a peer support group for those who have been impacted by suicide or are considering suicide.

£3,000.00

Ullapool Sea Savers

Wester Ross

Highland

To provide people with additional support needs the opportunity to re-connect with their marine environment and their community.

£3,000.00

Urachadh Uibhist

Uist

Eilean Siar

To continue and expand an outdoor nursery project to bring outdoor play to families, intergenerational gatherings, and older children, alleviating loneliness.

£3,000.00

URRAS OIGHREACHD GHABHSAINN

Ness

Eilean Siar

To re-route a path and create digital interpretation materials on the heritage trail to take walkers along the scenic coast and make this route more accessible.

£3,000.00

Valleyfield Community Club

Valleyfield

Fife

To swap the ladies and men's toilets in the Valleyfield Community Club to enable the installation of a baby changing unit in the ladies' toilet.

£2,932.00

Wanlockhead Community Trust

Wanlockhead

Dumfries & Galloway

To undertake a Housing Needs and Demands Assessment to ascertain what housing provision is required in the village.

£3,000.00

Wester Ross UNESCO Biosphere

Wester Ross

Highland

To host a 3 day workshop to explore ways of working to make the organisation financially self-sustaining.

£2,978.00

Westray Golf Club

Westray

Orkney

To build a storage facility to store members' golf equipment and to purchase and store equipment for use by residents who cannot afford equipment.

£3,000.00