ACE IT Scotland: £14,134.69
To offer one-to-one digital skills coaching for people aged over 50 across Edinburgh.
AdvoCard: £18,568.84
To provide an outreach, community based mental health advocacy services in each of the four Edinburgh localities, particularly for people who are unable to attend appointments outwith their community, those who are socially isolated and typically under-represented.
Art and Spirituality: £2,500
To support ethnic minority women in Gorgie-Dalry to access 3 creative workshops, 2 cooking classes and 2 outdoor yoga classes to address social isolation and reduce barriers to cultural participation.
Artlink Edinburgh and the Lothians: £8,752.43
To deliver arts workshops and events for people experiencing mental ill health across the city and at Ocean Terminal.
Art in Healthcare: £13,081
To deliver and increase the capacity of the Room for Art programme.
Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain – Edinburgh Branch: £20,552.75
To develop a programme of activity to support Ukrainians living in Edinburgh to explore and manage their mental health through art therapy, outdoor education and community mobilisation.
Big Hearts Community Trust: £12,000
To further develop ‘Welcome Through Football’ which engages young adult (16-25) refugees to provide twice weekly football coaching, structured peer group and 1:1 wrap around support.
Bikes for Refugees: £20,550.56
To provide free access to bikes for refugees to be able to access community services, reduce isolation and improve mental health and wellbeing.
Bipolar Edinburgh: £13,470
To fund 50% of the cost of an additional peer practitioner for the bipolar peer support service in Edinburgh.
Bridgend Farmhouse: £2,255.70
To deliver the Peer Support Mental Health group for adults in the local community experiencing mental health issues and combat social isolation.
Caledonian Funeral Aid: £2,652.25
To provide a trained coach and funeral support worker for one day per week for six months to support bereaved Edinburgh residents.
Care for Carers: £2,060
To support female unpaid carers to improve their health and wellbeing through access to outdoor and creative workshops.
Community Foundation for Planetary Healing: £21,131.01
To deliver an outdoor wellbeing project to provide opportunities for people to connect with others and improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Community Renewal Trust: £2,500
To provide a rolling 6 week group work course, Beginning to Connect, to support homeless people in Bingham, Magdalene and The Hays with goal setting and moving forwards to be in a position to find a home, employment or make other changes in their lives.
Corstorphine Community Centre: £19,673
To further develop the weekly lunch club and monthly tea dances for vulnerable and socially isolated people over the age of 60.
Corstorphine Connect Sight Loss: £3,409.30
To provide safe and accessible monthly social opportunities for people with sight loss in North West Edinburgh.
Corstorphine Dementia Project: £18,356.66
To provide a fortnightly evening Teatime Club with accessible transport, a free meal and with support staff to meet care needs to enable families to focus on socialising and spending time together.
Cruse Scotland Bereavement Support: £6,000
To provide listening, peer support, advice and information for 60 people who are in the early stages of grief.
Dads Rock: £8,500
To deliver a weekly group for new dads with their babies in Gorgie.
Dr Bell’s Family Centre: £10,488.49
To provide groups for families from pregnancy through to first 6 postnatal months to support their emotion and physical health and wellbeing.
Drylaw Telford Community Association: £15,244
To host weekly support and social activity groups for isolated older people aged over 60 living in Telford, Drylaw and Craigleith.
Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust: £10,155
To deliver dementia friendly outdoor activities for isolated older people and their carers in North East and South East Edinburgh over 20 half day sessions.
Edinburgh Carers Council: £11,124
To continue to develop the carer peer project offering both one-to-one and group peer support to unpaid carers supporting an adult with mental health difficulties.
Edinburgh City Mission: £12,500.08
To employ a Men’s Community Worker to build and strengthen relationships across two foodbank+ venues across the city each week.
Edinburgh Community Performing Arts CIC: £9,728.35
To set up and deliver a free weekly creative movement and dance project for older people in the Drum Brae/Gyle are particularly for those with dementia, parkinson’s and/or restricted movement over 40 weeks.
Edinburgh Development Group: £16,995
To provide direct emotional support and access to wellbeing activities for parent carers of disabled children and young people.
Edinburgh Headway Group: £11,394.07
To deliver therapeutic arts sessions for people with an acquired brain injury.
Edinburgh Old Town Development Trust: £20,188.93
To expand and develop the Create and Connect programme of weekly group activities.
Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre: £20,596.91
To provide psycho education and health and wellbeing groups for survivors of sexual violence over the age of 18.
Edinburgh Remakery: £18,076.50
To deliver 40 Connecting Communities Clubs across the city to enable people to reduce social isolation while taking part in creative activities.
Edinburgh South Community Football Club: £2,575
To deliver sporting activities and peer support network for people in South Edinburgh.
Eric Liddell Community: £3,000
To provide ‘Are Ye Dancin?’ Tea Dances to increase opportunities for people to be involved in social and wellbeing activities, particularly for those affected by dementia.
FAIR Ltd: £21,055.26
To employ a development worker to facilitate social groups, one-to-one advice and information services for people with a learning disability and their families.
Feniks: £12,761.70
To deliver wellbeing community gatherings providing access to a range of social activities and support services.
Firsthand Lothian: £11,180.83
To provide support for parents/carers with children with additional support needs through one-to-one support, group health and wellbeing sessions, and a parent and carer support group.
Forth Bridges Men’s Shed: £1,000
To continue to develop the activities that Forth Bridges Men’s Shed can offer through purchase of additional equipment.
Forth SPAN (Suicide Prevention Action Network): £2,500
To deliver a weekend wellbeing festival in Queensferry with a programme of events and activities to tackle loneliness and promote wellbeing.
Fresh Start: £11,285
To provide a range of food support for families including group gardening and cooking programmes and community meals.
Fruitmarket: £4,107
To deliver a new programme of 6 wellbeing workshops to support adults in Edinburgh who are in the process of recovery from ongoing mental health challenges.
Get2gether: £8,132.88
To deliver Wellbeing Wednesday acitivities each month which includes walking, seated exercies, LGBT specific support and Men’s Mental Health activities.
Granton Community Gardeners: £10,264.21
To deliver gardening and food-led workshops focusing on food production from plot to plate.
Granton Youth: £19,584.21
To provide holistic support services to support and improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people and their families.
Grassmarket Project: £10,400.84
To deliver outdoor activities to bring together people who are socially isolated and help improve mental health and wellbeing.
Health All Round (HAR): £20,000
To deliver ‘Art for Health’ a range of creative activities for people to explore their creativity, including a creative writing group with a particular focus on people experiencing loneliness/isolation anxiety/depression; and long term conditions
Heart of Newhaven: £7,982.50
To offer a warm, welcoming and accessible space which can offer intergenerational cooking activities in collaboration with other organisations.
Held in Our Hearts: £19,492.05
To provide peer support for families who have experienced baby loss.
Home Start Edinburgh: £17,318.42
To provide families with one-to-one support from a home- visiting volunteer or worker offering a range of support from perinatal and financial support to learning and training activities.
Inch Park Community Sports Club: £10,609
To provide a free weekly community cafe and free access to sporting activities.
Jock Tamson’s Gairden: £6,695
To offer a series of workshops aimed at deepening and enhancing people’s experience of the outdoors, help broaden their understanding of the natural environment and alleviate social isolation.
LEAP Sports Scotland: £10,364.99
To continue to develop the Trans Active Edinburgh programme providing weekly physical and sports activities for trans people across the city.
Leith Community Growers: £20,002.60
To host weekly gardening sessions April – October with local organisations to support ‘difficult to reach’ parts of the community including BAME communities and older people, and provide weekly free meals and a green prescribing group.
LGBT Health and Wellbeing: £21,218
To develop new and existing community groups across Edinburgh for LGBT+ people.
LGBT Youth Scotland: £10,000
To provide bespoke LGBTQ+ mental health workshops and a new and improved 1:1 asset based coaching service, including supporting people to develop suicide safety plans.
Libertus: £10,609
To provide a Mental Health Support worker for SE Edinburgh, particularly targeting people over 50 and their carers.
LIFT Muirhouse Millenium Centre: £19,096.20
To provide a Mental Wellbeing Group to help to reduce social isolation, increase social interaction and increase life skills.
Living Warriors Project: £1,030
To support adults with lived experience of surviving attempted suicide through monthly in-person peer support groups.
Mad Jam Open Mic Association: £2,400
To offer monthly inclusive open mic sessions with music and spoken word for people struggling with their mental health to combat isolation and break down stigma that accompanies mental health issues.
Media Education: £21,058.87
To continue to develop Hip Hop Hurriya programme of spoken word and music podcasts and cultural events with the Sudanese community and bringing together different cultural communities.
Muirhouse Housing Association: £5,120
To develop ‘Come Dine With Us’ a weekly in winter/fortnightly in summer, dinner social event with activities, a nutritious
meal and cost of living support.
Music In the Community: £2,500
To deliver a series of events for up to 30 people to take part in music therapy activities.
Mwamba: £20,641.78
To provide one-to-one support sessions, monthly conversation cafes, education workshops, community kitchen sessions and women’s forums for BAME Women living in Edinburgh.
NCT Edinburgh: £945.54
To provide groups for parents and expectant parents to make connections, socialise and access support.
NKS: £16,150.40
To run a fortnightly support group for women, carers and cared for experiencing stress/mental pressures in their day to day life, and a monthly wellbeing forum.
Out of the Blue Arts and Educational Trust: £21,218
To provide arts activities for unpaid carers in Leith and the North of Edinburgh on a weekly basis over Autumn and Winter.
Oxgangs Walking Group: £1,545
To provide regular exercise and social activities for older people in Oxgangs.
Ps & Gs Church – Saturday Meal: £2,500
To provide community-building activities like art, music and board games during the weekly Saturday evening meal.
Passion4Fusion: £19,415.50
To provide culturally responsive mental health support for African men aged 25-65 living in deprived areas of Edinburgh, specifically those with refugee/asylum seeking background who have limited access to mainstream services.
PCOS Relief: £6,000
To provide group activities and support for ethnic minority women affected by Polycistic Ovary Syndrome to breakdown the taboo and improve access to support.
Peace & Justice: £2,500
To take a group of disadvantaged young adults on a Summer Peace Camp to develop critical skills, cultivate empathy and ignite a passion for building a more just and peaceful world.
Pentlands Community Space: £6,814.48
To provide community sessions to support mental and physical health for 6 months for anyone in the community to get together, build social relationships and improve their health and wellbeing.
Pet and Companion (PEACE): £9,593.72
To provide Canine Therapy and pastoral care to people in need of support and companionship, in particular focusing on vulnerable women, older people and people living with dementia.
Pilmeny Development Project: £28,915.90
To work with YMCA Edinburgh and Heart of Newhaven to provide peer support and mental health and wellbeing groups for Older adults, Intergenerational activities and support for women in North Edinburgh.
Pilton Community Health Project: £20,082.76
To run a monthly Language Exchange and a community food and cook club.
Pilton Equalities Project: £20,389.44
To employ a Mental Health Worker to run 2 regular wellbeing groups in North Edinburgh for older people over 65 to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Polish Family Support Centre: £15,175.11
To provide a peer support worker to provide support for adults to be able to improve their mental health and wellbeing where they are experiencing anxiety and stress.
Positive Help: £11,503.34
To provide Home support for socially isolated adults living with HIV or hepatitis in Edinburgh to improve their self care and health management, improve relationships and manage their own home.
Project Esperanza: £10,300
To support socially isolated women and families in North Edinburgh through culturally appropriate group sessions to help give practical support to improve health and wellbeing.
Re-Act Refugees: £16,725.14
To provide a support group program for Syrian refugees for 8 weeks to provide distress interventions and opportunities to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Rowan Alba: £11,181.88
To provide volunteer befriending for 30 people in Edinburgh with problematic alcohol use, to help improve mental wellbeing and support to connect to accessible peer support groups and activities.
Saheliya: £20,461.98
To provide trauma-aware support activities including art, counselling, music and dance therapy in first languages for marginalised women from racialised communities with experience of gendered abuses and harmful cultural practices.
Salvesen Mindroom: £14,004.91
To provide one-to-one support for neurodivergent 16-25 year olds.
Sandy’s Community Centre £17,816.36
To work in partnership with Carr Gomm in Craigmillar to deliver a Community Cook Club at the Parent and Toddler Group and art workshops.
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs: £1,860
To bring an interactive drama production ‘This Fierce Love’ to people affected by others’ substance use, aiming to raise awareness of family experiences and encourage more people to access support.
Scottish Storytelling Forum £18,524.55
To work with refugee communities over 10 weeks to help build their confidence, develop storytelling skills to tell and share their own stories.
Shakti Women’s Aid: £20,600
To provide support for young women 18-30 experiencing or fleeing domestic violence through weekly groups, outings and social activities.
Shared Parenting Scotland:£10,278.37
To deliver a range of online and face-to face- group training sessions for parents to be able to manage stress and reduce social isolation.
Sikh Sanjog: £20,085
To provide weekly wellbeing sessions and a quarterly event to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of marginalised BME/Sikh women and men in Edinburgh.
Southside Community Centre Association: £9,788.06
To create ‘Southside Connections’, a year long programme activities for people over 60 with activities decided by participants and a focus on connections, wellbeing and togetherness in nature.
Spit It out: £12,839.98
To organise monthly workshops and meetups for people recovering from trauma through interactive workshops, games and discussions, creating a supportive community where everyone feels comfortable to share without stigma
and shame.
Stepping Stones North Edinburgh: £16,381.81
To deliver support to women from pregnancy to early postnatal months providing one-to-one support and group work to help women have better experiences in pregnancy and early parenthood.
Street Fit Scotland: £6,284.70
To deliver 12 ‘Beach Fit’ sessions over six weeks in summer for people experiencing homelessness to be able to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Survivors of Human Trafficking in Scotland: £17,647.16
To create opportunities for people affected by human trafficking to safely discuss their experiences, and to create a city-wide community response to human trafficking which prioritises mental health outcomes, providing advice for
practitioners to increase capacity.
Tailor Ed Foundation: £10,609
To provide one-to-one support and group work opportunities for 50 parents of autistic children experiencing significant stressors on their mental health.
The Alma Project: £10,497.61
To offer 44 weeks of therapeutic arts sessions with diagnosed mental health issues in Craigentinny.
The Forget Me Note Project: £5,000
To introduce small group or one-to-one music therapy sessions for people living with dementia.
The Junction Young People Health and Wellbeing: £2,575
To support isolated young adults (16-25) to take part in 7 outings over the year to improve confidence and social connection.
The Open Door Edinburgh: £3,268
To provide a supportive and welcoming space for carers for three hours each month where people can take part in discussion, activities and social opportunities.
The Ripple: £19,507.17
To provide a range of specialised one-to one and group mental health services for people accessing The Ripple to improve their mental and physical health and wellbeing.
The Sorted Project: £20,600
To provide support to people experiencing mental ill health and substance use to take part in activities on a canal boat to reduce social isolation and improve confidence.
The Speech and Language Communication Company: £10,539.31
To run a bespoke and individualised special needs youth club to help improve wellbeing and mental health of isolated, excluded and disproportionately disadvantaged young people with speech, language and/or communication disabilities.
The Sporting Memories Foundation: £9,980.16
To develop their local weekly Sporting Memories Clubs in Edinburgh to connect older people through a mix of reminiscence, social and physical activities.
U-Evolve: £19,602.96
To support young people (16-25) who are struggling to sustain engagement with employability programmes due to mental health problems by providing bi-weekly 1:1 mental health support for the equivalent of an academic year
Waverley Care: £5,000
To expand peer support offer for gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Edinburgh to tackle loneliness and isolation resulting from the negative effects of stigma and lack of awareness of HIV.
What? Why? Children in Hospital: £5,251.97
To continue to focus on supporting parent carers whose mental health has been impacted by their caring role. By offering carers therapeutic massage and reflexology sessions every month for 12 months.
You’re Never Too Old: £1,854
To provide two half-day activity sessions each week to older adults in Craigmount.
Youth Vision: £12,875
To support vulnerable young people and their families who are not in employment, education through social and learning opportunities for the young people and training staff and enabling the provision of professional supervision to all.
