Feeding Bellies, Not Bins with Signpost International
A Dundee project dedicated to improving diet and nutrition while reducing food waste is set to expand, thanks to a generous grant from NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation.
NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation Supports Kanzen for Life with £25,000 Funding Boost
The foundation has awarded £25,000 in funding to support Kanzen for Life’s purpose of creating healthier and more connected communities.
The Impact of Cake or Dice and Neon Digital Arts
Following our successful Impact Event last August, our team conducted their first visits to Cake or Dice and Neon Digital, located on Commercial Street in Dundee.
Say Something Dundee
Since opening in 2013, our ADHD support group service supports children, young people and families that are affected by ADHD.
Improved Mobility- The Circle
Last week, Friday 26th July 2024, Richard McIntosh, Fund Development Manager for the NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation, visited Martin Cleary, the Hub Manager from The Circle’s Shop Mobility Services in Dundee. The Circle achieved a significant milestone by securing a NHST Charitable Foundation three-year £120,000 grant for their Shop Mobility Services in Dundee in April 24.
Shakti Women’s Aid
Shakti Women’s Aid offers refuge accommodation support and information to all black minority ethnic women, their children and young people, experiencing and or fleeing domestic abuse, from their partner/husband, ex-partner and or other family members.
DVVA- Lochee and Whitfield Community Hubs
One of the overarching aims of the Community Hubs Project was to tackle food poverty in Lochee and Whitfield. It aimed to provide health initiatives by providing more healthy food for families in the area and physical and mental well-being activities.
Get Out Get Active (GOGA) Tayside
GOGA provides fun, free, and inclusive activities, open to all ages and abilities, with a focus on the most inactive populations, particularly those with disabilities and/or chronic ill health.
Elder Voice
Elder Voice is a local charity helping older people maintain independence.
Tackling loneliness, isolation and malnutrition, the Blairgowrie-based charity offers a voluntary transport service for those who, due to their age, ill health, disability or lack of transport, might otherwise struggle to attend NHS medical appointments.
Connecting older people with volunteers, the charity also offers a befriending service and lunch club aimed at breaking down barriers and inequalities around older people, supporting independence, improving mental health and wellbeing, and fostering social connections.
Our Inclusive Community
Capability Scotland’s ‘Our Inclusive Community Project’ (‘OICP’) aims to relocate the homes of 60 disabled adults from an existing residential care site at Upper Springland in Perth.
Through OICP, Capability Scotland will create a welcoming and thriving new community at the city’s Bertha Park, where the people they support can live as independently as possible, realise their potential and live fulfilling and healthy lives.